bastion 1w ago • 100%
Sirin audiobook reader.
bastion 1w ago • 100%
You've been savagely attacked by an internet monster.
bastion 1w ago • 100%
Absofuckinglutely. This is what I do, and what she does, though our methods of exploration vary.
bastion 1w ago • 100%
The majority will act, in time. But it acts as a surge of repressed feeling. Once spent, it loses focus.
Any real, functional system must incorporate the standing focus that authoritarian systems hold, but have capacity to be utilized by the people to enact their will.
bastion 1w ago • 16%
Capitalist action to support communist ideals.
Analysis of true, lifetime cost tacked onto the purchase price.
bastion 1w ago • 100%
Interestingly enough, it's not the ideals of communism that are the problem. Doing things by and for the people is good.
It's the feasibility of communism that is the problem. "Fascism pretending to be communism" is the problem. Communism is easily hacked.
That's not to say capitalism is great - it fails because it lacks ideals.
bastion 1w ago • 100%
Your comment has been noticed and new bots are inbound. Close your doors.
bastion 1w ago • 80%
How's that communism going, guys?
bastion 2w ago • 66%
This is fine.
bastion 2w ago • 66%
What was that old adage: "i may not hold the opinion you do, but I will defend your right to hold that opinion."
I suppose my view on it is similar:
If you believe that a psychological stance should be punished physically, it might behoove you to realize that you are only permitted to hold that opinion by the good graces of those who, rightly, stand ready to destroy you if you try to enforce that view physically.
bastion 2w ago • 100%
Clearly they watch it because they enjoy causing terror. They're basically putting themselves in the shoes of the antagonist, and these movies make our more likely that they will take action on these impulses.
bastion 2w ago • 100%
Physical crimes need to be addressed physically.
Psychological crimes need to be addressed psychologically.
bastion 2w ago • 66%
Your psycho-pass is clouding, and your crime coefficient is well over 100.
bastion 2w ago • 100%
Absofuckinglutely.
Toxic positivity leads to omnipresent, convoluted negativity. Just feel what's there. Let the thoughts run their course.
Of course, actually discovering that this is viable is kindof a dice throw of readiness. But at least if you don't have the necessary experience, you live the necessary experience.
bastion 2w ago • 100%
OP: rants at and treats self like a little bitch
Also OP: why am I tired?
bastion 2w ago • 41%
The left has a lot of hostility in general. Towards men, towards centrists, towards white people, and towards the right.
As a centrist, it's really disappointing to see, because at this time when the right has dropped the ball and sacrificed stability and moral soundness for power and populism, we need the left to be welcoming people with open arms, educating them, and encouraging voting in general.
Instead, there's scorn and rejection, and denial of that scorn and rejection if it's brought up - or even just doubling down on "they deserve it".
And so, they feed their opposition, because they can't take the time to find a common ground. Being seen to be "the right one" is more important to them - and they'll "win" their way into a hole.
Is it the left's fault the right are like an infested cricket hopping to its watery demise? No. But it's their fault they rely on the easy lies of hate - that their position is morally superior, and so people who don't agree are shit. Anything you're accused of, just point at the whipping boy, and whip harder, because the right are so clearly wrong, you don't have to inspect your own life.
Eventually, people will wake up. ..or, one side will "win", and try to suppress the views of the other, which will eventually pop up again anyways, because of the duality in the human mind. In either case, after a while, we'll rinse and repeat.
bastion 2w ago • 71%
You: has a very reasonable take
Lemmy: downvotes
bastion 2w ago • 100%
Little braveries keep the world turning. But every one is hard in the moment.
bastion 2w ago • 100%
It's not that we had enough power to guarantee we would make an impact. It's that we had enough power that we should have tried.
This awful creature was, according to my partner, found under or black walnut tree, attached to or emerging from the neck of a very-recently killed bunny that the dog had (killed within the last ~15m). Any idea what it is? More pics available. It's not smooth like a slug/leech, but has a textured surface. It looks like a grub, but what would a grub be doing attached to a bunny? It has an obvious mouth and anus. She described the mouth part as "hexagonal", which she saw open while it was alive, coming off of or out of the Bunny's neck (it was in or by by a wound it didn't necessarily inflict). I think it's probably just congealed evil and should be thrown into a fire, along with everything it touched except the puppy, and that's how it's going to get me. My opinion is obviously tongue-in-cheek, but what is this really?