England is a US vassal state and you’re all part of the rebel alliance and traitors! transshork-happy

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    @geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de claiming that queer people are faking it is incredibly uncool and offensive. Stop doing it. You would not claim that a black man isn’t really black because he says something you disagree with because you’d get knocked the hell out. Don’t claim people’s identities are fake because our politics are to the left of yours. You’re literally just abusing other lgbt people with that sentiment by essentially stating “unless your politics align with mine I will deny you the right to your gender”.

    @oatscoop@midwest.social blahaj.zone did defend a transphobe, refusing to demod a person engaging in transphobia because they didn’t want to rock the boat and lose the activity of that community definitely unsafe for trans people. They make decisions in favour of activity over trans safety. Being trans or having a shork aesthetic is literally irrelevant to whether they make good decisions for trans people, you wouldn’t claim that Caitlyn Jenner is automatically safe for trans people by virtue of being trans, and if you would then you’re an idiot because she’d sacrifice trans lives for her wealth any day of the week.

    • christiansocialist [none/use name]@hexbear.netBannedEnglish
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      2 years ago

      claiming that queer people are faking it is incredibly and offensive. Stop doing it. You would not claim that a black man isn’t really black because he says something you disagree with because you’d get knocked the hell out. Don’t claim people’s identities are fake because our politics are to the left of yours. You’re literally just abusing other lgbt people with that sentiment by essentially stating “unless your politics align with mine I will deny you the right to your gender”.

      That’s precisely what a Russian shill would say to try to obfuscate the issue. I would know, I learned about whataboutism and those tactics in my political science 101 class. I only had to take that class because its a required core elective for my STEMlord degree. So back the fuck off TANKIE!

      smuglord

    • MoreAmphibians [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      You would not claim that a black man isn’t really black because he says something you disagree with because you’d get knocked the hell out.

      Biden: “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black”

  • Ericthescruffy [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I just genuinely do not understand how these fucking rubes seem to genuinely believe that Russia is somehow alone or uniquely powerful in terms of online propaganda or influence campaigns. Like I just want to sit down with these people face to face and try and see if they’ve even considered for one fucking second the idea that maybe literally every single national and private interest that exists, including their own country and corporations in it, are broadcasting propaganda online at a constant 24 hour basis.

    • NewLeaf@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      They always have some lame shit like “w * ataboutism” to throw out there. Sometimes the mask slips, and they say something like “well, it’s good that my side is doing it” like that makes sabre rattling and more imperialism ok.

      They can’t be reasoned with. Lord knows I’ve tried to show them sources. I still get destroyed for saying that Hillary literally gave us trump with the pied piper strategy. They also can’t handle the reality of the Mueller report. They’re back to “trump and Putler sat in smoky rooms, twittling their moustaches while plotting to destroy the earth!” There is no logical consistency in liberal ideology. It’s all about keeping the treats flowing.

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I have a hard time keeping track when it comes to how powerful Russia is.

    Are they omnipotent techno-gods? They’re controlling even the tiniest websites, and with the mere swish and click of a mouse can decide who the President of the United States is. They’re turbo-evil deities playing 3D chess.

    Are they peasants with no brains? They’re sending millions of people into a human meat grinder armed with shovels, and they don’t know what “tank” or “airplane” are. They’re orcs who are born out of mud holes.

    Something something, parenti, send Xeet.

    • duderium [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      They can decide who the president is, except in 2020, because reasons. Obama was also president during the so-called shenanigans of 2016, but he is blameless.

      • FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        2 years ago

        yea they don’t realise everything was pegged to the dollar under Bretton Woods

        Keynes’ proposals would have established a world reserve currency (which he thought might be called “bancor”) administered by a central bank vested with the power to create money and with the authority to take actions on a much larger scale.

        In the case of balance of payments imbalances, Keynes recommended that both debtors and creditors should change their policies. As outlined by Keynes, countries with payment surpluses should increase their imports from the deficit countries, build factories in debtor nations, or donate to them—and thereby create a foreign trade equilibrium.[15] Thus, Keynes was sensitive to the problem that placing too much of the burden on the deficit country would be deflationary.

        But the United States, as a likely creditor nation, and eager to take on the role of the world’s economic powerhouse, used White’s plan but targeted many of Keynes’s concerns. White saw a role for global intervention in an imbalance only when it was caused by currency speculation.

        Although a compromise was reached on some points, because of the overwhelming economic and military power of the United States the participants at Bretton Woods largely agreed on White’s plan. White’s plan was designed not merely to secure the rise and world economic domination of the United States, but to ensure that as the outgoing superpower Britain would be shuffled even further from centre stage.[34]

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Somebody explain to this “oatscoop” dingus what a chaser is

    Seriously, we defedded from them because they (among other things) did not ban people for making threads about which surgeries make trans men undateable to them. I saw the thread where they discussed our callout of that, 90% of the posts started with “cis person here” and several immediately went into creeper territory and started discussing girldick (without any actual knowledge how a pre-OP trans woman’s dick works, ofc). Blahajzone isn’t a trans instance anymore, it has largely been taken over by insufferable cissie redditors when they accepted the r/196 lifeboat that ended up turning into 3/4 of their userbase and i pitty every trans person still holding out there.

  • Gay_Tomato [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I have one tankie trying to unironically argue with me that the UK is a vassal state to the Us Empire

    wojak-nooo Noo! We used to rule the waves we cannot be a vassal noooooo!

    Like the he’s the rebel alliance that is bringing down the evil empire with lemmy shitposting

    Please read even a single book that isn’t Harry Potter Im begging you. kitsuragi-depress

    • Bnova [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Hah! Tankie you’ve fallen for my trap. I never referred to Harry Potter, only Star wars and that’s a movie! smuglord