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GarbageShoot [he/him]

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  • The U.S. will very likely fight a 3-front war against Russia, China and Iran, Palantir's Alex Karp says

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  • There would be an immense toll, but it would mean the destruction of the US, Israel, NATO, and neoliberalism generally, which I think means there is also room for optimism. If I may gesture towards Mark Twain, there are two Reigns of Terror here, and though we have reason to fear the latter one, it will not last as long or kill as many as the former one that it puts an end to. If there is not a nuclear holocaust, anyway

  • Crystals

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  • Selling people fake remedies is always going to be to the detriment of real remedies unless they are targeted exclusively at conditions for which there are no real remedies.

    Furthermore, the real issue isn't about "letting people have their crystals", it's about letting people sell fake remedies, something that should be banned unconditionally. Profiting off of pretending to help people while not helping them is socially malignant.

    OP is phrased in terms of attacking consumers because the poster is an idiot, as made evident by their absurd and pandering rhetorical tact.

  • What are some pod casts worth checking out and why?

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  • Adam Johnson and Nima Shirazi

  • What are some pod casts worth checking out and why?

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  • Citations Needed, excellent reporting on the way corporate news distorts various issues to shape public opinion, occasionally with historical examples going back to the antebellum period.

  • What factors do you think contributed to the "Reddit Hivemind"? How do you believe it can be avoided?

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  • Reddit is notorious for astroturfing. The lemmy hivemind(s) is the lemmitor hivemind from people socialized on Reddit who came to lemmy and brought that shit with them. Same with other instances like .world, but worse because they have fewer legacy users.

  • [Discussion] Chainsawman #174

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  • So is CSM going to need to be cut open to restore the existence of mouths, since his mouth is also removed?

  • 'Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities'

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  • Good evidence that we need a new recruitment drive . . .

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    This doesn't happen in Texas

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  • tl;dr: You're deeply disingenuous and talking to you is a waste of time.

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    This doesn't happen in Texas

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  • Maybe spend . . . more time getting a sense of humor

    It wasn't a joke

    Never believe that [reactionaries] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The [reactionaries] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

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    The media is lying to you about Venezuela

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  • It's so annoying. I already had a liberal proactively bring the election up as though it wasn't an open and shut case, as though it's not just the even-more farcical version of what happened just like 5 years ago. There was a flurry of unsubstantiated accusations, because those are easy to make, and then reactionary media treats those accusations as though they were credible, and eventually proper investigations find that the accusations are so much hot air, but that can't happen quickly enough to prevent the manufactured crisis of the accusations.

  • The mystery of Argentina’s gold: Milei admits that it was transferred abroad, without specifying the quantities or destination

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  • Taking "selling out your country" to new levels

  • Something everyone agrees with until you name it

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  • I called it! Though I suppose it was plain enough by the time I came across it.

    Faux-populist rhetoric is not a Marx thing and Magats are absolutely not opposed to big business. It's like Trump's only thing that he's a billionaire due to real estate and other related fields.

  • Something everyone agrees with until you name it

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  • Have I finally met that unicorn of perfect ignorance for whom the "Trump Is a Leninist" thinkpieces were written for? I'm just dying to know what part of Marx is used by Republicans!

  • Fiat doesn't work on a finite planet. Crypto has failed on its goals. What is a better way to be economically secure?

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  • What do you mean fiat doesn't work on a finite planet? Current economic models certainly don't work on a finite planet, but fiat was here before them and will be here after they are long gone.

    what is a good way for the working class (90%+ of all humans) to save and succeed in this current environment?

    There isn't one. A big chunk of that class can do just fine and you probably already have good normative answers in that respect, but the current economic model is one that demands poverty. Even with all of the ridiculous developments in production we have, the available infrastructure even with the qualms we might have with it, and all the other things going for us that you might want to list, the closest that the current economic model has achieved to escaping its age-old need for having a sizeable portion of the able-bodied population unemployed is by slightly expanding that same portion and then having them sell themselves by the hour and minute in the Gig Economy. If you want that whole 90% of the population to all be able to do well, you need to change the system they are operating within.

  • Protestation

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  • I don't think that's a constructive moral to take from it

  • How do you deal with the poor and desperate around you? (Homeless or some stranger who is in an utterly helpless position)

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  • tl;dr I don't have an answer for your problem, but I have some thoughts on it that hopefully might contribute to you finding an answer.

    I think it's probably bad to think of the homeless, etc. as being drug-addled and especially as being dangerous. Usually, if they do have a drug problem (especially alcoholism) it came after becoming homeless and not before, and functions as a way to self-medicate to ease the pain of their terrible conditions. There is, of course, a strong correlation with mental illness that they are often also self-medicating, but "mentally ill" does not mean the same thing as "dangerous". You probably don't want to have them as a baby sitter, but that's much more because of mental illness impairing their ability to care for others (and often themselves) rather than there being a realistic chance they would actually hurt the child directly.

    People, religions, politicians, corporations and so on speak of charity as a great thing, and it's certainly not a bad thing, but there being a need for charity for people to survive is a symptom of a system that doesn't care for a substantial portion of the population that lives in it, and typically brutally exploiting those people. Charity is like a bandage, it can help to tend to a wound that has been inflicted, but we must ask "Why is there a wound in the first place? What inflicted it? How can it be prevented?" Your society, like mine, is organized in part to hurt these people in order to exploit them. No amount of charity can change that fact, only a change in social organization can change it.

  • Japanese man sentenced to 17.5 years in prison, and 20 strokes of the cane in Singapore for rape

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  • Look Jack, if you don't like it, you can vote for the other rapist

  • US soldier charged in Okinawa for rape of minor

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  • The US military throughout East Asia is notorious for doing sex crimes

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    I tried to explain ADHD math to someone and they didn't understand at all

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  • That's just called using heuristics, friend, though if ADHD impeded their progress in math, maybe ADHD people rely more on heuristics than neurotypicals do.