That would be a reasonable thing to suggest if my account was on the americafirst.trump2024 server and I replied to a picture of the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians with a picture of a Palestinian doing something fucked up.
Genocide is an abomination, whether it's the Israeli government doing it to the Palestinians or the Chinese government doing it to the Uyghurs. We can all agree on that, right?
...right?
"If all you're interested in is describing the exact experience of a lot of people, all I can do is disengage because I have no leg to stand on."
The Uyghur genocide is an abomination, don't you agree?
Here's a couple observations: you attempted to discredit what I said by invoking the straw man argument while asserting what "you people" all do in the same breath.
You also ended your last comment by offering the false dichotomy that my 2 options are "backing off my false claims" or not acting in good faith.
Third, for how active you are in commenting and debating, it's disingenuous at best to pretend that my assumptions were random words strung together. If you comment in lemmy.ml on any of the omnipresent Chinese or Russian-centric posts with anything other than adoration, you're banned.. Criticism isn't allowed in any of the major communities there and you're obviously aware of that.
You're not the paragon of fairness, honesty, or logic that you'd like us to believe.
You're right, assumptions were made, though your lack of context for posting that picture definitely lends itself to my narrative. Not refuting anything I said also doesn't help to destraw yourself.
Please, take this opportunity to clear the air and let us all know that you're aware of how damaging Chinese and Russian policies are for their people, just like Western capitalism for its people.
Anyone: Russia or China did something fucked up.
lemmy.ml: BUT WHAT ABOUT...!
These people are so black and white, it completely boggles the mind. They live in "X is bad so Y must be good!"
X and Y are both completely fucked and if you can't see that, then so are you.
Nintendo Power would disagree
I get that the heavier bowling ball affects the acceleration of the earth more than the lighter feather, but I don't see how that means it's falling faster as the meme is stating. The bowling ball would meet the earth first when dropped separately and from the same height because the earth is (imperceivably) accelerating toward it faster than it does the falling feather, but both the bowling ball and feather are falling at the same rate due to Earth's gravitational force.
Or am I missing something?
It's a cute little comic about how people feel on first dates and how crazy dogs look drinking from a hose.
You come off as someone who has no personality if they're not talking down to others.
I'm not sure I get this one. Is the joke that they're the first humans so they don't know that they'll die someday?
Jesus Christ this thread is full of people who don't realize they're the judging hipster in the post.
Ubuntu isn't the entry level distro that you move on from once you've gotten your feet wet, and your not very subtle pats on your own backs for using something different aren't earned.
Does it do everything the user needs from it? If so, don't tell them that they need to "graduate" to a "better" flavor.
Or Ubuntu could perform every task they need it to and never switch to anything else.
This exchange has been the same thing I've repeatedly seen or personally experienced with tankies.
They end up thinking that their "gotcha" will be expressing fucked up Western policies or actions. They do this because, as I originally stated, they hate the thing they know (Western capitalism) and therefore embrace "the other thing" to feel like they're on the "right" side. They assume that everyone else is doing the same, and that by being critical of Communist governments, we must love Western governments.
And as I also said up front, THEY'RE BOTH SHIT, and if you can't see that, you're very simple. The enemy of your enemy is not your friend. You're not on the good guys' side just because they're opposed to the bad guys. It's the Crips vs the Bloods, not Batman vs the Joker.
I hope you wake up to this very basic truth someday, but I've continued this conversation more for other people, to show them the holes in your line of thinking.