Ferrous

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[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml -4 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Like Dearborn? Where Arab Americans had been sounding alarm bells for months about how democrats were losing them? How they were upset about their brothers and sisters being blown the fuck up in Palestine and Lebanon? How leftists were vehemently warning for months that Kamala's callous take on the middle east "Im speaking now 🤫", could cost her the election?

Your comment is just thinly-veiled racism. Next time, just say you blame american fascism on american Muslims.

And now that you are reaping, you're lashing out. In textbook liberal fashion, you're scapegoating minorities as fascism starts to come knocking.

If you can honestly look at the complete ineptitude of the democrat establishment and Kamala's race, and still blame minorities, then I feel like I know which side you're going to take when shit really starts getting volatile here.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

You seem like the type who'd start dropping N bombs if you saw a person of color driving a car you deemed too loud.

Or maybe getting ableist as fuck if you saw a wheelchair-bound person rolling coal.

Sure, these are shitty things to do, but body shaming is the weapon of the enemy.

Seeing deplorable behavior doesn't give you a free pass to body shame, be racist, ableist, or misogynistic.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 113 points 5 days ago (20 children)

Good meme, but we really ought to end small-penis hatred.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 days ago

Liberals will see no problem choosing polite, handwringing genocide over rowdy, bombastic genocide. They fall so easily for style points and optics completely devoid of substance.

20 years from now, when the only choices are between a dem who wants 20 genocide and a republican who wants 21, liberals will still be frothing at the mouths, blaming anti-genocide leftists for the country's devoluton into fascism. This is the logical conclusion of liberal "pragmatic utilitarianism"

In biology, one learns about a certain species of caterpillar that can only cross the threshold of metamorphosis by seeing its future butterfly. Proletarian subjectivity does not evolve by incremental steps but requires nonlinear leaps, especially by way of moral self-recognition through solidarity with the struggle of a distant people. Even when this contradicts short-term self-interest, as in the famous cases of Lancashire cotton workers’ enthusiasm for Lincoln and later for Gandhi, such efforts not only anticipate a world beyond capitalism, they concretely advance the working class’s march toward it.

Socialism, in other words, requires nonutilitarian actors, whose ultimate motivations and values arise from structures of feeling that others would deem spiritual. Marx rightly scourged romantic humanism in the abstract, but his personal pantheon — Prometheus and Spartacus, Homer, Cervantes, and Shakespeare — affirmed a heroic vision of human possibility. But can that possibility be realized in today’s world, a world where the “old working class” has been demoted in agency?

-Mike Davis

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I always thought Venice looked like a handshake.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To me, this just means there's no evil great enough that our politicians could commit that would make you start questioning the validity of our government and electoral process. This is the liberal idealism that leftists talk about.

Is this accurate? Is there any evil great enough that would compel you to start considering tearing it all down?

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Let's say in 10 years, the choice is between a dem who wants 20 genocides and a republican who wants 21: will you still be a militant democrat?

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

I suppose for people in the office, it means everyone else has fucked off and the week is basically a wash.

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Food fight (en.wikipedia.org)
[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

This game was sort of before my time. Got to experience 2 on a beefy gaming PC, so I'm hyped for the zombie mode.

As I was playing 2, I was constantly thinking to myself: "this would be a prime game to mod some zombies into". Was surprised to hear they'd already done it in 1.

Hopefully they ported it well.

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