Israel is genocidal, the Palestinian people repeatedly voted for peace and to live side-by-side with Israel until it became clear that Israel refuses to make that an option.

This thread somehow brought out some of the most misinformed, boomer-brain takes imaginable and comes dangerously close to anti-intellectualism. We can all agree that labels can be reductive and unhelpful, but as someone with a neurological disability, seeing people debate whether a disorder that makes it incredibly hard to enjoy my life is even real or not is fucking horrible.

You’re very clearly arguing to have your existing beliefs confirmed. If you want to be wrong, ask questions instead of declaring your own positions about things. I’d gladly educate you on why your ideology is wrong and why your beliefs lead to fascism, but it’s obvious to me you aren’t here to learn

blames anti-genocidal voters for Trump’s victory instead of pro-genocidal politicians

“you’ll have to pry the r-slur from my cold dead hands”

Scratch a liberal, and a fascist bleeds

The problem is, a lot of liberals think that criticising democrats for being pro-genocide is “fucked-up shit”. Like, refusing to support a genocidal politician is worse than actually supporting a genocide to some people.

Either there will be a socialist president in 2028 or democracy will be dissolved by 2036.

name a more iconic duo than libertarians and clinging to a dead ideology

found the Wurm Online player

The differences between the democratic party and the republican party are primarily aesthetic and procedural - being more concerned about whether the rules were followed than about whether innocent people are dying.

The democrats go to war, but they have better excuses for liberals to justify the imperialism to themselves. The biggest difference between Trump and Harris is that Trump is too stupid to do what Bush did, and Kamala isn’t.

There are a couple of more progressive candidates here and there, but even the most progressive democrat politician is usually still way more moderate than the median democratic voter.

The meme I posted was indeed a shitpost, but it was intended to act as a springboard to discuss these real issues, not as a defeatist perspective, but to focus on what we should do to solve it. Sticking our heads in the sand and pretending like the ruling class haven’t totally fucking us all over and covering up child abuse everywhere isn’t sufficient. The Democrats are up to their eyes in lobbyist money and corruption.

Protest and elect. Emphasis on protest.

1. Get as involved as you can with activist efforts locally.
2. Organize, network, focus on building solidarity.
3. Vote at primaries for the most progressive candidate.
4. Don’t punch down
5. Don’t punch left.

Protest and elect. Emphasis on protest.

1. Get as involved as you can with activist efforts locally.
2. Organize, network, focus on building solidarity.
3. Vote at primaries for the most progressive candidate.
4. Don’t punch down
5. Don’t punch left.

Yeah, it’s not for everyone, I have mild dyslexia and I find it a lot easier to read!

Because gender is socially constructed, by definition, if someone identifies as a gender, they are performing that gender, whether they’re cis or trans or whatever.

This is how the government keeps the AI bubble intact a little while longer. OpenAI is really at the heart of the whole industry and is unbelievably in the red with no potential profitability in sight anywhere. By integrating them into the Department of War, they can now claim that OpenAI’s survival is a national security concern, and bail them out.

dedicates his entire life to fighting US and Israeli imperialism

always says being martyred is how he wants to go out

is an old man with a bunch of health issues

likely to die of old age any day

is martyred by an illegal US/Israeli war

in his own home

during ramadan

cope harder amerikkka, if you’re feeling down maybe bomb a few more schools or hospitals, that always makes you feel better

Yeah I’ve been fending off those freaks like they’re extras running at me one at a time in a kung-fu movie with bad takes. I’m not even American, I wasn’t eligible to vote in the 2024 election, but because I criticized Joe Biden/Kamala Harris, that must mean I just fuckin LOVE Trump.

Especially the MIT license lends itself super well to exploitation by big tech. I just don’t get why it’s become all the rage in the open source space the past couple decades.

There’s a few reasons I think, some cool new things have big corporate sponsorships to get them off the ground and those sponsors would want a permissive license, MIT license has also long been linked to BSD so BSD fanboys like it, and also the open source community is pretty split between libertarians and leftists, MIT is generally popular with the libertarians, and GPL is generally popular with the leftists. Just in my personal experience!

Fraud would be counted under Larceny, which is a pretty broad category - robbery is larceny with violence, burglary is larceny with breaking and entering.

Oops, you’re right, sorry I forgot UK gallons were even a thing because we don’t use them at all, everything is litres except beer and milk :p

Thanks for sharing and being honest and I totally get it, but don’t you think that should be a rule that’s fairly and equally enforced, not just applied to posts that the mods personally disagree with?

Someone has to get dirty rolling around in the trenches with the hogs, gotta burst their bubble occasionally. But yep, you’re right.