PugJesus

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11mo ago

Holodomor denial left up in a comm where the only two mods are dbzer0 admins, they both participated in the thread, the material was reported, it was specifically pointed out to one of them, and the comm regularly removes Zionist genocide apologia and denial under the (legitimate) justification that genocide denial is against the rules

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PugJesus @lemmy.world

11mo ago

"I feel the immense pain of how hard all victims are fighting for themselves because we know absolutely no one will fight for us. GOD BLESS ALL SURVIVORS."

Will she fight for them, or will her GOP affiliation win out?

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PugJesus @lemmy.world

11mo ago

That sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. OnlyFans as-is struggles with accountability, appropriate age, and verifiable consent. Imagine that with a decentralized system of enforcement and accountability.

PugJesus @lemmy.world

11mo ago

The ultimate fix-fic

PugJesus @lemmy.world

11mo ago

Saxon customs on facial hair, one presumes. Many Germanic peoples of this period wore thick mustaches as a cultural affectation, and depict themselves/are depicted with such.

Fun fact: there's no Classical Latin word for mustache. The term 'Gothic Beard' ('barbam Gothicam') is suspected to refer to it.

PugJesus @lemmy.world

11mo ago

Perfection

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PugJesus @lemmy.world

11mo ago

Capitalism is simply a system where the ownership of capital is primarily by an investor class using limited liability corporations in a market system.

Given insufficient restraints, the investor class will act in their own interests - that is to say, calcifying their control over capital through the use of clientism and legal force, just as pre-capitalist aristocracies did, up to and including detachment from the market. Capitalist elites do not care about capitalism. Capitalism is the ladder (however unfair and cruel that ladder is, mind you) that they pull up behind them once they achieve success.

Elites always want to become an aristocracy, and given enough time and power, they will become an aristocracy in a society that refuses to confront them, and dismantle capitalism - again, itself not exactly a humane system - to implement an even more oppressive apparatus in its place.

Unfortunately, dismantling capitalism is easier than dismantling an aristocracy. If they succeed, the task of left-wing anticapitalists becomes harder rather than easier.

PugJesus @lemmy.world

11mo ago

Me, a contractor, warily eyeing the skeleton next to me:

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PugJesus @lemmy.world

11mo ago

I haven't even seen Arcane and I still know that's it's slow burn femslash fanfic

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PugJesus @lemmy.world

11mo ago

Yeah, don't fucking come here. Not now, not in the future. We can't be trusted again for a very long time - longer than just an election or two.

PugJesus @lemmy.world

11mo ago

Fantastic idea, I hope it becomes mainstream. I've been meaning to try plant-based meat alternatives for a while, for environmental reasons.

PugJesus @lemmy.world

11mo ago

One thing people like to forget is that the laws reinforcing union rights were a compromise offered to labor. An agreement - "We will use the state's force to protect certain means of resistance under certain circumstances in exchange for those being the primary means of negotiation with capital"

Breaking that compromise strips labor of its incentives to follow those laws.

It would seem the current set of bourgeois fuckwits in power need to be reminded what labor radicalism can look like.

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PugJesus @lemmy.world

11mo ago

Six months ago I would have agreed. Six months ago I was resolute that ownership should be tied to training and membership in some well-regulated militia.

I think one of the core disagreements here may relate to usage. My thinking is that firearms are most useful in situations where the left-resistance has a pre-existing plan to use them, while 'reactive' scenarios - like your home getting raided by ICE - firearms are less useful (not completely without use - but less useful).

When ICE breaks down your doors in the middle of the night, or swarms into your workplace just before lunchtime, they have chosen the time, the place, the circumstances. The chances of you being prepared enough to make a difference, even if armed, is fucking slim. It's the same reason that irregular resistance so often opts for ambushes.

Where guns are most useful would be pre-planned confrontations in public, retributive acts, or active participation in a resistance militia.

I think our main split is in how paranoid we are that acquisition will be considerably more difficult post-SHTF.

That too. I'm of the opinion that shit hitting the fan will lead to more firearm proliferation through unofficial channels, rather than less. Especially in a country as bizarrely armed as our's.

My wife is an immigrant, legal citizen who “did it the right way” but how long is that gonna matter? We’ve crossed my threshold, when optimism gives way to paranoia. I don’t know when it’s going to be too late, and I don’t really want to be on the wrong side of finding out

I have family and friends in the same scenario as your wife. I hope, for all our sakes, that it never comes to that, as dark as things seem now.

If it does, I hope your preparations make the difference, legitimately.

PugJesus @lemmy.world

11mo ago

What’s the public mood? It’s a big country and everyone is affected differently. Those who joined army in '22 are drained because there is no end date to their service. Those who found themselves a job that has protection from mobilisation can live more or less normal live, except for sleepless nights due to shahed bombings. Those who are falling into mobilisation group are highly nervous and generally try to avoid going out of home unless needed.
Exhaustion is high, but what’s an alternative? I don’t see the will to accept surrender.

Understandable. Thank you for your insight into the matter.

All my hopes are for an eventual Ukrainian victory leading to a lasting and just peace.

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PugJesus @lemmy.world

11mo ago

I think that no country should impose the death penalty in its domestic court systems.

I think that there should be international courts who can still do so 😊

I just want to see fascists swinging in Nuremburg again, is that really so much to ask for?

PugJesus @lemmy.world

11mo ago

What bizarre creatures autocrats are.