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MushuChupacabra

@ MushuChupacabra @lemmy.world

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Carbon based. Not overly precocious.

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    What do y'all think is up with Trump glazing Mamdani?

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  • Trump is easily dazzled.

  • YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

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  • Nope, you asked the question and I gave a decent answer.

    I've identified the source of your consternation. You were under the impression that you gave a decent answer.

    yuh buh nuh capitalism bla bla-

    You can find zero cases of a political leader from the Capitalist west that had gulags and mass executions and mass graves for the state sanctioned mass executions.

    I am uninterested in body count comparables due to capitalism, due to cancer, due to car accidents, due to tobacco, sunspots, whatever.

    Name the heads of state from the west who have been executing citizens, and dumping them in mass graves. See if you can find an executioner who was striving for one execution every three minutes, like i did for Joseph Stalin.

    Ya but capitalism yip yip yip

    Sit the fuck down.

  • YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

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  • Yep, bad dude. Bad, bad dude. His boss was too. You didn't, and won't, get any argument on that from me.... blah blah blah ...othes they wear.

    I'll explain for you (everyone else is able to pick up what you evidently can't) why your equivocation attempt sucks ass, and why you should therefore, sit the fuck down, as was suggested previously:

    My initial question was, Why do lemmy.ml users get hysterical when Joseph Stalin gets described accurately? Note that there is zero reference here to economic policy.

    The entirety of your response has been Argle bargle whaddabout capitalism yip yip yip you capitalist bootlick blah blah blah whaddabout whaddabout whaddabout.

    Joseph Stalin was a fucking awful man is a stand alone, easily defended premise.

    Meanwhile, you want to pivot so hard to hurr durr capitalism bad, that you're going to snap your own ankles.

    Sit the fuck down.

  • YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

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  • Prolonged systematic suffering and death, huh? If you hate that sort of thing, you're really gonna hate that Joseph Stalin guy.

    But here's some more gruesome details about Stalin's favorite executioner:

    Blokhin initially decided on an ambitious quota of 300 executions per night, and engineered an efficient system in which the prisoners were individually led to a small antechamber — which had been painted red and was known as the "Leninist room" — for a brief and cursory positive identification, before being handcuffed and led into the execution room next door. The room was specially designed with padded walls for soundproofing, a sloping concrete floor with a drain and hose, and a log wall for the prisoners to stand against. Blokhin would stand waiting behind the door in his executioner garb: a leather butcher's apron, leather hat, and shoulder-length leather gloves. Then, without a hearing, the reading of a sentence or any other formalities, each prisoner was brought in and restrained by guards while Blokhin shot him once in the base of the skull with a German Walther Model 2 .25 ACP pistol.[13][14][15] He had brought a briefcase full of his own Walther pistols, since he did not trust the reliability of the standard-issue Soviet TT-30 for the frequent, heavy use he intended. The use of a German pocket pistol, which was commonly carried by German police and intelligence agents, also provided plausible deniability of the executions if the bodies were discovered later.[16]

    I bolded the part where Blokhin is literally dressed like Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

    Like I said, sit the fuck down.

  • YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

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  • An estimated 30 local NKVD agents, guards and drivers were pressed into service to escort prisoners to the basement, confirm identification, then remove the bodies and hose down the blood after each execution. Although some of the executions were carried out by Senior Lieutenant of State Security Andrei Rubanov, Blokhin was the primary executioner and, true to his reputation, liked to work continuously and rapidly without interruption.[14] In keeping with NKVD policy and the overall "wet" nature of the operation, the executions were conducted at night, starting at dark and continuing until just prior to dawn. The bodies were continuously loaded onto covered flat-bed trucks through a back door in the execution chamber and trucked, twice a night, to the nearby village of Mednoye. Blokhin had arranged for a bulldozer and two NKVD drivers to dispose of bodies at an unfenced site. Each night, 24–25 trenches were dug, measuring 8 to 10 metres (26 to 33 ft) in length, to hold that night's corpses, and each trench was covered over before dawn.[17]

    Blokhin and his team worked without pause for 10 hours each night, with Blokhin himself executing an average of one prisoner every three minutes.[2] At the end of the night, he provided vodka to all his men.[18] On 27 April 1940, Blokhin secretly received the Order of the Red Banner and a modest monthly pay premium as a reward from Stalin for his "skill and organization in the effective carrying out of special tasks".[19][20] His tally of 7,000 shot in 28 days remains the most organised and protracted mass murder by a single individual on record, and caused him being named the Guinness World Record holder for "Most Prolific Executioner" in 2010.[2][3]

    Ya, totally equivalent.

    Sit the fuck down.

  • YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

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  • I honestly have no issue there. My issue is the claim that such atrocities don't happen in democratic institutions.

    I can't recall any democratic countries, fragile or not, that can hold a candle to the atrocities committed by Joseph Stalin.

    Can you point out the equivalent that we should look at in this case of whataboutism? Since we're talking about millions being killed by Joseph Stalin, what are the comparables?

  • YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

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  • Looks around.Is that what you gotta tell yourself?

    Why do lemmy.ml users get hysterical when Joseph Stalin is described accurately?

  • Why the fuck does it cost money to get smarter??

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  • I'm saying education doesn't always equal a degree.Yes, some fields should have formal education, but what people pay is not for the education, it's the experience of the instuctors, tools, class material, ect. Those are what we are paying for

    Tl;dr: you posted a banal platitude with a definite implication, and are now being made to walk back and diminish the scope of the intellectual turd you dropped.

    Both you, and everyone else reading this understands that my summary is accurate.

    We all know this to be true, as you literally invited it with your first message:

    I'm ready for those downvotes, but it's just a hardpill to swollow

    What a fucking lame way to get your dopamine.

  • Why the fuck does it cost money to get smarter??

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  • It's still free. You're not paying for the education, you are paying teachers and university buildings/materials. No one is stopping you from going to the library and learning. The internet hosts a large wealth of knowledge.I'm ready for those downvotes, but it's just a hardpill to swollow

    You're not actually saying anything useful here.

    While it is true that the desire to acquire knowledge comes from within, you're utterly disregarding how lack of access to educators, equipment, facilities, etc., can slow down or halt individual progress.

    You've also disregarded some rather serious regulatory issues; I don't go to self-taught doctors, and don't want self-taught engineers designing my bridges and airplanes.

  • 2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices

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  • Remember the 1936 Berlin Games?iirc the government went out of its way to be accommodating to all attendees.

    Banking on Trump being as coordinated and thoughtful as Hitler is not an overly wise way to reassure people.

  • 2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices

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  • It is legitimately dangerous to travel to the United States, because of state sanctioned violence.

    At least there's price gouging to offset concerns about personal safety, the very real possibility of being sent to a Concentration Camp, etc.

  • Cast iron rule

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  • Thank you!

  • Cast iron rule

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  • I saw some greentext about some list of caring for castioron/developing and maintaining seasoning. The list was some collection of a bunch of progressively more absurd tips. The comments were:

    I own cast iron, and none of these are true.

    I own cast iron, and all of these are true.

    I own cast iron,, and some of these are true.

  • Job losses might be likely due to AI but Nvidia's CEO says the booming billion-dollar industry will always need more plumbers and electricians

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  • Sounds like he's trying to jumpstart the Butlerian Jihad through taunting.

  • Humanity has to change how we solve disputes every so often to avoid people gaming it

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  • That's how you get "general secretaries" and "chairmen of military commission" who are totally not Supreme Leaders.

    President, king, politburo, commission, magnets, general secretary, whatever.

    Forget naming conventions, and limit the scope of power. When someone gets delusions of grandeur and tries to consolidate more power, remove them.

  • Humanity has to change how we solve disputes every so often to avoid people gaming it

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  • None of us are particularly talented at ruling, and when given power we tend to impose it on others.

    Limit personal wealth/power, make it difficult to entrenched, and make it easy for society to strip it from those who want to hoard it.

  • If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.?

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  • Every one of us is utterly replaceable, including the billionaires and multi-billionaires.

    For all the status quo that they push for, they don't actually do anything special.

    You could take the average billionaire, strip them of all their worth and hand it over to some millionaire, and basically nothing would change as far as the planet is concerned.

    This is not a scenario where we are all NPCs to their game. We are all players, but more to the point, they are as expendable and interchangeable as we are.

  • What is the best way small business' should use the Fediverse?

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  • I'd tread lightly, and be very thoughtful about if and how to deploy.

    If the business is niche, I'd consider finding the instance that best aligns with the business, and then check the temperature there.

  • What is in for the antivax in a government?

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  • It's all about control.

    If you can convince your cannon fodder to disregard their own health outcomes, you can convince them to go along with pretty much anything.

    Then you just hand them their marching orders, and they comply, regardless of their personal consequences.

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    Americans have been trained to hate foreigners by Fox News, which is owned by a foreigner.

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    Prince Andrew must be seething that Donald Trump gets to chug along like nothing happened.

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    Employees at Palantir probably don't like the idea of having their personal data harvested. But they are quite enthusiastic about collecting yours.

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    Donald Trump is going to make the troops at his birthday parade swear an oath of fealty to him during the event.

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    When a person follows you and watches your every move, it's called stalking. When companies like Meta do it, it's just called collecting user data.

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    In the digital age, it's going to be harder for ICE agents to hide their identities than it was for Nazis trying to evade justice post WW2.

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    Every non US market could impose their will, simply by banning imports of products that use, or reference SAE instead of metric.

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    The IOC probably hopes that countries other than Belarus, North Korea, Hungary and International Olympic Athletes will want to show up for the 2028 games.

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    Getting Nicole-ed feels way more awesome than how getting scammer spam usually feels.