[-] sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 7 points 16 hours ago

I don't know which part is worse, that they destroyed a several hundred thousand dollar machine for a fucking gun, that they left the magazine behind, or that they did all that for cannabis.

[-] sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 days ago

You are literally twisting my words to the point it is disgusting. I said the exact opposite, this is so toxic or your reading comprehension is very bad.

[-] sweetpotato@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 days ago

Once you realize that the reason they are not treating women equal is because they've been uneducated and starved to death by imperial powers to reach the point to have this government, and not because they are stupid or something, then we can talk. Oh and once you learn to read how I never said it's acceptable, but rather that we can applaud them for one thing and condemn them for another.

If you let them live for a couple of decades they will sort it out is the main idea.

[-] sweetpotato@lemmy.ml -4 points 3 days ago

One can do a good action and a bad action at the same time. They can support a national liberation struggle and oppress their citizens at the same time. I don't know why you'd have to make a final verdict, countries are not people you should hang out with. They are bureaucratic entities with interests that are a lot of the times opposite to those of the people. How about all counties are bad?

Also I don't understand why you would hold the poorest country in the world that was facing a genocide and the worst humanitarian crisis in earth 5-10 years ago by the Saudis and the US to the same social standards as the West. These people are hungry, poor, destroyed in every way and up until recently had to fight to gain their independence. Who do you expect to rule except for these Houthi fighters? If the west and the Saudis had let them live, then we could talk. I see this stupid take so often like with Afghanistan, it's frustrating.

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

I just love every time someone tries to imply the bad fruit theory in such situations. You'd wish Kamala and Biden or any democrat were any different than her, but they've put themselves in the very unfortunate position of unwaveringly backing this genocide, singlehandedly funding it and being 100% committed to it this entire year.

Clinton may be a criminal and a genocide perpetrator, but at least she is honest. The rest of the democrats aren't so honest about it, but you know that's the deal with being in power, we don't have to listen to you speak, we can see what you are doing instead. Pleading for a ceasefire is kind of demeaning to the people voting you, when you've singlehandedly provided Israel with the arms, money and military protection necessary to accomplish this genocide and continuing to do so while you beg for the ceasefire every time.

You'd wish Kamala was any different than her.

[-] sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah you are just the average piracy bad person got it. You just happen to use pirated content that's what confused me and I unfortunately engaged. And yet you somehow still didn't answer what exactly xmanager offers that Spotify premium doesn't. Make it make sense, there are no extra features, only pirated premium features that are not the main function :)

It's great seeing people defend the profits of oligarchs and monopolies and their ability to define what the standard experience is and what zero marginal cost feature can or cannot be paywalled. Which is definitely not entirely subjective, you are right to be so confident on that, you can get to tell us what the necessary functions of any app is.

[-] sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This whole sequence does not make any sense. They are entitled for complaining about the standard experience, yet piracy is easy? What does that suppose to mean? If you think the standard experience is adequate then why resort to piracy? What is the entitlement referring to? According to you they can complain about the pricing and a lot of other features being paywalled, but the entitlement comes from the particular two examples they gave? Because you don't think they are important, as if the important features to you are universal? I don't get what the point of this is

[-] sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

I get that it's stealing your data, what I don't get is why it has to be accessible by search engines. First of all, most servers are private because they would rather be that way, they don't want anyone joining or viewing the content. Second of all, the big search engines would have had the ability to gather all the available data and train AIs, give it to advertisers etc. I don't want that. I don't know what the Chinese are doing with the data, but I know what Google and Bing would be doing with it. Not everything on the internet has to be available to everyone, a lot of people want privacy. I get that ideally there shouldn't be accounts with personal information required, but the rest I don't agree with. Reddit and twitter are meant to be public, everyone on such social media is aware that anyone can see their comments and posts. But discord serves another purpose, it's for private, closed communities.

I also don't see what basic feature is charged. Everything charged has to do with functions that require a lot of storage/server space or stupid stickers and emojis. None of that is a basic feature and for the former I get why someone would charge.

I am not defending discord, I'd rather not use it, I know it aggressively steals our data and they probably plan on enshittifying it a lot more once they've taken out the competition completely, but that criticism I mentioned is not valid imo.

[-] sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 days ago

I don't get why you purposefully obfuscate what ruling class I am referring to. What kind of example are managers and drivers when I am clearly talking about the people comprising the decision making body or Communist party under communism? I think that's simple enough and also the fact that any communist government that survived long enough gradually became more and more authoritarian, more detached from the people - never in the other direction. The evidence is there and we both know it. The burden of proof that this isn't the case is on you, not me..

You simply dismissed my claims without any evidence on that. Although you seem to like to meticulously answer every sentence separately, you dismiss the core of the argument. I understand most communism movements start off with noble and admirable intentions and I'm not ignoring this, but the fundamental issue here is that in the longterm, by design, in order to preserve state power, for whatever reason, you'd be heading to the opposite direction of a stateless society.

I've read enough Lenin to understand this from his descriptions of the ideal Party. I don't need reading recommendations, thank you. I am not saying anything profound here, this is like mainstream critique of marxism.

[-] sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 37 points 3 weeks ago

"Dark humour" enjoyers when I joke about the military...

[-] sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 131 points 5 months ago

So it's ok to call students that are protesting against a genocide Nazis but not the people actually committing the genocide. Got it.

[-] sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 73 points 7 months ago

He was too innocent for this world. I don't know what to say other than I promise I will never forget him and that I'll try to spread his message and do everything I can to help free Palestine.

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