Objection
@Objection@lemmy.ml
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 3 days ago:
Which one??
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 4 weeks ago:
Fascists paint themselves as being a third position that supercedes the left-right dichotomy, but that doesn’t mean it’s actually true. Everything about it is right-wing and it’s not actually as incompatible with capitalism as fascists claim. Every fascist regime has partnered up with capitalists, who often support them into power in the first place.
- Comment on Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed? 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely it’s a clownshow.
If you ask me, the whole point of it is to get everyone to sort themselves into one of two horrific camps, where they’ll feel like any criticism of the people in power is an attack on them for voting for them - or, if they don’t vote, then they generally disengage from politics entirely. It’s probably the most effective system of propaganda ever designed, because you don’t even need to tell people that horrible people are on their side, they’ll happily convince themselves of it all on their own. It’s basically a race to the bottom where one side being dogshit allows the other side to be dogshit because there’s no alternative, and of course every politician wants to be as dogshit as they can get away with because that’s how you win favor with the corporate donors, who have no practical limit on how much money they can spend to influence the outcome.
There’s also this level of spectacle in our elections that’s above and beyond anywhere else in the world, we treat it like a reality show, and our debates are complete jokes where nothing substantive is ever discussed. We have absurdly long election cycles and entire industries around milking them for entertainment. It’s unlikely that we will ever even begin moving in the right direction in the foreseeable future, because the brainworms run so deep.
The worst part is when the spectacle becomes so eye-catching that people from other countries get drawn into it and start thinking in terms of our politics and what we define as normal or reasonable. Americans rarely learn from non-American perspectives and we have corporate influence constantly pushing in the direction of maximizing short term profits over all other priorities, and so our country is unable to understand or adapt to the changing conditions of the modern world, which is why we are in decline.
Look at us only as a cautionary tale of what not to do.
- Comment on US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues 2 months ago:
This thread has made me realize that while I was watching the hearings on it purely for comedy aspect, there were actually people out there being like, “Yeah that makes sense.”
Love it when the government takes away our stuff. Please, take away more of our stuff. Love me that security theater.
If you don’t like the app, just don’t use it. Nationalism is a hell of a drug.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
A crackpot who is connected to the CIA and a known source of misinformation and fake news.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Well, for starters, I don’t blindly believe anything people say about it.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Now they say that. They also lied and said that they weren’t asked any clarifying questions, when the linked comment proves that they very clearly were. They’re just trying to backtrack their unreasonable claims after the fact to make the response they got seem more disproportionate.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Especially anything tankie related.
Y’all will believe literally anything with zero evidence of it means making people you don’t like look bad.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Hell, I had a few members tell me that I was part of the evil capitalist elite because I had a job.
Anytime a person claims something happened on the fediverse without providing a link to it, they are lying or misrepresenting what happened literally 100% of the time.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
According to Adrian Zenz,
provided to UHRP by scholar Adrian Zenz
Whoopsie! That’s already two. It was easy to find those because they were already pointed out to you (along with several other of your sources) in the thread that you’re complaining about.
Here’s a tip - when you post a source on this subject, press “Ctrl+F” then type “Zenz,” and if anything comes up, don’t post it. Obviously, I can’t expect anyone to actually read their sources before posting them, but is 6 keystrokes really too much to ask?
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
I have a rule that anytime anyone says something happened on the fediverse without providing a link, they are lying or mischaracterizing it literally 100% of the time, and that rule has proven itself yet again.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
I found the thread and you had several people read your links and go through them in detail. Most of what they’re claiming is traced back to crackpot Adrian Zenz.
As I said, if you go there and say wrong things and then can’t back them up, they’re going to be rude to you. Citing Adrian Zenz is one form of not being able to back up your claims.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Do you have a link to that conversation? I’m interested in what your proof looked like.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
If you say something wrong about something they care about and you can’t back it up, they’re going to be rude to you.
- Comment on Russian Embassy, UK 2 months ago:
All the answers are slightly wrong. The Katagana that’s causing confusion is “under-skort,” skorts being a combination shorts/skirt, “under-skort” is the part that’s like shorts, underneath the skirt part.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
More of a chance than they did. The dems were definitely going to lose before, now things are shaken up, Trump still has an edge but if they play their cards right who knows.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
Because suggesting your enemy do things is meaningless.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
Lol moving right along from one false claim to the next.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
Are you talking about the time communists ran the only candidate who wasn’t either Hitler or the guy who appointed Hitler chancellor and the social democrats voted for the Hitler supporter to stop the communists and allowed Hitler to come to power instead?
Yeah I’d say there’s some similarities between that and communists opposing fascism today.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
They’re entitled to their views, as I am to mine.
I will do whatever I can to protect my loved ones and ensure they retain access to their meds. But I cannot go against the dictates of my conscience. And as I said, in the long term, solidarity between marginalized groups is the only viable path forward and I will not sacrifice that long term strategy for some fleeting, half-hearted protection. In fact I’ve already seen people applying the “lesser evil” argument to sacrificing trans rights since I posted this. Only by uniting and drawing a red line do we have a chance in the long run.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
Mostly just I just wouldn’t do more genocide tbh.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
Yes, that’s correct.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
Thank you. I have to vote according to my conscience and what I believe is right, but if someone else’s conscience tells them differently, I can make my case but ultimately it is their decision to make. So many people on here expect everyone to think and see things the exact same way as them and can’t even seem to imagine someone having different values or a different perspective, and that can be very frustrating.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
You: “Give me evidence of this”
Me: “Piss off that evidence is irrelevant”
You: “Ha, I knew you couldn’t provide evidence, this proves I’m right.”
Me: “Ok here’s evidence.”
You: "That evidence is irrelevant
Good talk.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
Oh hey found another one
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
Tbh I’m fine with respectful disagreement.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
Piss off, fascist.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
Got an example right here:
If trump wins anything that happens to you you deserve because you brought it on yourself.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
Some of us don’t like seeking out stressful news about the government coming after us just to answer a non sequitur from an asshole. Doesn’t mean it’s not out there.
