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- Comment on Israel imposes sweeping restrictions to 'protect soldiers' from war crimes prosecution 1 week ago:
Conflating police brutality with war crimes is but beyond hyperbolic.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police
No, I don’t see police forces raping and pillaging, no I don’t see police forces killing civilians at random day in and day out, no I don’t see police killing babies every day, no I don’t see police bombing entire cities out of existence, no I don’t see police forces executing innocent civilians on a daily basis, no I don’t see police death camps.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Police_brutality_in_the_United…
This is the same as calling rape when a guy touches a woman’s arm.
Officer pulled over woman, then raped her, Texas officials say. ‘Predator with a badge’
In the middle of the night on Nov. 16, 2019, Ruiz was working as an officer for the Arcola Police Department and pulled over a 23-year-old woman, prosecutors said. At one point during the traffic stop, he told the woman to “convince” him not to take her to jail, according to officials.
Ruiz took the woman’s driver’s license and told her to follow him. The woman tried to drive away, but Ruiz pulled her over again, prosecutors said. Officials said Ruiz then took her to a construction area, made her drink alcohol and sexually assaulted her.
- Comment on Israel imposes sweeping restrictions to 'protect soldiers' from war crimes prosecution 1 week ago:
Israeli police policy is the testing ground for the Global North. If they’re implementing this for the IDF, it’s just a matter of time before these policies show up to shield members of the NYPD and the Texas State Troopers.
Given the “problem” of people filming police brutality and reporting on international war crimes, I don’t doubt we’ll see a further criminalization of both amateur freelance journalism and sanctions aimed at bigger media clearing houses that publish or comment on police violence, military misconduct, and genocidal national policies.
- Comment on Thousands flee as Los Angeles wildfires burn out of control 1 week ago:
This is supposed to be a summer time thing.
Well, it’s a prolonged drought thing. Turns out those can happen any time of year.
It’s kinda disappointing how normal it is that at least once a year the west coast bursts into flames and devastates thousands of peoples lives.
Damn and drain every river before it can even get to the US-Mexico border. Plant a bunch of non-native foliage and watch it turn to dried out kindling season after season. Never. Stop. Emitting. Carbon. Learn nothing. Double down next year, because developers just got their hands on some fresh new cheap real estate.
But don’t worry, we’re investing several trillion dollars into energy/water hungry data farms to finally create AI God. I’m sure that’ll fix the problem.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people Britain from their tyrannical government” 2 weeks ago:
Excited to see Elon Musk start paling around with King Charlies and talking about a return to Absolute Monarchy in a few weeks.
- Comment on Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14% 2 weeks ago:
bundle renawables only with batteries and sell that
Significantly less efficient than a green grid. Roof solar isn’t going to practically compete with industrial scale solar or wind, much less stage subsidized gas.
May the fossil burners go bankrupt rather sooner than later
The demand for energy is only increasing. I don’t think anyone is going to go bankrupt selling electricity into this market.
- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 2 weeks ago:
what kind of conversation are we supposed to have with fascists and people openly calling for an end to both your and my liberties?
Depends heavily on who you’re dealing with. Obviously, very hard to talk to a cop in the middle of cracking your skull open. But a lot of Americans are polarized into fascism through mass media and other forms of propaganda. You have to talk to them like you’d talk to anyone else. And you have to get them disconnected from the fascist media stream as best you can.
It’s less about a specific conversation and more about building trust relative to their mass media of choice. No single thing you say is going to outweigh a daily dose of right wing agitprop. So divorcing people from that mass media has to be the first step, either by keying them in on how and why the network is uncomfortable to listen to or by engaging them with alternatives.
there’s no debating that we all deserve to live and to exist.
The fascist theory is, at it’s heart, that egalitarian coexistence is impossible. You are in a tribal war of domination and you either win or you die.
The counter has to be evidence to the contrary. Introducing friends and family to people who are “the enemy” but are clearly no threat. Reminding them of who they’re being asked to reject.
- Comment on Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14% 2 weeks ago:
renewbles are typically cheaper than the alternatives
But firms will charge market rate regardless of the source of energy. This is a problem we have in Texas under ERCOT.
Green power can come in at such high rates that local power is practically free. But because the energy is bundled and auctioned with coal and gas across the grid at large, and because electricity is priced at the maximum auction rate, a shortage in one municipality that’s filled with high priced fossil fuel power raises the retail price of energy into the hundreds or even thousands of dollars a MWh.
- Comment on Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14% 2 weeks ago:
Frustrating that these private energy companies can charge whatever they want (cough market rate is a scam cough) and you need to chase teaser rates year to year if you want to keep your electricity prices down.
Shame Western Europe lacks state owned municipalities obligated to sell at cost, rather than a colidascope of private firms looking to maximize the margin on every kWh sold.
- Comment on Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14% 2 weeks ago:
One of the nicer upshots of cutting the cord with Russia is the sky high price of electricity incentivizing big investments in renewable energy.
- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 2 weeks ago:
Okay, sure, but Greenwald’s an absolute fascist-apologist piece of shit who only hides behind a liberal-libertarian veneer when it is convenient.
Past that, the problem you run into with dissent is that it is heavily predicated on whether you are willing to endorse the dissenters. The more alien a community’s political views and activities, the less tolerant admins become. The cause of Luigi Mangione is the most notable one, as certain communities seem to reveal in cannonizing his image while others furiously scrub out anything but the most derogatory mention of his name.
How do you distinguish between the dissident Freedom Fighter and the dissident Terrorist? What do you perceive as the limit of tolerance towards the intolerant? What kind of advocacy is constructive and what is merely provocative or trollish?
When you’ve got a guy like Glenn paling around with Tucker Carlson and bemoaning the Woke Antifa Left one minute, then crying over their own community of MAGA Truthers getting deep sixed by the Deep State, it seems the very idea of legitimate “dissent” is predicated on whether you align with it or not.
- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 2 weeks ago:
It’s a very mixed bag, dependently largely on the personal views of the moderators at-large relative to the speakers. For the most part, the mods at .world seem egalitarian and amicable to liberalish dissenting views. We haven’t seen a slew of censorship/bannings over arguments about veganism or Israel/Palestine or capitalism vs socialism.
But the “y’all deserve to get banned” mentality is largely tied up in the idea that their ideas are bad for being outside the spectrum of your allowable discourse. Meanwhile, a community like .ml or Truth Social doing a censorship/ban on content is morally repugnant because its limiting conversations that are inside the spectrum of your allowable discourse.
The mechanics are the same, everyone’s just arguing where the lines should be drawn.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 2 weeks ago:
Why use battery when nuclear reactors are significantly cheaper per MWh?
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 2 weeks ago:
Economies are shifting away from fossil fuels, and i guess by 2040 no metric ton of fossil fuels will be transported anymore.
We’ve got far too much legacy infrastructure and far too little public investment to ditch the vast number of small, cheap, highly lucrative LNG electricity plants scattered through North America and Western Europe.
And with energy demand continuously outpacing supply in the near future, even the green power we do build will be absorbed by the electricity ravenous date centers we’re constructing.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 2 weeks ago:
I hear LNG tankers are the new Bitcoin.
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 2 weeks ago:
People with chronic constipation constantly bothering the guy who took the pink pill.
- Comment on Beautiful stories like this just make you smile 2 weeks ago:
Army wife will remaining exactly as celebite as her spouse, parked on an army base two blocks away from a bar and three from a brothel.
- Comment on Beautiful stories like this just make you smile 2 weeks ago:
Thanks Jodie. You made this all possible
- Comment on Ford’s X account calls Israel a ‘terrorist state’ in apparent hack incident 2 weeks ago:
Nationalist Socialism, specifically, yeah. “We can’t give you nice state-sponsored amenities because the evil migrants and foreigners took them from you” is a classic Nazi propaganda strategy and one popular all over Western and Southern Europe right now.
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 3 weeks ago:
Population reduction needs to happen in tandem with guillotine day
Population reduction is already in force because guillotine day isn’t coming. The whole peril of climate change is that is renders large developed regions and concentrations of people impossible to sustain. But our inability to curb emissions isn’t a consequence of our sheer quantity of people. It is deliberately obstructed by profit-seeking actors in the highest reaches of authority.
You can kill every Gazan, bomb out every Ukrainian or Russian city, and massacre humanity along the length and breadth of the US-Mexico border. It won’t curb emissions because these aren’t the people burning all the fossil fuels.
- Comment on Ford’s X account calls Israel a ‘terrorist state’ in apparent hack incident 3 weeks ago:
You’re coming at this from the perspective of “Nazi Bad”. It’s only harsh and broad if your opinion of fascism is harsh and unequivocal.
But you need to recognize that public opinion is turning. Fascism is regaining popularity globally, with Germany being one hot spot of many - from the UK to the Philippines to Argentina. Fascism isn’t some kind of hollow slur anymore. It’s popular public policy.
- Comment on Ford’s X account calls Israel a ‘terrorist state’ in apparent hack incident 3 weeks ago:
Nazism isn’t an inherited trait, it is a tool of social control.
private media and business continue to see Nazism as a means of pitting the working class against itself, its neighbors, and geopolitical its rivals
- Comment on Ford’s X account calls Israel a ‘terrorist state’ in apparent hack incident 3 weeks ago:
Some of them are, certainly.
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 3 weeks ago:
Climate Change is good for humanity because killing off the bulk of life on earth will give us a fresh slate to build on.
~ Op-Ed at the Atlantic or WSJ or some other smug contrarian navel gazers warehouse
- Comment on Ford’s X account calls Israel a ‘terrorist state’ in apparent hack incident 3 weeks ago:
Germans are Nazis because de-Nazification never really happened and high ranking members of the fascist government continued to occupy key rolls in government and industry long after the military’s collapse in 1945. Nazis were used as a bullwark against Soviet Communists in the 50s and 60s. Then they became pivotal as expendable Cold War mercenary units during the 70s and 80s, in Latin America and West Africa. Finally, the xenophobic rhetoric of the AfD has been instrumental in radicalizing Germans against Southern Europeans during the '00s European economic downturn and against war refugees following the invasion of Iraq and the bombings across North Africa, Syria/Lebanon, the border wars with Turkyie, and now the Russia/Ukraine conflict.
Nazism isn’t an inherited trait, it is a tool of social control. German private media and business continue to see Nazism as a means of pitting the German working class against itself, its neighbors, and geopolitical its rivals. So Nazism continues to thrive within the German state, long after the tanks that rampaged across Europe in the 30s and 40s had ground to a halt.
- Comment on SAD 3 weeks ago:
Broke: One day you’ll have sex for the last time in your life
Woke: One day your balls won’t ache because you saw a pretty girl, felt extremely horny, and couldn’t find an opportunity to wack off.
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 3 weeks ago:
Making a baby is one of the largest carbon footprint things anyone can do.
The median Indian resident produces carbon under the threshold for a sustainable climate. And that country has some of the highest population growth in the world. Babies aren’t the reason your carbon footprint is high. Coal fired power plants and ICE powered automobiles and AI data centers are what’s driving up the emissions rate.
The needs of the individual household include not being cooked to death
The emissions of a single household are minuscule relative to the emissions of international industry. Not having a child will do nothing to discourage Andressen Horowitz or Jack Ma from shoving another billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere in pursuit of a larger ROI.
We need fewer babies.
We need fewer billionaires.
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 3 weeks ago:
Silence, Heretic
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 3 weeks ago:
We need fewer babies.
I don’t know who this “we” is. Circumstances vary heavily by household and neighborhood.
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 3 weeks ago:
Okay, but imagine if you could have one really rich guy impregnate a thousand captive comatose women at once, to improve efficiency.
- Comment on Le Reddit Army is Here 3 weeks ago:
They’re just big things that end up with a lot of garbage.
The whole community is shitposts.