Malware that I hacked/repurposed

I think the reason I didn’t fall for that stuff was because I believed there’d be consequences for torture under Bush when Obama got elected.

Kinda obscure but I thought of NEO Scavenger, a post-apocalyptic survival game where you wake up with nothing and have to scavenge around for a plastic bag before you can carry more than what will fit in your hands.

I’m not sure this is what they mean when they say, “eat lead.”

Absolutely, they won’t allow any criticism of the democrats without shifting the conversation to Trump. Ofc there are times when bringing up another topic for context is relevant to the conversation, and times where it’s not, which is why shouting “Whataboutism!” at everything is dumb and just an attempt to exert control over what topics are allowed to be discussed.

If the question you’re trying to answer is, “Should I vote for Biden or for Trump?” then bringing up Trump’s shit in response to criticism of Biden is fair. The problem is that liberals are incapable of having a political conversation that doesn’t center that question, to the exclusion of all other options and all facts and analysis that aren’t relevant to that question. The fact that the CDC betrayed public trust and caused countless preventable deaths doesn’t fit neatly into that question, so that fact is not to be brought up in conversation, and if it is, then it must be because the person bringing it up is trying to make an argument for voting for Trump, because that is the limit to liberals’ perception of reality.

I didn’t get the context at first and I tbh I think that made it better.

No, they usually say that the recommendations changed because of new evidence. What evidence existed at the time that wearing a mask could increase your chances of catching a respiratory illness (as was claimed by the CDC), they never say. The more self-aware ones will acknowledge that they lied, but will still defend it on the basis of, “They were trying to preserve masks for healthcare workers” which is partially true, but anyone who thinks that’s a valid reason for betraying public trust should get the wall. Even when they see that they were lied to and that it caused countless deaths, they still make excuses for the people they perceive to be on their “team” and try to shift the blame entirely onto the other side. “At least the CDC didn’t tell people to drink bleach, like Trump did!” They simply apply the same mental framework they use when confronted with the Iraq war or the genocide of Palestinians or mass incarceration or mass surveillance or any number of other things. There are literally no limits to lesser evilist brainworms, and no matter how well you cite your claims, they’ll look at you like a conspiracy theorist for bringing it up instead of letting them memory-hole it. Libs want crimes like that to be buried and forgotten and mentioning the truth is uncivil, even if they know the truth, they want to pretend it didn’t happen. If they were honest, they’d prefer it if you were an anti-mask chud because that just reaffirms their worldview and allows them to pretend that they uphold scientific values.

c/worseposting when?

If you know when you saw it, you can try filtering by the date range, if it shows up. That’s what I do when I need to prove that the CDC and CNN created virtually every anti-mask conspiracy talking point in early 2020.

I’m always awed at how terrible of a format TV news is in general. I’m so used to posting that I take if for granted that if you say some dumb shit people can call you out, ask for sources, provide additional context, etc. Yeah internet discourse often sucks too but the format at least allows for some kind of back-and-forth discussion and fact-checking. TV news is unironically 1984 dystopian propaganda regardless of what channel or program you’re watching. The only viewpoints represented are from people rich enough to run a channel, and they have complete control over which issues get how much attention and what kind of framing, and opposing views are only ever presented to be framed as ridiculous. And on top of that, you spend as much time watching ads as the actual program.

Source

The original was allegedly Catholic propaganda but I haven’t seen anything that confirms that.

The best way to solve homelessness is to raise the price of housing. This will incentivize housing providers to provide more housing because they can collect more rent, and at the same time homeless people will be more likely to invest in housing if they see higher quarterly returns.

pennies on the dollar

Psychopathic framing. “Look how efficiently we’re killing people!”

Also great example of conflating states with people. Maybe Ukraine still wants to fight, but Ukrainians are being conscripted against their will. In the same way, wearing Russia down may serve the interests of the US government, but it certainly doesn’t benefit the American people in any way. The best thing for the Ukrainian people would be to stop the killing at any cost, even if it meant territorial concessions. They could’ve saved countless lives if they’d done this from the start, and eventually that’s what’s going to happen anyway, but unfortunately countless people have died and countless more will before the ruling class decides to stop forcing the poor into the meat grinder.

How the fuck is my life supposed to be better because of dead Russian soldiers?

At least it made for a funny meme lol

Lemmy.world “preemptively defederated from Hexbear as a last resort” because we said stuff like, "The West’s role in the world, through organizations such as NATO, the IMF, and the World Bank - among many others - are deeply harmful to the billions of people living both inside and outside of their imperial core.” They are pro-NATO dronies who don’t allow criticism of the organization.

NATO is seeking to take control of decision-making powers on future aid packages — normally led by the US — in an effort to limit the impact of a potential second Donald Trump presidency on the ongoing conflict.

This is wild. It’s bad enough that the US president has the power to start wars wherever he wants with no congressional approval. But now they’re trying to make it so that the only people with the authority to withdraw from a conflict are unelected NATO officials accountable to no one.

Dronies will support this, because they love endless war across the globe and want to remove any potential for popular support to achieve peace.

girls dressing like men

As a transfem in a situation where I frequently have to present as a guy: thanks?