OprahsedCreature

joined 3 years ago
[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 days ago

I'll say what I've been saying for a while:

"Russia has nukes. Ukraine does not. The outcome was decided before it began."

Russia will stay in Ukraine as long as it is profitable to do so, and will leave when that is no longer the case or can get something big enough in response to convince them to leave. The US and EU can supply arms to Ukraine to make it less profitable but even so Russia has far more troops and resources than Ukraine. Unfortunately the US also hinged that support on Ukraine not negotiating for peace so they've been dug in extra deep in this and lost at least a generation of men now.

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago

if gore had been granted his win

Yes, he was the actual winner

Blaming Dems [...] is the reason we got trump.

Lol, lmao even.

You spend all your energy fighting the only party trying to help you at all right now and for the past 25 years.

Yeah they've been doing a bang up job of it.

Literally every tactic employed by Trump could have been employed by a Dem who actually wanted to enact positive change, as well as expanding and packing the supreme court with loyalists. You know, if they didn't have dementia and weren't being "Weekend at Bernie's'ed" by party functionaries.

This isn't about Dems this is about shortsighted electorate like you.

"The Democrat Party can never fail, they can only be failed."

Calling neolibs conservatives is fucking hilarious and sad.

I only wish I could see your face when you look up the word "neoliberal"

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 38 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Americans will never see any real progress in their lifetimes as long as the Democratic party in its current incarnation stands intact.

Conservatives are by their nature evil and reactionary, but also simultaneously eternal and temporary. They are a society's dead skin being shed before the new form emerges, its cocoon of petulant narcissism refusing to accept reality.

The problem with neoliberal Democrats is that they don't realize that they're conservative too, and as such must be shed.

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago

But what if I don't want a plug? I want a seat.

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's been my experience that the only thing more cringe than antinatalists are natalists.

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

🔫 Buy Israeli or else

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

what's the end goal with this massive no-win scenario?

To get more ~~fire-fighting slaves~~ volunteer prison firefighters to cheaply fight the inevitable further wildfires brought about by uncontrolled climate change, duh

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

To understand New Jersey, you have to imagine the results of someone like Chris Christie running a eugenics program...

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago (5 children)

This is a great way to deflect legitimate blame from the Democratic party representatives and operatives who actually deserve it, as if it isn't their goddamn job to listen to voters.

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd say it's another form of the Desmond Tutu quote: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

Sitting at the table with Nazis and not killing or reeducating (forcibly if necessary) them implies tolerance of their intolerable views, which is thus functionally acceptance of their views.

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

That seems apt. Democrat complicity in the Gaza genocide was the last straw for a lot of people, and arguably why Kamala lost. Importantly as well, I suspect Dems will not be trusted again by a large group of the population unless significant changes are made or the party is "Theseus-ed" into a completely new format, if they survive as a party at all. And that segment of the population grows every day as awareness of the genocide spreads and is discussed.

 

A general outline would suffice, just trying to get a sense of the scale

 

Was reading about The Offspring due to this post here: https://lemmy.ml/post/2628198

As I read their Wikipedia page I noticed that Dexter Holland (lead singer) has a PhD in Molecular Biology. Then I remembered that Greg Gaffin (lead singer) of Bad Religion has a PhD in Zoology.

Is this a trend in Punk Rock or am I noticing a freak coincidence? If not punk rock, is there any genre that stands out in its number of highly educated artists?

 

Even if we're subscribed to them? Could a temp block exist in conjunction with a subscription? I love c/memes but holy shit no matter which sort I select by they've managed to overwhelm my feed.

 

Wikipedia for reference:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm

 

I tend to like the volunteer-read audiobooks on librivox and recently was curious about their Sherlock Holmes books (never read or listened to before), but I'm wondering what else is out there and popular in the community.

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