Machinist @ Machinist @lemmy.world

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All I'm finding when I drill down is a pulp romance between a billionaire and his scientist ex:

Everything went as planned...until it didn't. In a world overrun by a zombie pandemic, a billionaire and his scientist ex race to find a cure before his bunker--and the anZidote--fall in the wrong hands. ...>

A broader search returns a ton of right wing/prepper stuff. Any chance you can find the title?

Of course I don't think your best friend's sister being blown up is funny. She would be a victim. Punch down, not up. Shame on you for trying to put that on me.

It was pretty clear that the joking was about American politics. Which is a joke and a punchline all-in-one.

If you want, you can tell me what country you're from and I can make fun of you and some guy that used matter like a politician. It probably won't be very funny.

Apache Pig from the image filename.

I thought about giving a line-by-line of phrases that twig me out, but I don't want to help you mask the language. I will say that using a phrase like, Western Complicity,™ is a huge tell that you are being fed garbage or have a handler.

The actual left of the US doesn't like the Democrats either. We just don't have any other choice. That's American left 101.

Also, very common among American and western left in general: all governments suck. Yours does, mine does. To hold power at the higher levels of government means that person is almost certainly corrupt. Also, people are people. If there's an Us and Them, it's Us the people against the small group hoarding power and wealth. Just like it's always been.

All major world powers have committed genocides as far as I know. America - start with the Indians, throw in AIDS and gay men, and there are a bunch more. England - India. French - pick an African country. Russia - Ukraine, more than once. China - Uyghr and Buddhists.

Here's a thought. All this genocide enabling you think you see in people like me. I moved my family halfway across the country after saving for years because I was afraid of what might be coming. The rhetoric is the same as pre-war Germany. I fear genocide much closer to home.

So, at the end of the day, the Palestinian genocide is a horror that words break down on. Like all genocides. Still, it's shocking that so many Jewish people support this after the Holocaust. Hope it doesn't happen here.

That's fucking awful, but I think you're accurate.

Tankies have got new matching orders. We're supposed to be very enraged and upset and afraid and respectful of Greta. They very much want us to be supporters of genocide as well if we don't display the proper sackcloth and ashes or participate in the 3 minutes hate.

Yes, it's a PR stunt. I do sympathize with Greta and the rest. They're trying but it's tilting at windmills.

Anyhow, yeah, stick me in a concentration camp with my family and some shiny people show up? I'm looking for any angle to save my family, including taking hostages and killing anyone I have to.

I'm assuming you downvoted me. I didn't downvote you. That's just as childish. 😘

I will rephrase: your terminology, lack of humor, and repeating the party line (like a parrot), point to you being pretty fanatical.

Fanaticism is never a good look. I really hate it when I see it on the left because we're supposed to better than that.

I've seen the same behaviours in evangelical Christians, the far right/MAGAts, scientologists, authoritarian supporters of China and Russia.

Spout propaganda and attack your own side in excess fervor: yup, I'm making assumptions.

Damn Lemmy be stupid prickly looking for fascists to hate under every bush and purity tests as far as the eye can see. Y'all are silly.

I was talking about the likely terminology the Israeli gov would use in reference to Greta and such.

How is that what you're talking about?

Well, I guess it has utility because we're talking about it. It's expensive but I don't really think there's much else that can be done other than state level actors putting a stop to it. Or like a reverse crusade where freeing Palestine from Israel is the goal, need a leader for that.

Detained suspect, Detained for National Security or equivalent is probably what goes on the paperwork. If they're held longer than reasonable repatriation takes, they would then become prisoners of some type.

Informally, prisoner is probably used the most, in spite of whatever is actually correct.

What do you think I'm gloating about?

I don't support genocide other than in that arbitrary way we all do by purchasing goods and services sourced from a global economy.

You seem to be seeing things very black and white when it comes to people. In this case, as regards to people that use .world.

You do realize that black and white thinking is probably the biggest factor that leads to genocide?

This is true for the people that actually perform the genocide and support it. I.E. powerful people manipulate media and propagandize everyday folks until they hate that other group of people and want them dead and then go out and kill their fellow man over that difference.

Like, I can draw a direct line between your behaviour and the behaviour of those on the far right. You're making an entire group "The Other.

We all know where that leads when we let the powerful program our thinking.

Straight up, what you're saying here makes you sound like either a troll or a propagandized true believer.

I'm not trying to be insulting but I am being blunt. You should really think about where you're getting your facts and opinions.

I'm straight up telling you that something you're consuming is lying to you and warping your perceptions of your fellow people.

Yes, yes. We've already moved past the Democrats sucking.

You think I'm gloating? You think .world is full of people that support what's happening in Palestine?

That's pretty far from reality as I'm experiencing it. You do seem to be trying to goad me, which is cute.

So, do you really believe that .world is like full of a bunch of fascists or pro-genocide types or whatever?

Well yeah. Pretty much everybody agrees that Biden didn't help, allowed the weapon supply to continue. Trump is worse. Kamala would have been better but not good. I don't think any of this is particulary controversial. The election wasn't really about the Democrats being better, they just suck less.

.world is pretty unanimous on opposing genocide. How do you define "shouting abuse at people who opposed genocide."

Huh? How do you figure that?

Do y'all reckon the Israeli Navy is actually going to kill Greta?

My guess is that somebody will choke first in this game of chicken. Hopefully it's the Israeli military.

You sound like one of them Lake Wobegone types. We don't cotton to that around here, too uplifting.