shawn1122
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- Comment on 'No one can find him': Trump drops from public view again after 'slurring' military speech 3 days ago:
I think the broader point is that if he were to kick the bucket it would be a major oppurunity to divide his movement. Celebrating his death would just galvanize and unify them more. With a little discipline the seeds of doubt could be sown so that the nation is headed on the right path.
Even if MAGA was divided into two factions it would lose substantial power. If he were to pass away, the people and media would need to unify and slam on the Epstein files hard, since that seems to be the most divisive issue in the group and he would not be alive to block it. If posthumously the truth comes out about his misdeeds, MAGA would be divided and lost.
This is an opportunity that cannot be looked over. If and when his advanced age gets to him, the temperature needs to be increased and pressure needs to be put on his syncophants (some of whom wanted it releases previously) to make them public.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 5 days ago:
Science is powerful but, as you’ve stated, balance is most critical. It was one of the most impactful biologists of the modern era that wrote “the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races” based on his theory of natural selection.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 5 days ago:
Absolutely agree. The “internet” was not a harmful worldview reinforcing machine back when we were told not to cite GeoCities in our book reports.
Asking people to betray their dopamine is a monumental task. It’s like any other addiction.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 5 days ago:
I know quite a few MAGA doctors so I can assure you that a medical degree is not protective.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 5 days ago:
To your point, I’ve met quite a few STEM educated people who fall for this type of information due to lack of historical and political literacy.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 5 days ago:
I’ve seen a lot of the counter balance to this which is STEM folk not having respect for the humanities, rendering them empathetically underdeveloped.
- Comment on Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds 5 days ago:
No, there is no question of Monsanto’s greed here. This what capitalism does, it prioritizes greed over sustainability.
Rather than requiring farmers to dump saved seeds and purchase new patented seeds each year, they could use a licensing system which a fair royalty on crop yields so that farmers do not have to take om the massive administrative burden of ensuring Monsanto seeds/crops don’t mix with non Monsanto ones (because if they don’t they’ll get sued into oblivion).
This is the company that said Round Up was “safer than table salt” and “practically nontoxic” to mammals, birds and fish. The International Agency for Research on Cancer recognizes Round Up as a probable human carcinogen.
Monsanto also supplied the US with Agent Orange during the Vietnam war which, as we all know, caused countless cases of cancer among US war veterans and the people of Vietnam. (For a crusade against communism that the US ultimately lost by the way)
Fuck Monsanto.
- Comment on Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds 6 days ago:
Never thought I’d see Monsanto shilling on Lemmy.
- Comment on Italy poll finds 15% see attacks on Jewish people as 'justifiable' 6 days ago:
What’s the context? Is it a Palestinian civilian fighting for their life against an Israeli sodier who happens to be Jewish? I don’t find the moral calculus in that situation to be complicated.
Random attacks on Jewish people, or any other group? No. Not okay.
- Comment on Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains. 1 week ago:
It helps that he starts as a normal guy / kid, not ridiculously rich or an alien. And that he’s not overpowered.
- Comment on Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains. 1 week ago:
Marvel has been following a formula since Avengers Infinity War, arguably before that.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 week ago:
The old testament is essentially Judaism which is an ethnic religion. There is no marketing needed because it is a religion for a specific group of people from a theoretical single lineage. There is no need for God to be accepting or patient since the goal appears to be unify and keep people under control during times of great strife.
Christianity is a universal religion ie. it tries to create new followers. If you’re a religion that is trying to spread grow your following, you need to have a message of openness and acceptance.
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 1 week ago:
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 1 week ago:
Abrahamic religions generally frown upon non-procreative sex. Not to justify their hate, but they generally see sex for pleasure as inherently sinful.
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 1 week ago:
Romans but yes, Christian Romans after the religion took over the empire.
- Comment on So she's saying that she's a sexual bull? 1 week ago:
I was a boy when I first read this. Now I’m a man. Amazing how time flies.
- Comment on Lies, all lies 2 weeks ago:
I opened this expecting some straight nonsense but this has a 1000x more soul and spirit than arguably the most popular pop singer in the Anglosphere (Taylor Swift).
- Comment on International travel 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like an expectation of special treatment that many Americans don’t even afford people from other countries lol.
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 2 weeks ago:
We really need to distinguish between porn that displays harmful attitudes towards women and everything else. There are libraries of porn available on nline that display harmful attitudes towards women either through coercive acts or people in positions of power taking advantage of others. Not ALL porn is like that but the question is what are adolescents watching and how would we expect that to impact their perception of a healthy sexual relationship?
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 2 weeks ago:
Most Christians believe they live under the New Covenant and not Old Testament law.
You are right that it is widelt accepted as the word of God though.
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 2 weeks ago:
If only. In the year 2025, it apparently captures hearts and minds. I know because Boomers send this heavily edited shit constantly.
- Comment on Space colonization would create so many jobs for everyone. Not great jobs but jobs. 3 weeks ago:
Its current fucked up state is also its natural state, relatively uninfluenced by humans for the entirety of its existence.
I don’t doubt our ability to fuck something up to the point of impacting life back here on Earth or screwing things up for others out there in the cosmos.
- Comment on Space colonization would create so many jobs for everyone. Not great jobs but jobs. 3 weeks ago:
Great, we’re already fucking up this planet let’s go fuck up the rest of the solar system too.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
≥ Sounds like you believe you can take whatever you want based on your race
This was a widely held view through most of American history see: Manifest Destiny.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I beleive all life is sacred and there is always opportunity for reform.
But at the end of the day we are all just meatbags with ideas and actions that back them.
If our ideas and actions undermine the greater good then its hard to argue that much is lost when the person that brings their ideology to life is themselves lost.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Yeah wtf don’t send us this guy.
- Comment on They'd just appear out of nowhere 1 month ago:
There are no bacteria in your eye. These perceptual disturbances are retinal in origin.
- Comment on People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation 1 month ago:
Blame the wealth hoarders.
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 1 month ago:
Sure but in this case there are numerous gun related phrases that have persisted in American culture because of this particular affinity.
- Comment on Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue. 1 month ago:
Many (all?) of these qualities sound undeniably American.