Hagels_Bagels

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[–] Hagels_Bagels@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 month ago

Capitalism breeds innovation

[–] Hagels_Bagels@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 7 months ago

Pretty sure that anti-anti-fascism is just straight-up a Nazi trope.

[–] Hagels_Bagels@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps this site is a good source of training data?

http://www.marx2mao.com/

[–] Hagels_Bagels@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How is it remotely sane to give support to any candidate who backs an ongoing genocide? It's only sane to do so if you're apathetic to the said victims of genocide and know that their ghosts won't affect you after they've been murdered by the politicians you've elected.

[–] Hagels_Bagels@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 8 months ago

If there are 2 buttons, and both will result in the commission of Genocide, you don't press either button. This is why this meme wouldn't work in its usual context if the buttons said that.

Any voter or potential voter who has moral principles and values should withhold support for any candidate who supports or enables the most serious crime known to humanity.

If a political opponent of Adolf Hitler was vying for election in Germany in 1932 or 1933, and that political opponent also had the same views towards Jews and/or other ethnic, racial, religious and national groups as Adolf Hitler, with the same intention to commit and use the power of their office to facilitate genocide against those groups as the NSDAP has, you don't vote for that other candidate, even if they maintain free elections within a fascist Germany. On principle, every person has a moral responsibility not to support, nor facilitate the crime of Genocide. A true democracy allows for true political expression of the population and doesn't force its electorate to back a Genocide.

I hope I'm not being OTT or patronizing. When talking about an ongoing Genocide against a group it's off to reduce the (unfortunately) political issue of Genocide prevention to the less serious language used in US domestic politics. And there ought not to be a reason why Palestine is less important than Ukraine or Russian influence in Europe. I mean Palestine is fucked right now and has been since 1948. Why would European people let Palestine be fucked for decades since it doesn't affect Europe but care about Ukraine since it does? I dunno such a shit situation.

[–] Hagels_Bagels@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 9 months ago

I think it is both. People are naturally the most revolutionary in times of crisis and struggle. It is the conditions which are created by the capitalist system that make the people feel that the system they live under is untenable, especially with rapid changes in conditions as experienced during financial crises. Many within the bourgeoise study the instability of capitalism in order to protect their capital or to profit from it.

[–] Hagels_Bagels@lemmygrad.ml 58 points 9 months ago (2 children)

From OP:

The Biden administration has been doing everything in their power to reign in Israel, push for ceasefire, and negotiate deals to save hostages. But sure, he's totally "pro-warcrimes."

He's done so much to obtain a ceasefire that his leadership was the only one to veto a ceasefire at the UN Security Council!

[–] Hagels_Bagels@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If capitalism is so bad then how come living conditions are worse in the exploited global south whose nations are targeted, exploited and destabilised by the imperialist core?

Same dumbass line of questioning.

[–] Hagels_Bagels@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They just deleted their account.

[–] Hagels_Bagels@lemmygrad.ml -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can buy paprika at Tescos but British food is still shit.

[–] Hagels_Bagels@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 9 months ago (3 children)

A large part of the reason I prefer discussions on Lemmy over Reddit is that people will actually engage with you rationally on this site. How is it enjoyable to engage with patronising people who only pretend to address your arguments? If a Lib wandered over to Lemmygrad they'd be told why they're wrong instead of just being immediately banned by mods or told to formally fuck off or some shit.

Geopolitics replaces class struggle with the struggle between nations, which is obviously reactionary to everyone who understands Marxism

Who actually sits and types that nobody is allowed to analyze any relationship between nations or else they're a fascist? That's clearly class reductionism to me.

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“I’m not sure, but I don’t think they have anything to do with what America did in the Philippines between 1899 and 1906; in Haiti between 1915 and 1934; in Japan during World War II; in Korea between 1950 and 1953; in Guatemala in 1954; in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1960 and 1972; in Cuba in 1961; in Indonesia in the 1960s; in Chile in 1973; in East Timor in 1975; in El Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1980s; in the Persian Gulf in the early 1990s; in Serbia in 1999; in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2021; in Iraq between 2003 and 2007; in Somalia, Libya, and Yemen in the 2010s; and what’s happening in Guantánamo Bay right now.”

 

Amazon allowed bottles of it's own delivery drivers' piss to be sold as an energy drink on its platform, and the algorithm permitted the 'beverage' to reach the spot of #1 best-seller.

Oobah Butler did this to bring attention to Amazon's shitty practices such as their union-busting tactics, surveillance and poor treatment of their workers, failure to investigate the safety of products listed on their platform, tax avoidance, and for failing to check at the point of delivery, the age of recipients for age-restricted items such as knives, saws, and rat poison.

The 'documentary' is available on channel4 (although you need an account): https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-great-amazon-heist

 

We are at 1.3°C above pre-industrial average temperature. Scientists think we will pass 2.5°C.

An NDC is an abbreviation for 'nationally determined contribution' i.e. what the world says they will do to mitigate climate change.

"The best estimate of peak temperature in the twenty-first century (projected mostly for 2100 when temperature continues to rise) is in the range of 2.1–2.9 °C depending on the underlying assumptions.52 Without implementation of any conditional elements of NDCs, the best estimate of temperature change is 2.5–2.9 °C warming. Assuming full implementation of NDCs, including all conditional elements, the best estimate for peak global mean temperature is 2.1–2.4 °C."

https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/cma2022_04.pdf https://nitter.net/EliotJacobson/status/1683535568268050432

 

I'm slightly late posting about this here but figured I'd do so anyway.

You can see what their anti-repair measures look like at around the 7:50 mark.

With this new iPhone release, they have also stopped shipping their charger ($19), USB charging cable (opting instead for a lightning to USB-C cable), and earbuds ($159+). They have cited environmental concerns as their excuse to force their customers to spend possibly hundreds of dollars extra for products that will be end up being delivered separately.

As some people have hinted or guessed at in this thread, there is a specific software tool you must run on the phone once you replace components like the camera, battery or display. This tool is only made available to Apple and to its certified repair partners. I will leave it to everyone else to discuss the implications of this policy.

Source: I fix Apple phones

Source

Continuing to purchase their products will only encourage this behaviour further. Boycott Apple.

 
 
 
 
 
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