• Al Qaeda agrees with Hamas: “See, Al Qaeda support Hamas, they must be bad!”
• Al Qaeda disagrees with Hamas: “See, Hamas is even worse than Al Qaeda!”

except the peasant is your step-snake snake. You’re the guy.

It’s such a brainless take that’s unempathetic at its core. It dresses up agonised cries of anguish as crocodile tears to then conclude that all is fine, no thought needed.

Given a small allocation can take only a few hundred cycles, and this would take at minimum a few seconds, it’s probably between a billion and a trillion times slower.

I’m happy where my country stands at, thanks.

There it is. “I don’t care about anyone else, I like how my life is and want the status quo”. Do direct action and organise to help OTHERS, if your country is a super paradise then do direct action to pressure your government into condemning genocide. Sadly I think you won’t ever resort to actually doing something to help.

It’s not worth engaging, really. You clearly know all this and actually just don’t give a fuck.

By supporting Dems you’re helping the party that literally helped build a fucking wall next to Mexico, proposed hundreds of millions for expanding it, deregulate every single industry that’s willing to give them money, oversaw the destruction of Roe v Wade, and countless billions on funding genocide and overseas war. The Democrats are trying to create a whole new border agency dedicated to ripping people out of their homes, just to prove how hard they are on immigration. Your support for Dems isn’t showing any support to anyone whatsoever right now, it’s just helping genocide and oppression.

Trump did bad things. So have the Dems. And sincerely describing someone who actively supports genocide as “not perfect” just shows what a disingenuous lib you are. Your version of “harm reduction” has, for decades, done nothing but emphasize and prolong the harm.

I don’t live in the US either. I just care about people’s wellbeing in general. You should recognise that literally wherever on the planet you live, that organising and doing direct action would be more productive than telling people anywhere that voting matters. What a fucking waste of political energy.

Can’t have war if you genocide all races

People have been making your argument for decades. Every single fucking election it’s widely claimed we’re on the “tipping point”, people everywhere said it last time with Trump, and what did he do when he got into power? Largely just continued the status quo of making everything gradually worse.

If anyone thinks voting remotely matters and they want change, they should vote third party. But as always, I don’t think voting will change anything no matter what.

Take half the fucking effort you put into this “Vote for genociders or get fascism” shit and put it into organising or direct action.

Thinking it’s acceptable to use force to defend yourself and others from fascism? That’s horseshoe tankie fascism.

The people with real morals sit and watch as fascism engulfs their entire society and engages in genocide while telling people to more.

Easy, press the button, and there’s a 50% chance the Tesla will malfunction or explode into flames before it turns the corner.

I mean, in fairness, conscription by threat of deadly violence is a thing that can and has been enforced throughout history (eg Ukraine right now). There’s no reason to think it applies here, but it’s not an impossible thing to happen.

The reddit front page is almost exclusively “Trump bad” posts, has been for weeks. I know we like preaching to the choir but this shit is a whole other level of just reassuring each other that doing nothing but supporting genocide is good (plus many many bots).

“There’s such a definitive lack of evidence for god that one can and should reasonably conclude he doesn’t exist.” My belief in that statement is why I call myself an atheist to friends and family.

I don’t use the label publically in spaces like these because most people have the take that you have. My honest impression is 1) Some famous “athiests” (whose past debates I still enjoy) have unrelated, shitty views, and 2) just that right-wing dinguses have somewhat hijacked the perception of the label (eg Peterson).

I really don’t engage with the terminally online drama culture about atheism, so maybe I underestimate the scale. But in my mind, I am atheist, and I think that label has value because religious dogma is still so all-present, pervasive and generally negative.

It’s definitely a silly way of enforcing it, I suspect he knows that, but I think the intention is good.

Lots of people think leftist is about seeing conspiracies, but I would argue Leftism is a lot more realising common class interests exist, and conspiracy stems from that. Classes (to begin with) don’t really “conspire” so much as just, naturally work toward the same things (and by consequence, then conspire).

As well as just being a good realisation, I think it helps dispel myths to non-leftists. It also leads into one of the fundamental failures, which is how the Capitalists have freedom and time to conspire, and workers do not.

That is the name for what I’m describing, no? Transubstantiation is the summoning of Christ’s blood and flesh by means of bread, wine and ritual. It’s a fancy word for a specific type of summoning.

I just can’t enjoy this. I recognise it’s a technological feat, but giving an ounce of positive praise to these first steps to privatized solar-system destroying shit just hurts. Society would be better off if it had exploded.

100%. Reusable rockets in this fashion were even envisioned and designed by NASA many decades ago, they just never had the funding to do it.

While a weird idea that’s fundamentally flawed with sharebrain thinking, I still think it’s kinda neat and so long as we have capitalism, any means of forcing your company to listen to consumers seems like a vaguely positive thing. I’d argue the real success or failure of this idea will be in the execution.