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Mustakrakish @ Mustakrakish @lemmy.world
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  • First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io .

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  • Capitalism is a global problem, its not contained to america. Replace neighbors being kidnapped with which ever country you're in supporting a genocide and it still fits, and is likely accurate unless you're like in Yemen.

  • Trump EPA 'Hitting New Heights of Absurdity' With Plan to Reapprove Pesticide Dicamba

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  • But I'm supossed to expect his reaction to being shot was to take a photo op. This pussy. Sure.

  • First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io .

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  • Yall will hate me for it, but porn games should have never been on the main launcher. That's just asking for trouble. Steam should have a secondary launcher that is just for the adult games, and keep the two seperate. This shit wouldn't be happening if these games hadn't been so accessible to people not looking for that in the first place.

    Also lets be honest, some of the shit is over the line. There shouldn't be multiple "Sex with Hitler" games, because as ridiculous as that sounds, normalizing Nazis and Hitler is a fucking virus that does so much fucking harm when spread. Its not just a "silly joke".

  • First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io .

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  • Neighbors being kidnapped: I sleep

    Taking my fetish games: Real Shit

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defends decision to support military aid for Israel

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  • The US doesn't need its own troops there if the IDF acts on their behalf and they get to claim deniability. There's only a thin veil of secrecy, you can see through it in the ridiculous ways they've been allowed (and supported) in infiltrating US politics. Hell you can't even be a school teacher in Texas without pledging support to Israel.

  • Immigrants might be in camps, but at least you 3rd party/nonvoters have your sense of moral superiority!

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  • Thats where you stop considering apparently, instead of accepting the grim reality that voting isn't going to save us as neither party wants to and that we need to do the actual, hard work of forming a new party and demanding more.

  • Immigrants might be in camps, but at least you 3rd party/nonvoters have your sense of moral superiority!

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  • Immigrants might be in camps, but at least you 3rd party/nonvoters have your sense of moral superiority!

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  • We have a right wing and a centralist party, we need a left workers party, not 2 more centralists between the center and the right. That'll just be 2 more right wing parties

  • Scratch a anti-harm reductionist and a fascist bleeds

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  • I took it more as "these people who benefitted by all the destruction and war the US committed in their names are finally feeling the sting and might actually be driven to do something about it".

  • Scratch a anti-harm reductionist and a fascist bleeds

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  • I'm not agreeing with it, but to translate its more along the lines of "You Americans have spent so long being comfortable and benefitting from the imperialist project of the US and all the death and destruction it perpetrates across the world and have not offered any resistance to their own government in all this time. Liberals have been content to be complaicent in it too as long as a woman gets to drop some of those bombs, for fairness. Now you won't be able to avoid the consequences of the evil imperialist core that all these other countries have been crushed under for over a century and may actually be driven to do something about it, since it actually affects you now."

    Which again I don't agree with, but can also aknowledge that its more nuanced than just wishing harm for harm's sake.

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defends decision to support military aid for Israel

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  • More than that, Isreal is basically a forward opperating base of the US in the middle east. They're just the US with Groucho Marx glasses on, our sock puppet for genocide and imperialism.

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defends decision to support military aid for Israel

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  • Exactly. Remember this when people claim we can turn the Democratic party with progessive candidates. The progressive candidates are the ones always turned by the Dems, not the other way around. It's their MO.

  • "We're totally different sides!"

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  • They are humans like anyone else and they should never be placed on a pedestal or treated like they're above criticism for being on your team.

    Then stop doing that. You have to hold them on a pedestal to even consider them on your team, since their actions speak much louder than words

    The both sides are the same argument denies the reality that voting in your best interest and gaining incremental progress for society is a better alternative than sitting by while the world burns around you.

    You fundamentally misunderstand. What you are arguing for is sitting around while the world burns, while feeling like you did your part for merely voting. What I'm saying is that voting is not enough, especially when the people you have to vote for don't actually want to make things better, and even under their control shit gets incrementally worse, not better. So sitting around and just handing your vote to the people who aren't helping, especially when they know they'll get your vote just for being slightly better than the other guy, is actually doing less than nothing. Politicians have to earn your vote, thats the foubdation of democracy. When politicians don't have to earn your vote because you'll vote for them by default, they're not actually concerned with doing anything for the voters. That's not Democracy.

    Saving your support for an infallible leader who checks all your boxes, gains power and rescues society while somehow appeasing the majority and yet never compromising or screwing up something important, is a fantasy at best.

    Thats a huge straw man. Just because all options are currently fucked and not worth standing with doesn't mean you need an infalliable one to be acceptable. Just that the current ones are far below acceptable. "I don't want to eat either entrees you brought me, because they're both piles of dog shit, even if one is filled with razor blades." "Nothing's good enough for you man unless its a perfect 5 star 5 course meal and you're gonna starve unless you eat the dog shit". You see how absurd that thought process is? It comes from fear.

    Not to mention that ELECTIONS AND POLITICIANS WILL NOT SAVE US. It's not about voting in just the right way, we have to go out and demand, its the only way rights have EVER been won. Voting is just scratching the surface of political activisim, but its treated like the be all end all and people use it as an excuse to not do the real work.

    government is composed of people. People are flawed. If you're looking to flawed people to create your ideal society rather than strategizing how to do the best you can with what you have in front of you/working towards an improved future, you're going to be spinning your wheels for all eternity waiting to be rescued.

    This one is what you're advocating for though, just voting for not only flawed people, but people working activley against you, all while sitting back like you did your part for checking a box on a ballot.

    Out of curiosity though, what is your ideal government/who is your ideal leader, worthy of your support? Who can you point to as an example of "that person/government that got it all right, and if we could just have a government or politicians more like them, everything would work itself out."

    Edit: Surely somebody must come to mind? Bc if not this whole post kinda seems like a lot of bullshit

    Yes your post does kinda seems like a lot of bullshit, but I'm still happy to take time to explain. There isn't an example yet, we need to demand better, that's my whole point. Merely voting in politicians and trusting them to fix everything isn't going to work, there's no winning that way. I dunno what goalpost shift you are attempting, but just beacuse I'm accuratley pointing out that our current system and represntation is far from actually working for the people doesn't mean I have to have a fully flushed out and perfect example of an alternate for my critisms to be valid. That's ironically what you were trying to accuse me of about "saving support for an infalliable leader", but is actually your projection.

  • Some of y'all are not ready to hear this...

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  • No, the new deal only came to be after violent protests, and was largely a betrayal of labor groups because it gave a much watered down version of what was actually demanded, all while Roosevelt broke the strike he promised to support while campaigning. Read "Labor's Giant Step Forward" by Art Preis if you want a more detailed accpunt

  • "We're totally different sides!"

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  • History has shown Dems to be playing the role of wolf in sheeps clothings for over a century lmao, what are you talking about? Even the "New Deal" of FDR was actually used to placate the actual demands of the labor movement, after he promised to help if they campaigned for him, and then turned around and outlawed their strikes and busted them when he got in office. From Obama promising to close GitMo but actually accelerating it and the use of drone strikes, Biden letting Roe V Wade be overturned despite Dems for decades running on codifying it, hell even Bill Clinton is resposible for the implementation of private prisons to basically make slavery legal again.

    Dems are not your friends. Sure MAGA is the BBEG, but Dems are all the henchmen with different colored shirts you need to fight on the way. They enable and support the BBEG. Sure one is worse, but the other one is still trying to fuck you over too, they're not your ally. And to realize that none of the parties are here for you is a scary thought, and many people want to desperatley push it away for the safe and comfortable thought that you have a champion to fight for you and you're not alone. Well you're not alone, but its not the Dems by your side, it's the other workers. And unfortunatley that means you'll have to get your hands dirty directly, but turning away from the truth won't make it easier.

  • "We're totally different sides!"

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  • Nah they just rolled out the carpet and set up the barricades to allow it

  • Davel, .ml admin: "A credible article that brings up the totally-not-happening Uyghur genocide? On .ml‽ That's a CENSORING!"

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  • I was literally about to link that and I saw you already did

  • Big gulps with personal chauffeur

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  • You're the poster stupid

  • July is disability pride month

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  • Your rights are political. I get the point of the post, that people shouldn't need to validate their existence, but politics is how you fight for that right. The desire to avoid politics is the advantage of your enemy.