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alcoholicorn ,

Sure is brave of you to call for escalations of war an ocean away.

alcoholicorn ,

Yes, it is compassionate to oppose a war. Even if you personally don’t feel one side is human, you must understand that both sides are going to suffer massive casualties right?

And even if you don’t consider either side human, you know we spend billions on keeping South Korea militarized right? We’re still paying for that war in rotting infrastructure and schools even if it’s not our blood being spilled.

Then again, if I had a nickle for every time I heard someone extol how much they care for the Ukrainian people also say that the war is a wonderful way to kill Russians without spilling a drop of American blood, I’d be able to afford a house. I suspect that you don’t care about either side’s people or your own beyond how their lives can be spent to defend western hegemony.

alcoholicorn ,

Huh, I wonder if murdering 20% of their population could inform their current hostility towards the US and its puppet states.

Nah, must just be that they’re bad evil authoritarians who don’t like freedom democracy.

alcoholicorn ,

We’ll be able to push the wolf to the left after the election!

alcoholicorn ,

Are they shrinking? I get downvoted to hell for saying “<x> was bad when Trump did it, it’s bad when Biden does it”.

I expect this will continue until the election, at which point they will blame the left for telling them that Biden needs to stop doing bad things and start helping people if he wants to be elected.

And then they will pretend to care about concentration camps for migrants, anti-LGBT laws, women’s rights, police brutality, Palestinians, etc again, for about 3 years, at which point they will tell us that actually those things make a candidate unelectable until the primary is over, and then go back to pretending that they stand for those things until election day.

Then if the dem candidate wins, the president will simply be powerless to do anything, because they only got 51% or wait no they needed a supermajority or wait no they needed a supermajority plus enough to stop the villain of the week, or wait no they needed some SCOTUS to die off, or wait no they needed the parliamentarian, etc etc.

Repeat until republicans are in power again.

alcoholicorn ,

Yes, if the democrats did care about these things, they would have emptied the concentration camps instead of writing the most draconian anti-immigration bill in recent history, then overriding congress when it didn’t pass, defunded the police instead of advising states to divert covid funds to them, stopped giving Israel the bombs to carry out a genocide, and stacked the court during the 2 years they had a majority and could have done so, instead of changing the rules so they couldn’t.

You don’t get to campaign on maintaining Roe V Wade, then do nothing to prevent its overturn, and claim you cared about Roe v Wade.

alcoholicorn ,

Yes, obviously I’m talking about the people with actual power.

alcoholicorn ,

Are you being obtuse or do you really not understand how the democrats failing to represent the will of their voters connects to registered democrats leaving the party?

alcoholicorn ,

Apple could have tried to work with them and said something like “We’ll pay when the embargo ends”, since now Kapersky has every reason to sell their next apple exploit on the black market.

They’ve just turned a department of people successfully working to make apple more secure into a department of people working to make it less secure.

alcoholicorn ,

Is that a falsifiable prediction?

When is it gonna hit? If it goes beyond that period, are you gonna revise your model or insist you were only off by a year, and surely it will collapse next year?

I have zero faith in Russia, but every time someone’s told me <enemy of the west> is about to collapse or overthrow the government because of sanctions, and all evidence to the contrary is fabricated, they’ve been wrong. There’s journalists and economists who’ve spent 30+ years saying that about China, Cuba, and Iran, who still somehow have jobs.

alcoholicorn ,

You trusted me? You fucking idiot. -Tim Apple

alcoholicorn ,

So do something else. Or indicate you will pay them when it is legal to do so. Kapersky’s guy recommended Apple donate the bounty to a charity.

alcoholicorn ,

Half of all EVs cost >$54,000. Give us the $10,000 Chinese ones and they’ll sell like hotcakes.

When there’s that big of a difference in price, people can afford to put in chargers or take extra steps to make it work.

alcoholicorn ,

I hope he pardons him during the lame duck period.

As much as I loath Biden, the one humanizing aspect of the anti-desegregation zionist is that he loves his son despite his constant failures.

alcoholicorn ,

For Trump Jr maybe.

For the others, I don’t think he’d care enough to write the pardon, let alone rule it out.

alcoholicorn ,

wait until after the election and not pardon Hunter if he loses it.

Why wouldn’t he pardon Hunter if he loses it?

alcoholicorn ,

FDR was at least smart enough to buy guillotine insurance in the form of social democracy in response to unrest, Biden’s response to 2020 was “fund the police”, followed by ending the “pandemic” anti-poverty measures.

alcoholicorn ,

Actions such as ending testing, the eviction moratorium, stimulus checks, free vaccinations, the expanded child tax credit, etc?

Trump fucked up covid by promoting ending testing, reducing the quarantine time, and pretending it was over, all of which Biden proceeded to do. Bad things don’t become good when team blue does it.

alcoholicorn , (edited )

I have to link it on hexbear as the .ml admins deleted the post for being orientalist af.

But more simply: Here’s the full video of Tank Man.

Note that in the beginning, you can see the square, there are not hundreds of thousands of machine-gunned protesters being crushed into paste by tanks, burned, and sprayed down the drain, as the official US narrative goes.

There’s also this context: media.mas.to/…/d60c38f786621419.mp4

We know the western narrative is entirely fictional, we can’t verify that the chinese narrative is 100% accurate, but none of the evidence disproves it, so it’s probably closer to the Chinese narrative that 250-300 people died in battles in the streets surrounding the square.

alcoholicorn ,

Does anyone in Japan have the time and money to have kids?

alcoholicorn , (edited )

There’s also a bigger picture with Tank Man, that shows the mostly empty square the tanks were leaving, with a handful of soldiers and bikes.

And a bunch of other photos showing the battle that took place in the surrounding streets, with cops that had been lynched and burned and protesters gunned down.

The evidence disproves the western narrative of tanks machine-gunning protesters inside the square, then liquefying bodies, that were then burnt and washed down the drain (and getting stopped by Tank Man on the way out).

That’s not to say the Chinese claims should be taken at face value, but nothing I’ve seen contradicts their claim of 300 dead and several thousand wounded.

alcoholicorn ,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU

Edit: This still cuts off the end of the video, but it does show more

alcoholicorn ,

Honda got caught doing it too: news.com.au/…/61b5393556e69d7b056af1628a7da2c6

alcoholicorn ,

smh, 30 years ago, all the Japanese car manufacturers advertised lower HP than their engines could output, now they’re lying in the other direction?

alcoholicorn , (edited )

I know this seems like needless cruelty towards the most marginalized people in our society, but think about it this way:

If Biden accomplishes the republican agenda better than Trump, that means moderate republicans will vote Biden. And everyone on the left has to vote Biden anyway. This is why Biden has the highest approval rating ever.

It’s crazy how the president can get around congress whenever they want to, but only to do bad things.

Edit: In case anyone didn’t get the sarcasm, moderate republicans will never vote for diet-fascism when they can have the real thing, and carrying out the republican agenda just makes your base stay home, since the only argument that can be made is “Well Trump might do the same thing but worse”. This is both cruel and dumb.

alcoholicorn ,

You can apply that logic to most decisions this country makes.

Why the hell are we letting 70 year olds dictate energy policy? They’re not gonna see the full brunt of climate change.

Why are they involved in foreign policy? They’re not going off to war.

Economics? Most of the people they talk to are retired or rich. tf do they know about making rent in 2024?

alcoholicorn , (edited )

all large projects have this level of corruption and grift

Skill issue. I can’t even blame capitalism, since the french manage to get almost 90% of their power from nuclear.

China has 53 GW installed, 25 GW under construction, and another 47 GW planned. Generally they’re pretty clear-eyed when it comes to major projects like this, so I think we can infer the availability of cheap hydro and solar doesn’t favor doing more than ~15% nuclear since they’re only planning to increase it by 150% over the next couple decades.

Maybe that will change when they set up long term storage/reprocessing.

alcoholicorn ,

having to buy the radioactive materials from dictatorships

Not really, but also kinda. The biggest exporters of ore are Kazakhstan, Namibia, Canada, and Australia.

The only major producers that aren’t American puppets stripping themselves of resources to maintain western hegemony are Russia, Niger, China, and India, who total less than 15%.

I wouldn’t call Russia or India not-dictatorships, but I don’t see them using US weapons and training to put down a restive population and keep the resources and money flowing out like Kazakstan.

alcoholicorn ,

Off by a factor of 1000. That’s why I’m not a nuclear engineer.

alcoholicorn ,

It’s been increasing what with the guys who say “We speak for all jews” bombing a populace of mostly children.

Which in itself is wildly antisemtic, like zionists are doing two different antisemetic tropes at once with that one, duel loyalty and blood libel, and saying that their actions are representative of all jews.

But that’s been Israel’s strategy for ages, hence why they work with antisemites like Victor Orban to ensure that there is no safe place for diaspora jews.

But also zionists love to conflate anti-zionism with antisemitism so it’s hard to tell how frequent incidents like OP are happening and how frequently non-violent anti-zionist protests are getting called antisemetic violence.

alcoholicorn ,

He also conflated a white person being called the n-word with antisemitic hate speech, you’re dealing with a deeply unserious person over there.

alcoholicorn ,

Police vs brownshirts, whoever loses, we win.

alcoholicorn ,

Condemns? No they give a shit what international-community-1international-community-2 says in public, as long as they’re receiving the weapons and money they need to carry on.

alcoholicorn ,

There’s a difference between a few humans throwing some rocks at something’s head and poking it with a sharp stick and what chimps do.

alcoholicorn ,

In scale? Yes. In brutality? Go look up chimp attacks.

alcoholicorn ,

Yeah the context is that many indigenous people depended on the buffalo for food.

It was basically the same as when Israel pours concrete down wells and burns olive groves that took centuries to get that productive. They knew for every buffalo they killed, an indian would starve.

That image is similar to the rooms full of luggage in Auschwitz in what it represents.

alcoholicorn ,

I legitimately don’t know if it being such a giant waste of time and money was intentional.

If the purpose was to bring aid to the Palestinians, they’d just open the border crossing.

Rather, everything we see is consistent trying to create the appearance of doing something to help, but making sure you don’t actually affect the famine.

alcoholicorn ,

if the DNC can’t find a good candidate that can beat Trump

Hell if they don’t just tell Biden what he needs to do to win. They must be collecting data that tells them how wildly unpopular Biden’s actions are among the people they need to vote.

alcoholicorn ,

Liberals want governments and collective public elements to protect the rights and freedoms of individuals (from other individuals, organizations, and governments).

If the overarching “freedoms of individuals” is the freedom to exploit the labor of individuals then yes, that’s the core of liberalism.

If by “collective public elements” you meant collectivizing the means of production, then no, that’s socialism/anarchism/other.

alcoholicorn , (edited )

Liberalism has a “my rights end where yours begin”

No, it’s always been the defense of exploitation when it comes into conflict with any other supposed right.

Here’s one of my favorite books, it goes through the history and evolution of Liberalism: acdc2007.free.fr/losurdo2011.pdf

It’s special because most liberal thought is taught as something that was born, fully formed, from the minds of men in the 1700s, and exists entirely divorced from context and material conditions.

alcoholicorn ,

How so?

I’m sure they have a rule against filling it with perishable food, but those are composable anyway.

alcoholicorn ,

You’re not dumping it, you’re storing it. After non-payment, they’ll auction it off to someone and they’ll dump it.

alcoholicorn ,

Those are more like your eyes adjusting to brightness/darkness. You’re not tricking yourself into thinking the alcohol taste or coffee bitterness are good, you’re desensitizing yourself to them, which lets you sense other flavors.

Sometimes there’s no other strong flavors so you get “Huh, this cold brew concentrate tastes like water, I didn’t even add ice, try it” “wtf that is so bitter!!”

alcoholicorn ,

Even if it left Ukraine alone, Ukraine would still fight to the end.

Except they were engaging in serious peace talks back in March of 2022.

We could have had this same peace 2 years ago, and avoided so much needless destruction.

alcoholicorn ,

Sorry, try the “bypass paywalls clean” plugin.

alcoholicorn ,

It’s Foreign Affairs, literally a state-department mouthpiece, you have to read between the lines and understand the way they use emphasis and conjecture to manipulate the narrative.

The atomic unit of propaganda isn’t lies, it’s emphasis.

alcoholicorn ,

I didn’t say anything about believing Putin, I wouldn’t trust him as far as I can throw him. My point is that you have to read any media critically and understand how they are trying to twist the facts. I chose a state department-aligned source so you wouldn’t disregard it out of hand.

The fact is that Russia offered a peace deal that would have ended the war with Russia even giving back much of the territory it had taken 2 years ago, Zelensky pulled out of the peace talks when he had guarantees of unlimited support. The writer’s bias of course, makes them suggest that actually Russia didn’t really want Ukraine to accept the peace deal.

alcoholicorn ,

Sadly the people enabling Putin doesn’t care what either of us think. The people enabling Zelensky might. Opposing only the other side in a war is the same as supporting the war.

I’m not making moral judgements, if justice were served, both Putin and Zelensky and every other representative of capital would be devoured by the workers who choose between rent, medicine, and food. I’m looking for the closest avenue for ending the war that anyone who pretends to represent me can effect.

For me, an American, that means not sending weapons so they have to agree to peace.

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