Mulligrubs
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- Comment on Tankie 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 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.
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
Yes, really! I’ve been called a tankie and a Nazi and worse. Don’t judge what a tankie or Nazi is by insults on the internet, hyperbole and bullshit rule.
Again, your definition is not the standard definition. Tankies love tanks. And Communism. And Stalin. Which is funny, because Stalin wasn’t much of a communist.
I use the standard definition, that’s it. I am not familiar with the tankies you describe, I haven’t met them… Tankies hating tanks seems wrong to me. Back in the day they loved the T-34 tank and Russia in WW2 and so on.
Where can I find YOUR definition of “tankie”, the peace loving gentle communist? Seriously
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 2 weeks ago:
He REALLY hates paying employees and wants their pennies in his treasure horde, we get it.
He will be shocked when he discovers the shareholders don’t want to pay him, either. He’ll be like “what?!?! AI doing MY job? This is a travesty!” and then they will have security drag him out of the building screaming.
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
I agree with you! And as we speak, they are selling weapons to the Taliban, and selling weapons to whoever is fighting Taliban at the moment.
After there’s nothing left but smoking rubble, the IMF (controlled by the same concerns) will give the winner a “loan.” The winner won’t be able to pay off those loans, so what will they do? Provide them with more loans to cover those loans. The interest is all profit, and the “loan” is never actual printed money in circulation and is “virtual money”, so it costs them nothing. They collect all of that interest with no cost to themselves.
I’m simplifying, it’s actually much worse than I describe. The more you investigate it, the worse it gets…
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
My parents are dead! (runs out of room crying)
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
Tankies are “authoritarian communists”, they are not pro peace in any way, they love tanks.
(standard definition, not familiar with the tankies that you describe)
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
Those in control of the USA are internationalists, too.
They don’t care who “wins”, they profit off of the war itself.
They love tankies
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 2 weeks ago:
We obviously didn’t bomb them enough, they sure are uppity
LAUNCH THE SEVENTH FLEET, GET THE COMMIES
- Comment on AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations 3 weeks ago:
The AI won’t rape the kids though, so we’ll still need some priests on staff
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
- They’re not Jewish, even in the majority. Some are. Deutsche bank has been around since the 1800s, for example.
- They are “donating” money to Israel AND Hamas AND everybody else involved in the conflict. They don’t care who wins. They make profit off of the war and off of the rebuilding, when they load up whoever won with loans.
- Comment on China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law 3 weeks ago:
Next you’ll say I’m a whataboutism, I get it. Ha ha!
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
The banking cartels are a lot older than Israel, you’re putting the cart before the horse
- Comment on China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law 3 weeks ago:
Just a head’s up, that doesn’t mean whataboutism, you sad thing
- Comment on China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law 3 weeks ago:
But the subject IS China, damn it’s right there in the OP.
I don’t know how you missed it, kinda weird.
- Comment on China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law 3 weeks ago:
There’s no “whataboutism”, is that the joke? Ha! it’s funny because the word is wildly inappropriate! Ha ha!
- Comment on China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law 3 weeks ago:
“No sovereign nation is safe”
Indeed! but you’re in the jungle now, baby
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
My argument is typed out clearly, what a bizarre question.
DNC has something to do with every Democratic office holder. Don’t be silly.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
The counter is always the same. “Get independent voters”. That’s ALWAYS the counter. You CANNOT WIN without it, you don’t have enough members in your party.
What’s easier for Democrats to get, I votes or R votes? I’ll wait.
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 3 weeks ago:
This is the least of it. Representatives entire families are set for life. Somehow, everybody in their family gets stinking rich after election, and their book is always a “NYTimes best seller” because they are bought by the campaign (and dumped in a landfill), insider trading is rampant.
I’m okay with someone in the military picking up some extra cash. Family has to eat, whether government is “shut down” or not. I hope it was some smart ass buck private.
In the USA politics is the number three easiest way to achieve “financial security”, only inheritors and prosperity gospel preachers have it easier.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
Israel is a player, but not bigger than the banks, THEY are number one! Check out the history of, say, Deutsche bank. Older than most governments), and much wealthier than most of them, too. Israel does have their own very powerful “banking families” of course, it’s an international interest, not national.
I don’t think the banking families are concerned about, say, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They will sell to everyone involved, and make sure the winner is financed with many loans from the IMF or elsewhere.
Media? Yeah, US media is probably their biggest international ally after the US government, I think. Not an expert, new information always desired.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
I was surprised he won! Unusual, bigger spender wins as a rule of thumb (90%).
I wonder why they allowed him to win… the old switcheroo? stab in the back, “I had a stroke and now I am a fundamentalist Christian?” We will see.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 weeks ago:
The USA will undergo spiraling inflation until it collapses in on itself.
Our federal government is far more trouble than they are worth. We should be like individual states, but united. I declare it the… United States of America! Oh, wait.
But really, we will collapse and split into collections of states, some alone, some allied with others, I’m not sure if it’s officially a balkanization, but close enough.
Our state governments will replace the fed automatically and easily (easily as in possible, not easily as in staving off empty shelves, fuel shortages, etc).
Our banking will stay basically the same, because they’re not even the government, the Fed is a collection of bankers representing our various super banks.
- Comment on ‘Maduro Venezuela’s only president; no empire will rule us’: Caracas vows resistance after US kidnapping 3 weeks ago:
in south america the masks have been off since at least Dole fruit and the Panama canal, like a century of this and counting
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 3 weeks ago:
Windows recently “hung up” when opening “network and internet settings”, just a blank square.
Also, blank square when opening “file explorer”.
Both are working now; my point is I couldn’t accomplish basic tasks in the usual way, fundamentally basic settings. First time this has happened to me. I am old and have been using Windows since there were screensavers. That you would buy. For money. On a floppy disk.
- Comment on It's called traditional medicine sweety, look it up 3 weeks ago:
There’s no reason any of these drugs should be illegal, we managed to survive and flourish for centuries with no “war on drugs”.
Think of the millions imprisoned and murdered over this war, and the drug trade it creates.
Lobotomies seem kind of harsh, I do not support.
- Comment on If God truly is ‘all-powerful’ and ‘omnipotent,’ then Jesus dying wasn’t the only way to ‘save us.’” 3 weeks ago:
He’s all powerful, but he’s just fueled by blood is all.
You see, the blood is the life and that is why God is all powerful, He just needs lots of blood! It’s simple.
(It’s not even a joke, according to Bible. Paraphrased a little bit)
- Comment on A tale of two social platforms 4 weeks ago:
I left after the “Jesus gets us” advertising spam, followed by a year of constant Indian subs in my feed. I’m not Indian. I don’t speak Hindi.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 4 weeks ago:
Our devices are no longer fully under our control, it’s not a “feeling”.