Last night I had the strangest dream I’ve never dreamed before,

I dreamed the world had all agreed to put an end to vore

Don’t click whatever this is. This user is spamming gore across multiple instances

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insulting at best.

If nothing else, I’m glad you feel insulted

No you don’t understand, Adrian Zenz has that thing that Jim Carrey had in Liar Liar where he can’t lie! That’s why we have to believe his assertions over all apparent evidence

Do you understand the difference between an unused housing unit and an in-use one?

So in the moral system you’re proposing, it would be an offense to use those buildings without their owner’s permission. The fact that people denied access to those buildings will die as a result, though, is just a part of nature

So, why would you expect a perspective which values property more than people to stir anyone’s moral feeling? If you don’t expect that, then why are you bothering to frame it in terms of right and wrong?

Just to compare, what’s your moral read on all the people we deny housing to, who regularly die of exposure while empty housing units outnumber them?

Damn, zionists are really stuck on trying to prove Roger Waters is antisemitic. When you have to make a whole documentary to portray someone as antisemitic, you know they must be a big ol antisemite

Hah, yeah that’s my goal too. I spent about a decade trying to get through to people in my life on a basis of common ground. Never saw a single bit of improvement, although that’s possibly influenced by an overwhelmingly reactionary local culture

Eventually I started taking an antidepressant, and suddenly I couldn’t tolerate their shit anymore without a huge amount of effort. Now they don’t listen to what I shout any more than they used to listen to what I said, but they’re more careful to avoid getting my attention with their bigotry. Meanwhile, I’ve seen a couple of apparent ‘apoliticals’ who seemed to find something satisfying in righteous anger.

They’ll probably quiet their minds and log back into /r/RickyMorty or whatever, but who knows, maybe someone’s interest will be piqued by hearing a regular person actually give a shit

You could always try my technique: talk over them about how you could not possibly give less of a fuck about property damage and whatabout the subject to something actually important

It is not well-received, but in a sometimes-useful way

moe/loli

Wait, sorry, did you just list “drawings of adults with big boobs” with “sexualized drawings of children” as though they were basically the same thing?

Depleted for use in fission. It’s still radioactive.

The threat it poses to the human body is a combination of heavy metal toxicity involving DU accumulating in tissues, and constant exposure to radiation in any tissues where DU has accumulated.

Pretty much anti-interventionism. Personally I like to educate the people around me on the ways that the US has been explicitly evil from its inception, and to use context to derail hatefests against our targets, but I don’t think either of those really qualifies as meaningful support.

On a personal level, what I mean by support is mainly internal. It affects how we approach certain issues - especially calls for intervention - but it isn’t a form of aid. The issue of support is much more material between nations, but for us to have any personal say in that we’d have to gain control

I think one major aspect is that even if their leadership was 100% cynically lying about their intention to build socialism in China, they’ve still been a tremendously less evil superpower than any of their peers.

Here in the US, we started with white supremacist genocides and have continued that tradition up to the present. Domestically we run a perpetual military counterinsurgency campaign against our population, and internationally we drop countless bombs on countries we “aren’t” at war with while we coup their elected leaders and train torturers and death squads for our puppet regimes. Western international “development” programs have been nakedly exploitative and repressive, while Chinese international development programs have instead been mutually beneficial

All of this happens in public view, and the worst allegations anyone can make up against China always both pale in comparison to what the US admits to doing and get retracted after a few months of our Reputable Journalistic Institutions lying about them

The AE in AES can work a couple of different ways. If the question is, “What would allow rigidly defined Socialism to exist,” then the answer is usually confined to history or speculation. If the question is, “Which extant states best represent an effort to dismantle capitalism,” then I’d generally say it’s the usual ones that identify as Socialist - China being the only superpower among them.

If we broaden the question out past AES to, “Which political efforts deserve support,” then virtually any enemy of NATO can qualify. Sure, a multipolar capitalist order won’t guarantee the end of capitalism, but destroying western hegemony is absolutely a prerequisite for it and pessimism on that front is needlesly tiring

Beautiful self-own. Thank you for being an exceptionally good heel in our internet wrestling league