HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]

is this a bit

the victims are the people of ukraine, who are being fed to the war machine by a right wing nationalist government in the name of western hegemony

i mean, it wouldn’t be the first time british communist orgs have devolved into reactionary tailism.

the fact that this “movement” has zero real world purchase in the US, the nation that gives it all its signifiers and on which it is primarily fixated, should give you an idea of how serious it is. it’s a meme that propagates through the brains of 20th century burnouts who feel nothing but disgust and confusion at pretty much every historical development since the working class lost the cold war, and so latch onto the growing fascist wave – which frankly doesn’t need direct help from the feds – despite also being unable to understand why it’s been successful.

additionally, i recommend that you abandon the thought-terminating cliche of the “psyop.” without any evidence that some social development is actually motivated by a nefarious actor, all it refers to is one’s subjective feeling that what you’re seeing is too bizarre to have a rational explanation. it’s, frankly, antimaterialist, and not unlike the reasoning that motivates “MAGA communists”; observe how they often like to call challenges to their personal bigotries the work of the CIA.

more single use plastics and pesticides, personally

gamers rise up

is there an Open Source Hardware comm on lemmy.ml or elsewhere? I agree this is really cool

e: of course it’s in the sidebar !libre_hardware@lemmy.ml, doy

Sounds like you’re experiencing screen tearing, an effect where the refresh rate of your monitor can’t keep up with your graphics card. This section of the Arch Wiki might be helpful.

What kind of monitor do you have, and does it have a configurable refresh rate?

i quite like kitty, it’s got great text rendering support

Today I learned of the Pyongyang Metro. Their trains are really cute!

the biggest difference is that hamas isn’t threatening to destroy the schools and hospitals that israel is bombing

hm, i wonder why there’s so many union jacks here?

I’ve invited you to learn literally anything about this subject before commenting further. Not much else I can do you help you.

“Freedom of the press” is a joke. I can see what our “free press” is doing with the butchery of Gaza. At a certain point you have to accept that your understanding of the facts is not, and has never been unmediated.

Here is a good starting point if you want to understand the ways this has happened and more critically evaluate it.

I sleep fine. Sometimes I jerk off first.

Part of developing mental maturity is coming to understand that other people might genuinely believe in a differing set of facts from you. And my facts are based on evidence.

like, “such and such country is committing genocide and covering it up!” is a very serious claim! fortunately, it is also very incredible. it’s improbable that mass murder of a population can go almost totally unnoticed except for reports and evidence from sources that are demonstrably untrustworthy. Just knowing who Adrian Zenz is should be making you suspicious unless you’ve completely disabled your bullshit detectors.

I’m a leftist who isn’t a tankie. I don’t much care about China and I think the struggle for liberation can only be fought where we are at. I don’t uncritically accept the propaganda and the worldview of the state I seek to destroy at face value. Thus I do not accept claims about “genocide” committed by the US’ main rival without good evidence. Having principles and critical faculties are important to my politics. What about you? What makes you, someone who identifies liberals as “center-left,” significantly different from them? Your conditional support for Palestinian liberation?

Hm, so you’re saying that every political faction “denies genocide and defends aggressive warmongering”? Could it perhaps be that every faction gets accused at one point or another of genocide and aggressive warmongering, and it’s your responsibility as a political person to use your brain to figure out who is lying?

israelian

are there any JS fans who argue that it’s elegant? i thought the supposed advantage was that it’s flexible and universal.

i’m sorry that’s fucked