VikingHippie @ VikingHippie @lemmy.wtf

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This one literally had me cackling out loud and I don't even cackle!

I chortle, guffaw, chuckle, sometimes snicker and on rare occasions even bellow with laughter. Never cackled until now, though! 😂

Perfect for playing Animal Crossing!

Hybrid is not electric, it's not ICE either, that's why it's called Hybrid!

Hybrid means "both this and that", not "neither this nor that". I'm pretty sure kids learn that in elementary school, middle school at the very latest 🤦

You're also wrong about the rest but I don't care enough about your nonsense to go into further detail.

Company SC656788 is still named ROBERT'); DROP TABLE STUDENTS; LIMITED

Beautiful! Whatever they're selling, I'm buying!

Or the alien landscapes of the Southwest

I mean, it could be Neil Gaiman 🤷

You mean other than my bank?

He just got demoted for spending 85% of his time at the office chasing people from the mail room and building a nest out of overdue expense reports.

He's now Junior Executive VP of Public Relations.

And we had several! Not just one loony taking all the credit himself while simultaneously claiming to be three different people, including his own dad!

Methinks there was more than alcohol and omega 3 in that wine and those fish, if you know what I mean..

You kiss your sistermother with that mouth? 😛

And if you run it through a third time, you get a recipe for an excellent strawberry pie, somehow.

I have serious issues with America

As well you should

but I'm done comparing it to Stalin's ussr

Good idea, since you're very bad at it

It is simply comical to do so, especially on the topics of incarceration, rights, and killings.

When you're significantly biased by red scare propaganda exaggerations as well as the paucity of reporting on US atrocities, I can see how you'd think so. You're not right, but you're wrong in a somewhat understandable way.

You've moved the goalpost backwards and forwards multiple times, and are therefore generally without merit.

I got the multiplicator wrong by mistake once and corrected it when you called me on it. Maybe don't just blatantly lie when accusing others of arguing in bad faith?

Cya

Yeah, have a good one, I guess 🤷

Yeah, because pointing out the fact that underregulated capitalism is even worse than the failed communism of the Soviet Union makes me a tankie who loves Stalin. The same Stalin who I called an autocratic dickhead on this very post 🙄

The world isn't a binary where something stops being awful once something else is even worse. That unfettered capitalism is even worse doesn't mean that the USSR wasn't a shitshow in many ways.

While it's true that "bashing Stalin" (something that I engage in myself) isn't red scare propaganda, dramatically exaggerating the many faults of the USSR while simultaneously greatly minimizing those of US capitalism very much IS.

So if you can stop foaming at the mouth over me being a communist (I'm not. I vary wildly between a European style Social Democrat and an anarchist depending on the subject matter but never ultra-authoritarian like a tankie) and take off your binary goggles for a second, you might actually learn something rather than having a hissy fit.

Systemic failings are so fucking far from extrajudicial or even judicial killings.

Are the victims any less dead? Are the politicians that knowingly created and uphold that system any less culpable for their murder just because they were less direct?

People being failed by a system is not a political killing

They are when the people making the rules are aware of the consequences of their actions and choose to cause the premature and preventable death of citizens anyway. Which is the vast majority of the deaths.

gulag style

Gulags were awful, yes, but only a few of them were worse than the worst present day US prisons.

You're letting red scare propaganda cloud your judgment.

Multiply how many people die of starvation or malnutrition a year by 29 (the length of Stalin's reign) and you'll see that I'm right.

Just because the two Soviet famines were faster and got more press doesn't mean they killed more people over a 29 year period than the US "food is for profits and poor people are for exploiting" politics.

Ok, so maybe not dozens, but regulatory capture and other facets of the US system of laissez-faire for the already rich and powerful coupled with brutal oppression of those already hurting the most directly kills at LEAST a million people a year, maybe double that indirectly or as a major but not sole factor. Multiply that with 29 (the length of Stalin's reign) and you get a hell of a lot more than 6.

Fair.

To be even more fair, though, extreme poverty and shortages of (nutritious) food are as severe if not worse in present day US and the richest 1% are hoarding much more than the party fat cats were too.

See also: one of several reasons why Elizabeth Warren isn't president right now.

I believe that she honestly believed it and had no fraudulent or otherwise malicious intent but not to make absolutely sure it wasn't one of those cases was stupid and unwittingly offensive as fuck!

I just want to know the story behind your username. Did a tuber betray you somehow?

So a 10 year prison sentence isn't 10 times worse than a one-year sentence? You think 3 people in prison for a month each is worse than two people with a year each?