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  • Musk tells jury 'people read too much' into his posts

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  • People like him disavow how much influence he has, willfully or not. Musk is the worst at it. He doesn't realize, or refuses to realize, how much his edgy tweets mean.

    They wall want power but not the responsibility that comes with it.

  • I didn't join the revolution to read

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  • I've really grown to like Behind the Bastards and Evans seems pretty based. Why lol?

  • It's an AES country so. No. ROFL

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  • I've been reading about retro video game tech and thought "what does North Korea ha e to do with the Neo Geo Advanced Entertainment System??"

  • It's an AES country so. No. ROFL

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  • Oh, Actually Existing Socialist. Gotcha.

  • It's an AES country so. No. ROFL

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  • AES? Alliance of Saheal States?

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    Land of the free, home of The Whopper 🫡

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  • Serious question. How do you know what you've read about China isn't also propaganda? Are there any unbiased sources on stuff like this?

  • She must be really smart

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  • Mickey7 makes browsing New painful

  • "Being a memelord is good actually" - Lenin, probably

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  • Posting Minion Memes To Own The Libs

  • Was it better then or now?

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  • Absolute boomerbait waste of time, but I do like the irony of using AI to make the case that the past was better because tech bad

  • "Being a memelord is good actually" - Lenin, probably

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  • This meme would actually be improved by a Minion

  • 2026-02-17

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  • Absolute banger <3

  • Makes ya think

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  • Therapist: Hatless Toad doesn't exist, Hatless Toad can't hurt you

    Hatless Toad:

  • Makes ya think

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  • That's funny but I'm not sure that's fair to some neurodivergent people 😅

  • Makes ya think

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  • This is a good post (sincere)

  • Tesla owner blocked the Toronto Streetcar

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  • I like this "the street car operator will make a baby die if they have to push a blocking car out of the way" strawman you have here

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Makes ya think

  • Founding Pedos

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  • Sure, I'll cop to that level of idealism. I think the "human condition" is a real thing we've inherited from our evolutionary forebears, and we're constantly fighting against it. Heck, my main complaint started out as seeing Lemmy MLs as tribalistic to their own detriment. Even if it isn't truly universal, I don't think any form of political organization can permanently overcome that.

    Also, yeah, I know that fiction doesn't describe reality, just the author's perspective of reality (learned that from Ayn Rand, 🤣 ). Didn't know that Orwell was anti-semitic (nightmare ick), but the message I took from 1984 was anti-establishment and anti-authoritarian, not necessarily anti-communist. I was taught that the "soc" in Ingsoc was a lie, just as in the Ministry of Truth produced lies and the Ministry of Love produced cruelty. Anyway.

    I also want to reference some things I've heard about the USSR and the PRC, but I feel the canned response is that it's all Western propaganda, and I don't see a productive outcome of that line of conversation. I have some observations after reading Three Body Problem and my partner's fandom for MXTX's light novels, but that's very anecdotal.

    At any rate, I got more of the insight I wanted about Lemmy MLs, and you as always give me a lot to think about, Cowbee <3 I always appreciate your time and patience.

  • Founding Pedos

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  • My observations and intuition so far is that, the larger the organization, the more that its injustices outweigh its benefits. Power corrupts, and people always have a way of justifying their own actions to themselves, no matter how unjust or "evil" they may be. As a population, I'm not confident in any one person, or any one small party, to wield the broad authority that a large government has.

    I dunno. The more introspective I get the more I think of Oceania in 1984. Ingsoc is purported to be socialist but it's still highly stratified, and the higher classes wield their power in the most violent and dehumanizing way possible. I fear that that's the result of not just socialist organizations, but any organization that becomes large enough.

  • Founding Pedos

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  • This is extremely convincing. I need to think more about my pre-conceived notions. I want to review what I know little I know about Hobbes and Rousseau; but I know I promised you I would read Marx and Engels and I haven't been able to make good on it yet :(

  • Founding Pedos

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  • Republican strategists focused on “nice” and “friendly” aesthetics to make Trump win

    I don't... this is so far removed from my experiences that I'm confused. I see that Trump supporters like that Trump is an aggressive, foul-mouthed bully. His supporters found it appealing that he isn't a run-of-the-mill placating, conciliatory politician that Washington tends to produce; he wields whatever leverage he has like a barbed-wire baseball bat and calls it negotiating. Anyway.

    The rest of your post I think I agree with.

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    SAM WAITIN & Faffi - SCRATCHIN (Official MV)