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  • Trump gave ‘green light’ to Israel before Gaza bombing that left ‘400 dead,’ report says

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  • I find it deeply disturbing that when I opened the comment section of a post discussing 400 (now over 700) dead people, mostly innocent children, men, and women, in less than 48 hours, the first reaction was to blame “Arabs,” “Muslims,” “Tankies,” “Leftists,” and “Pro-Palestinians,” using these minority communities as tokens.

    Tankies are not "minority groups"...

    This is a glaring display f hypocrisy, these groups are portrayed in a positive light only when it benefits politically, only to be thrown under the bus when they are no longer useful…

    There is no hypocrisy. Arabs and Muslims are portrayed in a positive light to counter the American far right's frothing hatred of them, that was the core reason.

    Any human capable of experiencing empathy would have first reacted with disgust and indignation at the unfolding genocide, rather than resorting to scapegoating and divisive rhetoric, but it may also not be organic comments, what do I know…

    "divisive rhetoric" you sound like a fucking centrist.

  • I see these MFs on a daily basis

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  • As a Windows & Linux user, I can, in the same way that I get that car people love working on cars.

    I still really don't ever want to work on cars but I understand.

    I largely use technology of any kind for the applications of its use, not because of an intrinsic desire to knee deep in technical work.

  • Where is the outrage? Where have all the "humans" gone? Israel slaughtered over 400 innocent civilians in Gaza last night. Most of them women and children.

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  • You know what I meant. People like you enabled fascists through propaganda efforts of false equivalancy.

    America is literally the most powerful military and economic force on earth. If you think that when I say "world" I meant America, you are again projecting. I meant the world is worse, not just America.

    There isn't a place I could escape to that wont feel the negative repercussions. If I could afford to, I would leave. I feel no patriotism for America.

  • Where is the outrage? Where have all the "humans" gone? Israel slaughtered over 400 innocent civilians in Gaza last night. Most of them women and children.

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  • Where is the outrage? Where have all the "humans" gone? Israel slaughtered over 400 innocent civilians in Gaza last night. Most of them women and children.

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  • I never called for your extermination, you don't have very good reading comprehension. That is to be expected I guess.

    You are very wrong, I want you to stay alive and suffer with me. Misery loves company don't you know?

  • Which game is it?

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  • Ehhhhhhhh. I had fun here and there primarily because I was playing with friends. I probably would have had more fun if I played something else though, sunk cost fallacy influenced me.

  • Where is the outrage? Where have all the "humans" gone? Israel slaughtered over 400 innocent civilians in Gaza last night. Most of them women and children.

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  • Where is the outrage? Where have all the "humans" gone? Israel slaughtered over 400 innocent civilians in Gaza last night. Most of them women and children.

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  • Fuck you. I'm a Mutualist/Market-Socialist.

  • Where is the outrage? Where have all the "humans" gone? Israel slaughtered over 400 innocent civilians in Gaza last night. Most of them women and children.

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  • Hello, different poster stumbling on the thread. Just to head you off, maybe the other guy feels bad, but you would be mistaken in assuming I feel bad. I'll be fine (probably) under Trump and would welcome death at this point anyway because I hate almost every one of my fellow citizens now and there isn't much to live for anymore.

    And I don't think it realistic I convince you of anything nor do I care in the sense that I think convincing you would have any material impact because at this point we probably wont even have elections in the future anymore anyway. (I don't even know if you are an eligible american voter anyway)

    So now that I've established that I lack the material bias:

    Trump is worse for Gaza than Harris would have been.

    So why am I bothering to tell you this if it doesn't matter materially anymore? We lost. Because its a stark reality that hurts you emotionally once it really sets in, and I hate you. I hate you so much. And I want you, specifically, to suffer with this knowledge. Because it'll give me a momentary respite of dopamine hits to dunk on you while my country becomes a fascist nightmare.

    Of course, you probably will simply reject this reality because you are willfully ignorant as a means to protect your frail psyche.

    Oh also I literally don't care if you call me a shitlib because what you've had to say thus far demonstrates that your opinion is completely worthless. And you would be simply wrong. I don't benefit from capitalism, I have a negative net worth, don't own my own home, I work a low paying office job, and I am not a liberal ideologically.

  • LibreOffice is a free, open-source office suite developed by TDF, based in Germany.

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  • Isn't Krita considered the better open source image editor now? I keep meaning to learn it.

  • Which game is it?

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  • Battlefield 2042. 5k hours.

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    Cathy, do the math.

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  • The issue here is that if more people choose not to join a union for the pay raise in the short term, unions become weaker in the longer term. The capitalist in this case is paying a premium now to divide up labor for the chance down the line to save more money on labor overall in the long term.

  • Communism in theory vs in practice

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  • Vaush is confidently incorrect

    On some things sure, hes confident about virtually everything he says. But I suspect what you think hes incorrect on and what I think hes incorrect on are different things. I even suspect you disagree with stances that aren't even stances he actually holds.

  • Communism in theory vs in practice

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  • I mean sure its a skill in that it is deliberate public relations craft.

  • Communism in theory vs in practice

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  • No. Or at least I know Lonerbox isn't.

  • Communism in theory vs in practice

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  • And yet, I’ve given him clicks.

    I thought you said you only watched clips of him? I assumed you meant by other creators.

    All I can see is that I see a pretty clear method to the madness. There’s always an out, it’s always “you don’t understand the context.” It’s the same tactic Trump uses, and the same tactic used in countless ad campaigns.

    Trump supporters don't actually care about context though. They say that shit for propaganda purposes. Vaush supporters bring up context because he literally gets clipped out of context for oppositional propaganda purposes.

    Also, there isn't always an "out". Some of the things Vaush has said/done are bad even with context. Like when he told his followers to go harass Contrapoints on Twitter once because he was upset with her and wanted to "Force her to see reason" or whatever. When he was unnecessarily nasty to TJ Kirk during some debate. Or when he flashed on screen AI generated and drawn porn of a canonically 16 year old character and bestiality.

    There are a few other things I'm probably forgetting.

    No, there’s lot’s of little niches that one can carve out, regardless of being left or right. There’s plenty of opportunists with supposedly left-leaning brands. The right-wing grifts and personality cults are more profitable, but it’s also a fairly saturated market with a lot of competition. There’s plenty of room for people like Destiny, Jimmy Dore, and Vaush to carve out their respective “left-leaning” niches.

    Jimmy Dore is 100% vapid grift. Destiny is a terrible human being but he is also almost certainly not a grifter. He says what he means and means what he says.

    Vaush is someone who is significantly egotistical, narcissistic, impulsive, and short sighted. But he is not a controversy-monger, on that front he is just a dumbass.

  • Communism in theory vs in practice

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  • Vaush doesn't debate other creators anymore. His controversies have accumulated to a point where he is essentially walled off from that for various reasons. Too many creator's alienated and controversies fueling rhetorical weaknesses.

    I'm not talking about debate really though. What I mean about his ideological honesty is that he is willing to anger his own audience, Hasan is very careful not to do that.

  • Communism in theory vs in practice

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  • There is 100% such a thing as bad publicity. Your post here is a literal example of this, you actively avoid him and there are many people who feel the same way as you.

    Hes not forced to say edgy shit, he just doesn't put much effort into not saying edgy shit and he naturally wants to. He doesn't police his own words, for instance, his frequent use of the word "retarded" and his joking about hating women. He also constantly blurts out shit and then his audience points out he misspoke and he gets annoyed and says "You fucks know what I meant". He has no anxiety or shame about his wording of things. There is no worry on his end about saying something shameful, he's literally said that he thinks shame is a worthless emotion.

    He doesn't "mask" essentially. He is not careful. Maybe to some degree that helps his internet career because of reputation of authenticity or something but it also frequently pisses off his own audience. The controversies have lost him subs, they've severely damaged his ability to engage with other creators because he has either alienated or outright insulted them, which means he doesn't debate anyone anymore, left or right.

    Its not on purpose. Hes not playing 12D chess to boost his youtube career. He wouldn't be a leftwing creator in that case, he'd be a rightwing grifter instead. A lot more money in that.

  • Communism in theory vs in practice

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  • Hasan avoids arguing with leftists because hes a cowardly clout monger and can't debate for shit because he isn't really that smart and is captured to some degree by his audience.

    I don't hate Hasan, I do agree with a lot of his takes but hes fundamentally a less ideologically honest person than Vaush. Vaush doesn't give much of a shit about pissing off his audience, he does it constantly.