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SuddenDownpour

@ SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works

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2y ago

What, no apologies? Yeah, figured so
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SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works 2y ago
If you genuinely think this didn't happen, you haven't been paying attention during the last month. Like there haven't been hundreds of people doing this shit:
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/12559334
At this point i feels like it’s all republican trying to do a psyop telling people not to vote.
In response to a fucking meme stating a reasonable concern, which honestly is pretty telling of the mental state of some people. This is just an example I could google from memory, but this behavior has been rampant.

2y ago

This one will anger both tankies and liberals. Alas, I'm unburdened by such concerns.

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SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works 2y ago

Yeah it's a Sociology 101 take. By today's standards, at least.

2y ago

What, no apologies? Yeah, figured so

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SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works 2y ago

And here you have it: the serf mentality of the median American. Speaking out against your in-group, lest things could ever become better? Madness, better tell everyone to shut up about the fact that the ship is sinking, at least we're not directly ingesting arsenic. If things ever become better, thank the heavens that they happened to fall down that way, because that behavior leaves you at the behest of whoever is leading the chorus, even if that person had been clearly screwing up for months, with no hope of ever influencing it yourself.

2y ago

What, no apologies? Yeah, figured so

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SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works 2y ago

My more liberal friends haven’t liked Biden basically since the start. He was just the only option against Trump, whom they hate (a wonderful position our duopoly has put us all into). I will never be a fan of anyone that cheerleads for politicians though. It’s cringe to me. They work for us, not the other way around.

By "hardline dems" I don't mean "more liberal" or "more leftist", I mean the "You criticized the official party line? Behold, I will immediately misrepresent what you said and paint you as an enemy". They're actually preventing their own party from becoming more effective.

2y ago

What, no apologies? Yeah, figured so

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SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works 2y ago

Plenty of people on Lemmy immediately attacked you if you mentioned that Biden was going to tank the election or that he had mental health issues, and even though they became a little bit less aggressive after the debate, they still insisted and would call you a Trump supporter if you even suggested that the Democrats should have someone else run. Now that Biden is out of the race and Kamala is projected to have a much better chance than him, they've been proven wrong, but none of them will apologize for having denied reality.

196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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2y ago

This one will anger both tankies and liberals. Alas, I'm unburdened by such concerns.

2y ago

What, no apologies? Yeah, figured so

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SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works 2y ago

I can forgive someone for being disconnected from reality, but when that someone goes and berates others for stating that a person obviously suffering from age-related issues does, in fact, does suffer from age-related issues, insists that it's impossible for anyone else to compete against Trump, and has the knife ready at their hand ready to jump at you with accussations of being a Republican for raising very reasonable concerns, that's a pretty heavy issue, and plenty of Lemmy users have done one or several of those things to the point that, frankly, discussing politics on this site has been just almost as unbearable as doing so in Reddit.

I'm not going to receive apologies and I'm not expecting them, but I'm at least going to ask you to take a long time (weeks, months) wondering from time to time if you're suffering from cognitive biases in your opinions. This is not an insult, everyone suffers from cognitive biases, I did suffer from pretty heavy ones a long time ago, but if they're provoking harm (and most specially, doing political damage), you should at the very least take a look at them.

On a side note, I have to say that I didn't expect much from Kamala other than having a reasonably better chance than Biden of preventing the US from further falling into fascism, but she has surprised me positively by confronting with Netanyahu as soon as she got a bit of spotlight.

Memes @lemmy.ml

SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works

2y ago

What, no apologies? Yeah, figured so

2y ago

Sanders Pushes Harris to Pursue Agenda That 'Speaks to the Needs of the Working Class'.

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SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works 2y ago

Biden managed to get a bunch of unions to endorse him for the elections, both due to negotiations and his policy. Given that Kamala was in his team, the only thing she needs is the will to declare that she will continue along Biden's lines.

2y ago

Far-right trolls have launched a racist crusade against Kamala Harris

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SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works 2y ago

This is unironically good for Kamala's chances. The average person in the US is racist, but not racist enough to not to feel second hand embarrassment from such overt comments, which may, ironically, make them a little bit less racist and make them think twice before voting Republican in 2024.

2y ago

There are too many of these people on lemmy

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SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works 2y ago

I'd upvote the meme if it wasn't also controversial to criticize all war criminals, including both those at the top and the bottom.

Edit: For a source, see people in this thread rushing to argue and feel called out when someone criticizes "all forms of imperialism", including the Western ones.

2y ago

Before it's too late!

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SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works 2y ago

How would they react if they were told that they're using the colors of the trans flag?

2y ago

Before it's too late!

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SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works 2y ago

I for one support him on his gender affirming medical procedures.

2y ago

Joe Biden ends re-election campaign

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SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works 2y ago

For all of y'all anxiety-pilled people: this is great news. Biden was stuck in negative momentum because his health issues had been exposed and were not going to stop resulting in terrible headlines, which is a problem whoever comes next is not going to have, unless the delegates are somehow stupid enough to pull another dinosaur from below the rug.

More interestingly: now that Biden has pulled out because he's patently too old, as it was a concern for plenty of voters, this is a golden opportunity to put the focus on the other candidate whose age is a somewhat less obvious but still noticeable issue.

2y ago

Joe Biden ends re-election campaign

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SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works 2y ago

Plenty of other countries' electoral campaigns advance far faster than Americans expect theirs to move, and US media is talking about politics all the damn time. If the Dems don't do a massive screw up somehow, I think they'll find out that switching the candidate will be far easier than they were expecting.

2y ago

Italian journalist fined €5K for mocking PM Meloni’s height

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SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works 2y ago

Disciplining the civil population for verbally expressing their opposition to a fascism sympathizer. I hope we all know what the end goal of this is.

2y ago

Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized

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SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works 2y ago

On that, I agree.

2y ago

American Liberal Democracy

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SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works 2y ago

So what you're saying is that the Republicans are Harkon's Court and the Democrats are the Grey Beards before Paarthurnax tells them to hurry the fuck up and do something while the world is dying.

2y ago

Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized

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SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works 2y ago

This will be great for the workers, but I don't think it will necessarily fix the issues in Bethesda's organization when it comes to game development (and it won't make them worse either).

Given what we know from Starfield, Bethesda is really lacking when it comes to planning: they aren't doing a good job at establishing a compact vision for the final product which also results in having issues to establish an agile workflow to get from start to finish. In the best cases, this results in ludonarrative disonance where the story isn't really supported by the mechanics of the game (example: Fallout 4's story incentivizes the player to hurry up and look for their son, but they assign a lot of resources into making sandbox mechanics such as those related to base building); in the worst cases, this results in teams returning the ball to each other all the time because they aren't properly coordinated to build things in the way other teams of the studio needs them, which loses a lot of time and becomes even more glaringly obvious the larger the project is.

The silver lining is: this problem isn't so noticeable when the designers have the template of Oblivion in their minds and they're making Skyrim, but it was going to be completely exposed when making the jump to a new IP (and thus a new universe), with a new engine, with some large design jumps such as ceding ground to dynamically created areas; so ES6 doesn't have to be as much of a low point as it has been Starfield, as long as they're conservative in their design choices. I'd vastly prefer the leadership of Bethesda to be completely reorganized, which would allow them to innovate by taking well measured risks, but I don't have much hope for that scenario.

2y ago

The future

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SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works 2y ago

Don't ask what's it like for our remains in the future.

2y ago

Jesus rule

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SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works 2y ago

Plenty of Conservatives wouldn't be so terminally angry about women dressing immodestly if they didn't also think that masturbation is wrong. You ought to learn to surf the flow of the horny.

2y ago

Shout Out to Blue Maga

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SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works 2y ago

There are two explanations which I don't find ludicrous, if you assume the shooter to be far right:

He was a Qanoner who bought the "we've gotta hunt the pedophiles" but didn't develop the cognitive dissonance to also think "but that doesn't mean Trump obviously".
He was angry about Trump trying to distance himself from Project 2025 (even though that was merely rhetoric, but an angry and radical 20 years old may not understand that).