PZK [he/him]

Imagine if Hamas used their power…

Imagine pretending to not know how power works, but advocate the opposite argument for Israel.

The same people who defend the idea of meritocracy will also defend nepotism and inheritance as legitimate forms of success.

After he was directly criticized for his love of slavery in spite of it’s increasing worldwide recognition as a moral evil.

This would create quite an evil mouse. I imagine the risk here is that the mouse would break free and run away with the ring and bring it to Sauron.

Edit: Someone already beat me to it.

I fortunately don’t have any of this. I do exercise regularly but I wonder how long it is before some chronic pain starts appearing.

Every accusation is a confession… sadly.

Everything is political, not just when your views are challenged.

I don’t know if he means well, but whether he is accidentally correct by whining about treats or he is giving a relatable example, he is right on the money.

Rather amusingly, treats are pivotal to both the economy and the culture of America. A Wendy’s closing in America could actually be a sign of decline.

“Some billionaires did a great thing once, so they are not bad.”

This is the capitalist framing of saying “I am not racist, I have a black friend.”

Name me one billionaire that has provided a net good that has outweighed their net bad. You can’t do it. It is fundamentally why they are billionaires in the first place because they exploited and stole from everyone else. They are not a necessary component to society, they are an eventuality of capitalism and at their very best, an inefficiency.

The ongoing copium of living inside this failing system is not only to justify them, but say they are going to save us. These people just need to admit they want a king with devine right because they don’t believe any other system can work.

It was awesome back in the day. Its clunky but still fun today. While it was a little campy during the cutscenes, it was actually supposed to have a more serious tone than RA2.

It also answers the question of what if Stalin didn’t stop at Berlin.

I don’t think I have seen all three at once before.

Gee, it sure sounds like an appeal that the abductor would use to try to leverage a hostage situation. “You wouldn’t want them to get hurt… would you?”

Beyond the absurdity of using a hospital patient as a metaphor, it also serves to ridicule it’s own position: A hospital patient is dying, you the doctor offer to save the patient by giving them medicine. This person ridicules you for even trying and casts you as a murderer if you fail.

This argument is also projecting. It casts the socialist as not knowing what they are doing by messing with “levers that no one could possibly understand”. Yet the post implies that those unknowable levers are a perfect analogue to a patient who is hooked up to what is clearly an understandable apparatus of life support. It sounds like the argument doesn’t not in fact know what those nebulous levers are, yet describes the socialist position as clueless to the “complexity of society”.

Better not try to fix the dying machine. It’s death is certain, but trying to save it is uncertain, and that’s too scary.

If the source isn’t negative about China, or doesn’t cast them as the villain in every scenario, it must be propaganda.

But naturally, the opposite is never propaganda.

“While you studied western tactics and equipment, I studied the mine.”

“Black people will come out in droves to vote for Trump because he is a criminal… like them.”

How are you supposed to keep them from passing on the cost of taxes to their tenants?

You have to realize that they still “own” a limited resource that lends them power to leverage over others. The only way you make this abuse go away is to have the people collectively own the land. Any accommodating regulations you place on landlords will only be temporary until they are worn down and removed.

I have been enjoying pop os. A lot more plug and play than I was expecting.

*Me saying a fairy tale scenario that will not exist under capitalism.

*Reality standing behind me.

You can’t and wont deliver a long term solution for “middle class” people by working within that system. The goal of capital is ultimately to have as few as people as possible, with as much power as possible. Any middle class you are talking about will become lower class and poverty class with enough time. It absurd that you can look at the current system and believe that it would ever deliver on your promise. Believing that it would work with an uncorrupt government is trying to say that there is an “ideal” version of capitalism out there and we just need to do that.

You are looking at the only version of capitalism that exists. Any regulations, safeguards, and safety nets will be corrupted and withered away eventually because the people and institutions that supposedly uphold these ideals will be rewarded for doing so. You create a competitive class system and you are shocked and outraged when people cash it out to gain, or maintain their social class to avoid becoming lower class.

They can’t. I guess the game is over.

What are liberals supposed to do if they can’t just label something to dismiss it?

If you really think that bots are this effective, then why don’t liberals create their own bots?

If you think they don’t work then what is your problem with them?

“Don’t make my favorite childhood story political.”

You mean besides the fact that it is explicitly a political story?