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[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I was rolling it over in my head one time and I came to the conclusion that any type of food that was healthy or otherwise targeted to people conscious of the food they eat would struggle. If you care about your diet, you care about the quality of ingredients and that's a pain in the ass compared to the shit they put in food in the typical fast food chain. Then the people you serve are still going to complain.

So you end up in a situation where nobody is paying your prices to source good ingredients, you're targeting a small niche of the people around you, and you don't get to just open a franchise + turn your brain off. It seems like you'd have to ask for support more than you could profit off of the venture by way of making a product people want.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 18 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (8 children)

Tankies stop at the system is fucked. It can’t be improved according to them, tear it down and build a new thing. Obviously that won’t happen and if we tried it would animal farm into something worse right off. And just isn’t true, the system here worked relatively well after the second world war. Never perfect, but with controls on the system and governed by mostly reason, we did make the most prosperous working class the world has every seen by a large margin. Now gone, chiseled away by the CPI having been understated for half a century averaging 2-3 percent a year just by 2008 under the new measures, while it was 5-8 percent under the old.

That was not a good faith change, it was done to steal from working people at every level and stage, and give to investors, and no one questions it even still, as the ivy league suits tell us our buying power has never been higher, when that clearly isn’t true.

the system here worked relatively well after the second world war. Never perfect, but

You mean the people who kept threatening people with nukes? The people who proliferated atomic weapons giga? The ones who did 56 military interventions (old figure btw, doesn't include Venezuela, for example) in South America post WW2? The one that proliferated military bases all across the world? The Bay of Pigs people? The ones that invaded Vietnam because they were bored? The people who made North Korea the most bombed place ever? Coup in Guatemala so that bananas were cheap? The people who would rather destroy civilization than coexist with the USSR? You're saying that system worked relatively well? I'm saying that they were barbaric up to and through current events.

I could have a prosperous working class too if I decided that my money was the world reserve currency because everyone else died in WW2 and proceed to loot other countries. But the prosperity that was enjoyed by others would, and was, only because there was a big strong union fighting and bleeding for the advocacy of the working class.

Is the ending the point of the song, you fool?! Is the corn tortilla the point of the dorito or is it the cool ranch? Can I have some?

I'm gonna need this bird to be immortalized as a sonic character

Well the answer is obvious. You've been disciplined by the free market, use it to your advantage! You could simply make a better product that people want to buy instead. Since they're giga-tankie at-what-costcels you should have no problem using your American exceptionalism to do better than them. Hope this helps!

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was under the assumption that the same cheap Chinese plastic constitutes everything on Amazon, Walmart, Target, any big box store, and non-food items in grocery stores. The same cheap Chinese plastic is in competition with itself on Amazon by people with different brand names. Then you get the consumer to sign up on your email list where you sell ads for other pieces of cheap plastic and LLM as a service products. When that succeeds you can reveal your methods in online classes.

In that sense I didn't think much of dropshipping as moral depravity. I put it in the same category as gambling - something that wouldn't really be there in a healthier society. And in fact that conceptualization helped guide me to a place where I can find the beauty of doing honest work for honest pay in a walkable city in the presence of justice.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can we take a second:

Are there any penalties for sending barely literate emails? What if I just think less before hitting send?

Yeah, personally, I like

Not war

Not genocide

Not secret police

Yes collective bargaining for healthcare

Yes collective bargaining in the workplace

No housing speculation

Yes walkable city

Yes public transportation

Yes high speed rail

Yes renewable energy

No politicians checking medical procedures

And that in and of itself is enough to put me in stark opposition to Democrats. And all of that is before my beliefs about how the system is held together, violently enforced, addicted to looting other countries. I think it's cringe and I'm willing to read the words that people wrote trying to articulate it.

 

The song is viciously stuck in my head and I want to find the meme that's responsible for it.

The ICE Vanguard party that overthrows the US government that starts a fight with China is what sets off the American Century of Humiliation 3 years from now

This is a failure of community as a subsection of society that you can't throw your credit card at a friend, get groceries, and have them throw shit in a crockpot which takes all of 20 minutes and gives you a bunch of meals

 

haha just kidding… unless?~~(if they offer the racism program to non-fascists unlike any of their other tracks I would legitimately have a hard time convincing myself why I should go for it)~~

 

alphys-anxious : whisper whisper whisper

Wait, what?

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But yeah, obviously that's bad

alphys-anxious : whisper whisper whisper

What are you talking about? It's clearly a group of people who are doing a bad thing. It's not because they-

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What the FUCK?

 

Badpost or Games post? You decide by texting your vote to +44444444444

 

I'll be damned if my fucking bad posts get outbadded by sincere takes.

If you know what you're worth, go and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers... saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him or her or anybody! Cowards do that, and that ain't you! You're better than that!

 

My lawyer recommended I did not post this in the first place, but has since wrestled me away from the computer once I told them I was going to finish the joke anyway.

 

The Ultimate Self Defense Championship is an interesting piece of YouTube slop that has me looking at an Israeli UFC fighter's twitter post. There was a guy, Rokas, who went viral because he spent a long time being an Aikido student and instructor only to fight an MMA fighter and realize that he didn't know the first thing about combat (sports). So he spends years learning MMA, BJJ, boxing, and the like to come back and have some sparring with the same guy. Rokas grew up bullied in Lithuania, so being able to fend off attackers was really valuable to him.

He ends up making this game with his friends where he puts himself and them in these self defense challenges like "what if you have 25 seconds in a cage with someone with a knife?" and "what if you have someone else with you?" and "what if your boss is being weird?" He eventually gets got in training (I think someone hits him with a Kani Basami and all the screws and springs in his leg fly out) and becomes the manager for the thing instead of a participant. Each year he ups the production quality and the scenarios get more elaborate. They're currently in the middle of season 3.

Interestingly, one of the recurring characters is ex-UFC fighter Natan Levy. He's an Israeli which, you know... is not exactly our favorite customer. He wears a star of David on his rash guard. People I liked watching were okay being around him and he sticks around. However foolishly of me, and feel free to tell me how foolishly, it made me want to understand him instead of just calling him an Israeli. I dig a little bit trying to see if I can get a quote from him. His whole thing is his distaste for antisemitism. Notably, I can't find a quote from him conflating antizionism with antisemitism. He teaches Jews self defense, but notably he says they're welcoming to anyone who feels bullied. He cares about community, self-esteem, and not being victims. At most he says "antisemitism is on the rise after October 7th." This is, of course, true and easy to have happen when you have the greater Satan state apparatus doing that antizionism conflation as their only messaging and using legal channels to express it.

Then I find the core I was looking for. Khamzat Chimaev, motherfucker wrestler from hell (positive) and current Middleweight champion of the UFC, is talking about Israel. He has deep ties to the Chechen Republic. He is perhaps more entangled than he is a willing participant, but that's speculation and navel gazing. He's a devout Muslim and famous for his personality softening after becoming a father. The point is, he's on Instagram and he goes "You are just guests of Palestine, respect them for giving you asylum, one day you will be expelled from Palestine inshaallah. Give me the strongest man from Israel, I will break him." Again, would love to see either of those things in the wake of a genocide. Natan Levy replies to him.

Natan Levy's replyKhamzat, If you have a problem with me or my people, I'm very easy to find. One phone call to Dana White (Hexbear note: CEO+President of the UFC/match maker of which they are both part of at the time) is all it takes.

Now let me educate you: WE ARE NOT GUESTS, WE ARE HOME

Jews and Palestinians have ties to the land, Israel's population is 20% muslims; most identify as Arab or Palestinian by nationality and Israeli by citizenship, They are equal citizens, are Doctors, Lawyers, Judges, serve in the government and even the military.

Both Israelis and Palestinians want to be treated with dignity and humanity. We both want the world to recognize our ties to our homeland where we have lived in for thousands of years.

We are willing to share the land and we have, but we will never leave it!

Palestinian leadership has declined at least seven offers to split the land between Jews and Arabs in exchange for peace. Israel even withdrew from the Gaza Strip as a peace offering in 2005 but now rockets are launched from there at our homes.

Their leaders would rather keep the people in pain while they hold onto money and power. Palestinian Authority hasn't held elections in almost two decades. You are a mouthpiece for these corrupt leaders.

Your hateful statements do nothing but intensify the conflict and tear us further apart.

Now, I don't agree with him about the equal citizenship of Muslims in Israel. I wouldn't agree with him about how the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict came to pass. And admittedly I'm not one to speak authoritatively about how the Palestinian Authority has acted. Though I've come to understand events like Hamas being willing to dissolve in exchange for peace, broken peace treaties, and, you know, Israel using... less than safe and expeditious strategy for getting hostages/POWs returned from an illegally occupied territory & open air prison.

But if I grew up in Israel and I understood history as he did, I can imagine seeing the world as he does. If he has expressed anything across his body of work and statements, it's that he does want people to be treated with dignity and humanity, something we can all agree on. Rockets bad, something we can all agree on. If you're American, I imagine you know what it's like to have a bloodthirsty leader who wants more bloodshed and pain. And, as a stupid asshole half way across the world, it's not really my place if I saw a 1 state solution where it's decidedly not an ethnostate, to encourage people to struggle for more. A free Palestine and an equal Israel (10000000000% more likely to just be on paper just and covertly awful, but if not) would theoretically be a healthy society.

Now, if I go to Natan's Wikipedia page and ctrl+F "idf" or "israeli defense" I get 0 pings. The only ping I get on Google is that Etay Levy served for 3 years and didn't like it; thank you very much for being stupid and useless, AI. So to what extent I'm seeing what I'm meant to see I don't know.

I don't think Natan Levy is a virulent anti-Palestinian monster. To a large extent he seems informed by his circumstances, but aren't we all? I don't believe I have his full story, but nothing is screaming to me that he wants more carnage or believes in a supremacist future. I think his understanding of the Arab-Israeli conflict is ahistorical and dangerous, but his understanding of our shared humanity would likely see me giving him the benefit of the doubt. Thoughts?

 

We could LARP and eat tavern food.

To me, leftist infighting is just infighting. That's just a small taste of my lefted up brain

 

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