yesman

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago

Crush patriarchy. That's the system that's failed these men after all. It wasn't progressive values that promised them women to dispose of. It wasn't feminism that promised them easy success and automatic status.

It's the promise of patriarchy that has "been stolen from us". And it's the restoration of patriarchy these men are clamoring for. Men want their privilege back and the Left can accommodate them for the low low price of jettisoning feminist values from the movement.

This is really the most Democrat bullshit ever. Left politics is getting more support than ever, but we're going to get obsessed with pleasing the groups that hate and oppose us instead of championing the issues of those who support us.

 
[–] yesman@lemmy.world 72 points 3 days ago (11 children)

In Johnny Cash's "Live from Folsom Prison" album there is a song called 'cocaine blues'. The first verse goes like this:

early one morning while making the rounds

I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down

I went right home and I went to bed

I stuck that loving forty-four beneath my head.

I keep this in my back pocket when conservatives claim that Rap and Hip Hop glorify violence, guns, misogyny, and drug use. I defy you to find something from NAS or Killer Mike that can compete on the level of classic country.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Palestinians have the right to defend themselves.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 54 points 3 days ago (17 children)

Thousands and thousands of people line up every day to wait in long, slow moving lines just to get to the barrier around the Mona Lisa to photograph it.

The Mona Lisa might be the most reproduced image in all of history. And the people who get the opportunity to see it in person can only think to photograph it one more time.

It's almost if that were the point. Taking a selfie with Lisa is the correct way to experience this art. If your camera broke, there is no reason to wait on line just to what, see the painting?

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Don't confuse patriotism with nationalism. Patriotism is love for one's homeland, nationalism is a delusion of blood and soil.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

I was tired of being a Darwinist. Now I follow the writings of Dickens; I'm a Dickhead.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

These people are not talking about the science biology, but the epistemic authority of biology and science because "God's will" doesn't play like it used to.

Their ideology demands that biology confirms their priors. Don't bother to check. If some egghead denies it then biology is being political, woke, and distorted.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Capitalists are so fucking innovative that they're trying to replace unpaid human labor with robots that are worse and cost money.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Your argument is more out of date than Vista. Windows is not the default because people like their software, or would choose it over anything else. It's because they've positioned themselves as the default monopoly since the goddamn 1980s.

To see what happens when Microsoft has to compete on quality of software, just ask yourself why Copilot and Recall aren't being rolled out on Windows phones.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 188 points 3 days ago (7 children)

If you think about it, almost all computer-technology is radio. Wifi, bluetooth, GPS, radar, and cellular are literally radio. Meanwhile everything else runs on transistor tech developed and refined... for radios.

Our modern economy couldn't exist if people like Hertz and Maxwell didn't get to toy with their useless hobbies. But we can't rely on the curiosity of the leisure class anymore. Basic research is expensive, necessary, and a public good. I'm afraid that the Trump regime has already spoiled the secret sauce that makes America the technology leader of the world.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

You conflate being Asian (a resident of a continent) with Slavic (a cultural group). So what is race? A coordinate, or a cuisine?

Race is so unreal that you can't even keep the lore straight in your own head.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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