You make the critical mistake in assuming that not voting for the Dems actually hurts them.
I’d say they’re also happy to be in perpetual “opposition”.
So really the only thing not voting is doing is saying that you want more dead children.
Fennec f-droid didn’t connect to any on my test.
What’s “breakfast”? I have to assume if it was a big deal they would be waaay more specific than that.
Your argument is not substantive.
Well if your rebuttal is simply determinism then I think you’ll find that nobody’s arguments can possibly contain any substance.
Empathy is the path forward.
Agreed.
Othering outgroups is not
Nobody has been othered. In fact using it in this way dilutes the word as its simply rhetoric intended to censor discussion behind a purity test.
even if you don’t personally act on it.
But that’s exactly why this makes all the difference. The capacity for action is meaningless, as you state, we all possess it.
So I’m sure you’ll agree it’s much better to loot an apple store or burn down a billionaires mansion rather than smash a corner shop to bits and assault other working class people.
Their complaints must be evaluated and addressed independently of their reaction
I 100% agree.
These people looting a market for resources after a long night of rioting
But this doesn’t mean that revolutionary action demands we hold the delusional belief that this market was looted because the protestors were on the brink of starvation or had no access to clean water or medical supplies.
They smashed that shop to bits because it was fun and an opportunity to rob some vapes.
Every last human is capable of the evils any given human comitted
If you strip away everything that has made them an individual, yes you’re right. But I think that just highlights that your argument is a pointless distinction.
If you swapped me out at birth with a Nazi general, there’s a good chance I’d be driven down the same life path.
Likewise this means you have to accept that there are many people, due to their upbringing and the principles they’ve adopted in life, that wouldn’t destroy a corner shop for no reason. That wouldn’t assault a woman trying to protect her place of work.
Greed. Its in all of us
This is something the greedy want you to believe, and an insult to the majority of humanity who would never act like this.
It’s a classic problem with mass civil disobedience. All the elites have to do is simply wait for a selfish minority who’ll choose to use the opportunity to enrich themselves at the expense of their fellows. Then they can frame the entire movement as violent and base.
Im not advocating against civil disobedience, but you need solidarity to avoid this.
Ah my bad. Doesn’t show up when you search DDNS, I guess it wasn’t mentioned in the post at all.
The absence of shame is almost a social superpower.
Seinfeld was legitimately the worst thing about Seinfeld.
It was popular because it had Larry David writing, and Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander were actually good comedic actors.
Try troubleshooting with curl from a terminal.
curl -vvv xxx.xxx.x.xxx:8080
You’ll see where the delay is happening and have somewhere to start digging from.
What does this have to do with the US? You literally just claimed Japan has no responsibility to make amends for the war because:
the Japanese of imperial era have been dead and buried for over 80 years
the Japanese of imperial era have been dead and buried for over 80 years
The government has refused to apologize. Schools don’t say anything bad about imperial Japan. Every new years my local shrine hangs up the rising sun flag signed by all the local soldiers who were out commiting heinous acts in neighbouring countries. If you’ve ever visited Japan and stayed in an APA hotel, the owner is the Japanese equivalent of a Holocaust denier and has a book in the drawer of every room explaining Japan did nothing wrong. Even the Hiroshima peace museum starts its plea for pity with “somehow Japan found itself at war”. Not to mention government celebration of war criminals at Yasukuni.
Japan has a cultural problem acknowledging their wrongdoings during the war. Japanese people are now very pro-peace in general, but it’s a mistake to pretend the past can’t repeat if we don’t remember and understand it.
Pathetic. Truly.
Did that comment make you feel good? How sad.
This is always how it ends with the imperialist argument, trying to frame it as not imperialist and then back pedaling to implying that imperialism is good because actually the other guys are imperialist by MY definition of what imperialism is, not by Lenin’s “narrow” (lol) definition.
What are you talking about?
I never back pedaled. I believe the Russian invasion of Ukraine is imperialism. It fits the definition, which I will repeat.
The extension of a nation’s authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.
And to clarify regarding Lenin, I believe he wrote that wars of imperialism are inevitable under capitalism, not that they are exclusive to capitalist countries. I’m sure you’re up to date on your theory, so please correct me if I’m wrong.
well I won’t believe what you tell me so I’ll just keep on telling others the same thing that’s been debunked a million times”
You’re making my point for me.
What Russian lie about the war do you think you can regurgitate that I haven’t heard already?
What evidence of Russian imperialism can I present to you that you don’t already consider “debunked a million times”.
I acknowledge that I am entrenched. I acknowledge that I have bias based on personal experience. That acknowledgement actually gives me the ability to reconsider my position if I was presented with good enough evidence.
If you don’t acknowledge what prevents you from changing your opinion, you will never know how to change it.
I don’t think you acknowledge your own entrenchment, I think you simply believe you are right. With that belief, how will you ever accept something that tells you that you’re wrong?
I think we’re both going to have to agree that we believe different propaganda.
You’re going to dismiss anything I post as “Western” fiction, and I’m going to dismiss anything you post as Russian misinformation.
If I’m honest, it seems to me that you believe an evil in the context of a “bigger” evil is actually good.
I can’t accept that. Russia’s imperialism is evil, just like US imperialism is evil. I won’t defend or accept either.
I think we’ll have to agree to disagree on this.
Pretty cringe if I’m perfectly honest.