You know, around the point you mistook me for a liberal, I realized something. Nowhere in this thread have you shown an once of concern or sympathy for Palestine. You have only tried to admonish others and pat yourself on the back. If I knew nothing else about your character, that would be enough.

Live well, maybe one day you’ll find the redemption you prescribe to others.

I too have been consistently against genocide, I have protested, I have called senators, I have donated time, money, medical supplies, and food.

I didn’t gamble and lose, I fought the best I can, and will continue to do so.

I hope you do more than “demand better”, because all your demands amount to is pissing down the backs of Palestinians and telling them it’s raining.

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No, I heard your gotcha. But the reality is standing to the side telling people “I told you so” is just sticking your head in the sand. You are enabling a worse genocide just for the sake of moral masturbation.

You might as well tell the people feeding the homeless they are “accepting homelessness” as well. Amounts to the same bullshit logic.

But when Trump enables a full scale genocide, you can pay yourself on the back and say “I had nothing to do with that”.

If your “gotcha” is you prefer the genocide to get worse to “teach people a lesson”, you need to do some introspection as well.

What do you do with the mad that you feel
When you feel so mad you could bite?
When the whole wide world seems oh, so wrong…
And nothing you do seems very right?
What do you do? Do you punch a bag?
Do you pound some clay or some dough?
Do you round up friends for a game of tag?
Or see how fast you go?
It’s great to be able to stop
When you’ve planned a thing that’s wrong,
And be able to do something else instead
And think this song:
I can stop when I want to
Can stop when I wish
I can stop, stop, stop any time.
And what a good feeling to feel like this
And know that the feeling is really mine.
Know that there’s something deep inside
That helps us become what we can.
For a girl can be someday a woman
And a boy can be someday a man.

lol, no kidding. Even watching it as a kid my first thought was, “the fate of Data’s rights can be determined in an impromptu court session with bridge crew acting as lawyers!? Shouldn’t they have… real courts for this?”. At the time I didn’t consider the limitations of the show of course, and I do think the willingness to tackle high concepts was what made the show so special. But damn did the limitations show in this one.

You are not taking crazy pills, its premise does suffer when watched with a “critical eye” (i.e. thinking about it even a little).

The reason it’s remembered so fondly (imho) is two fold. It is one of the first “thought provoking” episodes. And the first couple of seasons were… not the best to put it mildly.

edit: admittedly, I do enjoy it, but I really have to turn my brain off to do so.

The Communist Party USA – like the bulk of the broad democratic, labor, peace, and people’s movements in the country – has prioritized the defeat of MAGA fascism and Republicans’ Project 2025 agenda as the primary task of its participation in the 2024 election

I get the knee jerk reaction to think any and all third parties exist solely to be a spoiler for Dems and thusly get Trump elected. But I wonder if the people down voting this noticed that the Communist Party USA isn’t pushing a candidate, and is instead saying people should vote for Kamala to defeat fascism.

The article linked just talks about various progressive goals and how said Party hopes to achieve them.

Their website even has a recent article talking about how all a progressive candidate can do in this presidential election is break up the vote and usher in fascism under Trump. And how instead pushing for a united front is the way to go.

Caring about these bench marks is how you find one to last another 12 years.

Tim stop! I already voted for you, I can’t vote any harder!!!

Do Jet Grind Radio next and I’ll steal the election for you!

You think he ever gets tired of being right all the time?

sniff

They already do Hideo, they already do.

Lemmy user TachyonTele SLAMS news outlets for their unwanted hyperbole!!!

So we should start telling our family and friends good stories about being able to change your mind based on evidence and facts

For half a second there, I was like “yeah, so glad Lemmy is more rational than that site”.

Few comments later, folks be talking about “Ukranian Nazis”…

🎶He sees you when you’re sleeping🎶

🎶He knows when you’re on the can🎶

🎶He’ll hunt you down and blast your ass from here to Pakistan.🎶

🎶Oh you better not breathe 🎶

🎶You better not move🎶

🎶You better act dead🎶

🎶I’m telling you dude🎶

🎶Santa Claus is gunning you down! 🎶

I didn’t expect him to do anything. But does he expect anecdotal evidence provided without context to change my mind on horse armor? Come on man!

Outspoken Gamers™ are not a monolithic block either. That’s the funny thing about people.

Nesmith said he no longer remembers the exact sales figures for the add-on, but he remembers it being a lot. “It must have been in the millions, it had to be millions,” he said.

So… No accounting for how many of these sales came from bundles/GOTY editions, and we are just going off his memory of the sales numbers?

Great reporting, this really vindicated Horse Armor’s legacy…