deaf_fish
@deaf_fish@midwest.social
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 days ago:
Your work improves the lives of others more than it will improve your own. Which others is determined by politics. Best to spread the improvement around so you can get more of it back from more people.
- Comment on Just give up 3 days ago:
Which is a problem why?
- Comment on Just give up 3 days ago:
Funny but not true. Don’t give up too early, don’t give up too late. Give up at the right time. Anything else is a skill issue.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 6 days ago:
The definition of fascism doesn’t start when they put on the boots. It doesn’t end when they take the boots off. Just because Kirk never killed anyone doesn’t mean he isn’t complicit in creating a system that would kill lots of people.
You can be both a grifter and a fascist. Especially if you grift for a fascist cause.
You can be call a fascist even if ideologically you’re not, but the outcomes you produce are fascistic. This is the category I think Kirk is in.
Would we stop calling Hitler a fascist if we found out that he actually just wanted to be friends with everyone and he didn’t actually care about killing all those Jews? He just failed spectacularly.
Sorry about this second thread. It’s all my fault. I have answered your question on what I use to determine fascism in the other thread.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 6 days ago:
The 14 Characteristics of Fascism by Lawrence Britt
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 6 days ago:
I missed some of your points because I made bad assumptions and overlooked some things.
I’m not surprised that at some point in time he would say he was pro-liberal. But the positions he argued for were in support of fascism. He didn’t other just gay people. He othered Muslims. He has brought up the Jewish question. He is a fan of centralizing power. Not that centralizing a power by itself would be a strong indicator of fascism. You have to take a look at the big picture.
There are several statistical lies that he keeps repeating to maintain his position. Someone is popular and is well known as Kirk would surely have people able to quietly correct him on some of these things. Yet he keeps repeating them. The outcome of this rhetoric is to empower fascists. He very likely knew that.
Now I’m not saying he was rubbing together his hands and whispering to himself “good good”. I think he just followed the money.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 6 days ago:
I didn’t imply the entire right was fascist. I think a lot of them are. But I also think a lot of them aren’t. I also think some lefties are fascists. I think some liberals are fascists. I think some black people are fascist. I think some Jewish people are fascist. I think some Palestinians are fascist. Name a group of people, I guarantee you some percentage of them are fascist. It’s an easy ideology to fall into. It feels comfortable.
I’ll write this again in case you missed it the first time. Fascism has a definition. There are criteria to categorize. What is fascist’s behavior, What are fascist beliefs, what is fascist ideology.
You want so badly for me to be some crazy leftist who calls everyone a fascists without cause. But I’m sorry, I’m not. I’m intentionally calling Kirk a fascist. Because he meets the definition. I’m not saying it hatefully, I’m not saying it with emotion. It’s just 1+1=2. The sky is blue. The grass is green. Kirk is a fascist.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 6 days ago:
That is kinda a strange way to counter my point that he is definitionally a fascist. Are you saying that if enough people are fascist then the none of them are?
I am saying that the rhetoric that Kirk used fits the definition of fascist rhetoric. If everyone in the world meets that definition, then everyone in the world is fascist. That’s how definitions work.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 week ago:
Kirk was definitionally a fascist.
As for what the shooter is, I’m sure time will tell. I don’t see a need to jump to conclusions on that yet.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 week ago:
Kirk was definitionally a fascist.
As for what the shooter is, I’m sure time will tell. I don’t see a need to jump to conclusions on that yet.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 week ago:
Holy poop you are coming on wrong and hard. I don’t know if the shooter conservative or not, but you desperately don’t want him to be. Probably because it would look bad for you if he was.
You’re not interested in the truth, just a narrative.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 week ago:
Right back at you. Finger guns
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 week ago:
I don’t. I don’t really think the information points to a specific ideology at this point in time. I’d give the odds of them being conservative about 65%. He was born and raised in a Christian conservative family. In a religious conservative state. Gay hate can only really exist in an environment without gay people, same thing for people who hate trans people.
Which hate comment are you talking about? I am not familiar, so this might change my opinion.
As for not being far right enough, that’s easy. The online and professional media have been playing the game of who can be more extreme for a while now. I believe there’s a lot of conservatives out there who would be willing to kill someone on their same side for not being extreme enough. They would consider them traders, grifters, or not real conservatives.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 week ago:
Being pro-gay and protrans doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re not right-wing. It just means you don’t share the commonly held out groups. Unusual, yes, but a tell, not really.
If he was dropping some Marxist stuff, was interested in taxing the rich, or universal healthcare, then I would say he’s not right wing.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 week ago:
A hypothetical is not a straw man.
By virtue of you not addressing my two hypotheticals, I have now decided that you would respond to the nuking of California by Trump with both Biden and Trump are the same. Which is an insane position to have, which is probably why you’re not answering the hypotheticals in the first place. Because you know it’s insane, and yet you still hold that position.
I noticed you also dodged my question about policy versus outcomes.
It’s pretty clear that you don’t care and you’re just a troll or an idiot.
You’d be doing everyone a favor, scratch that, possibly saving some lives, by getting your jollies off on trolling something other than politics.
I see no further reason to reply on this thread.
Have a nice life.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 week ago:
It’s not a straw man. It’s a hypothetical. Feel free to answer it when you want.
Also, what do you mean about policies? If Trump didn’t change his policies and nuked California, would you then still say that Biden and Trump are equally as bad?
- Comment on Too soon? 1 week ago:
No, I oppose it generally. You just either don’t understand the arguments or are too dogmatic.
I am willing to bet that if Trump had the military kill everyone who was more dark than a specific shade of white and then nuked California. Your opinion would still be that Biden and Trump are the same.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 week ago:
Ah, I see we have opted to move the goal post and add adhoms a classic strategy.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 week ago:
Biden deported them without going to the legal process? Like I’m pro-immigration so I get it. But there’s a big difference from deporting people via the legal process. Versus picking up some guy who’s a US citizen who has a tattoo of his mom on his shoulder. Calling him a gang member and then sending him to some other country to a slave prison without due process.
Neither Biden or Trump are good, but it’s really hard to argue that things would be just as bad today under Biden or Harris then they are under Trump. And Trump’s not even done with the first year of his second term.
- Comment on Kinesi Protein 2 weeks ago:
Whoa, does that mean they cool the cell as they walk? They are transferring energy from the Brownian motion which on average would result in a lower temperature in the surrounding particles.
- Comment on Too soon? 2 weeks ago:
Slight nitpick. Though I agree with the whole “we’re never better off with the Dem fascists in charge either.” In the long term. In the short term there are a lot of innocent people in US concentration camps and whom have been deported. Who would strongly disagree with you.
- Comment on Too soon? 2 weeks ago:
There was a way around this that would have resulted in no deaths. Trump should been prosecuted for the January 6th insurrection. Then we should have put a bunch of fascists in jail for a long time. Then we should have de-platformed grifters.
But none of that happens so. We get what we get.
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe, with genetic modification. I think sex has the knobs maxed out for our current chemistry.
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 3 weeks ago:
Organizing. Building community.
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 3 weeks ago:
I find computers endlessly fascinating and they are easier to understand than social interactions. If you took away easier forms of entertainment I would be seeking harder forms of entertainment. Probably also starting a revolution.
- Comment on Little Pea Shooters 3 weeks ago:
As others have said, you are stealing kinetic energy from the planet to go faster. Or giving kinetic energy back to the planet to go slower.
So, relatively, you slow down and the planet speeds up or the planet slows down and you speed up.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 5 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, we were never going to make anything 100% accessible anyway, that would be impossible.
- Comment on Working Overtime at the Disease Factory 1 month ago:
In a capitalist economic system, you can never be sure.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 1 month ago:
Is there even a way to mathematically divide up land area into completely fair districts? I heard somewhere that it wasn’t possible.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 1 month ago:
Isn’t there an open source port of this?