surph_ninja
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- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 day ago:
Nah. You’re denying any knowledge of widely publicized global. Either profoundly ignorant, or more likely sealioning.
Blocked.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 day ago:
Not doing your homework for you.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 day ago:
You seem confident that you have a superior grasp of international politics, which is wild considering you’re openly stating you aren’t even aware of major recent world events.
- Comment on Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes 1 day ago:
My suspicion is a false flag by the intelligence agencies to push back against cuts or prove their value to the new admin. This is their style to protect or ask for larger budgets.
- Comment on Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes 1 day ago:
Was just discussing with friends this morning that they should expect a digital false flag coming in. The crooks at the NSA or CIA were bound to retaliate to cuts, or create a problem to make themselves the heroes.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 day ago:
What type of community will his home exist in if everyone stops paying taxes?
Boomers underfunded the schools and shit around here to get out of taxes. Now that they’re ready to move to Florida, they don’t understand why no one wants to buy their house.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 2 days ago:
I don’t know. I feel like the competition with Russia is overstated and sold to us by a bloated defense contractors who need a boogeyman. Most of our conflicts with them are born from our aggression on their border, and economic sanctions to maintain our hegemony.
Plus it’s clear to everyone that the US population no longer holds the levers of power. What would be the point of convincing us to believe anything?
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 2 days ago:
It’s actually the very first amendment.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 2 days ago:
There no constitutional amendment protecting abortion.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 2 days ago:
It doesn’t allow for this. Already been ruled on.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 2 days ago:
And the astroturf farm at Eglin AFB is the highest source of traffic on Reddit. I’m sure the US military’s astroturf output is absolutely eclipsing anything poorly paid students are outputting.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 2 days ago:
Western propaganda and US propaganda aren’t all that different, and usually come from the same sources.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 2 days ago:
If they’re doing so in cooperation with or at the direction of anyone in government, it is also illegal.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 2 days ago:
Because you’ve been propagandized to hell. A lot of people have. Which is why everyone lost their shit about “Russian interference” over a couple of shitty memes from Russian sources during an election, but didn’t seem to give a shit about electioneering from domestic propaganda sources.
You’re getting far more propaganda from your own country than any other foreign entity, I promise you.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 2 days ago:
I was checking it periodically to see if I was missing out on anything, but the entire front page is meticulously curated propaganda & ads now. The manipulation is especially obvious because they rarely even update it now. You’ll see the same shit stuck on popular for days.
But I’m not complaining. It canceled out any FOMO I might’ve had.
I don’t expect this ban hammer will help in their next earnings call.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 days ago:
Dude, I don’t even know where to begin. I guess with their support for a live-streamed genocide that escalated tensions with every country in the Middle East. Full-throated support for a proxy war that threatens to turn nuclear with Russia. Threatening hot war with China throughout the Biden admin. Escalating tensions with the DPRK, and backing a coup attempt in South Korea.
I don’t know how you missed Dems escalating in multiple theaters of war throughout the Biden presidency. Especially his last couple months. After Harris lost the election, the State dept immediately canceled all leave for foreign service officers, and they went absolutely fucking wild from November-January.
At least they’re pretending to take a friendly approach in Africa, as our reputation there continues to deteriorate and they grow closer with China.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 days ago:
They’re not bringing them in to train US workers. They’re bringing them in to work.
You don’t have to start training them to manufacture chips in kindergarten. And in the time they’ve spent lobbying for importing the workers, we’d have had years to train up our own. Now that would make the chips more expensive to properly pay US workers to do it, for sure, and cut into profits. Which is really why this is about.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 days ago:
No, not time. Investments in public education and technology. We’d already have a crop of grads ready to go, if we’d have been training for as long as Congress has been trying to import the labor instead.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 days ago:
“Chance and circumstances” is either doubling down on the eugenics theme, or you’re just opposed to increased investments in education and training.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 days ago:
I get that impression because of the projections that my preference for US citizens to get the jobs in the US is somehow racist, the references to Project Paperclip, and the insistence that these jobs can only possibly be filled by importing exploitable labor instead of getting people educated & trained here.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 days ago:
No, a lot of those positions are left unfilled on purpose. Lots of ghost jobs. Lots of jobs left vacant in the hopes they can fill it with an H1B.
Your last point is also completely wrong. It’s not that people aren’t willing to do the jobs. They just want to be properly compensated. Hell, I’d take those jobs for the right pay level.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 days ago:
You’re dodging the question. Why do you believe they’re beating us?
I personally believe it’s due to lack of public investment in education and technology. But the fact that you keep coming back to eugenics-themed arguments is concerning. So again, why do you think it is they’re beating us?
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 days ago:
I haven’t seen any explanation that’s convincing. I think partly it’s a personal vendetta with Trump not appreciating the criticism from Canada of his administration. I think it’s also partly that Trump is fairly isolationist in foreign policy, and there’s a lot influence from the military industrial complex in the upper levels of Canada.
My gut feeling is that this is all connected to capitalists flailing and taking any wild swing they believe will bring back the past glory days, and re-establish a unipolar world with the US at the top. Democrats believe they can do it with another world war, and Republicans believe they can do it with a trade war.
The reality is most of them haven’t really thought things through, and the ones who have are just hoping to delay & kick the can into a future profit quarter to deal with later. Neoliberalism is dead/dying. No matter how much they want it, we can’t go backwards. We’re at a fork in the road, and the options are neo-feudal fascism or socialism.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 days ago:
So to clarify, you do not believe US engineers could ever do this? Why do you believe this is a skillset that only exists in Taiwan?
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 days ago:
I’m gonna make this real simple for you: If you do not control capital, you are a laborer under capitalists. Yes, that includes white collar engineers and scientists- not simply blue collar assembly line workers.
We don’t even need to speak in hypotheticals. Just look at the engineers brought in for big tech under h1b’s. We have people here who can do this work. They would prefer to import the labor under one of these programs, because it makes them easier to exploit, and afraid to quit abusive employers.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 days ago:
I understand that’s how it should work. You don’t seem to understand how things actually work in a reality run by capitalists.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 days ago:
I think you’re misunderstanding. I’m a socialist. I’m pointing to the capitalist supporters than none of this makes sense.
Personally, I think we should transition to a centrally planned socialist economy, and move away from mass manufacturing to as-needed small batch manufacturing by investing in local manufacturing capacity for individual communities wherever possible. Specifically, I believe 3D printing technologies can be expanded for this.
But the neoliberals will oppose that, because their power is maintained by controlling imports/exports, and preventing communities from becoming self-sufficient to not rely on exports.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 days ago:
I just don’t see any future in the US where the powers that be allow the status quo to be changed in that way.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 days ago:
Greens are controlled opposition. Same for DSA. I like PSL.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 days ago:
Yes, it used to only be about our global fascist anti-communism war crime spree.