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acargitz

@ theacharnian @lemmy.ca

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    Why is there always one?

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  • If condemnation of apartheid and genocide is divisive, then maybe that's a useful division to bring to the foreground. I don't understand what it is that you see as the problem here. Can you explain?

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    Why is there always one?

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  • Installing a browser in the big 2025

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  • Why would anyone install a proprietary freeware browser?

  • If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?

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  • I like you ask in hypotheticals.

    Resist now.

  • Least fragile sponsor

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  • What's a service you’ve been using forever that hasn’t enshitified?

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  • All 30 if us who play it agree.

  • Movie with female lead that protects weak adult male

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  • Steven Universe too!

  • Do you have a strong opinion on the death penalty?

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  • Yup. It should not be a thing.

  • What is that one alcohol that you had a bad experience with, that you can’t even stand the smell of now?

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  • Vodka 25 years ago.

  • Are Gazan gofundme (and similar) profiles legit?

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  • "bOtH sIdEs GaRbAgE"

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  • A stick is an essential part of an axe but not a sufficient one. And the same handle can be used to make different tools. Axes, hammers, mallets, etc. And you can use a stick for non aggressive tasks, like a measurement stick, or a door prop, or a tiny pole for a tiny tent for Chihuahuas. And even when used as a weapon, well you tell me if you'd rather battle a fighter wielding an axe or one wielding just the handle of an axe.

  • "bOtH sIdEs GaRbAgE"

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  • Isn't there? The handle is basically just a stick.

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    without abolishing religion, true freedom can never be achieved

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  • Too tired to figure out if you're trying to call me a tankie or not.

  • "bOtH sIdEs GaRbAgE"

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  • Your line is the soviet line before Barbarossa. Are we really going to re-litigate WW2 here?

    Edit: lol, you want a meme? The top panel would be the bourgeois/Democrats+traditional-GOP using a water cannon on the working class. The bottom panel would be the fascists/MAGA-Republicans using an actual cannon. Like I said, a meaningful difference.

    Edit2: your meme by the way, absolutely accurate up until about 2024.

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    without abolishing religion, true freedom can never be achieved

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  • Under imperialist capitalism, this is turned into laïcité that is then weaponized against the other.

  • "bOtH sIdEs GaRbAgE"

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  • This is silly. There is a meaningful difference between bourgeois democracy and fascism.

  • George Galloway detained at airport under Terrorism Act

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  • Given what we know about the Palestine Action fiasco, this is entirely ludicrous. That's what I said too.

  • George Galloway detained at airport under Terrorism Act

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  • Given what we know about the Palestine Action fiasco, this is entirely ludicrous.

    That said, Galloway is a racist bizarro grifter: https://youtu.be/DOqF1Xs8gzU

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  • One of the most interesting explanations I've seen is that Western Europe was politically fragmented just enough so that big enough entities were competing with each other for dominance. So there was no central authority strong enough to pacify it, and the individual states were powerful enough to mobilize resources, creating a competitive power race. It was in trying to beat each other that they reached out and colonized the rest of the world.

    Edit: I'm thinking now how during the apex of pax Americana, space exploration really subsided for example. When the US and the USSR were competing it was on. Now that US hegemony is declining, it's seems to be on again. Too strong of a political unification keeps the centrifugal forces in check.

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  • The idea of conquering the world was Persian. Alexander just took over what Persia what already conquered.