archomrade [he/him]

if you continue to try { thisBullshit(); } you are going to catch (theseHands)

This is the most beautiful thing I’ve read all year

This sounds exactly like the beginning of 3 body problem

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Now, we have people like Rashida Tlaib or Bernie Sanders talking straight about Israel, and as far as I can tell, nothing happens to them beyond some people getting mad and press releases and things.

It might be a little better now but the entire ‘squad’ is being targeted by pro-israel super PAC money.. It might just be because popular sentiment has swung so far against Israel that it’s getting lost in the noise, but it’s definitely still there.

I hope you’re right, though.

I think now – and I could be wrong – that the incentive is actually becoming the other way.

I assume you’re referring to popular sentiment, and I agree, but there’s another electoral vector in play here that has more to do with AIPAC support and fundraising, which I think is in conflict with popular sentiment and might keep Biden on his current strategy of vague deflections. If you’ve caught any broadcast media coverage in the last day or two on these protests, you might notice a distinct focus on the ‘antisemitism’ framing, and I think that has a lot to do with those institutional structures.

I had this conversation yesterday(?) with someone else, but the article here had a pretty uncharitable decontextualization of what I thought was a pretty vague ‘both sides’ comment anyway.

It wouldn’t be hard for him to say “I condemn antisemitism, but valid criticism of Israel is not antisemitic”, but there’s a clear electoral incentive to avoid taking even that rational stance.

No matter how you slice it, Biden is dropping the ball here.

I am only a little concerned that befriending a crow would drive a wedge between me and my dog, who would certainly see that friendship a betrayal.

It’s my life mission to befriend a crow

Fair point, Margot Robbie

I like to imagine these accounts learned about tankies only 6 months ago when they joined Lemmy and were encountered by lots of leftists with wildly different international worldviews than them.

As a byproduct, it’s just their way of making sense of those differences they don’t otherwise understand.

Nobody that they’re describing would actually defend shit like this, but thats about as well as they understand those people.

Oh god, that would fucking suck. Glad it worked out though.

I also prefer cheap laptops. I don’t need a supercomputer to work.

I’ve been feeling this one lately. I recently had a very large, super heavy laptop stolen, and I’ve been wondering why I even had such a mammoth to begin with.

I have a desktop with all the overhead I need for large tasks, any laptop I get basically just needs to run remote desktop with decent latency.

You can use soap with a bidet.

Do showers dispense soap?

Mastic gum is super tough… Though there are some health benefits to chewing it

Quiet, rebel scum!

even regular shits should be cleaned off with something beyond just water or paper

You can do that with a bidet though

And for those particularly nasty shits, I can always hop in the shower and do a quick detail on my asshole with the showerhead and some body wash.

Really seems like you answered your own question here

I didn’t see anyone else mention it, but the scene in King Kong where one of the guys is eaten alive by four or five giant worms, each one starting from a different limb (the last one swallowing his fucking head).

Doesn’t matter that they were setting him up for you to root for him to die, it’s still way too much for me.