They want to criticize the mascot and, what, replace it with some kinda glyphic anus logo like all the “professional” companies with stupid silicon valley-approved names? LOL what high-ground amirite? 😂

Wise one say: Why use many word when good strike do trick? :p

I cannot believe there’s a large enough group of people to give another Bolsonaro a chance. It’s mind boggling.

<thinking. . .>

“Oops! You’re absolutely right to call me out on that one… Finland does seem to have laws like any other sovereign nation. My mistake!”

“Fascists (like me) don’t care about your feelings!”

The first time someone used the phrase “horny jail” unironically and wasn’t slapped into the following week

Maybe I’m incorrect but I always thought this came about because people went so ridiculously in the other direction where their dopamine-receptors were completely captured by pornhub, that it was a polite way to bop them on the nose for being a gross gooner in completely non-sexual contexts.

Like anything amusing on the Internet though, it simultaneously started to mean everything and nothing at all, I guess. Lol

Yo Cowbee 👋. I was speaking more generally, if I’m being honest referencing a funny meme I remembered that went like

“My cat after a nap | Greek Philosophy”

“Oo biiiiiig stretch” 😂

I’ll fully admit right away you’re more studied on all things communist-theory than I, but if you want my opinion, I think the always-controversial “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” phase was a reach that seemed to say “This is a really difficult problem and idk it’s the best I’ve got right now. Ship it!”

I understand he was being somewhat poetic with his word usage, but even then I think he had to have understood not only how easily that could be misinterpreted, but also how much the mechanics of it relies on perfect variables, like a grand unified revolutionary worker class that are all aligned for the common good.

I mean hey, I’m a Christian Anarchist personally. Will I get to see that society where everyone loves thy neighbor and mutually cooperates in love? Probably not in this mortal lifetime, but I think it’s a great goal to strive for. So I’m no stranger to lofty ideals! Haha.

But as we’ve seen, revolutions are messy, and Marx’s words often got heavily twisted to justify a new ruling party that says “Now WE get to wear the boot!” Who have no interest in a fair society once they get to live in the palace and make the rules.

From a purely poly-sci perspective, I think this is where the USA’s founders were brilliant, in setting up 3 branches of government chosen by and consisting of The People, whose job it was to look over the others and say “HEY, that’s not what we’re doing here. No king stuff. Cut it out.”

…of course, that quickly went to crap when the 2 party system happened. But at its core, I still think it was a good idea. (Minus the “people” being landowners only thing.)

But I don’t entirely blame Marx over it: It seems humanity will always have a percentage of shamelessly sociopathic grifters who crave control, and large groups of distractable followers who just want to be told what to think to avoid responsibility for thinking for themselves.

This is a HARD problem to solve.

When the first gets overwhelming access to sway the second, even the best devised political systems will come under immense strain. (Modern example: Facebook)

So I guess I just saw it as a bit of a stretch that he assumed the Proles would majority unite in each others’ favor to suppress the tyranny of the ruling class, as exciting as it would be. I’m sure even back then, the working class has a bit of an infighting problem.

Sorry I could usually be a LOT better with words, but, as a working class myself without ownership of land nor meaningful means of production. . . I’m kept quite busy. 😂 Thanks for hearing me out in any case!

I’ve used that exact same Saltzpyre quote on Lemmy a few times too! NICE!

Even though he’s a bit of a puritanical parody, that quote hits profoundly hard. Hi five. :)

I feel it’s like reading many philosophical works.

You’ll read some bits and go “Wow that’s a profound observation!”

And then turn the page and be like “Lol that’s a biiiiig stretch, my dude. You couldn’t have been serious.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it”

— Aristotle

Right? Thanks for massive Linux and renewable energy adoption , moron hahahaha.

I’ll take a faint glimmer of silver lining there.

This seems to be the ideal archetype for a Republican “leader.” Always some doofus who listens to the shadow government’s every whim and claims it was his own idea the whole time.

But in the past, there was this facade of respectability, rather than just being an overgrown schoolyard bully who dropped out in 2nd grade.

We desperately need the US Empire to fall.

I dunno, like I see where this is coming from, and partially even would agree, but the power vacuum would also be disastrous.

…and personally I’d just like to know what the hell to do about it in the grand scheme of things, so me and the rest of my peasant family and the rest of us aren’t stuck suffering and holding the entire bill on account of a handful of monsters bent on ruining the world.

A reminder to study how people pushed through the collapse of their homelands in the past…

Edit: lmao at the downvote like “you aren’t people, USAmerican, get fked 🖕” LOL

I hate it but you’re right. No two ways about it.

I think the only thing that could POSSIBLY put us on a positive path again would be if we were to wrest control back to the People again, and quite publicly show the world we’re locking away all these nazis forever on some forgotten rock in the middle of the Pacific, and throwing away the key.

But yeah, something like that would be truly incredible and unexpected…

A guy I knew said there was a guy he knew in the service who got the name “Stitch.”

Oh cool, like, a medic or something?

Nah, he slipped and banged his dome on a bathroom sink so bad he needed stitches. 😂

MAGA…USSR…

Incompetent Party Oligarchs in palaces and bread/gas-lines for everyone else 🤝

I love(/s) how mask-off Fox is now. "Former KGB double-agent lineage put into high places of government when people still remember the Red Scare? Fiiiiine! Look he’s so rich 🇺🇸🗽🦅🏈pAtRiOtIc. . .

. . .REMEMBER WHEN OBAMA WORE A TAN SUIT THO AND MAMDANI HANDED SOMEONE A PEN?! THE OUTRAGE!! Shariah law! Immigrants! Reeee!!" [mouth foaming intensifies]

It feels like 50’s-80’s Republicans, still-evil as they were, would eat these bitches alive. LOL

As much as they screech about slippery slopes, it seems conservatism is the ultimate one. What vague notion of principles they might have had, erodes astonishingly quickly as soon as money and vulnerable children are dangled in front of them.

An opposition that lacks any kind of consistency doesn’t deserve even the slightest respect.

Geeze, TIL.

I really hate that every cent we spend that doesn’t go to like, struggling indie artists we enjoy, goes straight into the pockets of people actively obsessed with making our existence miserable.

Right? This is more like classic Nestlé behavior.

as an example Swollen Testicles here is the heir to Lesser Evil snacks

Well that’s irritating. Some of their popcorn is delicious.

I should have trusted my logic that a company called “Lesser Evil” is still admitting it’s evil, its main selling point being “Our competition is more-er evil” …

…presupposing that “Not evil” simply isn’t an option in our socioeconomic system. Because of course.

Experts say that data poses a greater risk in the hands of Chinese EV makers because they can be compelled by the country’s national security laws to co-operate with authorities.

[Laughs nervously in Patriot Act]

How about these things just collect NO personal data? Maybe vague anonymous telemetrics about collective vehicle stats or something at the very most.

There needs to be a blanket ban and strict auditing on this mass hoovering of peoples’ personal lives by states and corporations.