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GarbageShoot [he/him]

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  • What is the biggest lesson that employment has taught you?

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  • You're gonna need a better source than Wikipedia, which has a ridiculous level of slant against the DPRK (look up "Propaganda village" if you need convincing)

  • What is the biggest lesson that employment has taught you?

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  • North Korea was shut down anyway, it took a long time for them to have their first covid outbreak and I think when it finally did happen they did shut down.

    Also, I am glad you have come out so strongly in favor of the PRC approach, or so I must convlude.

  • Lemmy might, MIGHT have a small bias towards the left

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  • Representation is necessary as a matter of scale, though. There are other issues with small r republicanism that are more specifically nefarious, like the legalization of bribery, the tilting of power towards land owners via the senate, etc.

  • What is the biggest lesson that employment has taught you?

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  • What is the biggest lesson that employment has taught you?

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  • Yeah, looking busy is way more important than being productive a lot of the time. You always need to be doing something, so you just go through the motions of doing things because otherwise you'll get shit from your employers. Waiting in good faith for more real tasks to emerge isn't enough, so you must invent chores.

    At least, that was very consistently my experience in retail.

  • China helping to arm Russia with helicopters, drones and metals

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  • In any case, that doesn't change what I said. I'm not going to read a novel then dissect it piece by piece when the premise of the entire post is "going to war and forcefully occupying a neighboring country can be justified."

    US Civil War, WWII.

  • Chinese women are getting more independent, society more equal - but, since it's China, NYT presents it as a sign these women "resist a less equal society"

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  • During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

    If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

    -- Mr. Parenti

  • Made in Abyss is the worst thing anyone has ever made - a comprehensive critique (CW: gross, violence, pedo shit) (effort post)

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  • I was trying to be charitable by bringing up Denji's disposition. Otherwise, I'd consider the setting to be much more human and much more concerned with (certain conceptions of) kindness, duty, and so on. Moreover, the trauma in CSM (and also Berserk, when it happens to Guts) has a point. Denji grows and learns and develops some basic ability for empathy, sociability, and even a level of self-awareness about how he gets blinded by his, uh, appetites, even if he hasn't really overcome them yet. Guts even more so goes from rejecting the possibility of having friends and constantly pushing them away to proactively seeking to help them and internalizing that he is capable of things other than hate and violence. Without things like this (or even a downward spiral to a terminus, it doesn't need to be positive), stories about cyclical trauma become misery porn.

    None of these sorts of narrative through-lines can be drawn out of MiA, where the only growing characters really do is learning how to figuratively watch their step better.

  • Made in Abyss is the worst thing anyone has ever made - a comprehensive critique (CW: gross, violence, pedo shit) (effort post)

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  • I don't understand how people can be so bad at media analysis that they can't understand the massive difference between "character does something bad" and "character is portrayed as and treated as a villain in the story".

    I think OP slightly overstates her case but it's just overwhelmingly obvious when you actually try to think about it that the characters don't interact with mad scientist like the evil serial killer he is, and in fact could not have reached the next stage of the trip if not for him killing his most recent grooming victim, turning her into essentially an elevator key. Surely it's, like, kind of an issue that he's just endlessly trafficking children to vivisect and make into flesh canisters, right? So when he's on his last legs, shouldn't you either kill him or take him down a layer so he can't get back up or something? Nope! Just leave him to his work.

  • Made in Abyss is the worst thing anyone has ever made - a comprehensive critique (CW: gross, violence, pedo shit) (effort post)

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  • This is such an insulting comparison to chainsaw man. Denji is pretty selfish but there is nothing close to the nihilistic wallowing seen in MiA.

  • China helping to arm Russia with helicopters, drones and metals

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  • Just an endless slew of clickbait "China bad" headlines all the time. Really makes you wonder about if there is some sort of systemic problem with western media.

  • McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • reply with a wall of text

    And here I thought that the classic tankie reply was low-effort trolling and shitposting.

  • McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • I believe they mean by continuously sabotaging peace accords and talks

  • McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • She answered in the last paragraph

  • China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD

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  • I'm talking about your persecution complex. I don't feel attacked.

    you shouldn’t haven’t federated with the real world.

    lmao, alwaysthesamemap.jpeg

  • China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD

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  • Get off your cross

  • China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD

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  • Aside from the racism of the "face culture" narrative, the guy is a dinosaur and notably not an official, just there as a matter of respect and legacy as a former President. We don't really know what happened, but those meetings are long and the dude is probably senile, so he was probably getting helped off the stage by aides at around the time they expected from the outset.

  • China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD

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  • It's a one-party state with all candidates chosen by the party.

    I much prefer all those two or three party states where the candidates are chosen by their respective parties on the marching orders of the capitalist class

  • China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD

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  • Remember that a huge part of the lemmy (and derivatives) userbase just came from Reddit, and Redditors are obsessed with China.