FlyingSquid

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Squid, on the other hand, are fast.

Goddamn right we are.

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

Jesus Christ. I’m 47 and I’m an idiot and I still know that an “AI supercomputer” isn’t a thing and even if it was, it couldn’t analyze elections like he seems to think it could.

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 , 17 days ago

Apparently not all that secret.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

They think that if there is no Palestine, there will be no Palestinians.

That tactic didn’t work out so well with the Kurds. Or the Tibetans. Or the Tuareg.

Or any of these other groups:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateless_nation#List_of_St…

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Apart from the fact that many of those groups have been fighting guerilla wars for years.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

The Romani have been wandering since being expelled from India. They still are a people. You can kill a state, you can take the land, but you can’t kill an idea.

FlyingSquid OP , 17 days ago

It’s definitely got better effects than One Million B.C.

FlyingSquid OP , 17 days ago

They kind of did.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/79b141d6-f834-4d5e-9935-96152ac7a611.png

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department has actual street gangs in their forces and fuck all is being done about it, so fuck all will be done about this.

rollingstone.com/…/la-sheriff-department-gangs-al…

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Right? Have you seen the cost of lowriders today?

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

The Leopards Eating My Face Party knows that none of them will ever end up in a prison because of any of the Leopard Face-Eating policies.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

I bet I can guess the skin color of the average homeless person’s skin color in Georgia.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

A lot of rent-a-cops are regular cops off-duty, so I wouldn’t be so sure.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

A year’s probation and classes seems like a fitting punishment for a minor doing this. I realize it’s horrible to the girls they did it to, but in the U.S., they would be in a cell. Unless their parents were rich, obviously.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Why did you berate me about posting an insane rant about dragons and then post this insane rant about dragons?

Edit: Oh, I see. You took something out of context. How dishonest of you.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

This person is apparently mad because I dared to suggest that it’s insane to claim that dinosaurs and dragons are the same thing.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

You’re talking to someone who immediately switched from “don’t vote for Biden” to “don’t vote for Harris” the second they heard that Biden might let Harris run in his place. So yes, you’re exactly right with that flowchart.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

And that control under Obama included senator Joe Donnelly, who was anti-abortion (the only way he could get elected in Indiana).

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

You absolutely switched because that option hadn’t been a possibility before.

And if it’s someone else, you’ll start saying why they shouldn’t be voted for.

Anything but stop the dictator.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

If 140 of the people, including many I still work with, were up to this and I didn’t know about it, there would be no more proof necessary for my lack of fitness to lead.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

I’d be willing to trade the good BBQ for an end to mass shootings.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

That was basically Orwell’s 1984 though. The Proles worked hard all their lives just to scrape by and the Inner Party lived like kings and the Proles weren’t able to stop them even if they wanted to, which they didn’t because they were brainwashed into maintaining the status quo through control of the media.

Sounds quite familiar, doesn’t it?

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Did they not listen to the litter campaign?

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

You guys do have the wind farms. Fat lot of good it’s done you, but…

Poor (not really, fuck him) T. Boone Pickens. He thought they would power all of Texas after he was gone.

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 OP , 17 days ago

It’s honestly pretty god-awful, but the actors were not to blame for that. They all did a fine job, including Benji Gregory, which was impressive for his age.

FlyingSquid OP , 17 days ago

This will make you really not want to rewatch it-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWUMXrhTxos

(Very NSFW language)

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Because he doesn’t think the leopards will eat his face.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Biden could be literally so ridden with dementia that he couldn’t recognize his own name and a wave of sympathy would still create a huge blue wave if he were assassinated.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

I don’t even want to know who Alex Jones thinks “they” are this time.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

I completely disagree. You have Trump and his people calling Biden the most evil president in history. That could absolutely turn into an assassination from a Trump devotee.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Since when have lone nuts stayed in their lane?

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

I like how you just disregard everything that you are saying that turns out not to be true as if you never said it.

Here’s something about their “voluntarily” staying in those barracks:

Xu and his friend were both walk-on recruits, though not necessarily willing ones. “They call Foxconn a fox trap,” he says. “Because it tricks a lot of people.” He says Foxconn promised them free housing but then forced them to pay exorbitantly high bills for electricity and water. The current dorms sleep eight to a room and he says they used to be 12 to a room. But Foxconn would shirk social insurance and be late or fail to pay bonuses. And many workers sign contracts that subtract a hefty penalty from their pay if they quit before a three-month introductory period.

theguardian.com/…/foxconn-life-death-forbidden-ci…

Quite the choice they’re given there. Bunkers with eight to a room or bills they can’t afford to pay.

I can’t wait for you to ignore this like you’ve ignored everything else. Or maybe you’ll dismiss this as Western imperialist propaganda?

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Do you understand what a false choice is? The choice is either live in the barracks or pay bills they can’t afford to pay.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Which one of them has suicide nets?

FlyingSquid OP , 17 days ago

Although I wouldn’t say that the concept of a giant flying lizard is especially hard to come up with independently.

FlyingSquid OP , 17 days ago

On the other hand, maybe the leviathan was a crocodile. Some scholars and translators think so.

FlyingSquid OP , 17 days ago

From what I understand, there are multiple theories. One is that it confuses horseflies to make them less likely to bite. There’s been some experimentation on that and it does seem to have that effect on them, but we don’t know if that is why they evolved the stripes or if it’s just an added benefit.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

You didn’t answer my questions.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

For fuck’s sake… Have you ever read anything on a teleprompter? They have tons of physical cues and they tell you people’s names.

And you still haven’t said how you know Biden reads off of cue cards even if you insist on spelling them wrong like a fool.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

I’ll show you that proof when you show me the proof of this claim of yours:

Trumps always answered questions from the media. Biden rarely does and when he does it’s usually just a yes or no answer he gives unless it’s a pre-selected question of course. Then he just reads the answer off of his Q cards.

Good luck since I already showed you how wrong you were with that first part.