FlyingSquid

FlyingSquid OP , 16 days ago

That makes a lot more sense than the ‘living stones’ stuff they were claiming. I didn’t buy that at all.

FlyingSquid OP , 16 days ago

Oh crap.

Fixing that.

FlyingSquid OP , 16 days ago

It’s like when they say the Great Pyramid has the same dimensions as the speed of light in meters per second as if the Egyptians knew what a meter or a second were.

FlyingSquid OP , 16 days ago

But in which dimension?

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

“Chinese military ships in international waters but within the U.S. exclusive economic zone” is a bit less of a non-story.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

But it does show force when a rival power sends military ships through it. Which is the point.

This is not something China normally does. They have no legitimate military reason to do so. You do understand that, right?

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

They want to get it right so they absolutely never have to pay anyone overtime for any reason ever.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

The reason wage theft exist is people not knowing their rights.

Except that companies break the law when it comes to wage theft all the time and get away with it regardless. So no, that’s not the reason.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

People do call them on it. They get away with it regardless. You’re living in a world where Boeing kills whistleblowers who reveal the obvious fact that their planes are so shitty they fall apart in mid-air and you think that the workers are to blame for wage theft.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

That absolute waste of DNA James Inhofe didn’t live to see the damage he’s caused the world.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

I can imagine reading the ‘sperm’ part as a child…

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1107a368-5fd7-40d0-bfe8-f4478a751393.png

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

He also did a fun impression of a Grey Whale scooping mud off the sea floor.

Was he voiced by Ellen DeGeneres?

FlyingSquid OP , 17 days ago

I have no idea what is going on there and I don’t want to know, I just want it to speak for itself for posterity.

FlyingSquid OP , 17 days ago

I believe that’s her in the Robert Altman film 3 Women.

I’m not a big fan of Altman, but he really knows how to bring out physicality in an actor.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Because he’s not a military officer, he’s the CEO of a company that manufactures weapons.

It’s very much “declare war” adjacent, but it isn’t crossing the line as far as NATO is concerned.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

You could have read the article…

On December 1, the UAW became the largest union in the U.S. to officially call for a ceasefire, explaining, as one union leader put it in a statement at the time, “From opposing fascism in WWII to mobilizing against apartheid South Africa and the CONTRA war, the UAW has consistently stood for justice across the globe.” The UAW’s International Executive Board, or IEB, also voted to form a Divestment and Just Transition working group to “study the history of Israel and Palestine, the union’s economic ties to the conflict, and to explore how to achieve a just transition for US workers from war to peace.” Other major unions followed the UAW’s lead.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

If this works, and I would not be at all shocked if it works, this is going to be every election in this country in a Republican-dominated area where the Republican loses at any position on the ticket. President is a Democrat? Refuse to certify. Dog catcher is a Democrat? Refuse to certify.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

They have been working to have their own nation since the 1950s.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanistan

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Right? Have you seen the cost of lowriders today?

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

No, there’s no possible way the NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, former Prime Minister of Norway, would know anything about European politics and military policy.

And there’s certainly no one he could consult on the matter.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Besides, he might have the most nukes, but given the maintenance costs for 5,000+ of them and the corruption in Russia, most of them probably won’t work.

I don’t disagree with the rest of what you said, but this is kind of a silly dismissal. First of all “most of them” don’t need to work. Only a few need to and vast numbers of people will die and the Earth may be poisoned for many years.

Yes, stand up to Putin. Absolutely give Ukraine NATO membership. But don’t act like there’s no risk here. There’s a huge risk.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Do you feel that there should be some similar sort of compromise if Israel decides to occupy Gaza and the West Bank in perpetuity?

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

There’s lots of things to worry about. The Earth has gone above an average temperature of 1.5° C since the Industrial Revolution began. We’re running out of fresh water globally. PFAS is everywhere and microplastics are in every man’s testes.

And you’re worried about whether or not someone who likely knows a hell of a lot more than you do about international policy along with all of their expert advisors know what they’re doing.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

And then when I told you that he does, you responded with a sarcastic, “well then I guess there is nothing to worry about.”

And now here we are.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Last I checked, Russia still had nuclear weapons. Did that change?

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Well as long as you’re pretty sure, I don’t think there’s anything for anyone to worry about.

You do have the relevant experience and education when it comes to foreign relations and military strategy, right? Otherwise we might be putting our trust in the wrong person.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

I knew the “whatabouts” would start eventually.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Cool, how many Tibetans hold major positions in the government? How many Uyghurs?

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

That was before most people here were born.

It’s a capitalist oligarchy now. Sorry to ruin Mao’s legacy for you, we all know what a great guy he was.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

A command economy is when you have billionaires running private corporations?

Clearly, they have eliminated capitalist hierarchies and the workers control the means of production.

Oh wait…

www.forbes.com/lists/china-billionaires/

You Tankies are hilarious.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

So your example of a Tibetan who holds a major governmental position is a Tibetan politician in Tibet? Really?

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

And how do billionaires fit into that model?

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

“It’s not an ethnostate because people only hold top governmental positions in regions where their ethnicities dominate” is not the argument you think it is.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Feigning ignorance is not going to make your ridiculous argument where ethnic minorities only get government jobs involving their own ethnicity while the Han Chinese, who are an ethnic group whether you like it or not, run the country as a whole is not an ethnostate is not going to help.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Yes, there are many Tibetan ethnic subgroups too. This also does not help your argument.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Please do show me where in Captial or the Manifesto Marx approves of the existence of private owners of corporations to get extremely rich. You can just quote a passage or two. I don’t remember any of that from when I read them, but perhaps you can fill me in on how the workers are controlling his means of production.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Oh I know, I just like watching them twist themselves into pretzels trying to make these silly claims.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Israel has a diverse ethnic population, so no. It doesn’t. Israel is still an ethnostate. It was even an ethnostate when it gave Palestinian territories semi-autonomy.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

You do know they wrote those passages in the 1800s, right?

So how long, exactly, was it supposed to take to eliminate the multi-billionaires that didn’t exist yet and didn’t even exist in China until relatively recently?

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

One post ago:

Google isn’t the equivalent to Foxconn. It would be more like Ford or some Detroit automaker.

This post:

NYU and Cornell have done so

Are NYU and Cornell like Ford or some Detroit automaker? Otherwise, I’m pretty sure you’re defeating your own point.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Am I supposed to read the whole thing to find the defense of the billionaires that didn’t exist when he wrote that or do you feel like quoting me a relevant passage rather than make me waste my time to see something that isn’t there?

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

But then so much of the Israeli claim to diversity boils down to “we have every kind of European”.

Your ignorance and your bigotry are both showing:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemenite_Jews

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Israel

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrahi_Jews

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassians

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds_in_Israel

I do look forward to finding out why those people all count as European. I’m kind of wondering if “Jew” = “European” to you for that matter…

Describing China as “majority Han”

When did I describe China that way? Please quote me. Unless, of course, you’re trying to dishonestly put words in my mouth. Is that what you’re doing?

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

China has been a so-called communist country for over half a century and the number of private billionaires has grown, so this whole “billionaires happen during the gradual transition to communism” argument doesn’t really work when you start with zero billionaires with Mao and now have 814 billionaires.

Or am I to believe the number of billionaires keeps going up and up and then -bam- elimination of market economies?

But I’m sure Roderic Day, who appears to have no academic credentials, can find all kinds of explanations.

And in 20 years when there are over 1600 billionaires in China? Communism is just around the corner, baby!

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

It’s almost literally the Carlin joke about how Conservatives think- If you’re preborn, you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Cool. Let me know when that underlying technological breakthrough isn’t also an ecological disaster that uses vast amounts of energy and potable water.