Holy SMOKES that is a beautiful drawing.
PhilipTheBucket
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They’re currently in !world@lemmy.world yelling about how it’s fake news. That’s how they’re explaining it.
Turns out Xi Jinping is a dictator of the proletariat, which is a necessary precursor to real communism, which will arrive any day now! So everything is fine.
In fairness, it has negative thirty votes, and the top comments are all people shitting on the OP.
On the other hand, there’s this which can fuck all the way off. I also like Yogthos’s assumption that people in Ukraine don’t realize that the West doesn’t care about them dying all that much, like it’s escaped their notice so far, and they’ll be big mad once they finally figure it out for the first time, because just like him they’re just kind of bebopping around saying stuff, not really thinking about or aware of these issues.
Read writing from people in Ukraine. They’re well aware.
However this does not give Putin, or any other neighbouring country, the right to invade and all willy-nilly demand territories from Ukraine.
Almost as if it is possible for two bad things to be happening at once at the same time, without it meaning that one of them is actually a good thing now.
I’m reminded of the run-up to the 2nd Iraq War, near enough to the dawn of the mainstream internet that there was one Iraqi blogger who was well-known in the West. He was kind of a minor celebrity and people read him attentively to figure out what the reality was like for people in Iraq, up to and including the beginning of the war. One thing that he said that always stuck with me was, more or less: Yes, things are bad here. Some of the things the US is saying are true. But it is INSANE to think that anyone here wants the US to invade to “save” us from any of it, or that there’s any chance that it will make anything any better. It will make things ten times worse. It’s insane to me that people who are supposed to be qualified at world events are saying that the US is trying to “help,” or that anyone wants this or will “welcome as liberators” the people coming to bomb our cities and make our government even worse.
Act 2: Hey what the fuck, you guys were supposed to keep growing us food, what gives? We’re all in this together you know
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.” -Carl Sagan
Go to a different doctor. Maybe bring a couple of those articles about someone who had some major medical issue who was initially dismissed by doctors because the pain “wasn’t that serious” or some other nonsense reason. This sounds serious.
No, it was an “anti-contact MAP” who did it. We at here categorically condemn violence and hope that those who’re unhappy with Wikipedia can go to the likes of Grokipedia and HandWiki instead.
The fuck is this comment of yours, OP?
I mean this story seems kind of like slop, maybe. IDK. I read a little bit and my eyes crossed and I stopped. It doesn’t necessarily seem harmful just because it’s atrociously written. But what’s this about “we at here”?
“Things happen.”
Hey remember when that lady asked a question that wasn’t your favorite question?
“IT’S A FUCKING WAR CRIME AND I TELL YOU SHE NEEDS TO BE FIRED INTO THE SUN”
This story is a bunch of shit. The general consensus is that it’s a fascist party which is trying to use legitimate issues and the branding of the “Gen Z” worldwide protest movement to push their agenda.
The US is providing about a quarter of Ukraine’s defense budget at this point, the EU another quarter, and Ukraine the remaining half.
For the size and money disparity between the countries, it is surprising that the US is doing so little. The US military industrial complex has a bad habit it gets into where it often will give enough aid not to lose, but also not enough to win. Dan Ellsberg called it “The Stalemate Machine” and explained how it works in pretty heartbreaking detail.
There’s a friend of mine who had a roommate who was a Sword Guy. People made fun of him and his sword sometimes, and life moved on as it does.
Then one day some kids who had had a disagreement with members of the house started hitting the front door with baseball bats, trying to break in and wreck up whoever they found inside. About the time they broke through the door Sword Guy came quick down the stairs with his sword. It happened basically exactly like in the anime. He said some weird edgelord shit, but also, he didn’t sound like he was backing down and he was holding a real fucking sword. The kids with bats did the math and decided they didn’t want to get sliced up today, and they left.
I won’t say that Sword Guy became cool on that day but people definitely remembered it positively. Because at the end of the day, when the barbarians were at the gate, who came the fuck through? Sword Guy.
- Branding. Have recognizable stuff, people get a little hit of dopamine from seeing your logo and the style when it is unique and they recognize it.
- Production values. Have them.
- Consistency over a long time to let the algorithm build up an audience, as it does. Presumably, how people react to your videos has a lot to do with it.
- Hire some dudes in China to play it a few thousand times in one of the those big racks of cell phones.
Check out the whole line of cars that could be getting through right-to-left, but there are two jerkwads who insist on not moving their car a foot or two apart to open up the little space and let them proceed.
Turns out the real America was in the hearts of the world this entire time
It’s crazy to me that none of the people in the right lane of traffic are just escaping off to the right. Everyone’s just sitting.
Maybe there was a process of natural selection, where all the people sensible enough who could get out got out, and it was 100% stubborn people remaining by the time the picture was taken.
I do think of that mentality “But I don’t want to go right, I want to go straight, I’m not turning, everyone needs to get out of my way so I can go straight, I’m waiting here until that happens” as an American thing, but I guess we don’t have a monopoly on it.
Sao Paulo: AMATEURS
EXECUTIVE (tentative) Well, Will, I'm not exactly sure what you mean, we've already offered you a position.. Cut to reveal: Chuckie sitting across from the executives, hair combed down, wearing his Sunday best. CHUCKIE Since this is obviously not my first time in such altercations, let me say this: Chuckie rubs the tips of his fingers together, indicating "cash." The executives are baffled. CHUCKIE Look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. The executives are completely blank. CHUCKIE At the current time I am looking at a number of different fields from which to disseminate which offer is most pursuant aid to my benefit. (a beat) What do you want? What do I want? What does anybody want? Leniency. EXECUTIVE I'm not sure-- CHUCKIE --These circumstances are mitigated. Right now. They're mitigated. Chuckie puts his hands up, as if getting a vibe from the room. EXECUTIVE Okay... Chuckie points to the third executive. CHUCKIE He knows what I'm talking about. The third executive is baffled. CHUCKIE A retainer. Nobody in this town works without a retainer. You think you can find someone who does, you have my blessin'. But I think we all know that person isn't going to represent you as well as I can. EXECUTIVE Will, our offer starts you at eighty- four thousand a year, plus benefits. CHUCKIE Retainer... EXECUTIVE You want us to give you cash right now? CHUCKIE Allegedly, what I am saying is your situation will be concurrently improved if I had two hundred sheets in my pocket right now. The executives exchange looks and go for their wallets. EXECUTIVE I don't think I... Larry? EXECUTIVE I have about seventy-three... EXECUTIVE Will you take a check? CHUCKIE Come now... what do you think I am, a juvenile? You don't got any money on you right now. You think I'm gonna take a check? EXECUTIVE It's fine, John, I can cover the rest. CHUCKIE That's right, you know. (turns to #1) He knows. Chuckie stands up and takes the money. CHUCKIE (to exec #1) You're suspect. I don't know what your reputation is, but after the shit you tried to pull today, you can bet I'll be looking into it. Any conversations you want to have with me heretofore, you can have with my attorney. Gentlemen, keep your ears to the grindstone.
Yeah. I wasn’t even going to bring it up, just going to complain about BadEmpanada in general, but the instant I looked inside the video I saw this “BIDEN BIDEN BIDEN” stuff. Wtf lol? Why did things instantly go in that direction? Especially in conjunction with basically the only other thing I know about him (that he HATES Graham Platner and Mamdani and is willing to lie about them to encourage people not to support them) (edit: also Bernie Sanders), it seems like kind of a weird addition.
I think The Man has gotten super-good at this point in smuggling “fellow leftist” propaganda streamers into the discourse to spread his messaging, and I’m disappointed that Lemmy seems so gullible to constantly post them as long as they make the right kind of noises about Israel to give themselves cover and credibility.
This fuckin’ guy again
The last US president spent about half a trillion dollars making a really significant dent in US carbon emissions, it was one of the small handful of big things he actually was able to accomplish. Nobody knows that happened, because the entire media landscape is made up of idiot streamers who say things like:
And by worse, I don’t mean like like the way that a lot of liberals who pretend to care about climate change frame things is like it’s all Donald Trump’s fault. Like Donald Trump is so much worse than Joe Biden on climate change, blah blah blah.
I mean, that’s accurate. Donald Trump is so much worse than Joe Biden on climate change. You can’t just say it and then say “blah blah blah” at the end and make it not true. “We” forgot it in the sense of there no longer being any action at all by the US government on it, but don’t put that on me, man.
When the fact of the matter is, if every single country in the world had Joe Biden’s climate policy, the exact same fucking shit would be happening practically.
If every single country in the world had Joe Biden’s climate policy, the world would be on track for a 40% reduction in emissions by 2030. Is that enough? Fuck no. Is it better than what’s happening? You tell me man.
I don’t know who the fuck the “we” is in this guy’s universe but I have certainly not forgotten about climate change. I do think it’s moderately likely, given his apparent hatred for any of the new crop of progressive candidates coming up, that he forgot about climate change during all his coverage of the 2020 election and how to look at it, and now he’s making his second video in five years about the topic saying how important it is and how “we” forget about it.
Some, although surely not all, of all the noisy violence that go with things like “Operation Midway Blitz” is to try to instigate things like this to happen.