LeninOnAPrayer @ LeninOnAPrayer @lemm.ee

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Respect to Kyle. Dude started off in the Atheist channel days of YouTube and didn't fall down the gamer gate MRA pipeline like most of them did. That was such a right wing cash grab that so many channels grifted towards.

Then he continued with good left adjacent commentary on most issues and stayed true to his moral compass. Didn't fall for the right wing narratives that TYT and other similar channels had during post COVID. He stayed consistent and didn't grift to the right for a bigger audience.

I disagree with a bit of what he has said over the years. I disagree with him on a lot of "big picture" stuff. But absolute respect to his consistency. I'm pretty sure he's still entirely user funded still (no sponsors etc).

It's refreshing to have watched him on and off for a decade and hes been consistently on the correct side of issues. Its rare to see out of a political commentator.

Any member of ISIS is enabling the terrorism of ISIS whether they work at a desk job or perform direct violence.

This goes the same for the terrorist organization that is the US military.

The only difference between me and you is consistency. I call all members of these organizations terrorist. You seem to want to pretend like there is "nuance" for one and not the other.

Go ahead. Tell me about the nuance for people that join ISIS and support their cause.

Because we're not arguing nuance. You're just arguing that the US military isn't a terrorist organization. Which it is absolutely is. I'll have that conversation. But don't act like there is "nuance" here.

Also, there is a huge difference between "honoring" a dead soldier and "screaming at their funeral". I'm saying these soldiers do not deserve honor. What they did was not at all honorable.

There is no nuance for being a part of a terrorist organization like the US military.

I doubt you would have the same reasoning if it was an "innocent" member of ISIS. You just like to pretend there is nuance when there is not.

No one would exclude a "desk job" at ISIS. These people enable the structures of terrorism whether they are participating in violent acts directly or not.

Same goes for the desk jobs of the US military. There is no nuance in joining an organization who's entire purpose is to terrorize the third world.

I think you're confusing having consistent moral compass with somehow being "selfish"? Because I've literally said nothing about myself. Sounds like you're projecting.

Yeah. The leader of a military that terrorizes the third world SHOULD honor his troops. At least in terms of his own self interest. But that's clearly not what I'm talking about.

I'm talking about why YOU or I should care about it?

If anything it's good that he doesn't. Being in the US military is NOT honorable. And any movement in our culture and society to realize this is good.

You can be sad for the people that died being a part of the worlds largest terrorist organization. Sad they were fooled into it.

But if you keep honoring it. More people will join and die needlessly.

There is literally more honor in being an Uber Driver or a Sex Worker than there is in being in the US military. And maybe some of these kids that died needlessly would be doing food delivery or dancing on only fans if people like you and people in this thread started treating joining the military as what it is. One of the most disgusting and dishonorable things you can do.

So, feel pity for the kids that died. But if you want less of them to die do not honor them. There is no honor to be placed in dying for American empire.

This isn't Vietnam. No one was forced into being a mass murderer for American Imperialism. And even then you could be like Muhammad Ali and tell the government to go fuck themselves.

Drive Uber, be a prostitute, join a gang. Literally anything is more honorable than being a part of the worlds largest terrorist organization. And until people start treating it like that people will still continue to join because it's "honorable". Stop honoring it. Because it's significantly more honorable to be a sex worker (or nearly anything else) than it is to join the military. But for some reason our society has a problem with one and not the other.

You can feel sad for the soldiers tricked into dying to fight wars for rich people. But to act like that's "honorable" is a fucking joke.

I just have an actual moral compass instead of trying to find nuance for celebrating war criminals.

Not every Nazi was Hitler. But being upset that Hitler didn't respect his troops is fucking stupid. If thats even on your list of criticisms for Hitler than I think something is wrong with your perspective. And if you did you would be saying that Nazis deserve respect. They don't. And neither do American troops.

The only ones that deserve respect are the ones that desert and fight against the harms that they did.

No. I just give zero shits about the aesthetics of "military honor" in the US.

And any topic related to respecting the US military cannot be disconnected from the fact that it's the largest terrorist organization in the world.

It's like saying "oh damn, Putin wasn't respectful to his dead troops". Like, ok, I don't give a shit about Putin or the troops that kill innocent people.

Appreciate it

Yeah you can't mention US troops dying in a country we have no business being in and ignore Imperialism. That's my entire point dude.

Yeah let's criticize the aesthetics of Imperialism instead. Like, what?

So it would be ok to kill poor brown people as long as the dude doing it is respectful to the poverty draft terrorist that cary out the terrorism?

Sure dude. That problem is him going golfing and being disrespectful.

Trump blows off honoring dead terrorists to play golf? Unintentionally based.

Who are these articles for? This is Lemmy. Do we really have boomers here upset about him disrespecting "the troops"? Fuck the troops.

Edit: I guess the US "respect our terrorist troops" propaganda goes deep.

In short. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. And most politicians since then in the west. It has been a bipartisan policy of economics in the US since Reagan (and arguably started by Carter).

In long form. This video.

https://youtu.be/oWOH9iJhZXo

JDPON Don is my favorite term.

(JDPON) Joint-dictatorship of the proletariat of oppressed nations

Is in reference Maoist third worldist literature. And is a aimed at breaking the political and economic foundations of the economic parasitism between the First and Third Worlds

Basically Donald Trump is so incompetent that he's bringing about a united proletariat revolution of the third world against the first.

Which, given his isolationist policies that push third world countries to work with and develop with China that's essentially what is happening.

As long as China continues to allow for third world development (rather than just resource extraction) like the US has. It is a big step forward for third world independence along with the dismantling of USAID.

Edit: To be clear. I don't actually believe Trump is doing this on purpose. It's a joke around his incompetence around ruling an empire and essentially destroying it from within. In reality I think he's doing this to bring about instability and war. The war starting first with the war on the working class of the world with Tarrifs. Specifically to bring about nationalist movements in each nation.

People still seeing conflict in terms of nations states and not class conflict in 2025?

Dude is literally pushing class warfare through tarrifs paid by the working class and people are still like "this is a Russian plot"?

This is a global attack on the working class and they are hoping you fall for nationalism. Please dont fall for that bull shit narrative. This is capitalism trying to defend itself from its inevitable decline.

Trump isn't any more aligned with Russian oligarchs than his is are own. He's aligned with both of them because they all share the same class interest. Don't be fooled be nationalism and it's narratives.

These are the same narratives that Republicans fall for to "prepare for hard times" as they pass policy that destroys your material conditions.

Is this the first time he has actually denied being a Nazi? Because from what I remember he just said "the left calls everyone a Nazi" and then started making Nazi puns using the names of some of the most disgusting people in history.

Clickbait article. They literally write the prompt to ask for this exact definition.

You can't ask an AI prompt

"Hey, if I wanted to calculate a tarrif for every country the US trades with and base it on their bilateral trade deficit how would I do that?"

It's like asking for a general formula to solve Ax^2 + Bx + C = 0 and being surprised you get the quadratic formula.

You literally get the same formula using DeepSeek too. Useless clickbait.

The incompetence isn't calculating trade deficits. The incompetence is using this and calling it a "reciprocal tarrif"

17% and they're already crying about it.

Ironically it's the closest the US has gotten to a BDS policy in its history with Israel.

Sounds like an anxiety inducing app. And I thought sleep tracking was anxiety inducing. Imagine getting a notification that you might have ass cancer.

Yeah this is like the least concerning thing I've heard. No one gives a shit if some dude downloaded TV shows or pirated some games. That's like 80% of the engineers I work with.