Archangel1313
@Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Checkmate, atheists! You are going to vagina hell! 2 days ago:
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 3 days ago:
Wave like an idiot, and pray they don’t have a gun.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
This is the real crime here.
- Comment on Is it wrong that my cat casually uses the N word, in my head when I anthropomorphize her? 4 days ago:
Sounds like your cat’s a racist.
- Comment on The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy technology 4 days ago:
Correct. Scarcity increases the value of a commodity. Which means renewable energy simply isn’t profitable enough.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 4 days ago:
Or…he just tanked the value of both.
- Comment on SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers 1 week ago:
They use microwave emitters to “beem” the power to the surface, where it is captured by antennas.
- Comment on SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers 1 week ago:
This idiot can’t even figure out self-driving cars, but we’re supposed to trust him to point microwaves at the Earth’s surface? All so that he can power a technology that no one wants or needs?
Fuck this timeline.
- Comment on Question for the Americans. If Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, or Greenland dropped a nuke on Washington DC, would you be angry at the bomb dropper, or would you think we had that coming? 1 week ago:
Well, this is definitely the right place to ask this question.
- Comment on How does capitalism differ from crony capitalism? 1 week ago:
Short answer…no. Capitalism is never sustainable. It’s the equivalent of economic cancer.
As wealth is accumulated into fewer and fewer hands, monopolies will always emerge, effectively undermining anything resembling a “free market”. And once all that capital is concentrated into the hands of a few ultra wealthy oligarchs, they will have all the power they need to effectively capture the state…and all the rest of us with it.
The only way to prevent that system from inevitably emerging, is to prevent the accumulation of wealth in the first place. It’s fine to make money. It’s even fine to make a lot of money. But no one needs so much money, that they can effectively buy the entire government.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Never. Which is why it’s never 100% hot. At most it’s maybe 40% hot.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Mostly, yes.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That depends entirely on who you ask.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Ummm… doesn’t this description actually fit better with celsius? 0% hot is frozen. 100% hot is boiling. No?
- Comment on TikTok claimed bugs blocked anti-ICE videos, Epstein mentions; experts call BS 1 week ago:
Not “bugs”…“features.”
- Comment on How does capitalism differ from crony capitalism? 1 week ago:
Capitalism by itself, doesn’t necessarily involve direct government coordination. You have shareholders who invest capital in a business, and collect dividends from that investment, and the government has almost nothing to do with it, aside from having passive (systemic) protections in place that legitimize the exploitation of the working class.
Crony Capitalism is when Capitalists are directly coordinating with government officials in order to maximize their exploitation of the working class. It’s less passively “systemic” and more actively aggressive.
- Comment on US has told Ukraine it must sign peace deal with Russia to get security guarantees, source says 1 week ago:
Fuck the US. They are not helping.
- Comment on It always makes news when the "Doomsday Clock" is moved by a second or minute. What would actually happen if it got to 00:00 1 week ago:
Same thing that happened when the Mayan calendar reset.
Nothing. Nothing would happen.
- Comment on Major Bing Bong 2 weeks ago:
They knew.
- Comment on Too much milk makes my tummy hurt 2 weeks ago:
Porn is in the eye of the beholder.
- Comment on Huh? 3 weeks ago:
That’s called a “lounge”.
- Comment on Israelis demonised as a ‘vehicle for hatred of Jews’, says UK terror laws watchdog 3 weeks ago:
Yup. It really is that simple.
- Comment on With the statute of limitations long expired, it's time for one of you to finally come clean about stealing the cookie from the cookie jar. 3 weeks ago:
That’s just where you keep it. No? Just me?
- Comment on With the statute of limitations long expired, it's time for one of you to finally come clean about stealing the cookie from the cookie jar. 3 weeks ago:
I thought that said “cocaine” on my first read.
- Comment on China says US broke international law by seizing oil tankers off Venezuela 1 month ago:
Have you ever heard the expression, “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”?
Yeah. Apparently you’ve only got one tool in your toolbox.
- Comment on China says US broke international law by seizing oil tankers off Venezuela 1 month ago:
Man, see you should try looking at this conversation from an external perspective. I say one thing…you make it all about the US. I say something else…you turn it back to being all about the US. I point out that you keep making everything all about the US…and you find a way to blame the US again.
If I were a relationship counselor, my advice to you, would be that you should stop blaming other people for your problems, and start taking responsibility for your choices. Because as long as you are stuck in the mindset that everything you do, is someone else’s fault, you are never going to be able to move on with your life and grow as a person.
But, what do I know? The US is terrible, so obviously China has no choice about anything. It’s inevitable that as long as the US exists, they will have no choice but to constantly react defensively to US influence. It’s pretty pathetic, that no one in charge of that country has any free will, to even try and do better than that. Right? US influence is simply too powerful.
- Comment on China says US broke international law by seizing oil tankers off Venezuela 1 month ago:
Nah, that’s ok, buddy…your firehose did the job. I don’t have the energy to sift through all that, and really have no inclination to defend the US. I think it’s fairly sad that you’re trying to put me in a position where you think should have to, in order to make a point.
That’s pretty disingenuous, given the fact that I’ve repeatedly told you I don’t side with them. So, if you insist on putting me on their side of this conversation, then I’m out. Gaslight someone else.
- Comment on China says US broke international law by seizing oil tankers off Venezuela 1 month ago:
Wow. There is so much make-believe bullshit in there, that I don’t even know how to respond to it all. I would just love to see you go back through that comment, and attach sources for any of your claims.
I am no fan of the US, but I at least have the intellectual integrity to not just make shit up, to satisfy my pre-existing biases. Good grief, dude. Have you no shame?
- Comment on China says US broke international law by seizing oil tankers off Venezuela 1 month ago:
The US isn’t behaving defensively, it’s behaving offensively. Maybe that’s why you’re confused about my position.
It’s funny that you think your opinion about their motives even matters here. It doesn’t. They can say whatever they want in defense of their crimes…just like China can. China is literally using the exact same defense of their actions in the SCS. What makes their excuses valid, while the US’s excuses are not?
Let’s look at your analogy, from a rational perspective…I assume the “neo Nazis” you’re talking about, represent the US? So, you’re suggesting that the US has been roving around in the South China Sea, randomly robbing and killing people recently, and that China is only trying to protect itself? When did these attacks happen? Because the US hasn’t been involved in any conflicts in that region since at least the end of the Vietnam war. That makes your entire analogy invalid. China isn’t “defending itself” against anyone. No one in that region is currently threatening China, in any way.
It’s just a bullshit excuse, no different than the one the US is trying to use in the Caribbean.
That’s why reasons like these are not valid justifications for breaking the law. You don’t just get to pick and choose what laws apply to you, based on your excuses. You either think they should apply to everyone equally…or you don’t. And if you don’t…then you can’t complain when other people ignore those laws, too.
- Comment on China says US broke international law by seizing oil tankers off Venezuela 1 month ago:
You know there’s “context” here though, right? I was responding directly to the article this post is about.
Wanting to talk about everything else, is what makes it “whataboutism”. Whataboutism’s goal is to change the subject. It’s a form of deflection. It’s the introduction of a wide range of unrelated details, that have nothing to do with the original point being made.
