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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Quite the powerful and convincing example you've cited there.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (5 children)

What evidence are you basing that assertion on?

[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (11 children)

Socialism is NOT whatever the hell this "sovereign citizen" stuff is.

Socialism is instead a democratization of the benefits of our collective labor.

Rather than permit the kings and nobles, billionaires, athletes, movie stars, politicians, and pop idols to take the lion's share - we use it to invest in our society, our collective well being.

You work? I do too. And so do the clerks at the gas stations and grocery stores - the brick layers and the office workers - we're all just working a job for a living.

For the ones that can't or don't want to work - Setting aside the murky definition of "work" - I'd rather they be fed, clothes, housed and warm, because it means safer lives for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter.

Even if the third party candidate was literally the best candidate possible in the eyes of every American - they still wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell at getting elected under a first past the post system.

We must enact and enforce a ranked choice voting system nationally, otherwise it will always come back to red vs blue, and a third party vote is electoral masturbation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Pro tip - egg wash first, THEN cut slits.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Education is anywhere from free to really cheap in Germany, and we still don't get many people from poorer families into uni.

I am not German myself, but I am familiar with the system. Please correct me if things have evolved, but...

I thought the post-elementary education system in Germany was a tiered system. University admission requires completing the Abitur exams, but one can only feasibly do this if they've attended Gymnasium, or the "highest" tier of high school. It may be possible to do if one gets very high marks in Realschule (mid tier), along with Abitur preparation courses, but it's virtually impossible if one attends Hauptschule (lowest tier). These schools are not intended to provide university preparation, but instead provide a general education to prepare students for trades/vocational careers.

Whether a child attends Hauptschule, Realschule, or Gymnasium is decided at 9 or 10 years old, and is dependent on performance in elementary classes and teacher recommendations.

And when one considers that a child's educational performance is directly related to both familial socioeconomic status and parental educational attainment, it's not surprising that poorer people are less likely to attend or complete university.

Capitalists' dominant position within the class hierarchy necessitates exploitation of the working class, and this is maintained by fomenting division. This tiered system is just one manifestation of how society can be stratefied and divided.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hey you're that cockroach-milk dude(tte)!

Would also have been great if they included visual stimuli with daylight scenes as controls.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are you glad because I'm not very inventive, or because my description demonstrates I'm disturbed?

And I have so many additional questions.

  1. Do they feed this secretion to the live young?
  2. If yes, wouldn't that technically make them mammals?
  3. Is the milk harvested before or after live birth?
  4. If before, where is egg/larva sack, anatomically?
  5. If in abdomen, how separate are these organs - in other words, are we talking like milk sack, reproductive sack - stick the needle filter too far one way and you've missed the milk and got larvae - or is it like a liquefied mess in there, and that's why they need the filter?

I can go on, but man this is weird...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did you not see the video of the guy wearing his new tim apple ski goggles, in his semi-self driving Tesla cyber truck?

What makes you think people can behave?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not really sure what point you're making, but really do appreciate the documentary shared.

I look at this in the same way that I deal with dementia patients. Oh wow, that's very interesting, hey I think "price is right" is on TV, let's get you to the couch, and I'll go get your lunch.

Why are we letting illogical opinion carry the same weight as tenured legal expertise and documented objective evidence?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Oh no ... Anyways

Why should I care that the MAGAt gravy seal wing of y'all qaida get drone striked into oblivion?

They're anti-american traitors, draping themselves in the American flag.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (9 children)

What the fuck did I just read.

If I had an ounce of skill as an artist I'd draw the image evoked by your 13 words.

Tiny milking machines hooked up to billions of restrained cockroaches, extracting their milky secretions.

God damnit

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