WaxedWookie @ WaxedWookie @lemmy.world

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Opinions seem to vary, but Scientific American is credible enough, right? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-glass-really-a-liquid/

It's conservative to bend over and spread `em for the benefit of the owning class at the expense of everyone else - chiefly the workers those politicians claim to represent.

Others have pointed out the gaping differences in the health outcomes (including the burden that places on the healthcare system), addiction rates, etc.

Yeah - that definitely feels like a Howard post-911 destroy civil liberties kind of thing. I do think it's something we were doing before that, but it ramped up to an industrial scale under Howard.

I don't understand why terrorists even need to be trialled in secret - what's the government's stated excuse? That we decided its just not worth properly funding our legal system to ensue a prompt trial and protect the rule of law?

That's not a wildcat union, and those strikes were backed by Swedish courts - while I don't strongly disagree with your point (it varies based on the applicable legislative landscape for one), this example proves the opposite of your point if anything.

Your binary framing is bad enough that it's working against you, and your comprehension of the terms you're using doesn't help. Your underlying ideas aren't terrible, but they are lacking nuance (see the binary framing) that means they only work in certain contexts such as a hostile legislative environment - not real world examples like Sweden.

Does comparing a corporate machine with a bargain basement consumer system seen reasonable to you? You think Dell is above this type of incompetence? My sweet summer shill.

They're both shit companies - I sold HP systems for years, and was a brand marketing manager for most of Dell's products at one time or another.

The man on the TV said people would get angry at me for saying merry Christmas - the guy in the $6,000 suit - COME ON

I'm aware of the definition of democracy. I wasn't aware of the meaning of 56 Chinas - we know fascist types love numerically coded language - 14 words, 18/50, 88, 18, and so on.

Looking at the meaning, 56 Chinas sounds concerningly close to ethno-state advocacy, but I figure that's not the intent.

Absolutely - though the efforts will certainly still do damage.

Raising dumber kids to own the libs...

That's not a term I'm familiar with.

What changed - or do you still give him some credit?

A cat could be dropped into the job, spend the whole day licking its arsehole, and still do a better job than Musk. All he had to do was shut his dumb mouth and spend his money, but he's incapable of even that.

Great - more illiterate kids, more future conservatives.

Fair enough - my mistake.

You think the USSR, DPRK, and so on are any different? What definition of communism are you using, my dude?

I'd we'd like to talk about genocides in countries that don't say they're communist? There's the Holocaust, ^Armenia, ^^Rwanda, ^^^Bangladesh, ^^^^Romania, ^^^^^Greece, ^^^^^^Assyria, ^^^^^^^Serbia/Croatia, ^^^^^^^^Chechnya

...tremi-gods?

Because a global power engaging in aggressive colonialism is bad - even when it's not the US doing it.

That'd be if he sentenced himself to death to appease himself for everyone else breaking the rules he wrote, then re-vivified himself.

The ol' single deity circlejerk.

Musk is the best possible evidence of this - an incredibly stupid, fragile edgelord born to other peoples' wealth, lucked his way into more on the backs of others' work. Now, everything he touches loses billions.

Unfortunately, being right doesn't matter in a popularity contest.

I do wonder how things would have panned out if she'd won - I can't help but think Trump would have been replaced by someone better able to overthrow democracy...