Zombiepirate
@Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
- Comment on Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors 5 days ago:
Gee, I wonder why other countries would not want to move production to the US after ICE arrested the Koreans who were doing exactly that?
No way to know, I guess.
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 6 days ago:
I liked this guy when I didn’t know the full story. But now that I know that he was yelling at the fascists on the street I love him. Thanks!
- Comment on GOG expands their Preservation Program to include Gothic 1 & 2, Mortal Kombat Trilogy and more 6 days ago:
I would love to play Gothic 2 with German audio and English subtitles. The English VO is maybe the worst acting I’ve ever heard, but I’ve heard the game is amazing. I know a bit of German, but not enough to keep up with a whole game.
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 1 week ago:
You can tell the cowpoke in the cowboy hat is an expert tracker.
I’m sure this delivery guy was super dangerous, you can tell by the way he was out in public without lilly-white skin.
- Comment on Was it worth it? 1 week ago:
Conservatives think that assistance to the less fortunate should come from charity instead of the government.
Mainly because this gives them direct power over people: they can indoctrinate people and control poor people when the threat is starvation and homelessness.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 1 week ago:
I don’t read many comics, but there was a Wonder Twins run by Mark Russell that was amazing.
The villain had a plan to scramble everyone’s identity on Earth, so one day you could wake up and be in a horrible economic system. His thinking was that with the deadline approaching, people would have to work to make the world more fair for everyone.
Spoiler
The world leaders are so relieved when he’s finally caught, because they can stop wasting money on improving the lives of poor people.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 week ago:
Should be ginger instead of salt.
I mean, you need salt. But you don’t smell it.
- Comment on Can someone find a redeeming factor about this game? Like anything good about it. 1 week ago:
Yeah, I remembered it as one of the better C64 games. But it may have just been because I liked the movie. Maybe I’ll try it again sometime.
- Comment on See no evil 1 week ago:
Fuck this bullshit.
You can be against an evil settler-colonialist state like Israel without being a racist, conspiracy pedaling piece of shit that drives hatred and violence towards people who have nothing to do with it.
We deal with this psycho shit from the right all the time, and it’s wrong when they do it. Try having goddamn principles.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 2 weeks ago:
Looks like they just added it in the new release. We should get you to ask for world peace next time, but this is pretty good too.
- Comment on Finally got a Gensis (Megadrive) after years of wanting one! 2 weeks ago:
General Chaos was one of my favorite multiplayer games of the era.
The Road Rash games were also great.
- Comment on Too soon? 3 weeks ago:
I bet the billionaires who back it will put Candace Owens in charge next.
- Comment on Are Americans quarks? 3 weeks ago:
They’re called Ferengi, but yeah close enough.
- Comment on banger 3 weeks ago:
Just like the time he told the world that Osama bin Laden was dead.
- Comment on Lots to unpack ha ha! 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s a fascinating insight into what cops think about the people they arrest.
- Comment on Musk's xAI sues engineer for allegedly taking secrets to OpenAI 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Possibly "scaly shield" (Pluteus petasatus) 5 weeks ago:
Cool! What are you going to do with it?
Side note, I thought the thumbnail was a crime scene photo at first. Looks like the top of a guy’s head.
- Comment on Bro wake up it's 1997. 1 month ago:
Hot Pursuit and the Porche one were my favorites; I remember steering with a force feedback joystick.
- Comment on Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord, Barbarossa to Berlin, and Afrika Korps are returning with updates to Steam in September 1 month ago:
Hell yeah, these are such great games.
- Comment on Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor 1 month ago:
Reactionaries decry “identity politics,” because it’s literally all they have; they’re the ones pushing to make their list of prescribed identities the only socially acceptable ones.
They loathe women who jump their station and get a “man’s job.” They’re disgusted by trans people who won’t accept their assignment to either pump out babies for the oligarchy or mainain white Christian supremacy. They’re enraged by immigrants who “don’t belong.”
The identity that they care about most though is “conservative.” You can get away with anything so long as you fly that particular freak flag and pretend to apologize. They’re narrow-minded bigots who should be ostracized in any civilized society.
- Comment on History is best told as a story of organised crime 1 month ago:
Cool story. You’re probably right that a debunked prehistory that ignores the past 40 years of research is more accurate.
Knowing things is for chumps anyway.
- Comment on History is best told as a story of organised crime 2 months ago:
This view of prehistory is rooted in the Enlightenment-era philosophers, and does not really reflect what we’ve discovered archaeologically.
For example, the protocity of Çatalhöyük (c. 7000 BCE) was settled in a river valley, and populated by an egalitarian people who hunted and gathered while also using the natural flood cycle of the river to do much of their agricultural work for them. As far as we can tell, this settlement (about a thousand people) had no kings or rulers; no special buildings like temples or palaces for the thousands of years that it was inhabited.
There have been countless societies that made efforts to decentralize power, to “trap” would-be rulers in chiefdoms where their power is limited to how persuasive they can be or how much of their material wealth they can give away.
The Iroquois Confederacy was a matriarchal political system set up to disperse power from clan mothers down to various leaders and settle disputes through debate.
The reason the world is locked into the “strong man” era is that we’ve had our most basic human freedoms stripped away: the freedom to move away from a bad situation is our most fundamental right from which all of our others derive. The modern state restricts this, which limits our second fundamental human right: the right to say “no” to authority. And then, once the state has ability to control you with violence, we lose our last fundamental freedom: the right to remake our political systems.
It didn’t have to be this way; there’s nothing intrinsic about people that makes us want to be controlled. In fact, when we talk to and read writings from people who have always had these fundamental freedoms, they think our way of doing things is madness. Yes, there have likely always been raiders and bandits; but there has also always been an egalitarian streak in humanity.
- Comment on Good racing games on Steam? 2 months ago:
Assettto Corsa is a steal at $5. It’s a bit older, but there is a ton of community made content.
- Comment on Grok AI to be available in Tesla vehicles next week, Elon Musk says 2 months ago:
Wow, they really got the chatbot to sound like a right-wing debate bro shithead. They must have had a lot of training data laying around somewhere.
- Comment on Grok AI to be available in Tesla vehicles next week, Elon Musk says 2 months ago:
When you ride alone, you ride with MechaHitler.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 2 months ago:
I still cry when I remember that they were clearing them out at $5 a pop. I’ll cling to mine until the day it dies.
- Comment on Even conservatives use to boast the virtue of achieving a higher education. In MAGA times what is the pathway to success? 2 months ago:
To look at a historical analogue:
The system of government was formed whereby leading Nazi officials were forced to interpret Hitler’s speeches, remarks and writings on government policies and turn them into programs and legislation. Hitler typically did not give written orders; instead he communicated them verbally, or had them conveyed through his close associate, Martin Bormann. He entrusted Bormann with his paperwork, appointments, and personal finances; Bormann used his position to control the flow of information and access to Hitler. Hitler’s cabinet never met after 1938, and he discouraged his ministers from meeting independently.
Hitler’s leadership style was to give contradictory orders to his subordinates and to place them into positions where their duties and responsibilities overlapped with those of others, to have “the stronger one [do] the job”. In this way, Hitler fostered distrust, competition, and infighting among his subordinates to consolidate and maximise his own power.
The process allowed more unscrupulous and ambitious Nazis to get away with implementing the more radical and extreme elements of Hitler’s ideology, such as antisemitism, and in doing so win political favour. It was protected by Joseph Goebbels’ effective propaganda machine, which portrayed Hitler as a heroic and infallible leader. Further, the government was portrayed as a dedicated, dutiful and efficient outfit. Through successive Reichsstatthalter decrees, Germany’s states were effectively replaced by Nazi provinces called Gaue.
- Comment on Midweek feels 3 months ago:
We’ve all bean there.
- Comment on Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ? 3 months ago:
That’s my point: billionaires are an establishment unto themselves, and they’re already in a cartel to control the US government.
Corey Robin put it better than I can in The Reactionary Mind:
Far from yielding a knee-jerk defense of an unchanging old regime or a thoughtful traditionalism, the reactionary imperative presses conservatism in two rather different directions: first, to a critique and reconfiguration of the old regime; and second, to an absorption of the ideas and tactics of the very revolution or reform it opposes. What conservatism seeks to accomplish through that reconfiguration of the old and absorption of the new is to make privilege popular, to transform a tottering old regime into a dynamic, ideologically coherent movement of the masses. A new old regime, one could say, which brings the energy and dynamism of the street to the antique inequalities of a dilapidated estate.
- Comment on Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ? 3 months ago:
How anyone can see a billionaire as “anti-establishment” is beyond me.
