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davel , 7 months ago to worldnews in US vetoes UN resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire

That is the explanation I was given, but these days I think that’s more of a rationalization than an explanation. Closer to the truth, I think, is that those are the countries that came out of WWII the victors, and so they wrote the rules.

davel , 7 months ago to worldnews in US vetoes UN resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire

Of course not. The occupied have a legal right to struggle against their occupiers “by all available means, including armed struggle”.

davel , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to asklemmy in What soups are cool enough to eat on a first date? What are bad dates soups?

Gazpacho is chilled; if that isn’t cool enough I’ll eat my sombrero.

davel , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to asklemmy in can any American explain the deal with funds giving grants to universities?

I think these are very good questions that are difficult to adequately address here, because I think they deserve book-length, historical materialist answers.

Edit: Anyone who thinks grants are innocuous didn’t learn the lessons from Real Genius.

davel , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to science in A new study reveals that excessive optimism can lead to poor decision-making, particularly in financial matters

I wonder where the consensus on depressive realism is today, or if the verdict is still out.

davel , 7 months ago to worldnews in Zelensky is turning into an autocrat, says Kyiv mayor Klitschko

Western media got the cue to throw the expendable NATO comprador under the bus.

davel , 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to programming in "Stop Writing Dead Programs" by Jack Rusher (Strange Loop 2022)

I wonder what the downvotes are about, other than butthurt reactions to people’s $FAVORITE_LANGUAGE getting panned.

davel , 8 months ago to technology in OpenAI co-founder makes spectacular return mere days after ousting, with the board that fired him mostly swept away

I’m sure the developers make the lower half of six figures, but they still have to sell their labor to survive, so they’re still working class.

I’ve been an SF Bay Area software developer for almost thirty years, so I know them well. I consider us members of the professional–managerial class (PMC). We generally think we’re “above” the working class (we’re not), and so we seldom have any sense of solidarity with the rest of the working class (or even each other), and we think unionization is for those other people and not us.

When Hillary Clinton talked about the “basket of deplorables,” she was talking to her PMC donors & voters about the rest of the working class, and we eat that shit up. Most of my peers have still learned no lessons from her election defeat, preferring to blame debunked RussiaGate conspiracy theories.

davel , 8 months ago to asklemmy in Why are people censoring "bad" words?

<span style="color:#323232;">$ echo -n 'b​it​​ch' | xxd
</span><span style="color:#323232;">00000000: 62e2 808b 6974 e280 8be2 808b 6368       b...it......ch
</span>

davel , 8 months ago to asklemmy in Why is Lemmygrad hated in the wider space of Lemmy?

Oh, thanks. I’m glad I got to the party late then!

davel , 8 months ago to asklemmy in Why is Lemmygrad hated in the wider space of Lemmy?

Michael Parenti: Left anti-communism: The Unkindest Cut

davel , 8 months ago to asklemmy in Why is Lemmygrad hated in the wider space of Lemmy?

Opposing a settler colonial, apartheid State, which has been ethnically cleansing for three generations and is committing genocide as we speak, is not a “soft aura of antisemitism”.

davel , 8 months ago to asklemmy in Why is Lemmygrad hated in the wider space of Lemmy?

Guantánamo Bay

Since 2002, the base has included the detainment camp for individuals deemed of risk to United States national security. In 2009, the U.S. President, Barack Obama, gave orders for the detention camp to close by January 22, 2010. As of 2021, it remains open due to a congressional refusal of funds for its closure.

davel , 8 months ago to asklemmy in Why is Lemmygrad hated in the wider space of Lemmy?

Hating the settler colonial, apartheid State of Israel, which has been ethnically cleansing for three generations and is committing genocide as we speak, is not antisemitism.

davel , 8 months ago to asklemmy in Why is Lemmygrad hated in the wider space of Lemmy?

<@wtry> I’ve been trying to find a good Marxist instance
<@wtry> Hope this isn’t a Tankie instance.

Comedy gold.

There is a specter haunting lemmitor, the specter of specter