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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoMemes@lemmy.ml•This was from 2017.
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    22 hours ago

    You DID NOT HAVE that leverage, not after the primaries were over and not with Trump as the only alternative!

    Did you not read my post? I voted for Harris so did every leftist I know. Please shut up about misrepresenting my actions by continually forgetting in your rhetoric the fact that I stated I voted for Harris, I also did not advocate for NOT voting for Harris though I expressed a lot of uncertainty over feeling ok voting for Biden and then Harris after she made it clear there was going to be zero realworld daylight between her and Biden’s policy on the Palestinian Genocide. It seems that for you this is emotional pathos about imagined characters being your punching bag because you are upset and confused.

    Further, it seems that you are upset precisely because the voters who voted for Biden but did not vote for Harris did in fact have a whole lot of leverage that the DNC and Biden/Harris refused to acknowledge, and they likely lost the election by ignoring it in favor of choosing to play cozy with rich donors and republicans. They refused to allow a Palestinian to even speak at the DNC while giving prime stage time to fucking LIZ CHENEY A REPUBLICAN.

    …and what fucking primary? The one the DNC and more relevantly Biden undermined by not dropping out until it was too late to have a primary?

    I understand you are upset, but you are acting like a republican in that it seems like you NEED a morality story, you need some selfish, reactionary person acting in an infuriating way to be angry at. You can’t admit that your way of understanding the world is flawed and that a whole bunch of unsustainable shit has been normalized in your mind that is falling apart catastrophically, and that would always have inveitably fallen apart catastrophically.

    The only positive thing you can say about your strategy is that maybeeee it would have delayed this happening, which seems like a reasonable argument until you recognize that is absolutely as far as that strategy can take you and no further because all holding an unsustainable explosive potential in harder accomplishes, past a certain point, is to increase the lethality of the explosion when it finally occurs.

    The way you see the world, a perspective that sees the Palestinian Genocide as a distracting detail to US elections, is so fundamentally flawed that you and people that agree with you can never reach an effective majority coalition in U.S. politics by adhering to it, you will piss off and drive away too many people. That is just a fact, a fact born out by this past election.

    It is time for your understanding of US politics to evolve, the plight of the Palestinian people isn’t a fucking detail to US politics and US voters understand that whether you are willing to or not.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoMemes@lemmy.ml•This was from 2017.
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    24 hours ago

    That means 71% of non-Harris voters rejected her for reasons other than Gaza.

    Do you not understand the concept of a plurality? facepalm

    I am getting tired of explaining this, I am a white caucasian leftist born in the US, I voted for Kamala even though I had massive reservations about the genocide, the reason people like me were sounding the alarm is because we hadn’t lobotimized our ability to empathize with Palestinian americans, arab americans and Palestians themselves (also all the jews against this too!) and understood this was a catastrophic, losing strategy.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What do you believe that most people of your political creed don't?
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    18 days ago

    I think things become much more chaotic and prone to quickly escalating to lethal applications of violence if there is the constant threat that anybody could be concealed carrying and more importantly that if someone felt the need to carry a firearm that they would likely conceal it.

    Bringing a large visible rifle into a situation still escalates the threat of violence, but at least it does it in a clear and unambiguous way. There is no excuse to shoot the teenager dressed in basketball shorts and a wifebeater with absolutely no where to hide a rifle because you saw somebody else nearby with a rifle and you think the unarmed teenager might be concealing one. (There really is almost never an excuse to shoot anybody unless they are holding a gun and aiming it at you, and maybe even not then if you are on the one antagonizing them).

    The US is a country where police not unregularly shoot innocent people, often unarmed black men or other minorities, and handwave away any responsibility for the needless violence by suggesting there might have been a handgun…

    With a hunting rifle or shotgun there is no ambiguity about your intentions in a space or how you will potentially react to lethal threats of violence. There is no conveniently conflating other innocent and unarmed people with the people holding rifles or shotguns and easily getting away with it. On the other hand there is no surprising people by entering a space under false pretexts about your capacity or intentions around violence with a rifle or shotgun, since carrying a large weapon immediately identifies you as someone carrying a large weapon.

    My point is, concealed carry is only effectively a right or privilege if society gives you the permission to arbitrarily carry around the means to end many peoples’ lives in your pocket, which is something really only extended willingly and consistently to white, christian conservative men. Carrying around a hunting rifle or a shotgun is a different story.

    Look at the way handguns are used in US media, they are treated as status symbols of power and righteosness. Shows and movies constantly rely on the revealing, obtaining and losing of handguns to portray changes in the power of characters (lazy fucking writing but that is another rant…). To US culture the handgun is the ultimate object of empowerment and of personally distributed justice and that says everything you need to know about handguns really.

    (also, if you are someone who actually needs to protect yourself with a handgun, you already know who you are, this conversation is irrelevant)

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What do you believe that most people of your political creed don't?
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    18 days ago

    As a USian, while I think gun violence is a preventable mass tragedy that unfolds daily here I also think that when minorities, indigenous people, women, queer people or really anybody who isn’t a white christian rightwing man talks about wanting to own a gun to protect themselves while living in this country I can’t disagree. If you don’t understand the very real threat of police violence that you can’t resist or stop, and the very real threat of other kinds of violence that police will NOT step in to stop because of who you are, you can’t really argue against owning guns in the US to people that have no other choice than to take this kind of thing seriously.

    I think handguns should be made much much much more illegal, since the handgun is actually the tool of state violence and oppression, it is the tool of surprise murder and intimidation. On the other hand if you carry a rifle you have to state your capacity for lethal violence, there is no hiding it or revealing it like a powertrip or gotcha card, which isn’t to downplay the terror and violence that evil rightwing terrorists have wrought upon the US with assault rifles, but at this point I don’t think owning a hunting style rifle or a shotgun as somebody who lives in the US is an unreasonable idea, especially if you have become a convenient political and literal target for the right.

    To be clear, the whole stupid idea that owning an ar15 with a 30 roung mag, bumpstock and quick change mags somehow makes you safe to a home defender that breaks into your house at 3am when you pull it out and proceed to shoot 30 rounds erratically in the general direction of something you hear, sending bullets careening through the walls of your neighborhood and more likely killing somebody’s kid sleeping in their bedroom than doing anything to make you safer IS pathetic and spits on actual real gun culture.

    Also I want to note that people who roleplay as mil-sim types by spending actual thousands of dollars on pseudo-military equipment to live powertrip fantasies are by and large hilariously pathetic, especially because they are usually completely and utterly blind to (or worse directly supportive of) forms of authoritarian violence (state or otherwise). See lots of loser white dudes showing up in 24k worth of weekend warrior dress up GI Joe gear to defend the incredible threat to civil liberties that society expecting people to wear masks during a pandemic represented… Good job chuds! You saved the day!

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoGaming@lemmy.ml•Report: Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails
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    1 month ago

    Nah, it definitely is, in fact I have noticed a disconcerting number of indie games I REALLY like especially 3d games with physics engines are on the unreal engine.

    I have always been a massive fan of at least the creative output of projects on the unreal engine, I don’t know much about the politics and details around how it is to actually create games on the unreal engine or anything though. I just don’t trust Epic honestly or whoever owns them now or rather I don’t trust the incentive structure… but yeah I wish the unreal engine success I am just asking how people see the state of similar engines in this moment.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Who would you send this to?
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    1 month ago

    ahaha like if you are willing to say hateful shit about your wife’s ethnicity publicly like this I am sorry I don’t think you even know where your wife’s clit is and I am confident enough to bet my whole lifesavings on it (I pull out my wallet and machine gun probably out of date or empty Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts gift cards onto the poker table).

    There is just no chance you give a shit about the pleasure of another sentient human (who happens to be a woman) enough to make them feel safe and welcome enough to go there with you enough times you could learn The Path Of The True Warrior by heart.

    Damn, incels are fun as hell to make fun of, I have to say. Normally bullying fascists feels like more work than this.

    Love your wife you pathetic loser, how the fuck do you actually even manage the mental gymnastics of dating someone from an ethnicity you are especially bigoted towards? Is your wife just an exotic beast you show off to your friends (does jdv have those?) and say “most of these are bad but I found myself the one pure example” ?? like eew wtf get out of my government you slimy prick.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Who would you send this to?
    5·
    1 month ago

    I mean, yes he does, there is no way I would trust JD to get me off without a nice premium vibrator if I was woman.

    Even if JD could find your clit with his fingers, he would just treat it like he does the women in his life, and caress it emptily and mechanically as if he was patting his favorite sports car on the hood all the while sighing to himself about the objects in his life taking up too much of his money and time.