Mulligrubs
@Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 21 hours ago:
Small correction, Epstein has been replaced for years, they’re not “out of business”.
Business is BOOMING.
we are unaware of the details, as we only get to know decades after the fact, if at all…
- Comment on YSK that Politico is a subsidiary of Axel Springer, a right-wing propaganda house 2 days ago:
What news organization today isn’t owned by some international goliath?
There’s no “objective” source, so you must read from multiple sources and then try to discern what’s really going on by what they DON’T say.
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 1 week ago:
Thank you, the ‘why’ makes it more special
- Comment on What does it mean? 1 week ago:
It is a mystery, I guess we’ll never know.
And don’t forget, THE FED isn’t a banking cartel! These bankers serving terms on the board are filled with love and affection for us, their little proles. THANK YOU FED THANK YOOOOUUU
- Comment on Ah, customer service 1 week ago:
Who knew? That’s what I get for believing the National Academy of Sciences! Thank you for correction.
I was going to argue with you for weeks for daring to challenge my claim, but then I remembered I am tired
- Comment on Ah, customer service 1 week ago:
There was a study on judges and parole hearings, and early in their shift they were much more likely to grant parole, and the closer it got to lunch time, the less likely they would grant parole.
After lunch, they were again much more likely to grand parole, but as the day wears on they are more and more strict.
Consider this an anecdote I am not going to track down the study to prove the great debate or anything I’m tired
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
But money earned in labor can be converted into property, you see.
You can’t decide that YOUR labor money is more valuable than MY labor money. Maybe you spent your labor money on prostitutes. Maybe you spent your labor money donating to churches.
It doesn’t matter. I spent MY labor money on property.
- Comment on How accurate is this? 2 weeks ago:
I have worked in food service and retail and to tell the truth I would I would choose “picking up shit with a shovel” over either any day of the week. Wouldn’t even blink, give me the fucking shovel no problem boss
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 2 weeks ago:
They don’t bother with such things, America uses other means to squash such protests long before organization.
The means of organizing (the internet) is also the surveillance state. “grass roots” organizing has been dead for a very long time.
See the Patriot Act and history of CIA for further details. Recommend “Legacy of Ashes” by former CIA spook regarding history since 1950s or so. The people in charge then have been replaced by far worse, worse every term.
We only know a tiny bit, and what we do know is truly staggering and frankly when I’ve repeated actual facts online I’ve been told I’m a conspiracy theorist and booted, so I’ll skip that part. The truth sounds ridiculous.
This is all publicly available information, they don’t even bother hiding it any longer.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Elsewhere in this thread it is said that Lemmy makers have “backwards principles” and trans would be better served by “piefed”.
Elsewhere in same thread, Lemmy creators are “trans tankies”.
who is in charge of these claims and how do they reach these conclusions? I want access to the Lemmy/Piefed tankie-trans wars, I must be in wrong subs
- Comment on Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148 2 weeks ago:
I’ll use it, but I know that doing so will put me on some sort of asshole list and you will fuck me over.
And I’m fine with that DO IT put me in the alligator camp or whatever, I’m done and done
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
By blocked you mean you are following
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
What did you say? I didn’t read it.
by ‘not even reading’ you must mean that you are ‘memorizing every syllable.’
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I get it! By ‘use’ you mean "no one has ever said this ever’, just like by “tankie” you mean “peaceful negotiator”!
Now I’m not sure what you mean by arguments and points… obviously by argument you mean agreement, and by point you mean vague nonsensical claim not reflected anywhere in English ever.
Right?
By right, I mean you’re wrong.
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t mean “peace” in any recorded English literature since the inception of the word… somehow what you call “use” has avoided every English publication ever made.
Snort
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
It’s far beyond “I’m right and you’re wrong.”
It’s “I am right as reflected by the entire history of the word until it’s present day, as recorded by Cambridge, Oxford, Webster’s, dictionary.com, and every other English dictionary… and you are wrong”.
You DO contribute something… a chuckle.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled 2 weeks ago:
Never trust a man in his 70s wearing a new shiny leather coat.
Everybody knows this, right? It’s a general rule, like never accepting a ride in a white cargo van.
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
I have made ZERO blind assertions and provided a definition from CAMBRIDGE.
Your points aren’t real, if only they were as solid as a brick wall. You have nothing to back you up, I have decades of word usage and published definitions used everywhere English is used.
That’s because you’re wrong, and that’s okay!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’m not even exaggerating, EVERY DAY in my feed repeatedly, not even in English, absolutely zero discernible reason. No Chinese. No Brazilian. No German. It’s not even random.
Also, Jesus ads. “He gets us”. Why Jesus ads in English AND Hindi Indian subs? It’s almost spiteful
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s not. Tankie in NO WAY means “people who support peace”.
You explained why, true, but your explanation was FALSE. Because words are defined by common use. And common use of the word “tankie” is “authoritarian communist”, not “people who support peace”.
You saying I’ve failed proves that I’m right, because you also say “tankie means people who support peace”. Your claims are absurdly wrong to a comical degree, you’re some kind of bizarro tankie that hates itself.
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
Indeed, I said that I directly addressed your points because I did.
I never said “this is how I use it.” The definition exists independently of me or you.
And that definition is “authoritarian communist”, and has nothing to do with peace, actually!
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t say that’s what you said, I addressed how I responded to you. Obviously.
I don’t care what you are and don’t want to discuss you, thank you.
Tankie means “authoritarian communist”, regardless of what you are or what you think the word means. “Tankie” has nothing to do with “peace”.
Definitions exist independently of you, thank God!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This doesn’t explain why Reddit has decided that I need multiple Hindi sub referrals every day.
Years and years of data regarding me, zero Hindi, zero Indian, zero interest, AND YET here’s another suggested Hindi sub! Fantastic work.
But the Jesus ads sealed the deal, adios Redditto
apologies for my off topic ramble, but I feel better.
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
Yes, really!
I addressed your argument re “definition”, what the definition was, and what makes a definition.
It’s okay if you don’t see that, that means that you are suffering from some sort of cognitive dissonance. You can’t see it! It’s like it doesn’t exist!
No accusations have been made, it’s all here for anyone else to see (as long as they don’t share your cognitive dissonance, that is).
What you say or “believe” doesn’t matter, the definition of “tankie” remains “authoritarian communist”, not “peace-loving friends” or what have you. And tankies love tanks and communism and Stalin.
What you personally are or are not doesn’t matter, it’s irrelevant.
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
I addressed them each, directly.
And you are a tankie, because you are an authoritarian communist who wants to crush dissent with tanks or any other means.
But you can’t! It’s a tragedy.
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
I addressed all of them.
You’re ignoring that because you’re wrong. And that’s fine. See you later, tankie
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
The definition reflects how it’s actually used. That’s what definitions are. They are what is “actually used”. If they weren’t what was actually used, they would cease to be definitions.
It’s not generally actually used towards people who promote peaceful, diplomatic solutions.
It **actually **used to refer to “authoritarian communists” generally.
You should recognize that your subjective experiences never dictate objective reality. You are not “the decider”.
The people who have used the term inappropriately against you were either jerking your chain and using it ironically, or misinformed and stupid.
- Comment on Tankie 4 weeks ago:
Well, that’s just silly.
I didn’t make the definition
tankie noun A member of the Communist Party of Great Britain who slavishly followed the Kremlin line, agreeing with the crushing of revolts in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia by Soviet tanks.
This was how the term was first used in the 80s. As of today, the definition has expanded to “authoritarian communists”.
Nothing about peace yet, sorry.
- Comment on Tankie 4 weeks ago:
Words are defined by common use. If the common use of the word “tankie” is to throw it at people who oppose war, then that’s what it means now. You can say it’s defined as being pro- war, but I’ve never seen it used that way.
Indeed. And the common use of the word tankie is “authoritarian communist”
Why are you using an uncommon definition?
- Comment on Meta names Dina Powell McCormick, a former Trump adviser, as president and vice chairman 5 weeks ago:
Four of the five richest men alive were on stage with Trump, Zuckerberg has always been a massive shitgibbon.
Outspending your opponent has 90% or more success rate, they don’t “donate” all of those hundreds of millions of dollars out of charity.
See Super PACs for more details, our democracy has been dead for a long time.