redtea @ redtea @lemmygrad.ml

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Me too. Now, I've not knowingly had Covid. But I've been badly ill three times since November and I feel like I'm coming down with something else. It's like three weeks on, two weeks off. Hope it ends soon. And I hope you're managing to rest properly. Take care!

Maybe access to the ocean is a factor, too? Hence Western Europe rather than Central or Eastern Europe. Until the 1990s, at least—although I wonder where the cracks first started to appear?

I can believe it 😁

This should probably go in shit reactionaries say (or whatever it's called—idk because I have it blocked).

Or breakroom, by the sound of it.

Rather than looking at trains and thinking, if we build those we can sell tickets, they looked at shareholders and the government and thought, I bet we could fleece them. We're seeing the military effects of this, too, with neoliberales looking shocked as to why more and more funding doesn't automatically equal more and more armaments. Commodity production detached from anything with the use value that makes the commodity a commodity.

I think the practical is the most important factor, here. It's hard to know how one of the world's richest billionaires can get so deep into a project that has an exchange value but no use value. This is what happens when imperialists dismiss productive capital, and become parasitic on government grants, defrauded shareholders, and asset stripping. It was the same with crypto and nfts.

The text under the headline doesn't necessarily support the title, even without looking further into it. Depends whether it's been accurately or poorly translated. '[W]eren't specifically targeted' could be a translation of a few things, among them the idea that others were also targeted. 'Specifically' is a word like 'literally', which doesn't always mean 'literally' anymore. He's wrong if he does mean something like Jews weren't targeted for being Jewish, of course, and I don't defend that. I'm only highlighting that it wouldn't be the first time that 'loose' translations have made some enemies of the west look bad (Lukaschenko gets this a lot, I believe).

Libs are surprisingly okay with denying agency to the 'uncivilised' (a term which must be in quotation marks because Western 'civilisation' hasn't managed to work out how to feed 1 billion people from the mountains of food stolen from 4+ billion other people).

That looks DELICIOUS! What kind of fish is it?

I had deleted my comment as I didn't like how I'd phrased some of it but you've managed to see it and reply, so I'll address one of the points.

This seems to be the root of it:

defense of America's brutality.

I don't know how you're getting that from what was said. But nevermind, my issue is with the way that you challenge ComradeSalad. I think you've missed the mark because they don't say what you think they are saying, and so you aren't tackling the argument but the tone of it.

‘this is all in your mind’ … ‘panicky attempt’

Seems to me that you're questioning ComradeSalad's state of mind, repeatedly, to dismiss what they're saying. And you've doubled down, whether you realise it or not:

'over the top histrionic defence' … 'extreme emotional reaction' … 'raging defence' …

You might not be doing this on purpose but casting doubt on someone's emotional/mental state to discredit what they're saying is ableist. It relies on a model of mental capacity that is used to deny autonomy to people. You might be writing just one comment but some of it's premises rest on that ableist system.

Coming at this with relatively little knowledge, I was curious, so it didn’t come across as screeching or sneering.

Please don’t attempt this conflation. I characterised their angry response as a whole a “screeching”. I characterised this sentence as “sneering”, please don’t misrepresent me.

This is pedantic. I'm talking about your comment as a whole, with that sentence as an example. The 'screeching' is also another example of the above, re: emotional state.

Since we’re taking everything extremely literally here, as if this is a court of law. I take your accusation very seriously.

You're taking this the wrong way. I'm saying all this because you need to reflect on how you're talking to others. I wouldn't be saying all this if you had made an argument that focused on the substance of the OP. You don't have to agree with it. But you can't interpret it in a different way to the OP and others (me included, although you seem to disbelieve or question me) and then attack their mental state. It's not on.

I'm not sure how I feel about the emoji-sized emojis from Hexbear now. They were massive before but I kinda got used to them and now I'm squinting to try to see them in the same detail. I wonder if I'll feel the same nostalgia about my landlord after we get the FALC update with Lemmy 0.20.3?

Please keep up the criticism. You've been taking a lot of flak for contesting the idea that Ansarallah will have carte blanche to disrupt Red Sea shipping. But it's important to do that if we're to predict anything. And it's all hard enough to predict as it is, at the moment.

You've misread things here, I think.

When I read the OP tweet saying that the US is 'preparing to go to war' my first thought was that it was preparing to go to war, as it did in Iraq and a host of other places. Not a joint operation with a broad coalition of forces. An invasion. Because that's usually what it means when we hear the US is preparing for war.

Then:

“The operation is titled Operation Prosperity Guardian if anyone is curious.”

Coming at this with relatively little knowledge, I was curious, so it didn't come across as screeching or sneering. Characterising that sentence as such and then talking about being 'triggered' or 'Reddit-anything' is disingenuous and/or ironic in light of: 'this is all in your mind', 'crybullying', 'panicky attempt', 'scarecrow'. This is not the way of a good faith discussion, not to mention the ableism.

ComradeSalad appears to have identified 'misinformation and ragebait' and there is a big difference between that and impliedly supporting the US. I for one am glad of it, so that I don't repeat falsehoods. There's enough to criticise the US about, as you noted in another comment above, without sensationalism.

Have you considered taking vitamin D?

O7

perfect :D

test

Edit: I was testing to see what happened if you deleted a comment by accident (the delete button is now very close to the edit button and I'm clumsy) and it's easy enough to 'undelete' the post.

Does Yahoo crawl lemmygrad? I wonder if now is a good time to advertise an exciting new project: Lemmygrad Counter-China Services Inc, accepting donations now.

Np. I thought it might be advice to Ronin_5 but wasn't sure.

Is this message to me?

Edit: I'm not sure what it means.