PhilipTheBucket

This wasn't your question exactly, but here, a good horror movie for you:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8hpcx5

"Pikunikku" from 1996 is supposed to be pretty good too.

I mean, it is going up. Every year that goes by when that chart is above the 0 mark, is additional damage when the systems are already to their breaking point. We're still hitting the patient every day with a hammer. We're not healing him. We're just hitting a little less hard, but not by much, as the days pass and pass, and he's already shattered.

So many things got put into place under Obama and Biden that our emissions are actually reducing, and thank God for that. But it's not enough for them to go slightly down. It's a sliver of morphine, maybe, once a month as his bones are still splintered.

Got it. I tried to watch the movie but I wasn't into it. I may check out the comics, they are clearly a masterpiece. Sometimes you don't have to look at too much of something to tell.

@shplane@lemmy.world @sunzu2@thebrainbin.org I can't see sunzu's posts, presumably because they're instance-banned for propaganda or something, but shplane asked a question about "when did AOC sell out to Israel" that has a really important answer, and so being unable to post a direct reply I'm just making it at top level.

So, what happened was that a while back MTG introduced an amendment to one of those big horrifying money-for-war bills that every so often passes through the US congress and unleashes a really unfathomable amount of tangible suffering on the world, without much more than a few hours' attention being paid to it at all either inside or outside congress. MTG's amendment would have removed a small amount of funding for Israel including a grant which is used among other things for some of their "defensive" weapons for civilian areas, while leaving intact the waterfall of money for their offensive weaponry. AOC voted no on that amendment, along with practically everyone else, and then said some dumb shit about why she did.

Of course, later on, she voted no for the massive funding bill which spent $830 billion on various types of killing, including $6 billion for Israel for offensive weapons.

Some people seized on that single vote and claimed that it overshadowed her no vote on the main bill, her protests in favor of Palestine, her attempts to block funding for Israel in ways that were a lot less stupid than MTG's amendment (to the point that at one point Biden got mad at her personally and they had a meeting about it or something, because she was materially gumming up the works), basically all of her support for Palestine which is super rare in the US congress. They're still talking about how bad she betrayed Palestine. It becomes a whole narrative, where she's now pro-genocide irrevocably forever, and if you challenge them on it, they can run and hide behind the fact that she did, in fact, vote against that amendment, and so it's proved now. She's bad. Don't vote for her.

For some reason, this only happens to the left-est of left politicians. You will never heard someone randomly start cursing about how big an asshole Joe Manchin was when he did absolutely incalculable damage to the planet by blocking the first iteration of the IRA. No, you will only hear these kind of neatly-packaged reasons not to support a left politician deployed and repeated (there are only like 10-20 of them, you start to see them repeat after a while if you pay attention) against the leftest of the bunch.

Wonder why.

Trump’s biographer Michael Wolff previously said on The Daily Beast Podcast that the president has a less-than-flattering nickname for one of his most loyal henchmen: “Weird Stephen.”

Honestly, even with his brain mostly rotted away now, little glimpses of Trump's idiot-savant ability to bully at a grandmaster level can still shine through sometimes.

Is this "Weird Tales"? I found some of them in a comics collection when I was little and some of the stories fucked with me.

they're fascists with different messaging

Biden: Claims he's going to close Gitmo, releases 25 detainees leaving 15 in custody thus reneging on his promise

Trump: Expands Gitmo to 30,000 and makes dozens of little mini-Gitmo black sites all across the US, actively works to put people into them literally as fast as he can make his rapidly expanding machinery ramp up, soon to potentially include you or me, our US citizen passports may stop working, too.

FlashMobOfOne: Literally the same picture

I honestly can't think of a reason you would claim this other than to try to work to shove the edges of the Lemmy hivemind's Overton window. There are not going to be people who believe you on this, you're talking like we are not inside the US watching it all happen right now.

Honestly, the fact that people are still trying to claim there is no "clear difference" should be a wake up call that it was always just a bunch of shit. I can maybe understand someone from before the election, just ignorant of how things were going to play out, or just wrapped up in a certain ideology or upset about the Democrats in general which is 100% understandable, something like that. At this point in the present though, it's either total self-delusion or dishonesty on purpose. It's like banging the table and swearing the sky is red and the ocean is malted milk.

Unless you've spent time around these people, it is almost impossible to really grasp how little understanding they have of factual reality.

I guarantee you they all think the left killed Charlie Kirk. Their whole picture of the world is formed from absolutely insane Republican propaganda. They probably don't even really encounter the "theory" that the assassin was sent by anyone else, but when they do see it in passing, it can be safely discounted like lemmy.ml discounts Wikipedia, because the whole media is a ~~NATO~~ liberal lie machine that's just designed to destroy them. And they all get together with each other and aggressively reinforce to each other the model they've been given. It gives them a warm feeling of belonging, because there is almost no community or brotherhood in American society in the present day, and so they're getting something they need way deep deep down in their soul, from being able to get together and feel like they're on the same team with trusted allies against a genuine threat, and talk together and get amped up facing all in the same direction and feel together.

The left killed Charlie Kirk. Biden stole the election. The planes are crashing because of DEI. Michelle Obama is a man. Kids are peeing in litter boxes at school. The left is doing post-birth abortions, or pushing the babies back up into the mother so they can kill it and call it an abortion. Men are joining women's sports and going into women's bathrooms and saying they're "transgender" and it's a horrifying threat, the little girls are getting beat up when they just want to do sports. Covid was mostly just a bad cold that the pharmaceutical companies made into a big deal, and the vaccine is killing people.

It's just a nonstop avalanche of nonsense, and they all think it's all true. Every word. Another thing that American society has denied to them is a solid grasp on the world outside, an understanding of history and the forces that are shaping their daily lives. They definitely know that the life they live isn't the way it's supposed to be. But they don't really have the critical thinking skills they would need in order to poke holes in this whole explanation they get for why that is (which they get inundated with), and they would pay a punishing social cost if they ever started questioning even the elements that really don't make much sense. But most of it genuinely makes sense to them. They hear it every day at loud, loud volume, and they don't hear much else.

And part of what they know for sure is who to blame: You and me. We ruined the world they worked so hard to build, and now we're openly assassinating their leaders. And so why wouldn't they fight "back"?

It is not partisan to take note of the fact that one team keeps assassinating people, and it's weird that it suddenly turned into a big deal now because they assassinated one of their own instead of just assassinating Democrats as normal.

Is your impression that Biden and Trump were pretty much the same from the standpoint of the average wage worker? Because they were fucking night and day. Even on wages, not counting that a lot of those wage workers are at risk of getting ambushed by ICE and sent to some kind of horrifying Kafka prison. Along any axis you want to look at, there is a clear difference, I have no idea how you can try to claim there is not.

I don't actually think any of this is super relevant to the somewhat more urgent conversation "One side thinks it's okay to assassinate their domestic enemies, celebrated even, and the other does not," but even in the terms you chose to reframe it in, there is a clear difference.

Before anyone knew? That is definitely not true.

Here's the video:

https://x.com/TheDeskDotNet/status/1965939360592965736

I kind of wish there was more of the lead-up to it, but that's easily enough context to see that they knew he'd been shot. I do sort of get the point he was trying to get at, but the way he said it was clearly a horrifying joke, you can sort of see the anchor's shock as she's saying right after that it is confirmed that Kirk was shot (i.e. there is no uncertainty, just in case anyone wasn't clear). The chyron says he was shot. Dowd immediately transitions to talking about "hateful deeds" right after.