[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 48 points 7 months ago

I think lemmy having libs is beneficial to us, because they are systemically in an uphill position in an instance mainly moderated by communists. The real engine of bad takes are from the "mutuals" we have with lemmy like .world and co. I think strategically the best option is to go after instances that aren't federated with us rather than those that are. I don't think there's any benefit to letting red scare instances fester, and r/cth demonstrated how easy it is to cow rightists.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 49 points 7 months ago

Along with it's deep flaws, Liberalism is also associated with things like the abolition of slavery . . .

Liberalism is also associated with the invention and virtually entire existence of chattel slavery along with the exporting of the criminalization of queer people to cultures that did not feature such things.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 47 points 9 months ago

The problem isn't the book inherently, but the inevitable reception when put in the hands of pedophilic cultures like those of the anglosphere. Nabakov was adamant, for example, that the cover should not depict Lolita (the character) in any literal sense (or any person, iirc), for obvious and correct reasons. You can look up what cover art has nonetheless been used if you are feeling masochistic.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 47 points 9 months ago

It's unimportant, but this idiot doesn't know how to write headlines. As-written, it suggests that the evidence for the story was provided by a North Korean Leader about a person that leader referred to as 'Kim Jong Un,' despite the fact that it is surely not trying to claim the former or cast doubt on the name of the latter.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

Imagine using the Holocaust this fucking cynically.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

"After Hamas Offensive" fucking Zionist rag, even after Israel literally blew up their fucking offices in Palestine

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

Comparing China negatively to the USSR makes sense, but comparing it negatively to the UK shows how people on this board are still very capable of being birdbrained and taken by a single, specific data set without considering the broader context. While the UK is making strides in austerity, China is continuously building [back] up from the gutting by Deng and making advancements in socialization. Show me where in the UK they build entire modern apartment complexes for dirt-poor villages living in rustic conditions and turn them over for free. How many hospitals do they erect, how many miles of new rail do they lay to provide infrastructural support?

Of course the UK, being so small and having spent so long as the industrial center of the planet (though those days are long past) already has some of this infrastructure rather than needing to build it . . .

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

I've spoken with that user before and they're a piece of shit, but you can do as you please

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

Most of those conservatives are Democrats, as the OP also states

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago

The southwestern quadrant still includes a bit of mainland China and is mostly outside of the Strait, not to mention that all of the Strait is still in the ADIZ.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

Did you know that the "nickname" derived from a myth of the character being banned in China when it is not?

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

I don't share your optimism but I appreciate it! heart-sickle

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