Reddit but instead of a subscribed feed and an everything feed there is a subscribed feed, a feed of posts from your little particular corner of lemmy/fediverse, and an everything feed.
It is more complicated than that but honestly that is all you need to pick it up and try it out.
Trump doesn’t really bluff so much as waffle between committing and backing down because he is too cowardly to ever directly concede he has lost until the system he is contained within shatters apart.
People very dangerously misunderstand Trump when they think all he does is bluff, which isn’t to say that Trump isn’t a bullshitter and that Trump isn’t a bloviating idiot, but understand that what makes Trump so dangerous is that he is too cowardly to ever back down even when it makes no sense not to back down.
Oh, I didn’t realize the Ceasefire in Lebanon had been broken??? What???
I kept seeing headlines that said “Israeli fighter jets strain Ceasefire in Lebanon by dropping bombs on a neighborhood” and “Civilians shot in Lebanon by Israeli troops threaten the stability of the Ceasfire” but I didn’t realize the Ceasefire had actually been broken!
with an emphatic and overly theatrical cry I feint onto a couch, my decent sensibilities overwhelmed by the shock
It is a perfect example of a centrist who desires to manage the status quo rather than make any structural changes approximating a position between two perceived “extremes” that does not exist and building out a rationale to support that political position in a way that makes it glaringly obvious to everyone else that they are speaking for a political demographic that does not exist.
It didn’t make them any better as a people though, and other religions haven’t faired so great in the ‘be good to each other’ department either
I am not religious and I am not here to claim that religion has been a net good, but on the other hand many aspects of modern ethics and philosophy that are unarguably good came out of religious schools of thought, or perhaps to put it another way most of what we all accept as ethical and what we frequently point to as philosophical standpoints to begin difficult negotiation (i.e. “we can all agree human beings are all created equal even if we disagree on…”) has come out of or been heavily influenced by religion… which isn’t to argue that these ideas should have stayed confined within one particular religion’s school of thought but rather to point out the opposite.
No religion was the sole source for this logic and development of thought around human rights and the human condition and there is no reason to believe religion was a necessary precursor for these things to form, rather I mean to say our knowledge of these things came as a dawning awareness that the good aspects of disparate religions and ideologies could be connected and translated via shared universal statements of solidarity like “treat others as you want to be treated” and “tolerate your neighbor”. The details might not agree, but it is easy to do the math, draw the shared connections out and confidently say “yeah, they both pretty much think you should be a decent person and try to pursue happiness in a way that doesn’t hurt others”.
I am not saying religion isn’t dangerous however, and in particular I think religion becomes exceedingly dangerous when the followers of that religion become convinced the structures of their formal religious institutions are not inherently political the same way any power structure composed of humans unavoidably is… which is why the separation of church and state (and the associated freedom to practice or not practice whatever religion you so choose so long as it does not hurt others) in a free society is existentially necessary.
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Where I draw the line for whether it is ethical to light things on fire is when they start destroying rare knowledge and books as fast as possible for no other reason than to hoard and obscure knowledge for private benefit.
It is one thing to fund the creation of knowledge and then hoard it, it is entirely another to begin actively attacking and destroying pre-existing publicly shared resources of knowledge in the pursuit of monetizing access to that very knowledge behind a gargantuan profit motivated entity.
It is like how women can pause their pregnancies for 100 days if they need to… I think?
I don’t know, this stuff is all so complicated.
Monster Trucks are the less violent and more honest version of the American Dream distilled down into its elemental components.
Also, lol we are fine if the books become a problem we can just use the monster trucks to run over other people’s books so then they don’t have books or monster trucks and we win.
We shouldn’t, not without corroborating indicators or other people with far different politics raising the alarm… and yet that is exactly what is happening.
I can see his heroic speech now “I DISAGREE with what Israel is doing to Palestinians but now is NOT the time for disagreement and division between us!” Burnham will say triumphantly as he desperately tries to become specific enough as a human being for anybody to remember past the posh thick rimmed glasses guy who ran interference to facilitate Genocide as prime minister that came after the other posh thick rimmed glasses guy who ran interference to facilitate Genocide as prime minister.
We are talking about nuclear war here, and you condescend your own humanity by dismissing the danger here so carelessly.
Yes MTG is batshit crazy, nothing about my post is meant to suggest otherwise, there is a clear and present danger being pointed out here beyond a discussion of her…
It only doesn’t make sense until you realize It’s Alway’s Sunny In Philadelphia is Veep but dressed up in enough character comedy and narrowed down to small enough of the hellscape that it doesn’t become too bitter and overwhelming to swallow.
The problem is if we accept It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia as serious “high art” and not just crude character humor the criticism of our way of life becomes too biting.
The thesis of Veep was “American power is a structure of dangerous idiots all the way down” and thesis of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia is “Imagine if these idiots weren’t too incompetent and selfish to constantly be barred from access to any actual power for any extended length of time?”.
It is much easier to lean into the laughs with the latter critique but it requires a forgetting of the fact that there is inevitably an environment around the characters in It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia that for some reason does not seem to notice how catastrophic these characters are and there is never any cohesive attempt to contain the damage these characters do by the community around them… and the only real reason that could drive that degree of egregious distraction is a mirror catastrophic breakdown around the characters of the social fabric of society/social contract.
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia in other words can be thought of as an end of the world play put on by cockroaches in the rubble to mock the behavior of the rich and powerful who drove the world into ruin by behaving exactly the way the hyperbolic theatrical characters the cockroaches act out behave. We all love this, but in order to love it without the cynicism we have to make the politics subconscious and move it back to serve as the stage set for clown-like characters that distract us with comedic spectacle that still conveys the message.
and I mean it is a job that gets blood on your hands, homie.
If they don’t want that baggage, they can deploy their golden parachute and go head another company/organization.
Stop carrying water for these people.
and I pine for the days where I didn’t see a clear and present danger of escalation towards nuclear war.
I was born after the fall of the soviet union, but even that period… I don’t know if the incentives so heavily lined up to use nuclear weapons as they do now for the top leadership of the US and Israeli governments according to their politics, ideologies and vulnerabilities.
Alarmingly I don’t think this will escalate past a tit for tat use of tactical nuclear weapons, the US and Israel on Iran and russia on Ukraine… or at least I don’t think the people in decision making positions believe it will… which paradoxically makes escalation far more likely.
We are in an opposite position to Mutually Assured Destruction/MAD, if the US and Israel nuke Iran it puts their enemies and vassal states back in line, and if russia nukes Ukraine, that also forces Ukraine back in line and increases russia’s leverage on the entire region. For the powerful, this is a potential way to indirectly establish a bargain to force their underclasses and vassal states back into more subservient positions, I am not saying this will happen, but the incentive structure is downright murderous in my opinion right now. What better way for empires to forestall multipolarity?
You can’t just pretend having some arbitrary connection to Kevin Bacon is the same as being all the way at the top of the power structure of one of the most powerful entities on earth that is actively seeking profit from an ongoing Genocide.
Hi, supersquirrel here, are you tired of people scamming you out of money with emails tantalizingly asking you to help start a realllllly profitable business in a foreign country?
Well, I have a solution for you! Pay me lots of money and I will tell you EXACTLY what you want to hear about those scammers/business opportunities!
Whoever has that job also very likely has blood on their hands from being involved in facilitating (or remaining silent about) the Palestinian Genocide with Microslop products like Azure and other computing services, so FUCK them, pile the misery on to them until they crumble into dust as a person for all I care.
Side note a cool indie open world rpg is Gedonia 2, it doesn’t have modding support at the moment like the first one though.
The Southern Poverty Lawcenter is a superb resource on this, it has articles not documentaries though.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/stories/