FaeDrifter @ FaeDrifter @midwest.social

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Interesting, so do you support the oppression of women in the US, or are you against the oppression of women?

Sure, but who is the "oppressor" and who is the "oppressed" can flip on a dime based on context.

A lot of oppressed people eventually find themselves to be the oppressor.

If you take a hard stance joining any side, you are at some point siding with an oppressor.

I don't need to describe how horrific and oppressive Nazi Germany and the Holocaust was. But you take a hard stance siding with the Jewish people, you are siding with the oppressor in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

I don't need to describe how horrific the situation in Gaza is, but if you take a hard stance siding with Palestine and Hamas executes a bunch of festival goers, you're siding with the oppressor.

The only way to be anti-opression (and according to you, a real progressive), is to not take sides but take every situation as it is and support the best possible outcome for everyone.

No journalists on the ground found any indication of a mass casualty event on Tiananmen Square

ON Tiananmen Square. This is fascist-level wordplay. The same journalists found a massacre all around Tiananmen Square in the rest of Beijing.

no evidence that Chinese tanks actually killed anyone on 6/4

This is just a straight up lie. Lots of people were killed in Beijing. Just possibly not any within the tiny physical confines of Tiananmen Square itself.

supporters of Israel and the US are both "tankies." Glad we agree, good talk!

Based af, the tankies who support Chinese and Russian imperialism are equivalent to the tankies who support US and Israeli imperialism.

Being trans is not a mental illness but let's not encourage stigma around mental illness either.

Cis people with mental illness are valid

Trans people with mental illness are valid

Mentally healthy trans people are valid

Mentally healthy cis people are valid

Collective ownership of communism gonna start looking a lot less scary to everyone when they own nothing anyway.

Scalping works great for those lower ticket items with tiny profit margins and high demand. Idk if it's something cybertruck needs to worry about being none of those things.

Won't ever happen, Apple is a hardware and device company that also makes software to go with it; Valve is a software company that also makes hardware to go with it.

And to go arm would mean throwing out the majority of their current store. Plus arm gaming performance is trash, apples chips struggle to run games 10 years old at 1080p 60fps.

That sounds like more effort than just going to the fucking store.

Or better yet a thrift store. There is for a massive surplus of clothes and even Goodwill's have brand new brand name clothes for a few bucks, all over the place.

Or a pastor so the church can relocate them to a fresh batch of victims.

If a bar is consistently serving alcohol to minors, it deserves consequences.

What do you think this graph that you're linking to represents?

I'll give you a hint: "real personal income" is not what I was talking about, which was "average income of a single person and not a household".

First of all, that graph you showed is not average persons income like you claim. Your graph is average household income, and the average number of persons working per household is increasing, and the average number of jobs per person is increasing. So yes, where a household might have had one income previously, it may now have two income earners working two jobs each. I don't know who needs to hear this, but four jobs bringing in more income than one job is not a flex.

Second, inflation is a poor metric, because necessities like rent far outpace inflation.

What is my line of reasoning? Wealth inequality is straight up increasing. The rich are getting richer. The poor are getting poorer. Do you think it's the rich who have engineered this, the rich, or the poor? I'll let you decide.

If the 3 biggest OS were all FOSS, I would agree.

Right now, Linux is the ONLY major OS that respects user freedom and privacy. Full stop.

The community around Linux isn't there because user preference; the real reason it exists and so many people are passionate about it is because FOSS software is the difference between a future that looks like Star Trek, and one that looks like Cyberpunk 2077.

Ooff, that's a bummer it doesn't come with VRR. Linux has no issue supporting it with amd cards in general so I assume it's the screen.

Working people are getting poorer, wealthy people are getting richer.

Giving people jobs is just a way to suck up more money from the economy.

It's very fascinating that someone can grow up in abject poverty, gain a tremendous amount of power over their lifetime, and decide to make it their life's work to push down as many other people into abject poverty as possible.

That's true but that reflects more on how bloated and inefficient the tech sector is. And now the other shoe is dropping with mass layoffs.

You're basically just criticizing capitalism for being stupid and inefficient, and I 100% agree with you.

Are you being honest with your second job that you're only going to do your job during the stretches of job #1 that require long compile times?

It's like dating two people but pretending to be monogamous with each. It might work for a bit but at some point you will need to choose one over the other.