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  • Another plot hole nitpick with Pluribus (mild spoilers)

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  • I think the writers are illustrating that the "non-intervention" policy is bunk. We see Kusimayu initially loving her animals. After she joins, she callously lets the goat escape from the pen despite the goat appearing to be attached to her. She just condemned that goat to a brutal death in the Peruvian wilderness despite their "no harm" policy. I think it's less a plot hole and more of an exploration of the validity of the plurbs philosophy.

    I've been absolutely loving how polarizing this show is.

  • Anthony Joshua is my fucking hero

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  • Paul can wipe away his tears in his pile of money. Estimates are putting it at 100 million from his bout with Joshua.

    Sowing his own hatred is how he makes his money. Best if we just forget about him.

  • Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist; This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry

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  • You replied that Stalinism couldn’t be worse than the Tsarist system.

    Where did I claim this?

    we mean compared to an easy-to-imagine, common-sense alternative for that time and place.

    Why is this your comparison?? If the claim is that Stalin "showed up" and things got worse, it follows that your point of analysis would be comparing against whatever immediately preceded Stalin.

    This is like if someone claims capitalism makes things worse

    Actually, it's not at all like this... a better comparison would be if someone said "capitalism showed up and made things worse"

  • Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist; This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry

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  • Im not sure I follow. Are you saying the conception of a Soviet Union was easy/destined/inevitable given how bad the Tsars were?

    I'm not sure I understand your point about feudalism either. Marxists understand capitalism as an economic development built upon feudalism - of which there were many benefits in abandoning, as well as many new evils.

  • Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist; This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry

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  • but when you make everything else worse

    By what metrics? In which ways was Tsarist Russia better about serving citizens than Soviet leadership?

  • oh come on (edit: yes this is real)

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  • Because whitewashing fascism is supporting it and I’m tired

    [https://lemmy.ml/post/39531321/22458346](Dis u?)

    we don’t have capitalism. But fuck any ism, just find the broken shit and fix it.

    On a crusade against whitewashing and fascism, yet cannot confront capitalism..

  • oh come on (edit: yes this is real)

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  • So... why didnt you just say "I fear this is just a front to instill reactionary patriotism for the greater purpose of ushering in American fascism - akin to the Hitler youth"

    And instead smugly claimed I was ushering in fascism??

    It's a fair point, and I'd have conceded it to you...

  • oh come on (edit: yes this is real)

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  • the ballroom is just an upgrade for the people, and the illegals dying in detention, aren’t dying because they were detained

    Wat.... when did I say any of that....

  • oh come on (edit: yes this is real)

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  • You think it's actually going to be executed perfectly like that under this administration?

    Maybe not, but I never said it had to be executed perfectly. In fact it's probably fair to say the first one might be a little clunky.

    Until it's revealed that the participants will be killing each other, the Hunger Games comparison is a funny gag, but I dont see how it seriously applies.

  • oh come on (edit: yes this is real)

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  • Feel free to correct me....

    Everyone I know has been roasting the patriot games, but... it sounds sort of fun??? Given how bad Americans are at exercise, socialization, and community, some sporting events might be fun and good?

    Like, I could see this being an absolute dream for high-achieving student athletes.

    However, this is all tempered by the fact that the announcement itself was steeped in transphobia. If that weren't the case, Id be less skeptical.

  • Simple

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  • Nice, trying to dismiss the very real threat that American capitalism poses as Russian shilling. Sounds like something a State Department agent would do.

  • Simple

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  • The notion that your "Trump and the GOP are Russian assets" conspiracy theory has a "more defined paper trail" than the countless volumes of work done by thousands of historians, philosophers, economists, and scientists, going back hundreds of years regarding the depravity of American capitalism is just downright laughable.

    What are you even trying to say here? Are you seriously saying the Russia/Trump connection is more well understood than the pitfalls of American Capitalism?

    If Trump is a Russian asset, why didnt the US pull out of NATO months ago? Why was Trump shipping Jevlins by the truckload to Ukraine at the beginning of the war? Why is Trump's entire schtick that NATO (Russia's primary adversary) needs to increase spending (which it has, in record amounts)?

    If Russia is blamed for Trump’s election, we avoid the unpleasant reality of our failed democratic institutions and decaying empire. We avoid facing the inevitable rise of a Christianised fascism borne out of widespread impoverishment, rage, despair and abandonment. We avoid acknowledging the complicity of the Democratic Party in the orchestration of the largest social inequality in our nation’s history, the evisceration of our basic civil liberties, endless wars and an electoral system bankrolled by the billionaire class, which is legalised bribery. The myth allows us to believe that Democratic politicians, like the establishment Republicans who have joined them, are the guarantors of a democracy they destroyed.

    All the investigations into Trump’s ties with Russia are unequivocal. There was no collusion. The Steele dossier, financed at first by Republican opponents of Trump and later by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and compiled by former MI6 British intelligence officer, Christopher Steele, was a fake. The charges in the dossier — which included reports of Trump receiving a ‘golden shower’ from prostituted women in a Moscow hotel room and claims that Trump and the Kremlin had ties going back five years — were discredited by the FBI. Sources, including the one that claimed Trump had long-held ties to the Kremlin, turned out to be fabricated. Special Counsel Robert S Mueller concluded that his investigation ‘did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.’ Mueller did not indict or accuse anyone of criminally conspiring with Russia.

    • Chris Hedges

  • Simple

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  • You cant just blame "those pesky, conniving foreigners" when your country descends into fascism after 2 centuries of racism, genocide, and withering away of social safety nets.

  • Man who documented Uyghur camps in China may face removal from US after ICE arrest

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  • What does this even mean? What issue would you expect a marxist leninist to take with this story?

  • How are libs gonna react when Ukraine loses?

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  • Your contempt for Germans would make Nietzsche gush. If you haven't checked out how hard the man was roasting krauts, you might get a kick out of it.

  • Cuba on edge as US seizure of oil tanker puts supply at risk

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  • So what are you arguing? That Cuba isn't socialist or that they aren't "successful"?

  • Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph

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  • Musk is trying to induce a Kessler event so that he can sell us a solution.

  • Norway José!

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  • Social democratic gains in the first world are still built off exploited labor from the global South. Social democracy doesn't address imperialism.

  • Partner thinks baby is fat, body shaming?!?

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  • Responsible and tasteful comments :)

    What a handsome guy. This is what I'd call an esteemed gentleman.

  • Zelenskyy refuses to cede land to Russia as he rallies European support

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  • I do not support a resolution in which Ukraine gives up land to Russia, period.

    Well thank you for finally giving up on the evasiveness. Ukrainian agency means nothing to you.

    To stand with Ukraine means to affirm the average Ukrainian's agency. To affirm their agency to dictate the terms of the end of the war - even if it means they wish to surrender. You will not affirm Ukrainians if they decide to surrender, so you dont stand with Ukraine. You stand with Zelensky, at best. You stand with Ukraine *so long as they promise to sacrifice the last able-bodied soldier, at worst.

    So let's just all be clear and understand that you dont stand with Ukraine. You tentatively condone them, so long as...

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