LukeZaz

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They'll get better at managing bugs. What we'll have to watch out for is other shit.

In particular, I'm not keen on the main menu ad for the DLC they slapped on, which stays even if you own the DLC.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I really don't think these are the same group of people. From the article:

The strike was ignored in some areas, reflecting deep political divisions in Israel after nearly 11 months of fighting.

Those are the people you're thinking of, and they aren't striking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Organization (protests, unions, joining a local political movement), education (yourself or others), pressuring candidates (call your reps, protests), mutual aid & voter enfranchisement (food banks, clothing donations, volunteering at polling stations, any effort to protect the homeless). All of these are options, and this is just what I can think of off the top of my head. If you'd like, here's a page with a gallery of 346 nonviolent protest tactics.

Much of America has become trained to think only in terms of a vote – a vote in a system that was deliberately unequal from its founding through to today – to the exclusion of all other action. To say this is suffocating to any effort to enact change is an understatement; it is self-defeating in the extreme, serves only to perpetuate the status quo or worse, and yet time and time again I see so many people who have spent next to no time thinking outside these terms.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Monopolies depend on the government to exist.

I very much disagree but respect a desire to not get into a debate, so I'll leave it there.

I really don’t know what that means

"Your freedom ends at my face" is a saying used often here to contend with right-wing group's insistence on "freedom," often the kind that involves harming others; e.g. free speech absolutism and the "freedom" to spout neo-Nazi rhetoric that advocates for the murder of minorities, or the "freedom" to not get vaccinated and thus worsen a pandemic. A more full version might be "Your freedom to throw a punch ends where my face begins." The idea is that it is fair to restrict a freedom if it supports the freedom of others — you might not trust governments to determine where those lines lie, and that's fair, but that's a separate issue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Absolutely none of what you just said justifies Israel willfully bombing hostages.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I don't know if libertarianism courts a different audience in Brazil, but in the U.S. it has a very rabidly right-wing audience who effectively want to tear down as much government as possible, and who view "your freedom ends at my face" as an insult. It's the ideology of an extraordinarily unregulated market – a true "free market" – which is a monopolistic and wildly unethical disaster waiting to happen.

Anarcho-capitalism, which your username references, is all of that, only more. So you might understand why effectively everyone here is going to treat that with extreme suspicion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It is, but DdCno1's been taking a pro-Israel stance into a very, very pro-Palestine site. I really don't know what else they'd expect besides pushback, honestly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Why do you think voting is your only option?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It goes to show how I can say something so patently and obviously untrue and sarcastic and yet it still doesn't register as such. America has developed such a hyper-focus on voting to the exclusion of all other possibilities that it's basically learned helplessness at this point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (5 children)

So you believe that erstwhile hostage rescuers have no responsibility to actually keep the hostages alive, then? Because you're writing apologia for that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

a ruthless movement that would rather sacrifice every single Palestinian man, woman and child than surrender

You know, I've no love for Hamas whatsoever, but I can't help but notice you consider "willingness to sacrifice civilians" to be somehow worse than, say, "actually, literally sacrificing civilians right now." That's not a very good look.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

with the ICC waiting with handcuffs behind the banner

This implies other countries wouldn't sooner dismantle the ICC than let it actually do its job, which sadly seems to not be the case.

^(edit:^ ^typo)^

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