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North Korea accused of underhanded plot to provide services in exchange for payment
CarbonScored
joined 2 years ago
Berry picking is no joke one of my favourite things to do ever. I work in tech but I've always said my calling was in berry picking.
I picked some wild garlic this year and loved it, we got raspberries growing up here, european blueberries will fruit soon, and I'm gon' go get rowanberries again too. I want to know more things to pick, foraging rules.
I always make sure a good amount is left for birds, animals and even the bugs I GUESS. But even then most of it seems to rot on the plant, sadly.
Imagine facepalming because someone said that genocidal mass-murderers should be stopped. The adults are in the room.
Given that population growth has been declining in China for 4-5 decades, it seems obvious that the party membership growth would slow too.
"the killer .. he's a closeted gay himself. They're the only people who hate other gays that much. Regular straight people don't care."
I don't know why you're denying saying that, when this quote is screenshot'd just up above. Did you intend something else with these words? Because this is quite literally you saying "that".
Hilarious that this guy just posted a thread accusing us of being an echo chamber without having to critically think. While literally parroting this propaganda without having the slightest clue, in the most echo-chambery way possible.
I am not homophobic because I call out bad gay people for their poor behavior.
No, you're homophobic by stating that all homophobia (or at minimum, all homophobic murder) comes from gay people, while 'regular' straight people "just don't care".
To be honest it's amazing you're not already banned 
But you've time to yet admit that was maybe an absolutely dogshit awful thing to say.
If you can't work, have you considered just owning peoples' houses and extorting them? On the side you can be a 'director' who gets paid ludicrously because you're also an unelected lawmaker and your directorship is literally just a legal bribery/embezzlement measure.
I don't know why disabled people just don't think of doing this???
Amazing that these people still feel entitled to roll out what is effectively the 'bootstraps' rhetoric on repeat.
I think 'critical' support means exactly that. Where you can support anti-imperialism as actions in themselves, go for it. But that doesn't extend to supporting the government in all things they do, and weakening it will often be the correct move. Communist parties should be organising and building support, much like anywhere, really.
If a 'real' Russian leftist party found themselves the opportunity to destabilise the Russian government, that's not inherently a positive thing (like it would be in the USA). But if they had even some meaningful chance of consequently getting in power - Then they should do it.
Oppositional capitalist states is slightly preferable to a single hegemonic power, but is so far from the ideal that it's nothing more than a practical stop-gap, and all practical chances at revolution should be chased.
Leftists cannot afford to cower just because their government might be an extremely limited ally against the US.
It's a good strategy so you can say "See?? Leftism isn't electable! We need to go further right!!"
This is always the go-to excuse to refuse support for any actually progressive candidates. "Oh sure he's super popular to unprecedented levels, but we can't support them because they're just not helping our electability y'know?". Same shit every fucking time.
I don't know how meaningful the question really is, and fuck YouGov, but still thought the data were interesting and vaguely positive.
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Frogshallah lives on as my headcanon
An absolute many are neo-fascist libs, but some, I assume, are good people. 
https://lemmy.world/post/18545268
I thought it was nice to see a couple good takes out in the wild for a change (an anti-dunk tank?). Not all of the comments are perfect, but many are fighting the libs on the posting lines. 
@Rookwood
The reason capitalism leads to fascism is that inevitably capitalism will lead to untenable inequality. Injustice will be too great to ignore between the rich and the rest. This will lead to populism.
There are two forms of populism. One will seek to rectify the imbalances caused by capitalism. The other will seek to divert blame to minorities. If there were less . then our society would not be in decay. One is much more useful to the Capitalist and so it will ultimately prevail. The capitalist will devote all resources to crushing the leftist populism up to and including directly funding fascism.
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Dharma Curious
Some of the comments in this thread really tell you why it takes a novel laureate to say this. Some of y’all do not have a basic understanding of history, economic systems, or what the term reactionary actually means.
The correct response to “neo liberal capitalism has contributed to the rise of fascism” should be “no shit, Sherlock”
It’s truly sad that that isn’t 100% of the comments here.
Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleed, y’all. That doesn’t mean all liberals are fascist, that means that fascism is an outgrowth of liberalism.
And just in case y’all also don’t know what that means, “liberalism” in that context isn’t “Obama liberal, Bush conservative,” it means the political ideology of liberalism, of which both Bush and Obama were proponents of.
ETA: I’m not engaging anymore… it’s not my job to teach y’all the difference between an economic system and authoritarian states. Also, your magic has no power here, I am an anarchist, not a stalinist. Please educate yourselves. If for no other reason, do it to make it easier to pwn the tankies or whatever the fuck
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i hate it when I hear people making the claim that it is capitalism that has helped so many people in the world with better quality of life and more opportunities and better outcomes, etc.
Capitalism is a fucking disease that we need to rid ourselves of, it is worse than Ebola the way it infects our minds with the dumbest shit.
You know what has made lives better for billions of people? The washing machine and the cotton gin and fucking electricity.
Capitalism has fought against progress every step of the way.
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@njm1314
Well of course it has, fascism is the end result of capitalism. Some would say it’s natural conclusion.
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BlackLaZoR
fascism is the end result of capitalism
I wonder what sort of echo chamber you must live in, in order to believe this
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This is just a short, easy-to-read paper I keep in my bookmarks and go back to occasionally. It explores, qualitatively, the various outcomes that contact with alien intelligence might have. I think it's a really cool 25-page exploration of possibilities that are fun to think about. Some choice quotes:
ETI (extraterrestrial intelligence) might attack us not out of selfishness but instead out of a universalist desire to make the galaxy a better place.
perhaps ETI make contact with Earth to welcome us into the Galactic Club but only after we complete a set of required bureaucratic tasks
They may be interested in incorporating us into their civilization so they can sell us their products, keep us as pets, or have us mine raw materials for them.
if ETI place intrinsic value on lives, then perhaps they could bring about more lives by destroying us and using our resources more efficiently for other lives
My favourite section is the "unintentional harm" outcomes, which suggests the possibility that they just might squish us by accident.
One non-biological physical hazard that we could face from direct contact with ETI is unintentional mechanical harm. For example, ETI might accidentally crush us while attempting an unrelated maneuver.
Can't for the life of me find where I first heard of this, but I just wanted to share it for being fun and fairly silly yet still officially worked on by NASA.
Because it's bad. It's a bad place with honestly bad posts.
That's all.
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Nah I obviously don't care, r/greenandpleasant are alright. I just thought it was funny to see my own words out there.
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"Healthcare lines" as people in the UK horde to opening day at a new NHS dentist for the scant few places available
(hexbear.net)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/05/queue-new-nhs-dental-practice-bristol-st-pauls
"99% of dentists across the south-west aren’t accepting any new adult patients."
Getting anything but emergency healthcare in the UK is nigh impossible for much of the country now, I've been on the waiting lists of all my local dentists for over 18 months.
This'll get spread around as heavily as that misleading bread line photo from the USSR, right?
You mean mass, indiscriminate air strikes aren't a good way to save hostages and actually just result in dead people???
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Wowie, we have a whole category of ships designed to enable destruction of life on Earth