Yeah I’ve been around the block a few times and seeing any sort of analogy in an argument makes me just kinda disregard it. Just talk about the real thing. It isn’t that hard.
Secondarily I would say it is not a good argumentative tactic to play in the analogy’s world to show why it’s a dumb analogy. Just reject analogies on their face.
this just reminded me to wonder what happened with the whole Dianne Feinstein thing, I’d just totally memory-holed that she fuckin died lmao
Red Star argues that “to support a resistance without Hamas is to support something which does not exist. It is to support no resistance at all.” But Marxists do not have to limit ourselves to supporting existing political forces. If this were the case, we would not be able to argue for building the socialist movement anywhere where it did not already exist.
Yes, violent organized resistance to active genocide and apartheid has the same level of urgency as attending your DSA book club meeting once a month in the imperial core
As the saying goes, you go to war with the army you have & not the army you wish you had.
do you have polls for these statements
pack it up folks, the reddit NHTSA investigator has investigated the footage and cleared his fascist god of all wrongdoing
All three of the replacements he suggested were women. lmao the glass cliff is real
Games I have played and recommend:
Inscryption (-60%, $8) is fun if you are looking for an easier Slay the Spire (roguelite deck builder) with escape-room-style meta-puzzles
Doom Eternal (-75%, $10) blazes a new trail for the stale FPS genre and is a great game to use to learn flickstick
Into the Breach (-50%, $7.50) I LOVE this game but also find it really really stressful because you have to play perfectly in order to have a chance against the final boss. Every turn is basically like solving one of those chess puzzles.
Games I’ll be picking up:
CrossCode (-70%, $6) is some kind of hexbear favorite but I’ve never played it
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (-85%, $6) - I really loved the first one as a modernized Half-Life 2, although have heard this one is not quite as good
Sonic Mania (-75%, $5) - this is apparently a retro-styled sonic game made in the modern era; I’ve never played a sonic game before but loved Pizza Tower, so looking forward to this
There is a lot of national labs work focusing on this these days, basically doing really high-tech quality assurance to audit that the chips ending up in military hardware are what they expect. Was approached for one of these jobs but turned it down. The work is super interesting & unique and the people involved were very bright and would have been great to work with, but I couldn’t stomach the idea of spending my life and creative efforts auditing a chip that goes into a missile to ensure it isn’t deterred from its unimpeachable goal of ripping the bodies of Palestinian families to shreds.
I do a stupid sport that has a high death rate. However, my public attitude toward it is “this is risky and stupid and you probably shouldn’t do it” not “aTCUally if you look at this super special cohort of people who act perfectly it is not risky but super cool actually, you should all join in” anyway have some existential humility
Not eating vegetables 200 micromorts
Drinking once a week 100 micromorts
Hate doing cardio 500 micromorts
Riding a motorcycle 27,000 micromorts
Bad sleep hygiene 300 micromorts
someone who is good at risk management please help me budget this i am going to die in two years
yes, it is more dangerous than cycling.
In places like southeast asia where the mopeds take over the road in swarms and there are only a couple cars that are not the dominant vehicular life form it is much different.
you came into a thread about how a lot of motorcyclists died and now are complaining about how condescending it is to be told that what you are doing is unsafe
if it’s literally a matter of not being able to afford it then fine, but if you can afford it you are trading a very, very large amount of risk to save that money.
if he succeeded in convincing you that would have done more for your long term health and risk of death than literally any other intervention so I don’t blame him for trying
I know a lot of medical providers and they see a lot of mangled bodies from motorcycle accidents.
this friend has less regard for your continued survival than a hitman on a fat contract to shoot you in the head
all I remember from reading the foundation series when I was 14 years old is that he uses the exact same plot twist in like three separate books
The only good thing about this is how incontrovertibly it demonstrates that the dems are totally unworthy of your vote, even to fairly clueless liberals.
watching him stand squinting and sweating outside in a middle eastern climate is always a treat
“achieving” climate by blocking cheap solar panels from China