mr_sunburn [he/him, comrade/them]

This output from the Beto-Pete-Talarico machine looks water damaged.

You’ve got to give us some warning if you’re going to link directly to news from Child-killing Bari’s Station.

By that logic, are we part of the makeup of the actual material conditions or are some groups more complicit than others? Your hands and your “peeps” are looking pretty bloody as well, comrade.

Well yes, the US is funding genocide and extracting money from me to do it, but I don’t really get why you’re coming for me personally, edgelord.

I don’t have volitional control over the US Military and I don’t find the US military and its child killing actions heroic in the slightest, and its a continuation of nasty genocidal work from the foundation to the modern day through My Lai and Abu Ghraib.

I oppose those policies and am actively organizing with my fellow socialists to end this, but we both know it will take more than me saying “no”, it will take mass organized revolutionary action. We are all born into a world with disturbing contradictions and injustice and have a burden to work toward a more just world.

I was talking to a USA Democrat relative and she told me that watching Israel’s actions had made her start to get angry when she saw Jewish people. And that she “knows about the holocaust and all that” but that she “doesn’t feel sorry for them anymore” because what they’re doing in Palestine is wrong. I was surprised that she was self-aware enough to realize she was developing a strong anti-Jewish prejudice, but also that she seemingly was okay or even proud of her prejudice. I tried to talk her out of it but she basically clammed up when I started talking about her duty as a person to counteract the prejudice.

Ultimately, it exposed some of the inner workings when someone is developing a prejudice. They go through life with a simple, wrong heuristic, assigning humans to groups and making them collectively liable for actions of their group. That group is then judged as “good” and worthy of praise, or “bad” and worthy of scorn. It’s not complicated stuff but it is shameful and common.

That’ll show em!

Maybe buy one of those stickers that says “In this home we don’t call the cops we call the lord jesus christ and his giant fucking GLOCK!” and put it on your door.

I had a maintenance man that was a creep like this to my girlfriend back in my youth. I put in a slide lock, put a golf club by the door and we both carried mace on our key-chains for a bit. Didn’t stop him from being a creep, so it was a contributing factor to not renewing our lease. You could let you landlord know that unless it’s addressed you won’t renew and see if that spurs action.

I sympathize with your approach, but at the same time I feel it’s a tactic for a particular scenario rather than a noble truth.

Those who chose to maintain reactionary viewpoints in the face of a patient and respectful correction at some point need to expend some effort. Whether by persuasion, observing reality, or even directly feeling the boot on their neck, there’s a point where patience runs out and lines are crossed. Unfortunately many persons actively choose to participate in their own exploitation and exploitation of others.

One also needs to think about the kind of environment created for others when you respond to impermissible rhetoric with friendly compassion, and the missed opportunity to contest their ideas and show solidarity with those their naked bigotry is directed against.

We can’t always place our arm over the shoulder of fascists and coddle them with friendly explanations of why their destructive tendencies are wrong.

Someone should make something like this for US police and military as well. It would have to be about 14,000 hours long.

Another distraction from New. I wish people would focus on the movies.

Is there any corroboration for this outcome beyond a reddit self-post? I too hate this fucking war, but I’m not a doctor of oil science so it’s hard for me to take this at face value.

Why not simply use Mastodon and pick a server you like?

Are they planning to put “Allow discretionary public executions by the state? Yes or No” on the ballot?

I scan read “Pennywize” as “Paddington” and that increased my confusion dramatically.