FlyingSquid

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Considering what he charges them, they probably don’t have the budget.

nbcnews.com/…/trump-organization-charged-secret-s…

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

“Nobody gets between me and my berries. Nobody.”

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

So let me get this straight… the people who just last week were pissed off about people making fun of Trump getting grazed in the ear by a bullet are now celebrating someone’s death.

Just so we’re all on the same page.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Regardless of it’s success, it was a very strange idea for a sequel. But maybe it will keep up this momentum.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Too bad it’s a state-level thing and not up to him or that would matter.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Oh I’m sure they’ll try. But I think even SCOTUS would have a hard time justifying forcing a presidential candidate who dropped out before the convention to be on the ballot. They may still do it, but I think it will be very, very difficult. I could certainly see Roberts not going for that.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Remember that Roberts didn’t go for Trump’s election lie.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Any moment now, the ‘don’t vote for Biden’ group will be in here telling us not to vote for Harris. And if it isn’t Harris, they’ll tell us not to vote for whoever it is.

Anything but stop the dictator and his plan to commit genocide against Latinos and queer people.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Of course they are. They started when it was just rumored that Biden would drop out.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

I would not be at all surprised if Trump refuses to debate her.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Oh I’m sure you’ll be talking about “Genocide Kamala” and telling us not to vote for her soon enough.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

And doing what you’re doing discourages people from voting.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

To be fair, most people really don’t know much about her yet. She’s mostly stayed in the shadows as a VP. That could change, for better or worse, when they know her better.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0140db66-9ee5-4364-9048-d5e9d5b35ec3.png

newsweek.com/gavin-newsom-chances-beating-donald-…

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

And what is your plan for stopping Trump’s planned genocides?

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Telling people that if they don’t go out and campaign, they might as well be a Republican is just counterproductive. Insulting people is just never a way to get them to do what you think they should do.

I don’t know why so many people think that’s the right tack. Have you ever been insulted into doing something?

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

I’ll vote for virtually anyone the Democrats nominate to stop the genocidal dictator, but my first choice, of course, will always be-

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8e944d30-b33a-4215-ad07-afe8248d8bbb.png

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

In what way? I’m saying insulting people is not a way to get them to campaign.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

They aren’t realistic because no one with any credible ability to pull them off is making such plans. You sure aren’t leading the lynch mob.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

The few words are the problem. And I doubt people are viewing it as hyperbole.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Someone already replied to me saying that unless the Democrats produce a “non genocide-loving candidate,” don’t vote for them.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

I am trying to explain someone else how they are not being productive.

As I said to them, have you ever been insulted into doing the right thing? I sure haven’t. I don’t know of anyone who has.

In fact, the quickest way I know to get someone to not take your advice is to insult them.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

If the leader of your great revolution is a corpse, I think you have big problems.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

One of my strawmen replied to me below. You should tell them about how I knocked them down.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

That’s also true, but I’d say the bigger problem when it comes to his leadership skills is his complete lack of brain and other organ activity.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

And not just genocide overseas. Trump has made his position on immigrants and queer people very clear. And if anyone thinks ‘immigrants’ won’t include brown people that are native-born citizens who don’t happen to have the right ID on them, you’re wrong.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

You really don’t understand the concept that being hostile to people is the worst way to get them on your side.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

That would be a much funnier joke if Biden hadn’t literally endorsed someone else to be the leader.

Also, I’m sure Biden’s spleen is just fine.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

I thought I was beating up strawmen? Now they exist?

You do understand what a straw man argument is, right?

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Or… you could be encouraging rather than hostile.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

I tend to go by Hanlon’s Razor unless given reason to do otherwise.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

They’re licensing their content freely because it’s a government mouthpiece. Of course they want you to use it.

You are, again, trusting a source run by a congressionally-funded “independent” group that broadcasts propaganda to Cuba. And your reasoning is because it’s published under a CC license?

If Stormfront published articles under a CC license, would you use them? Because otherwise, that seems like terrible reasoning.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

One data point on COVID does not make it not propaganda. As far as propaganda, Media Bias Fact Check goes to bat for Israel and calls any source that criticizes it biased.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

You mean apart from it being run by the same organization that broadcasts American propaganda to Cuba?

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

I literally gave you a source that showed that is the organization that broadcasts American propaganda to Cuba.

You have given me no reason to trust it on anything but COVID reporting. Unless you think, like MBFC, that criticism of Israel makes you biased.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

So you were asking what’s wrong with salt when you knew what was wrong with salt?

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Okay, well if you want to pretend that processed food is just as healthy as fresh food, I’m not going to convince you otherwise.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Why are you talking about things that aren’t meat and aren’t processed in the way we’re talking about meat being processed? We are specifically discussing meat. Not meal, potatoes or milk.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

You do know that the source didn’t compare the amount of salt in fresh vs. processed meat, right? Believe it or not, it’s far, far higher in the latter.

But do show me the data showing that 56g of fresh turkey has 500 mg of salt.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/48c757f5-31e9-4177-9278-9b62ce27a299.png

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

I showed you that processed turkey deli meat has 500 mg of salt per serving. Is that more or less than fresh turkey meat? Is more salt more or less unhealthy for you?

Because I think you know the answers to those questions.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

I am not going to respond to two different comments you make to me per reply and if you keep doing it, I will just stop responding entirely.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

I stopped at your second sentence. You’re condemning me for my sources and then making declarations based on nothing as if they were fact.

For processed meat, Cantonese-style salted fish and foods preserved by salting, the evidence shows that, in general, the more people consume, the higher the risk of some cancers.

wcrf.org/…/preservation-and-processing-of-foods-a…

Diets high in salt-preserved foods, such as pickled vegetables and salted or pickled fish, have been linked to an increased risk of stomach cancer.

www.cancer.org.au/…/salt-and-sugar

Besides cardiovascular disease, a high salt intake causes other adverse health effects, i.e., gastric and some other cancers, obesity (risk factor for many cancer sites), Meniere’s disease, worsening of renal disease, triggering an asthma attack, osteoporosis, exacerbation of fluid retention, renal calculi, etc. Diets containing high amounts of food preserved by salting and pickling are associated with an increased risk of cancers of the stomach, nose and throat. Because gastric cancer is still the most common cancer in some countries (especially in Japan), its prevention is one of the most important aspects of cancer control strategy. Observations among Japanese immigrants in the U.S.A. and Brazil based on the geographic differences, the trend in cancer incidence with time, and change in the incidence patterns indicate that gastric cancer is closely associated with dietary factors such as the intake of salt and salted food.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20649083/

You are not here in good faith and, furthermore, you’ve been very rude. So I think we’re done.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Back? I was born in Indiana. My weird ideas of cuisine are fried chicken and potato salad. What are yours?

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

This is what I said:

Dual citizen with the U.S

This is because my father was British and I was born before the cutoff (which I think is 1984), which made me eligible for UK citizenship.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

I mean… the weekend exists. You can also just buy rotisserie chicken in a lot of places. Even Walmart sells it.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

I’m fine with this until we can fight wars the way they’ve always meant to be fought- with giant robots on the moon.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

In which country is capitalism working well? Because I can’t think of one that doesn’t have a desperately poor underclass. Just ones that have a good non-capitalist government safety net to help them.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

What exception would be worse than what any of these people are in prison for?

en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_current_inmates_at_ADX…

Terry Nichols is in there. He helped kill 168 people in the Oklahoma City Bombing.

Zacarias Moussaoui is in there. He helped facilitate 9/11. He’s responsible for the deaths of thousands.

El Chapo is in there. We can’t even count the number of deaths he’s responsible for and we’ll never know.

None of them are on death row.

So tell me- what is this exceptionally rare situation that would warrant the death penalty?