Thief_of_Crows

joined 9 months ago
[–] Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Anything that suggests you believe the current state of the world is acceptable outs you as a lib. Saying things like "Yeah Biden's got some problems, but at least he didn't do a few of the things trump did." If you believe that things would have been fine were it not for trump, you're a lib. Or a moron, I cant always tell the difference.

Heres a great summary of liberalism: "If we put forward good policies into the politics machine, then other people will too, and because I have absolute faith in the system established by a bunch of slave owners, whatever comes out MUST be just and good." Which of course implies that if the result you want or need DOESNT come out of the politics machine, it is right and just that you should not get it.

Like, they fundamentally don't realize that the politics machine is capable of breaking, and that it has been broken for a LONG time (basically the moment it was asked to value the needs of someone who wasn't wealthy, white, and male.)

[–] Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml 16 points 7 months ago

"I'm sorry sir, I thought this PS4 was bananas".

[–] Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago

Gazas children aren't even allowed visas for life saving medical care in israeli hospitals, which is only necessary due to Israel bombing almost all Gaza hospitals.

[–] Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

How many people celebrate Christmas, comparatively?

[–] Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why would we want China to curb their green energy exports? Isn't that literally the whole point of trying to fight climate change, finding ways to use more green energy?

[–] Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

What kind of fucked up parents stay in the room for that?

[–] Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

It's like a cone of shame but for when you have Aural sex and get hearing AIDS

[–] Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh, of course, that sure is a meaningful difference. My mistake though, please re-read my comment but replace the word bot with troll.

[–] Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The best way to tell that someone thinks you're actually right is when they break out the "everybody else is a bot" argument. It's massively cringe at this point, cause you're intentionally believing something absurd rather than face valid criticism.

[–] Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago

True, Putin could be plotting global domination as we speak. Hell, he might be planning domination of the entire galaxy as we speak! But we have zero reason to believe he wants to do so, even if he were capable of it, which he's not. Y'know, I bet his incapability of it has a lot to do with why he doesn't want to try.

[–] Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago

What, ending a war? Actually trump would do that. He did it in Afghanistan.

[–] Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago

It's not the same situation. Obviously. Russia wants one small region that they lost custody of in their divorce. Germany wanted all of Poland, Belgium, and Netherlands. And it's certainly not as if the reason WW2 happened was that Poland surrendered eventually. The sum total of similarities between the two scenarios is: both countries tried to take land.

It's actually a better argument to say that taking Poland and Belgium by force allowed Germany to accelerate their war machine dramatically compared to their future opponents, and had they been surrendered to, might not have been able to pull off the massively complicated military feats that were 100% required to be done in the first few months of the war if they wanted to even have a chance to win it.

If you're trying to stop a steamroller, your best possible course of action is to not let it get started. And there is no steam roller required vs a surrender.

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