Agreed. Don’t get me wrong: the second these midterms are over I’m going full steam on pushing to reform Democrats away from the Schumers and Fettermans and so on. But until then, we gotta get as many of these Republicans out of office…
Haha “your” representative.
Yes.
That’s the fucking point.
That is the intent of this regime.
Shock collars aren’t inherently abusive and they don’t work on the type of dog breed that Kaya is.
Quoted in case of edit. Thank you for proving my point. I’m content to stop here.
Jinkies! You’re going to have to be more convincing than that for me, Velma! Denial isn’t refutation, sorry.
The obsession people have with this twitch streamer is downright creepy. I wonder, how much do these people just lurk in his chat feed? It’s weird.
Also, “bad faith actor”…? I’ll bet money I have more evidence he’s a dog shocker than you have I’m a, “bad faith actor” — whatever that means.
Yeah I’m not impressed. Something about his ascension makes me feel like he’s astroturfed hard by foreign governments, likely China.
Plus he shocked his dog. Watched the live footage. Watched his reaction. Fuck that.
Oh no I’m sorry. My vision isn’t what it used to be and it’s tiny on my screen lol. That’s funny though
Honestly, I don’t have any good recommendations except to say that over the years and having kind of visited most of the points of the political spectrum I’ve started to settle down here. That when looking for something better that has also been realized somewhere in the world already, I keep coming back to the Nordic Model. Perfect? Maybe not. Best we’ve seen? By the data, I contend yes. Moreover it doesn’t seem like we have to engage in this ends-justify-means pursuit of an unrealized dream like I mentioned before.
Sadly I fear that’s part of their intention (we further cannot rule out far-right nazis masquerading as leftists in order to muddy the well).
Though I completely get your concerns. Have you looked much into Social Democracy?
I truly thought this would be us coming to a mutual agreement for once! I didn’t think saying “Agreed!” to that would be all that difficult!
Alas, I see you’re banned so until next account… ?
In the meantime:
Edit: If this is at all controversial for you, then know you’re an authoritarian bootlicker.
Just to spare you some sanity as I’ve told others – and you’re probably already well aware – most of these tankies who have a hard-on for and simp on behalf of Eastern Authoritarian genocidal apologists have a tendency to be a part of the 50 Cent Party or some derivative troll farm. In other words, they literally get paid to post comments; meanwhile Lemmy itself has limited control over sock-puppet account duplication. Just know there are sane people on here and don’t waste your time too much. Stay on message in the first comment or two and let them run their mouths if they wish, but many of them get a paycheck from dragging you into comments (if aren’t actual zealots themselves). You never know. though – it could just come down to them thinking, “Hammer & Sickle cool!” or something.
I’m all for exploring other ideologies; but that tends to stop short of ends-justify-means utopic fantasy whereby many are oppressed; when there are double-standards when geopolitically-expedient for the likes of what is occurring in Gaza, but conveniently not for what is happening in Ukraine, to Uyghurs, to Tibetan Buddhist monks, to Hong Kong democratic protesters, to Taiwanese sovereignty in blatant imperial conquest.
It didn’t. Let’s pretend you didn’t know and make a blind assumption. I’ll admit playful condescension; but not the sexism. After all I’m not maga. I’m no fan of lies either.
What? You went there. Sexism bad when I allegedly do it, but ableism is okay when you do it? You dragged us both here.
But maybe we can find agreement by going back to simple:
Agreed?
What, a male can’t be a sweetheart? Now that’s sexist.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/sweetheart
Condescension*, by the way.
You engaged in ableism, calling me “incapable” earlier. Yikes!
Oh don’t worry, sweetheart.
Had no intention to rehash this cognitive dissonance that has long been debunked. After all, capability is not the issue; it’s getting past the fundamentalist zealotry that clouds better judgement.
Because they lack empathy, they literally do not have the capacity to project themselves into someone else’s shoes and feel for them unless they experience it themselves.
Naturally, one cannot presume the audience is neutral by upvotes/downvotes alone; for as I said, all these down-votes may very well just be sock-puppet accounts or biased Vatniks just the same. Silly one would ever presume up/down-vote ratio is some legitimate indication of persuasion in an unverifiable audience pool. “Cartoonish,” as you say, really.
But <Bzzzzzt> I’m sorry but your final chance has been… D-D-DENIED.
Look, you replied to me when I was commenting to another more rational user. Your methods of persuasion are failing miserably. Please, change strategies. Last chance, buddy!
(Moreover, if any neutral reader to this thread has questions or inquiries, please let me know! I will gleefully engage in good faith with anyone who isn’t spouting Pro-Kremlin autocratic propaganda).
For fun, I’ll dismantle one:
Slava Ukraini
Free Palestine
Can’t be for one without the other, lest one is a hypocrite.
Nope, not seeing it, sorry. I already highlighted some blatant fallacies within your copy-pasta spam that didn’t settle with me, so repeatedly linking to that comment isn’t going to convince me.
If your goal here is to persuade (otherwise, what else would it be?), then you’re utterly failing.
Keep reviewing my modlog; maybe you’ll learn some things. Lots of innocent civilians live in Israel; that is independent of being zionist and independent of condoning genocide. Just as I wouldn’t presume upon every Palestinian being sympathetic to the war criminals of Hamas who raped and murdered children on October 7th – right?
Now I’ll wait for you to justify France invading Canada because French is spoken in certain regions more, lol. Downright hilarious one thought this somehow justified leveling of Mariupol Theater; the rape of bucha; the relentless bombings of cities who most certainly did not vote for or support Russia let alone speak Russian lol.
Slava Ukraini
Free Palestine
Can’t be for one without the other, lest one is a hypocrite.
Please list where you refuted my points; link them directly instead of gish-gallop spam.
The scale isn’t “totally okay” vs. “Genocide,” this is a
Indeed, it is Genocide vs. Genocide. Splitting hairs in between reveals your apologist rhetoric. What’s cartoonish is endlessly droning on – just like a zionist – how your preferred Genocide is somehow justifiable because some people are… Sympathetic to Russia and could just move there if they wanted? Yikes!
Meanwhile you have me wondering if you believe the French should invade parts of Canada where French is spoken more, hahahahahah! Talk about cartoonish.
Irrelevant copy-pasta aside that in no way shape or form undermines or refutes a modicum of my points, why didn’t you just say yes?
Also weird one thinks invading and bombing Kyiv children is okay. As if UK could invade USA if suddenly parts of new England became sympathetic to England again hahahaha!
Always easy to armchair from a distance with nothing on the line.
Come, show us how it’s done by doing whatever it is you mean.
Where do you live, by the way?