urg3t0ki11r151ng
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Reply to Pakistani far-right politician, who once called for Holland to be nuked, charged with treason and terrorism by ziq
Here is a fun game, switch Pakistani and Holland in that headline, then notice how it would never happen.
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Reply to comment by BigG in Millennials in China Are Using Nudes to Secure Loans by ziq
I think there was a time during Mao/Deng where they tried to be more socialist than they are now, not sure though I would have to read up on it. Also before I get demonized, I am not a tankie, I don't support authoritarian regimes of any kind.
urg3t0ki11r151ng wrote
China has been capitalist for a while now.
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Reply to This but unironically by Feedbot
I see 0 problem with this.
urg3t0ki11r151ng wrote
Reply to Could you give up your smart phone? by CircleA
already done.
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Reply to comment by EmeraldShark in Auschwitz museum on Latin American migration: “It's important to remember that the Holocaust actually did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed from words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence” by ziq
Fascist Detected
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Reply to comment by zzuum in Does anyone use peertube? by ordinaryDrain
It is a decentralized video viewing website. That is why there are different versions hosted by different people with potentially different content. Raddle could make its own instance and post videos to that. By raddle I mean you me or anyone else on the site. If there is interest maybe we can propose it in f/meta.
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Reply to by !deleted8445
Zoos and aquariums are making commodities of the experience of wild-life. Their capital is the animals they hold captive. Since the owners of zoos and aquariums are capitalists, they create the minimum viable environment to keep their animals alive. They pay the actual people who might actually care about the animals (trainers), as little as possible. Finally they advertise the cage viewing experience as a natural wonder that these weird animals exist, look how cute they are?
How I feel about them? They are exploitative nasty organizations that hurt wildlife for entertainment purposes, similar to animal circuses.
Sanctuary idea: I would like this to be a solution to currently captive animals: a humane group of people who want to kind of make reparations to these animals and educate about the effects of climate change on our home.
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Reply to What can I do in a rural place? by Sunset_Peach
Manage your expectations. Converting someone over to your politics requires that the person has thought* of their own interests.
The problem I see often is that they have an ideological alarm system in their brains that prevent them from arguing in good faith. Antifascist, anarchism, socialism, capitalists, wealth-class, the rich, corporations are all tainted with right-wing propaganda.
You can navigate around that by talking directly to their problems without initially bringing up politics at all. Talk about their life, make friends, help them out directly and show them what mutual aid can do. Some people of course are too far down the rabbit hole and you have to use your best judgement. People who are neo-fascists (white-nationalist, ancap, proudboy-chauvinist, etc) I feel are suffering through mental illness and are not safe to engage, you can always bash them :^)
In my experience you have to be likeable. Once they are open to talking in good faith then you can discuss more and more how their situation is designed and enforced by the wealth class, how our planet is changing from habitat to hostile environment, how we have enough productive capability to end most forms of scarcity right now.
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Reply to I am a cis man. If trans people continue to be unallowed in the military, how would trans individuals here feel if I, or others, claimed to be trans to dodge a draft? by mouse
What's with this board using breeders
as a term? It is dehumanizing to you and to your heterosexual counterparts.
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Reply to comment by edmund_the_destroyer in GOP county chairman deletes image calling wildfires ‘God’s punishment to liberal California’ by ziq
Making gay wedding cakes, obviously.
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Reply to Trump could beat any Democrat except Tom Hanks or The Rock in 2020, former Clinton adviser says by An_Old_Big_Tree
Clinton adviser
Clinton advice
Clinton
Into the trash it goes.
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Reply to Friday Free Talk by ThreadBot
Reading Karl Marx's Capital in Manga form and loving it.
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Reply to comment by Grandprizeloser in Do you feel the RAGE I feel, friend? The uncontrollable fucking NEED to tear everything down?? Get off discord. Fuck orderly protest. Fuck asking the state to please be nicer to the Earth. It's too late for that. There's no time. Shit needs to come down now by Brick
I hear you and sympathize but have you considered that you are dead in the water anyway? Even if they tighten their grip, even if every nation becomes a police state, the alternative is death. It just doesn't feel like it yet because when you open a faucet it still has running water.
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Reply to We Have 12 Years to Save—or Lose—Our Only Home by ziq
Worst comment (on Youtube) I have seen so far is the idea that climate change is great because it will cause some economic-darwinian event that will separate those who can afford to survive, be it in space or a bunker, and those who wont.
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Reply to comment by theblackcat in Do you feel the RAGE I feel, friend? The uncontrollable fucking NEED to tear everything down?? Get off discord. Fuck orderly protest. Fuck asking the state to please be nicer to the Earth. It's too late for that. There's no time. Shit needs to come down now by Brick
If you don't stop destroying the planet, we will destroy you. FTFY
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Reply to comment by ziq in General Strike to Save the Planet on Jan 15 2019 - organize! by Xesau
TLDR:
Suspension of all industrial activities. That is my demand, and I don't think I am alone.
RANT:
I am sick of climate scientists dancing around the issue, pleading with these climate-deniers and capitalist apologists, repeating the same evidence endlessly. The argument on the surface is always: The jury is still out on science, when in fact the real argument is: I don't want to abandon capitalism even if it kills us all.
urg3t0ki11r151ng wrote
I wonder if there can be a global strike until demands are met.
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Reply to Your friend by ziq
I like the aesthetic.
urg3t0ki11r151ng wrote
uh huh.
urg3t0ki11r151ng wrote
Nah, we are more than at risk, we are completely fucked. Global industry will not bend, they will burn resources, pollute habitats, and as their last stand build walls and bunkers to prevent the mass swaths of human migration from disturbing their civilization induced anasthesia.
urg3t0ki11r151ng wrote
Atheist. Not militant however. Religion just doesn't work for me, neither does spirituality. I have a little envy of people who can be comforted by these things, but then I am relieved because I don't have to follow yet another set of laws.
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Reply to comment by mofongo in US Raddlers, Are you ready yet? by _r3dh07_
VIX = volatility index DJIA = dow jones industrial average
Typically if the VIX goes up and DJIA goes down its a precursor to a market crash.
I think it will be the flashpoint in the US.
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Reply to US Raddlers, Are you ready yet? by _r3dh07_
Soon as I see that VIX index rise and DJIA crash, I am out of this fucking country.
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Reply to What piece of technology do we have now that you think will be extinct in the next 50 years and which one will evolve more? by gingoodman
With the way things look right now, I would be surprised if people even care about tech in 50 years.