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Bad @jlai.lu 4周前

A typical uprising isn’t suppressed with tanks and fighter jets…
Okay sure, give me an example of a modern uprising where the protesters used weapons to achieve their goals.
Eastern bloc collapse, arab spring, sudan, burkina faso… succeeded because the military refused to side with the state against the uprisings, not because civilians had weapons.
And you're straight up wrong (or uninformed?), modern uprisings are suppressed with tanks and jets. It took days for the Syrian military to flatten armed protesters and the entire urban areas in which they attempted their revolution. Same thing in Libya, it was a slaughter, weapons and guerrilla tactics were losing to the military, it took a NATO intervention to turn the tide. For an even more recent example, the Myanmar uprisings were met with artillery, airstrikes, scorched earth tactics on their own land, no fucks given mass executions, etc.
It’s suppressed with police…
Well it's a good thing that we haven't been militarizing the police in every country these past decades then.
The US lost in Vietnam and Afghanistan…
Vietnam and Afghanistan weren't attempts to fight against the tyranny of a state. I know imperialist media likes to portray them as proletarian resistance fighters in jungles/mountains, but both were actually an organized military fighting guerrilla warfare in perfect terrain using their own military grade weapons and equipment, with heavy logistical support from outside allies.
TL;DR: Remind me what happened to the civilians who tried to fire at the turkish police in 2016?

4周前

Where is the lie?

There's a massive difference between fighting the tyranny of the state in an uprising and fighting foreign invaders in a heavily militarized proxy war with heavy outside support.

4周前

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Bad @jlai.lu 4周前

Non american leftists tend to have a more reserved take on guns.

It's hard to advocate for armed resistance against tyranny XIXth century style after 150 years of military industrial complex development have made the state's power so asymmetrically strong. Guns nowadays kill kids in schools, but won't do much against tanks, jets, drones, etc.

Paradoxically, it's liberals that like guns in my country (hunting has become a bourgeois activity).

1个月前

Full transparency

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Bad @jlai.lu 1个月前

1个月前

Real talk.

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Bad @jlai.lu 1个月前

When you walk into a room and women put their hands over their drinks, know that it is because you're unable to address men's issues without minimizing women's issues.

It's not that the points you're making are fundamentally wrong, but we can see the hate when you speak your heart.

Act like an incel, get treated like one.

This is you:

1个月前

Real talk.

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Bad @jlai.lu 1个月前

Yo loser (and the losers who upvoted), male privilege doesn't mean all men have easy lives (they don't), it means they don't face systemic disadvantages simply due to being men, while women have to face those disadvantages simply due to being women.

Conscription doesn't magically erase pay gaps, rates of violence, hiring and promotion discrimination, political under representation, domestic labor imbalance, femicides, etc. Sure, some men might be conscripted for a year, and it sucks, but women deal with this shit every single day of their lives.

Now on to the "women voted for it" argument… ignoring the fact that all women can only vote in Switzerland since 1990 so it might not be the best country for your example, pray tell who created and maintains the draft on an institutional level? That shit was built, ran, maintained for generations by men in male-dominated governments, militaries, cultures. But because women voted in one recent referendum it's their fault? Historical amnesia or incel redditor type comment, choose one (it's the latter, we know what you are).

Your point hangs on to a Wikipedia list of some men oppressing some other men in 20-30 countries (it's men running conscription: the patriarchy affects men too dingbat), while sexism is daily in every single country in the world. And let's be clear, rich men aren't the only beneficiaries of male privilege, it's also simple things like not being dismissed as emotional, not being talked over, not being judged for your body count, not fearing sexual assault on your walk back home, you don't need to be rich to benefit from those.

Back to conflicts and wars. Take a guess who the #1 victims of the long term effects of war are, here's an academic source. To give a recent example, 70% of the dead in Gaza are women and children. And as for the ones who survive… you can probably guess what happens to women during war times and post-war reconstruction efforts, dying on the frontlines might actually be a better fate. You can see it in Ukraine already, women are losing their rights and ability to work, and it'll only get worse as the war keeps going (and orders of magnitudes worse if they lose the war).

1个月前

In-phone-mnia

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Bad @jlai.lu 1个月前

1个月前

In-phone-mnia

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Bad @jlai.lu 1个月前

Nooooooo you're not allowed to have human weaknesses once in a while

1个月前

In-phone-mnia

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Bad @jlai.lu 1个月前

Sometimes I feel nostalgic about those classic 4 panel rage comics without text, so I woke up tired (you will never guess why) and drew one. I should do more, they're fun to draw.

1个月前

The free market of confusion

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Bad @jlai.lu 1个月前

first functioning rocket weapon

Chinese warfare had included rockets for centuries.

Americans and soviets had militarized rockets before WW2 (for ex. Katyusha on Wikipedia).

first manmade object in space

Define being in space.

The V2 barely grazed the edge of space, it didn't have the power to actually escape the Earth's gravitational péll.

Sputnik is the first object to actually be in space.

The Nazis …

You should be wary that nazi glazing has effects. Thanks to their lasting propaganda, people really believe they were a high tech empire that surpassed the rest of the world in every domain, triumph of the will style. Still to this day it helps fascism's image as the "clean high tech" way that surpasses the rest in the mind of too many people. Don't contribute to that for a simple gotcha. Even if you're right, it's not worth it.

1个月前

The free market of confusion

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Bad @jlai.lu 1个月前

I disagree.

Modern rocketry was invented by Tsiolkovsky (theory) + Goddard (liquid fuel) + Obert (engineering), only one of which was a nazi.

During WW2, nazis used slave labor to develop and industrialize rocketry, but they didn't achieve anything. At most, they accelerated its development. Their rockets had training wheels, metaphorically speaking.

Post WW2, the nazi rocket program became the backbone of the US space program, and the USSR heavily based its own rockets on nazi rockets, but it's the work of Zander (pre-WW2) and Korolev (pre-WW2 and post-WW2) that got rockets and then humans into space. Unlike the USA's space program, Korolev refused to integrate nazi scientists in his operations, only brought some to help reconstruct V2s then sent them away. His team quickly surpassed german designs, the R-7 that got Sputnik to space was an entirely soviet design that had nothing in common with the V2.

1个月前

Transitive reasoning

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Bad @jlai.lu 1个月前

Well why haven't you done it already? :)

1个月前

Transitive reasoning

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Bad @jlai.lu 1个月前

No political compass no, I just like pastel colors because they make me happy (really that's the entire reasoning).

I tend to make conservatives orange these days due to the orange president, but it's not always the case, just a mood of the moment thing. I like the other commenter's reply, art is in the eye of the beholder, the colors are whatever you see in them - I probably unconsciously saw something in them when I was making the comic in the first place, you never truly randomly choose things after all.

1个月前

Burn in Hell, Cheney

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Bad @jlai.lu 1个月前

I've started recording my drawing process when I work on serious pieces. It affects concentration and skill to feel recorded, but if I don't do it I get hit with those accusations, that can turn into serious witch hunts and (let's be honest) are very hurtful when you've put lots of work into something.

It's beyond annoying.

2个月前

Debates with Dick Cheney

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Bad @jlai.lu 2个月前

My pleasure.

2个月前

Debates with Dick Cheney

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Bad @jlai.lu 2个月前

No complications can be 0.01% as painful as the pain he inflicted on this world.

There was no redemption arc possible for this guy, since he won and was proud of it, so I'd rather have him gone for good, suffering or no suffering. Alas, they always live too old.