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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

I don't know if he means well, but whether he is accidentally correct by whining about treats or he is giving a relatable example, he is right on the money.

Rather amusingly, treats are pivotal to both the economy and the culture of America. A Wendy's closing in America could actually be a sign of decline. data-laughing

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Imagine that being disowned by their children is prevalent enough that this meme exists between boomers. 🤔

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I have felt myself coming close many times. I still have normal relations with my parents but they don't know how thin the ice is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Some billionaires did a great thing once, so they are not bad."

This is the capitalist framing of saying "I am not racist, I have a black friend."

Name me one billionaire that has provided a net good that has outweighed their net bad. You can't do it. It is fundamentally why they are billionaires in the first place because they exploited and stole from everyone else. They are not a necessary component to society, they are an eventuality of capitalism and at their very best, an inefficiency.

The ongoing copium of living inside this failing system is not only to justify them, but say they are going to save us. These people just need to admit they want a king with devine right because they don't believe any other system can work.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think even the Golden Throne pales in comparison to how many lives are sacrificed to keep the US alive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It was awesome back in the day. Its clunky but still fun today. While it was a little campy during the cutscenes, it was actually supposed to have a more serious tone than RA2.

It also answers the question of what if Stalin didn't stop at Berlin. stalin-shining

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said during a White House press briefing Tuesday that the US needs “more information about precisely its character and composition” to determine if parties bypassed American restrictions on semiconductor exports to create the new chip.

"They couldn't have possibly made this, they had to have stolen it from us somehow."

I wonder how long before they do the classic thing of saying 👽s made it for them. Just like how there was no way the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids on their own so it had to be posad.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

To these kinds of people, nothing is political until their views are challenged. Politics dominates every facet of their life and they only notice when a necessary change is pointed out.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

I don't think I have seen all three at once before.

Gee, it sure sounds like an appeal that the abductor would use to try to leverage a hostage situation. "You wouldn't want them to get hurt... would you?"

Beyond the absurdity of using a hospital patient as a metaphor, it also serves to ridicule it's own position: A hospital patient is dying, you the doctor offer to save the patient by giving them medicine. This person ridicules you for even trying and casts you as a murderer if you fail.

This argument is also projecting. It casts the socialist as not knowing what they are doing by messing with "levers that no one could possibly understand". Yet the post implies that those unknowable levers are a perfect analogue to a patient who is hooked up to what is clearly an understandable apparatus of life support. It sounds like the argument doesn't not in fact know what those nebulous levers are, yet describes the socialist position as clueless to the "complexity of society".

Better not try to fix the dying machine. It's death is certain, but trying to save it is uncertain, and that's too scary.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If the source isn't negative about China, or doesn't cast them as the villain in every scenario, it must be propaganda.

But naturally, the opposite is never propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

"While you studied western tactics and equipment, I studied the mine." putin-wink

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 years ago
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