chaogomu

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[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Trump has basically openly admitted that if he had his way, this would be our last election.

JD Vance is a weird corpo-monarchist. He's written about it a bit, but his corpo-daddy Peter Thiel has openly spoken about it.

Then there's Project 2025, a literal blueprint for Trump to follow to turn the country into a christo-fascist dictatorship. Vance wrote the forward to the book form, but the author is holding it back until after the election. Not out of shame, but because they know that being so open with their plan has hurt them in the polls.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

So, your plan for fixing everything is for the left to stop voting so that the right can win and make voting illegal.

Because that's how it works.

This election in particular has democracy itself on the ballot.

It may be a flawed democracy, but the only other option is a fascist dictatorship.

There are no other options because of First Past the Post voting. Literally. The math does not lie.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Bots building post history in an abandoned looking sub. Usually done to get access to some other sub.

With the right looking post history you can scam your way onto a surprising large number of moderation teams.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

And he likely also has a certain idea of who the criminals are.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

Did you know that Nelson Mandela was the leader of a literal terrorist organization?

He ordered attacks that killed people. That's why he was in prison.

And every one forgave him, and even voted him into power.

All because South African Apartheid was fundamentally evil.

Israeli Apartheid is orders of magnitude worse than the South African version.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Have you checked out Live from Emmett's Place?

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[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Instead they went with the stupidest and most cruel option. Make sure there's no ventilation on the mask, and that it had a tight seal before turning on the gas. A gas they were treating like a deadly poison.

And since there was no ventilation at all, there was no gas flow. There was no oxygen displacement. Just the CO2 buildup.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

A big part of it was scientific illiteracy. There was talk at the time about "protecting the prison officers from exposure to the gas".

They were treating it like a poison.

Which adds stupidity to the malice.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Lenin betrayed the revolution. You mention the banning of the political parties. While it's true that they "took up arms against Sovnarkom", you're leaving out the part where Lenin used Sovnarkom to coup the newly elected government because his party didn't win.

Again, Lenin was flat out wrong. But I don't think he ever actually cared about Russia ever reaching the true Marxist communist utopia. Lenin cared about power first and foremost.

He built up that dictatorship, and then handed it over to a monster.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Tried a bunch, but tried wrong.

The Lenin model of communism is inherently flawed for one simple reason. An Authoritarian Communism is an Impossibility. It cannot exist by pure definition.

The true ideal communism is a stateless utopia.

So yeah, the Lenin model is flawed to the point of uselessness. Or worse because any authoritarian government is going to kill its own citizens, while also being a low grade threat to neighboring countries.

No. The only path to true communism is via democracy. And there are countries that are moving in that direction.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Hydrogen fuel cells actually show quite a bit of promise. Mostly for large trucks. Batteries have a scaling issue. A battery powered 18-wheeler needs a much larger battery for a much shorter range.

Adding more load means you need more battery, and that larger battery is just more load that you need to haul.

This is sort of true with everything, but the important note is that a full battery and empty battery weigh the same.

Anyway. Commercial use is where it makes sense. There are actually a few other technologies that make sense in the commercial transportation space. Like ammonia.

Keeping these rather dangerous fuels commercial also allows for more strict safety standards.

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