SSJMarx

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[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

And then setting the car they're sitting in on fire.

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee -1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The SPD was joining with the right to crush workers' movements long before the election of 1933. If the KPD had joined with them in a coalition it would have represented the KPD abandoning the German workers, and events from then on would have played out largely the same because the Social Democrats enthusiastically went after the Communists along with the Nazis, and it was once the Communists were taken out that the Nazis turned their ire towards the Social Democrats.

The only ways Wiemar Germany turns out different is if a) the SPD joins, rather than represses, the Spartacist Uprising, or b) the KPD manages to take control before being destroyed. It isn't about being perfect, it's about preventing the forces of reaction from having a foothold in the movement.

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

After Adolf Hitler gained power in 1933

WHO GAVE HITLER POWER MOTHER FUCKER?

Nobody in history has been more vindicated than Ernst motherfucking Thälmann. A vote for a Social Democrat is a vote for fascism now just as it was then - and the Democrats aren't even that!

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Trump only looked good in the first debate because of who he was standing next to. It really shouldn't be surprising that he acted the same way he always has, but a bit slower than four/eight years ago.

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

clay that was fired after impression

New record format just dropped.

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee -3 points 3 days ago

Yes, but we're taught that those democracies don't count because they're non white.

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 95 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Elections in America are all about vibes. People who care about facts are nerds.

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

on your playstation

PS3linux.net be like

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

You're correct. I think the real obstacle PC gaming has to overcome for the average consumer is the basic knowledge requirement - I built the PC I currently use and game on and yet I find the numbering schemes for processors and graphics cards insanely confusing, have no idea what goes together and what doesn't, what's a good deal and what's overpriced, etc. But while I was willing to put in the research when I built my current computer, I can totally understand someone else who wants something that they can just turn on and it works.

Prebuilts don't really solve this problem either. The average consumer will see something like the "MSI Glaive-Guisarm 2077 Fortnite Edition" and I have no idea if that's better than or worse than or about the same as a PS5.

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Saw similarly strange pizzas when I lived in Japan. I think in Asia generally they just have a different idea of what to do with pizza.

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This is a big reason why many US city budgets are fucked. So much prime taxable real estate given over to parking lots that don't generate anywhere nearly as much money for the public, but the market doesn't care about that particular externality.

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

If you think about it from an evolutionary standpoint it’s perfectly logical.

This hasn't actually been borne out in science. As a general rule, less complex human societies tended to be more willing to cooperate with outsiders. They shared hunting grounds, traded clan members, came together for more complex endeavors, and so on. It isn't until the advent of agriculture, when people became attached to plots of land and felt the need to defend them from others, that we see these default attitudes start to shift - and racism as we understand it today is a thoroughly modern phenomenon, with no antecedent prior to the 17th century.

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