mozz

@ mozz @mbin.grits.dev

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And the voices. "Billy..."
"You fucked the whole thing up."
"Billy, your time is up."
"Your time... is up."

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago
You missed a golden opportunity for a subtle and unnecessary joke by making it Kicking Dogs Party and Supporting Dogs Party
Or... IDK... Kissing Dogs Party and Ned's Stabbing Dogs Always Party. With Supporting Dogs Party as the middle.
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Just me?

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The dems are absolutely still corporate dogshit.

Most of them, yes. Hey, quick question, what's happened to corporate taxes, and working-class wages adjusted for inflation, over the last 4 years? How has the NLRB's role in economic life changed, and what have the results been?

Speaking of putting people in boxes, everyone criticizing from the left is a secret trump supporter, and lying about their values.

Not everyone, no. The people raising objectively false criticism of the Democrats and occasionally accidentally saying "Democrat Party" or saying they make $400k a year and as a good communist, their big concern about the Democrats is that they're raising taxes and all you other communists should definitely feel the same way and stop supporting them -- those guys are secret Trump supporters, yes.

If you want to invest the time, read the whole thread and then come back and tell me that that person isn't (1) clearly lying, in a particularly hamfisted fashion, about why they don't want you to support the Democrats (2) not from the US or even familiar enough with it to be aware of how common or uncommon a $400k/yr salary is.

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Three things are happening:

It is easier to dismiss someone's argument outright if you can put them in a box without needing to engage with anything they're saying
Historically and particularly in the 1990s, Democrats were sort of corporate dogshit, so a lot of the left got used to opposing them (often bringing up MLK's "white moderates" speech)
There are a lot of shills on Lemmy who really want Trump to get elected, and do it by attacking the Democrats "from the left" with various dishonest talking points, and if you point out that any of what they're saying is objectively false, they will call you a centrist as a way of dismissing you (see point #1)

The center isn't automatically right (often in the American political spectrum it works out as the average of killing all the immgrants and free school lunch, which is not a happy central point to reach). But also, simply applying a label to someone and dismissing them doesn't automatically mean you're right either, no matter how popular it may be.

1y ago

What are some financial life-hacks everyone should know?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

This is a common talking point, totally dishonest in this case. What are you claiming the real inflation number should be, and why are you saying the prices of what real world goods went up by that amount? Like with citations and precise numbers.

1y ago

Which issue(s) do you want Harris/Walz to champion during Harris' presidency? (serious)

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

I feel a little weird about being your dancing monkey in terms of answering this question just because you singled me out and told me to, but sure:

The platform is a pretty good start; there's a lot in there about economic inequality and working on climate change which are two key priorities.

Most urgent things I would add to that:

Peacekeeping in Israel + Palestine backed up by force of US troops and/or UN peacekeepers. Y'all (meaning Israel) have had your chance at running things and you failed. Be thankful you're not in the dock in the Hague, now get the fuck out of Gaza; we start shooting in 6 hours if you're still here
Attempts to tamper with the ability of people to vote, or for their vote to count like it's supposed to (meaning having an impact in an unbiased and reasonable fashion), is a felony. Doesn't matter if you were a guy with a gun outside a drop box, a congressperson trying to pass a law, or a Supreme Court justice.
Speaking of which, there are some justices we should be impeaching. If we win enough of congress we can put them on trial at least; we may not be able to remove them but fuckin' hassle them. Absolutely nonstop. Make it a priority to make people's lives miserable if they're trying to destroy democracy. That is a dead serious statement.
Use the pre-Thatcher British solution for high rents: The government buys up a huge amount of property, rents it out at reasonable rates, which pierces the bubble so the rates from private landlords have to reduce also to stay competitive.

There are some other big things but that all is the most urgent I think. Even that is a pretty fuckin big list to be able to do.

Maybe something about internet propaganda, but I honestly don't see a real clear government-involved solution to that that I have any confidence in, is the only reason it's not on the list.

1y ago

What are some financial life-hacks everyone should know?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Pop quiz! What was cumulative inflation for the last 4 years, and what was the change in working class wages?

Basically what I’m asking is, did people get more poor, or less poor? Were there any specific government actions that led to this outcome?

1y ago

What's a phrase you hear a lot, but disagree with?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Ask me whether or not it happened in the one jurisdiction I’m aware of (and where the cops are generally perfectly professional in all interactions I’ve had with them)

1y ago

What are some financial life-hacks everyone should know?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

(*) may not apply in elections where the Republican wants to start a profit-conflagarating civil war

1y ago

What's a phrase you hear a lot, but disagree with?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Welcome to Lemmy 🥲

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What's a phrase you hear a lot, but disagree with?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

I wonder if that is in any way related to defunding the police so they have not enough resources

I am sure there are jurisdictions where the cops have calls for service waiting and are just chilling with coffee until the calls calm down, and then go there and more or less do nothing, yes. That's not been my experience -- when I witnessed domestic violence they rolled up pretty much instantly and grabbed the guy, a couple times when my friend had a mental health crisis they came and took her to the hospital. I can understand how having had different experiences could color someone's impression of the police differently.

That wasn't really my question though. What should happen? Reform of the police, higher standards and getting rid of the bums? Defunding the police and hoping that will make things better? No cops whatsoever? You're describing a problem (in regards to what happened with your friend); what is the solution to it?

1y ago

What's a phrase you hear a lot, but disagree with?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Yes, but I’m asking what you think. There are a variety of opinions on it.

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What's a phrase you hear a lot, but disagree with?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Hey, what happened when the wrong people started winning elections in Iraq when we set up democracy there?

“That’s TOTALLY DIFFERENT”

1y ago

What's a phrase you hear a lot, but disagree with?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

What if someone breaks in your house, or drives drunk? What should happen?

What is the solution? No cops at all? Police reform? What?

1y ago

How do you make someone understand that being drafted by force and ordered to invade another country is not a good thing?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Do you see any scenario where the IDF can allow itself to truly stop Innocent people? A soldier is being fired at from a school, should the soldier allow himself to get killed in such situation?

The whole concept is bankrupt. An IDF soldier is being fired at from a school because he is on Palestinian land, occupying it by force to maintain the land that was stolen from the Palestinians and facilitate the taking of more.

There are degrees. If he’s sniping schoolchildren, then that will inflame the conflict more and promote more October 7ths. If he’s “only” firing back at the school, so “defending” himself… well, it’s “better” I guess, but if you break in my house in the middle of the night and I attack you, you’re not “defending” yourself even if you limit yourself to fighting with me and not hurting my wife.

And vice versa, considering what you know about setlers in Israel, do you really think that they will not get even more violent in the west bank if they know that their actions has no cost?

Their actions don’t seem to have a cost though. Or rather the mechanism of retribution is so indirect and random that I don’t think that Hamas’s counterattacks make all that much difference to their calculus of what they can get away with doing to the Palestinians. I could be wrong, but that’s my impression.

And don't get me wrong, I wish for Hamas to vanish, and I wish for the IDF to kill only militants (even that definition is not clear), just like you. But I don't see any realistic scenario (considering the human spirit) that this can happen. Not in the current political situation.

Like I said, even “killing only militants” leaves Israel in the position of the war criminal. They are invading and stealing homes, farms, anything they can find and pushing the Palestinians into a vanishingly small series of refuges which they then invade in turn. Why would “militants” not fight back in that scenario? What should they do instead?

I do agree with your take on how unrealistic peace is in the present climate. It needs to be imposed from outside by force in order to happen, which won’t happen, because the US would need to be actively involved in making that happen and the US likes things more or less as they are (or at least as they were before the counterattack after October 7th got so genocidal that it started causing political issues for leaders in the US).

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How do you make someone understand that being drafted by force and ordered to invade another country is not a good thing?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

I don’t know a single person who was in the military who has good things to say about it.

After training, sure, they’re all for it. After doing the job for real (combat or not) and getting out, not a single time that I can remember.

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What's a phrase you hear a lot, but disagree with?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

“All’s fair in love and war”

No it isn’t you fucking sociopath

1y ago

What was "the incident" at your work place?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

I knew some people who would in a small jurisdiction have a friend go far from where they were doing crimes and light off a bunch of pop-pop-pop fireworks to draw police attention away from the less attention grabbing thing they were doing

Allegedly

1y ago

You are now in charge of Russia. How do you avoid falling out a window?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

You have none of his knowledge

Me: Hey how do I get out of this building? All these doors have key codes

Guy: Предъявите удостоверение личности, или я вас задержу.

Me: You don’t speak English?

Guy: Пойдём со мной.

Me: Hey let go of me

Me: Ow stop

1y ago

Which consumer grade printer should I buy?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

I have a Brother MFC-J1205W and I’m super happy with it. Idk about the Linux support side, but it fits all the other requirements, it was pretty cheap, + so far for me it’s been super reliable, cheap ink, and very high quality prints.

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What was "the incident" at your work place?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

One of my very first tech jobs, there was a guy who watched porn in his office, as far as I could tell just continuously. I saw the DNS logs so I was aware. I didn’t care as long as it wasn’t interfering with my ability to get things done.

One day I had to go in his office and talk to him about some of his code that was breaking, and he went OH and tried to hide all the blatant porn on his screen. Like dude I know. I don’t care. I am here to talk with you about your shitty code not your personal failings and issues; those are purely your own problem IMO.