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can we please stop relitigating 2024 all over lemmy right new? everyone's being just as inneffective and useless rn 2026 as they were two years ago. if you're actually interested in doing something about all this awfulness get out into the streets, go to mutual aid projects, train with community defense groupsg and actually do something useful. this is like the 5th fucking thing i've seen on lemmy, from either side of what action should have been taken 2 years ago (ie: vote for Kamala, don't vote for Kamala) and i'm fucking sick of it. just like i didn't encounter anyone with lemmy's "vote 3rd party, it's the only way forward" political stances out in the real world, i'm not encountering anyone who's still thinking this hard about a day 2 years ago who's actually doing anything to address these problems

Anarchists are a genre of libertarians though. It's just that who dominates the landscape of "libertarian" is ancaps, who are just fascists with a weirder set of steps to implement a fascist nightmare.

they're on a single user instance hosted in finland. i'm gonna go ahead and say, given russia and finland's history, that they aren't a fan in the slightest of russia

we never said a man sized pancake was a healthfood

Marxist-Leninist are the most active IRL leftists. i know this to be true because they're always saying that. i find this to be odd given that all the IRL leftists i've ever known are anarchists or Trotskyists. the MLs i only ever meet online tell me this is because all the leftists i've ever known have been feds. i've always found this odd, too, since the only ML i ever knew in real life was an IRS agent who turned Trotskyist after her brother was killed by a soviet agent. the MLs i only ever meet online tell me this is because i'm a fed. i find this odd, too, since so many of my friends are in hiding, in jail, or out on bail awaiting trial and i'm powerless to use any of my fed connections to do anything about this. i wish i knew what we were ivestigating. until i find out i suppose i'll keep working to build a better world where i am however i can

remember this when someone on lemmy asks "is rape resistance" one side is performing systemic rape against the other, and it's not the resistance. yes. there have been incidents of rape by the resistance, but they are not to the scope or scale, nor with the support of leadership, to be valuable to talk about if your desire is to reduce suffering (this is an anti-Goat post)

Polymarket and Kalshi are just an old mob numbers game but with the veneer of being accepted

i had a frustrating conversation recently about the ethnic cleansing of Königsburg to create kaliningrad. the person i was talking to kept saying that all the Germans had to be removed because they were nazis. the problem there is that this simply isn't true. the red army and the Free Deutschland movement cooperated on the liberation of the city from nazi control. after the collapse of nazi germany, the red army largely turned on their former Free Deutschland allies, only keeping the most staunchly authcomm officers around and relocating them to what would become East Germany.

"National Security" is the new lebensraum

i think the incompetence comes into play from knowing the risk but proceeding for the memes. and like. look. respect to doing luthery as a form of stunt work. but all amateur stuntwork is ultimately a form of incompetence. it's cool, and respectworthy. but it's also not… the competent thing to do to see a magnet break a slat, realize it can break your finger, and then press on to do it.

for that reason i block it via uBlock origin because it is an operational reality that i need to see that shit sometimes. the only uBlock origin origin that never gets toggled is wix. that shit can stay the fuck off my screen

i often think about the writers' dissolusionment with making copaganda and the fact that they had their main character assist in a convicted felon's escape.

and hear, here!

oh for sure. it's horrifying. people are just existing with overt fascist propaganda around them all the time, and Google has been pushing it hard since 2019

nah lefties love bigfoot. the "believing in bigfoot" community is very split on trump. i think there should be a sociological/anthropological investigation into bigfoot beliefs as well as how our media environment promotes far right cryptozoologists (cryptofascist cryptozoologists) more than far left cryptozoologists

there are many species of bigfoot. there's Yeti, Yowai, Sasquatch, and Woodbooger just off the top of my head. to treat them all as the same species ignores how different their local environments are, and therefor that they would surely required different physiologies to survive. unless of course we assume that bigfoot is some manner of hetero sapien with similar skills in tool use and adaptation to homo sapien

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