BartsBigBugBag 7 months ago • 100%
Wow great info, thanks so much for doing all that legwork! It makes sense that Putin would put less stock into the policy than did his predecessors, because while the leaked Soviet archives show the USSR was genuinely terrified of nuclear war and mostly built up in response to US expansion of nuclear programs, I feel like Putin sees it more as a tool for intimidation.
BartsBigBugBag 7 months ago • 91%
Russia also maintains a no first strike policy, unless that changed since I last got stuck in a rabbit hole about nuclear policy. The US is the only major country in the world to maintain a first strike policy with nuclear weapons that I know of.
BartsBigBugBag 8 months ago • 100%
That’s a Dreams game, and as much as I love dreams, it’s really more suited to experiences than it is full fledged games. It does look great though.
BartsBigBugBag 8 months ago • 100%
Fascism is capitalism in decay. Modern conservatism is still an offshoot of liberalism (as compared to old conservatives who were attempting to conserve monarchy). Liberalism is a capitalist ideology defined by promotion of individual rights, civil liberties, and most importantly free enterprise and markets. Fascism is capitalism in decay because those in power will use that power to maintain their rule, through whatever means necessary. For Trump, that was Jan 6th, which is a new low for US politics, but he’s not alone in manipulating the levers of power, and neither side seems keen on removing powers from themselves when they get in power.
BartsBigBugBag 8 months ago • 100%
Thanks, it was tough, but very worthwhile. Hope the best for you also!
BartsBigBugBag 8 months ago • 100%
Trump famously hated Netanyahu before 2020 also. He even said the quiet part out loud, that Netanyahu has no intention to resolve the situation whatsoever. He just also really loves Israel, so it’s kinda irrelevant.
BartsBigBugBag 8 months ago • 100%
I quit in September! Congrats! Quitting smoking was way harder than quitting drinking for me, and I was a daily drunk functional alcoholic for years.
BartsBigBugBag 8 months ago • 95%
Voluntary suffering in order to bring about future positive ends is essentially integral to having a good life. That’s like saying to someone who just started exercising and is complaining about being sore, “if you’re feeling worse, is it really for the best?” Yes. It definitively is.
BartsBigBugBag 8 months ago • 100%
There is a high from nicotine, it just goes away so quickly as you get addicted.
BartsBigBugBag 8 months ago • 90%
That particularly piece of bullshit was platformed by none other than Elon Musk himself, the white supremacist piece of human filth he is.
BartsBigBugBag 8 months ago • 100%
Are you the dude who got banned for linking this book on Reddit books? I just saw that on another community. I haven’t read Malatesta yet, I keep slacking on it. Hope you get some good discussion, and sorry I couldn’t contribute more to said good discussion.
BartsBigBugBag 8 months ago • 78%
BartsBigBugBag 8 months ago • 80%
Actually they can’t, they have a legal obligation under the UN Convention on Genocide to take extra-territorial actions in order to stop or prevent genocide. They are acting within international law. The ships going to Israel despite the active genocide are violating international law and complicit in the genocide themselves.
BartsBigBugBag 8 months ago • 100%
You don’t have to try to eradicate an entire nation to commit genocide, either. There’s a convention on this thing, you know..
BartsBigBugBag 8 months ago • 100%
Guess I’m not buying it then. Microsoft really hates printing discs.
BartsBigBugBag 8 months ago • 90%
He says that the groundwork they laid was by not intervening enough in the Middle East and Asia…. Am I reading that right?
BartsBigBugBag 8 months ago • 100%
Apparently he was the inspiration for Professor Newtonium in Powerpuff Girls. Most unexpected part of that article.
BartsBigBugBag 8 months ago • 92%
If the media didn’t want him to win, they shouldn’t have called the race before even 10% of the state got a chance to vote. There’s going to be hundreds, possibly thousands of people who left caucuses early when they heard the race was called. The media is not only complicit in his win there, they have also exposed themselves to retaliation from campaigns and voters alike.
BartsBigBugBag 8 months ago • 100%
I haven’t scrolled all the comments yet, so apologies if this has already been mentioned, but Dragon’s Dogma passing a lot of those checks, if you can get over some minor jank. It’s definitely an action oriented adventure role playing game, where you can get quests to take out minor enemies, but also can have epic battles against dragons and giants.
A fun mechanic is clinging to and climbing larger enemies, you can for example jump up and grab the neck of a dragon and hold on while slashing at it. Or you can have your allies hold down an enemy so you can get a critical hit on it. The pawn system for allies allows you to customize and develop your allies to suit your needs and playstyle, and you can recruit other players pawns who come with their own memories and knowledges, but their voicelines can get a bit repetitive. Expect to hear “This enemy is weak to fire” a lot..
Overall it’s a unique and interesting game, worth checking out if you haven’t. Especially if you can get it on sale for cheap.
BartsBigBugBag 9 months ago • 100%
I didn’t even know podcast ads were a thing, you learn something new every day. Good luck! I hope you are able to find something, fuck ads!
BartsBigBugBag 9 months ago • 66%
Lmao. You should look up where all the poverty reductions of the last 10 years were. It wasn’t in the west.
BartsBigBugBag 9 months ago • 80%
Even by US standards if we go back a few decades. HW negotiated a ceasefire in Israel, and sectors both sides spent time and money trying to dismantle the nuclear arsenal. Biden is “modernizing” it. He’s genuinely to the right of the Republican Party just a couple decades ago in many ways.
BartsBigBugBag 9 months ago • 100%
Thanks for sharing! I’ll check it out!
Sorry for the shitty quality, I can’t stand looking through a camera at a show so I was just doing my best to hold it steady while going ham.
BartsBigBugBag 9 months ago • 100%
A reasonable position to take.
BartsBigBugBag 9 months ago • 100%
Honestly, unless you’re on last gen consoles, it’s been worth playing since launch. Its bugs were no worse than Skyrim on consoles, and less bad in many ways. The game itself is probably the most open world immersive sim we’ve ever gotten. It’s not GTA, and it’s not trying to be. It’s not a sandbox, and it’s not a psychopath simulator like GTA. It’s a deep, philosophical, highly emergent single player game with a well-written story and competent acting in probably one of the most beautiful game worlds of all time.
BartsBigBugBag 9 months ago • 100%
It runs at 4k on the Xbox series x also.
BartsBigBugBag 9 months ago • 100%
They don’t support him because he didn’t “secure Israeli safety”. From what I’ve seen, most people support the continuation of hostilities against Gaza, and many even support further occupation and restriction of rights for Gazans. A non-insignificant part of the population supports continued settlement in Palestinian territory, and the majority of the population have mandatory service in the IDF, where they will serve by perpetuating apartheid against the Palestinian people.
BartsBigBugBag 9 months ago • 100%
When coupled with electric buses and high speed trains, they’re plenty fine. We’re not going to reach a level of infrastructure anytime soon where all travel can be accomplished through public infrastructure, even in China where they have ten times the public transport infrastructure of the US.
Electric cars by themselves aren’t a good thing, as in, the USian belief in “an electric car for every person” is insane and if they convince even half the world of it we’re going to destroy the other half mining minerals, but using electric cars to supplement sustainable infrastructure and support areas yet without access to public transit is a necessary step on the path towards sustainability.
BartsBigBugBag 9 months ago • 33%
You really running defense for empire?
“Name a president who didn’t kill people” isnt the dunk you think it is. Quite the opposite, it just makes the point that the US government is a murder cult and that regardless of who you vote for, you’re still supporting war, murder, and imperialism.
BartsBigBugBag 9 months ago • 100%
你不是一个好人
BartsBigBugBag 9 months ago • 100%
I think infill is just moving too quickly for the output of filament. You could try messing with the temperature to make it flow better, but since the outside looks okay, I would probably just try slowing down infill speeds, if it were me. Hope you get it sorted!
BartsBigBugBag 9 months ago • 100%
BartsBigBugBag 9 months ago • 100%
Number nine?
BartsBigBugBag 9 months ago • 100%
Libby is the service my library uses. The state capital gives everyone a free library card also, so I get access to a much wider library than i would otherwise. Bullshit the restrictions publishers require, like forcing the library to buy a license for each “copy” of a book it loans, but libraries are still fighting the good fight more than anywhere else I know.
BartsBigBugBag 9 months ago • 66%
If it’s acting like reservations, Palestinians won’t have the right to prosecute Israelis who commit crime on Palestinian land for 100+ years, allowing rampant violence against the colonized people :/
BartsBigBugBag 9 months ago • 100%
BartsBigBugBag 9 months ago • 60%
You are ableist though.
BartsBigBugBag 9 months ago • 100%
We’ve been paying for at least half of that Pueblo to Fort Collins route for about 20 years now… expected to be done in 2074 last I heard. The railroad is a real fuckhead, but also, the project has been mismanaged for sure. Hopefully this kick starts some action.
BartsBigBugBag 9 months ago • 66%
We continue to isolate ourselves from global society…
BartsBigBugBag 10 months ago • 100%
That’s a Weebl.
My bad. Hope everything has been running itself well while I’ve been gone haha. Lemmy.tf got pretty unstable so I spend most of my time on lemmy.ml these days, but .tf has been a bit more stable lately so I’m back for a while at least. Much love everyone!
Don’t use the names of radicals to endorse your watered down reformism. There’s a reason radicals get killed, and reformists get positions in cabinets. One actually threatens the status quo, one reinforces it.
From: “Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg” by Kate Evans.
The Democracy of the founding fathers was Greek Democracy, predicated upon a slave society, and restricted to only the elite. This is the society we live in today, even with our reforms towards direct representation. The system is inherently biased towards the election of elites and against the representation of the masses. Hamilton called it “faction” when the working class got together and demanded better conditions, and mechanisms were built in (which still exist to this day) that serve to ensure the continued dominance of the elite over the masses. The suffering of the many is intentional. The opulence of the wealthy is also. This is the intended outcome.
Remember, the social Democrats sided with the Nazis over the socialists. They’ve done it every time they’ve been given the opportunity, and will continue to do so as many times as people fall for their shtick. “The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." -Audre Lorde
> It is not needed, nor fitting here [in discussing the Civil War] that a general argument should be made in favor of popular institutions; but there is one point, with its connections, not so hackneyed as most others, to which I ask a brief attention. It is the effect to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above, labor, in the structure of government. It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it induces him to labor. This assumed, it is next considered whether it is best that capital shall hire laborers, and thus induce them to work by their own consent, or buy them, and drive them to it without their consent. Having proceeded thus far, it is naturally concluded that all laborers are either hired laborers or what we call slaves. And further, it is assumed that whoever is once a hired laborer is fixed in that condition for life. > Now, there is no such relation between capital and labor as assumed, nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless. > Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Abraham Lincoln
But let’s be honest, who wasn’t inspired by how much food Goku can eat at once?
I need to quit coming to this community today so I can quit posting, I’m running out of things to post!
Happy Sunday, or Monday, depending where in the world you are!
I just discovered this band and I’m in love, and I can’t stop sharing their music with as many people as I can! For the more lyrically inclined, here’s a link with English subtitles, but it’s not live: [https://youtu.be/lMqedURmCxg?si=lvqJHx4anzcOc0rU](url)
Hope all are alright. Anyone picked up any cool new hobbies lately? Anyone play harp? I’m thinking of picking it up, I already play quite a few instruments, but harp has the highest initial investment of any I’ve done so far.
Hello all. Happy Friday the 13th for those who haven’t crossed into Saturday yet. Recommended readings: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_SYR_SPM.pdf Hopeful glint: A video by Andrewism. https://youtu.be/j42RbUjofm0?si=zh9lNJpAuxcx2-qN
Recommended Readings: - The Philosophy of Social Ecology by Murray Bookchin. - Mutual Aid by Pyotr Kropotkin. - The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin (fiction)
That means fuck ECOWAS as a tool of the oppressors also. Critical support for every coup in Africa, and for the rights of Africans to demand the French and US militaries leave their country. Critical Readings: - Neocolonialism by Kwame Nkrumah. - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney. - Rethinking Ownership of Development in Africa by T.D. Harper-Shipman. Recommended readings: - Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawaii Statehood by Dean Itsugi Saranillio. - Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society by Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl.
Recommended videos and podcasts, not necessarily related: - Andrewism’s We Need a Library Economy https://youtu.be/NOYa3YzVtyk?si=bHNNRV5RCxWFpJvA - SRSLY Wrong Podcasts Library Socialism series https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFkjJ43atCw_ctKXYufzsgmSGZURWK9lB&si=pwHlR2cyBE02OKlB - KGATLW Rattlesnake https://youtu.be/Q-i1XZc8ZwA?si=0xhvK35vB3thXP41
Recommended readings: - Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis. - Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis. - Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism by Bell Hooks Recommended in the comments: CurlyWurlies4All: - Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan by Michael Knapp, Anja Flach and Ercan Ayboga - Liberating Life: Woman's Revolution by Abdullah Ocalan
99.9% of all institutions in my life are at best feudal orders, run by aristocrats so far removed from my life that they wouldn’t even know how to survive without their armies of servants, nannies, and assistants. Democracy needs to extend beyond the state. Democracy must be present in *every* part of our society, or it will, as it has now, inevitably become nothing more than another oligarchy for and by the rich. Recommended readings: Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire. Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon. Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber. Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti. Neocolonialism by Kwame Nkrumah. Anarchism and other Essays by Emma Goldman. Recommendations from the comments: /u/BallShapedMan - The Dictator’s Handbook by by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith
Note: I believe there are genuine instances where medication helps. Coming from a family with a history of schizophrenia, I understand how hard it can be to survive without access to modern medications. That said, I also believe that the Therapy Industrial Complex is myopically focused upon the individual, to the point where there’s often not even consideration of societal factors influencing our minds. It is not individual mental health leading to rising suicide rates, increases in mass shootings, and generalized depression. It is our society. If you genuinely don’t feel regular feelings of climate anxiety that effects your ability to focus on the meaningless trash that is much of modern life, then it is you who need medication, not those who experience the entirely rational anxiety of knowing that life as we know it is very likely to come to a screeching halt, leaving us and our future generations infinitely worse off than the generations before them. It is sick to be healthy in a sick society. Instead of taking drugs to hide your emotions, use them to get angry enough to do something. As long as people keep taking their soma and going to work, things won’t get better, they just won’t. Period.
Or Feedback Loop Rule