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  • I’ve known people whose individual politics were so insufferable that it caused other people to stop hanging out with them. Was it the communists? No. They were widely accepted, weirdly enough even among the conservatives. It was the aggressive academic leftists talking about feminism / ableism / words you’re not allowed to say / and so on. They were like some kind of MAGA caricature of the left, come to life in living color.

    I think it’s because the communists never ordered anyone else to obey their ideology or else officially be a bad person. They just were communists, and everyone else could do their thing, too.

    Your point is right, though. Neither of those are on the same level as someone who supports deporting the neighbors and bomb threats to the polling station even after it starts happening in the real world.


  • I hope this is just a new style of trolling, designed to draw out what I’m sure will be a lot of negative attention.

    If you’re really gullible enough to be serious about all this, then go fuck yourself. “Mostly worried about the economy.” You can check back in with me the first time someone in your neighborhood gets hauled away in the mass deportations, or when the price of groceries goes up 50%. My guess is the first will happen before the second, but we’ll have to wait and see.











  • I know that you have a narrative that Biden was able to suspend arms without congress or the American public raking him over the coals for it, maybe cancelling him and sending aid anyway as they did when Trump tried to hold aid for Ukraine. And that none of his piss-poor diplomatic resistance had any impact, and Kamala Harris was exactly the same and wouldn’t have formed any kind of brakes on Netanyahu, even when compared with Trump’s enthusiastic approval.

    The thing is, none of that is true. For more information, you can read the article.


  • Then why did you fill your comment with everything about Biden?

    It seems weird, if your goal was to evaluate Kamala Harris. It seems perfectly on-message if your goal was to criticize the Democrats using whatever came to hand.

    The election’s over, so I don’t see the purpose in getting in a long argument with you about it. But criticizing Kamala Harris because she didn’t stop Netanyahu is about as stupid as criticizing Biden because he didn’t stop Trump from causing inflation that hit us in 2021 and 2022. And, I suspect, the reasons behind it are the same.













  • There also aren’t a lot of totalitarian governments that cease their tyranny because the opposing populace hold peaceful protest.

    That isn’t true. It’s surprising.

    https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/02/why-nonviolent-resistance-beats-violent-force-in-effecting-social-political-change/

    The TL;DR version is that all participation in a society is, at its core, volitional. Even in the most ruthless dictatorship, the police, the dictatorship’s judges, the executioners, and all of them, are still just people waking up in the morning with their families, walking out the door, and deciding how they’re going to handle the situations they’re faced with. There’s no such thing as “the system,” truly. There are just a ton of people interacting, with a bunch of habits they’ve developed for what patterns they’re going to adhere to. What they see, and in particular what they see from any “enemies” they’re faced with, is going to impact their allegiances and what reactions they think are appropriate to the situations they’re faced with.

    Some of the most repressive regimes have crumbled, at the end, because the police simply saw which way the wind was blowing and refused to fire on the strikers. Some of the most determined and justified violent revolutions have turned around to become even more repressive than the injustice they were overthrowing.

    The details are important, and broad generalizations will always break down sometimes. It’s hard to say what approach is better in all situations. But, if you’re going to make a single general rule, peaceful is better. Certainly in a situation like now, where we still have a mostly civil society, with most of the trappings of the rule of law and stable institutions are mostly intact, peaceful is better.










  • I like how everyone else is saying, “Oh sweet! Look at this thing I just learned today!”

    And then this guy is over here with “Well aktually espresso is totally different from drip coffee and so this totally unrelated thing Wikipedia was saying is all wrong I’m so smart.”

    I think Lemmy needs some kind of daily “smart person contest” to draw off the energy that otherwise gets spent on trying to find someone to prove wrong in the comments at the expense of everything else. Lord knows, I need one of those too.