[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 21 points 9 hours ago

Obviously they were raised by owls and speak an owl language.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Do they have a backup river? Or can they just go up stream past where the poo is discharged?

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

You really don't understand what I'm saying do you?

No amount of messaging or vote shaming or self delusion can override the dogshit policies Biden has enacted trying to appeal to "moderate republicans".

But if you learned nothing from 2016, I'm sure in November you'll blame everyone but the people with power.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 days ago

Do you genuinely believe that people who are angry about supporting a genocide are bots?

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not every german.

But it's depressing every time I talk politics with one and it turns out they're a "leftist" who's actually a liberal, or an "anarchist" who's a zionist, or a "green" who supported ending all nuclear power (which restarted their coal industry), an "anti-imperialist" who only opposes Germany's enemies.

I expect this level of ignorance from American liberals who've literally never had a thought outside bourgeois democracy, half of Germany was communist until 30 years ago, they don't have an excuse.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Dems could have had Bernie, Warren, Buttigieg, even Klobuchar, but Biden won pretty handily. That’s on people people.

Is it though? The media confusing people by claiming Biden is more electable because his policies are closer to what republicans want isn't on people, nor is every conservative candidate dropping out at once to endorse Biden, while Warren remained in to keep Bernie's share divided (ensuring that none of the popular policies the former Reagan campaigner ran on were actually implemented), nor is the DNC giving Biden debate questions before hand.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 days ago

Cyberpunk 2077's Cyberpunk was entirely aesthetic. I have zero faith in the devs being able to actually address those issues in a meaningful way.

Which is a shame because the genera's whole purpose was to criticize how capitalism would subvert potentially utopian technologies to make everything worse.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I have been saying this since Obama.

In 2020, people believed they were voting for healthcare, defunding the police, emptying the migrant concentration camps, protecting Roe v Wade, etc.

When you fail to do the things that brought people to the polls, and do the things the opposition wants instead, the opposition's voters still won't vote for you and your own voters just don't vote.

Trying to appeal to moderate republicans just lowers your own voter turnout. The republicans will always vote for fascism over diet-fascism.

But no, pointing out these very obvious mechanisms just gets me labeled as an evil conservative Chinese Putin-bot trying to disrupt the election.

dropping out of the race at the convention

The face of the party is infinitely less important than the impact the policies have on people's lives. It doesn't matter if it's Biden or Pete Buttigeig at the front, the dems only shot in hell is to use every power at their disposal short of drone striking Trump and the SCOTUS (maybe) to demonstrate to voters that 1. They want the same thing the voters want (eg, not genocide) and 2. They will actually do those things (no blaming the parliamentarian or norms or some rules you set or fear the SCOTUS might ask you to stop).

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

The adderal or whatever they were giving him for the 2020 debates would kill him now.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 36 points 3 days ago

For Final Jeopardy, I want to see each of them try to draw a clock.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 47 points 4 days ago

Well if you speak Tagalog, they'll hate you for being Mexican.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 26 points 4 days ago

While I don't doubt that more Germans are becoming more antisemitic, promoting zionism does not combat antisemitism. Lord Balfor (of the Balfor Declaration), was extremely antisemitic. He was very explicit about how removing jews from Britain and getting a shiny new colony were both positives.

But also that statistic is useless because a significant number people arrested in Germany for antisemitism since Oct 7 were Jews protesting against Israel.

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