Sometimes areas just have bad drivers. One place i lived people would start driving in middle turn lane for 1/2 a mile to pass someone, people drifting out of their lanes etc. Once I moved that happened 1/10th as often, even though I didn’t drive any differently. Sometimes everyone else really is the problem.

It’s basically a skinner box + the unknown, if I spend $1000 then I’ve spent $1000, but if I gamble $1000, I could win all this money, or I could lose it all, no one knows, and every time it’s new + dangerous. It also just ruins your perspective/ respect for money, because if you gained/lost 20k in an afternoon, what are you going to do go back to working for $20 an hour for half a year for what you made/spent in 2 hours?

Youre whitewashing it again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_socialism

Authoritarian Communism does not mean “siding with giving the proletariat authority.” Again it’s fine if you have a definition you use, but words have meaning. People are criticizing the authoritarian part, not the communism. Even if it is the majority opinion held by authoritarian communists today.

Tankie is a perjorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

No.

I have seen you make this “correction” about 50 times.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tankie&t=fpas This is what the average person sees and defines as tankie. The first result which means it is the most viewed and read page any time someone searches that. You can disagree with that definition but you’re literally doing the Jordan Peterson of redefining a word to mean what you believe it should mean and muddying the waters for everyone else. I have never heard anyone besides people from ml describe tankie as “perjorative for communist.”

But then we’ll get a pug situation but with cows

I think this is very accurate, ai is very good at replicating the “stream of consciousness” quality that dreams have.

I found where he talks about it https://youtu.be/HIfRLujXtUo?t=52m44s

He essentially says “ya there are no next steps, so if this fails, I’m done, not because I don’t care anymore but because there’s nothing left to do!” I don’t think he wanted to be the one in charge in the first place xD

I believe he said if this fails, he’s done since it’s just been too much work. Then he managed to get a million signatures to be seen in front of eu parliament, so he’s back in it.

We are all oppressed by the patriarchy, every older man I know born from 60s - 90s believes being emotional is weakness, don’t cry, don’t act like a woman. You’re basically not allowed to be you, and most remain extremely stunted their whole life. Discriminating based on sex is also hurting the men who didn’t want any part of this to begin with. Women have more danger and more men ruining things for them in general, so I don’t agree with them saying a safe space shouldn’t be restricted, but I just don’t think it’s so black and white.

Uhhh why not lol? Some group being majority in power doesn’t mean everyone in that group is in power, and even if they are there’s no reason to divide people. I’m allied against billionaires because they are actively working to make my life worse, I’m not allied against my neighbor just because he’s white and has more money than I do.

The mods there have said they want women passing by to see it and also anyone else really, just that they ask men please don’t post because it’s a women’s space. It’s pretty hard to be mad about it when everyone there seems so nice, especially the mods.

He says in his videos “I’m just some guy who wants to play video games, I don’t know how to lead a movement. But uh, here we are I guess!” He’s spent a massive amount of time and effort on it, when he just happened to end up the spokesperson. Incredibly cool guy.

I usually give an “eh I’m doing okay” since that gives a chance if they actually wanted to know what’s up.

Thats most of lemmy lol

China has literally stated “we want to merge peacefully but war is not off the table.” Taiwan has said “we want to maintain the status quo.” https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/over-80-of-taiwanese-favour-maintaining-status-quo-with-china-survey-124022400130_1.html

Annihilation is maybe the wrong word, but they risk an unwinnable war against the highest population country. They have 0 chance if China decides to strike, and China is likely kept at bay from other countries “interference.” China doesn’t want to destroy Taiwan, it just wants them to rejoin, and will threaten war if they do not comply.

That’s surprising they would wait when almost all Taiwanese people do not want to rejoin China. https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/over-80-of-taiwanese-favour-maintaining-status-quo-with-china-survey-124022400130_1.html

This seems to support the idea that they are afraid China will take military action against them. Even this article states that the reason many do not want an independent country is for fear of retaliation by China.

I suppose we’ll see if you’re right about China not attacking Taiwan, and I have friends there so I really do hope you’re right.

None of this is false but that doesn’t mean China isn’t threatening military action and waiting for their chance to strike. Being peaceful with the threat of force is not the same as just being peaceful, if a mobster says “pay me off if you don’t want any trouble” they’re not peacefully negotiating. To be honest I’m surprised they haven’t taken more action against Taiwan, when trump would probably say “it’s their country, it’s their territory, its rightfully theirs.”

The person they’re arguing with linked a state owned Chinese tabloid as evidence for their points. I don’t blame for not engaging.

First off it’s the opposition leader, not the president, who is vocal about Taiwan remaining sovereign. Second, if I threaten someone with annihilation, and they say “hey we can negotiate peacefully,” and I say sure I’ll negotiate but (in that article) “war is not off the table,” I as the person threatening them with annihilation am not being peaceful here.