BartsBigBugBag

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[–] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 1 points 9 months ago

Are you the dude who got banned for linking this book on Reddit books? I just saw that on another community. I haven’t read Malatesta yet, I keep slacking on it. Hope you get some good discussion, and sorry I couldn’t contribute more to said good discussion.

[–] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 16 points 9 months ago (13 children)

Actually they can’t, they have a legal obligation under the UN Convention on Genocide to take extra-territorial actions in order to stop or prevent genocide. They are acting within international law. The ships going to Israel despite the active genocide are violating international law and complicit in the genocide themselves.

[–] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 7 points 9 months ago

Guess I’m not buying it then. Microsoft really hates printing discs.

[–] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

He says that the groundwork they laid was by not intervening enough in the Middle East and Asia…. Am I reading that right?

[–] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 4 points 9 months ago

Apparently he was the inspiration for Professor Newtonium in Powerpuff Girls. Most unexpected part of that article.

[–] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 12 points 9 months ago

If the media didn’t want him to win, they shouldn’t have called the race before even 10% of the state got a chance to vote. There’s going to be hundreds, possibly thousands of people who left caucuses early when they heard the race was called. The media is not only complicit in his win there, they have also exposed themselves to retaliation from campaigns and voters alike.

[–] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 1 points 10 months ago

I haven’t scrolled all the comments yet, so apologies if this has already been mentioned, but Dragon’s Dogma passing a lot of those checks, if you can get over some minor jank. It’s definitely an action oriented adventure role playing game, where you can get quests to take out minor enemies, but also can have epic battles against dragons and giants.

A fun mechanic is clinging to and climbing larger enemies, you can for example jump up and grab the neck of a dragon and hold on while slashing at it. Or you can have your allies hold down an enemy so you can get a critical hit on it. The pawn system for allies allows you to customize and develop your allies to suit your needs and playstyle, and you can recruit other players pawns who come with their own memories and knowledges, but their voicelines can get a bit repetitive. Expect to hear “This enemy is weak to fire” a lot..

Overall it’s a unique and interesting game, worth checking out if you haven’t. Especially if you can get it on sale for cheap.

[–] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 1 points 10 months ago

I didn’t even know podcast ads were a thing, you learn something new every day. Good luck! I hope you are able to find something, fuck ads!

[–] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I know the one you’re talking about, and I’ve never heard anyone reference that game before, even online. You’re right, he does look similar.

[–] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 1 points 10 months ago

Lmao. You should look up where all the poverty reductions of the last 10 years were. It wasn’t in the west.

[–] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 6 points 10 months ago

Even by US standards if we go back a few decades. HW negotiated a ceasefire in Israel, and sectors both sides spent time and money trying to dismantle the nuclear arsenal. Biden is “modernizing” it. He’s genuinely to the right of the Republican Party just a couple decades ago in many ways.

 

From: “Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg” by Kate Evans.

 

The Democracy of the founding fathers was Greek Democracy, predicated upon a slave society, and restricted to only the elite. This is the society we live in today, even with our reforms towards direct representation. The system is inherently biased towards the election of elites and against the representation of the masses. Hamilton called it “faction” when the working class got together and demanded better conditions, and mechanisms were built in (which still exist to this day) that serve to ensure the continued dominance of the elite over the masses. The suffering of the many is intentional. The opulence of the wealthy is also. This is the intended outcome.

 

Remember, the social Democrats sided with the Nazis over the socialists. They’ve done it every time they’ve been given the opportunity, and will continue to do so as many times as people fall for their shtick.

“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."
-Audre Lorde

 
 

It is not needed, nor fitting here [in discussing the Civil War] that a general argument should be made in favor of popular institutions; but there is one point, with its connections, not so hackneyed as most others, to which I ask a brief attention. It is the effect to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above, labor, in the structure of government. It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it induces him to labor. This assumed, it is next considered whether it is best that capital shall hire laborers, and thus induce them to work by their own consent, or buy them, and drive them to it without their consent. Having proceeded thus far, it is naturally concluded that all laborers are either hired laborers or what we call slaves. And further, it is assumed that whoever is once a hired laborer is fixed in that condition for life.
Now, there is no such relation between capital and labor as assumed, nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

  • Abraham Lincoln
 
 

But let’s be honest, who wasn’t inspired by how much food Goku can eat at once?

 

I need to quit coming to this community today so I can quit posting, I’m running out of things to post!

 

Happy Sunday, or Monday, depending where in the world you are!

 

I just discovered this band and I’m in love, and I can’t stop sharing their music with as many people as I can!

For the more lyrically inclined, here’s a link with English subtitles, but it’s not live: https://youtu.be/lMqedURmCxg?si=lvqJHx4anzcOc0rU

 

Hope all are alright. Anyone picked up any cool new hobbies lately? Anyone play harp? I’m thinking of picking it up, I already play quite a few instruments, but harp has the highest initial investment of any I’ve done so far.

 
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