mufasio @ mufasio @lemmygrad.ml

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Just let us get out all of the WHHHHHITE people and then you can continue your genocide

He addresses that in an interview with Democracy Now: https://youtu.be/wiGp2mvFLY0

Two downvotes and no comments on a post titled “UN Child Rights Committee condemns killing of children in Gaza Strip”. I wonder why they don’t want to speak up and defend their position? Fucking scum

McCarthyism 2.0

The decision to call the police was difficult for Bettersten. She did not trust them. In 2019, her 62-year-old brother died after a Jackson officer slammed him to the ground. The officer was convicted of manslaughter but is appealing.

How about this? Once you reach $1b in cash and assets, regardless of where that cash and assets are parked, you get a trophy saying “Congratulations you did it!”, and then we take the remainder of your cash and assets and use it for the advancement of humanity. Providing food, water, and shelter for every human being on the earth. We use it to build high speed rail and local transit infrastructure that is free or low cost. We can even name them after you and put up statues. We use it to provide healthcare and education to everyone. At the end of every year, if you have >$1b in combined cash and assets then you get to fill out a form saying which combination of the cash and assets you want to keep up to $1b, and the rest is given to the state.

This is the peaceful, “reasonable” option that even liberals should be able to get behind. But they will make excuses about how they deserve it and the policy is wrong even as they are being exploited.

I’ll take the downvotes as a sign that I am an out of touch millennial when it comes to present day F1. Don’t worry, I’ve already unsubscribed, I’m done. But for a moment, imagine a sport that was the true pinnacle of Motorsport. There is a “formula” for the car. For example, it has to be open wheel, it can produce X amount of horsepower or KWh, open cockpit but you keep the halo or anything else for safety, it has to fit within these limits for minimum and maximum length and width, and there are a whole list of specific restrictions to prevent expensive loopholes previously found in the rule set that led to meaningless arms races for tenths of a second. But otherwise you let teams go wild. Maybe a budget cap, but why not turbo charged V-6’s against naturally aspirated V-10’s against electric motors all producing the same amount of energy? Make it a true engineering sport where the top automotive engineers in the world along with the top drivers in the world try to produce the fastest car within the formula. Make the formula able to be broadly interpreted to encourage real innovation and each year reevaluate the rules allowing the participants to vote equally to encourage more equitable competition from year to year and to discourage expense explosion. As the costs for new technology comes down, re-evaluate whether it should be reintroduced or whatever. You know what fans want to see? Top drivers racing in the same car on their favorite tracks. You know what makes good, natural, relatable, exciting drama? Engineers, drivers, professionals operating at their peak. The rules should encourage that, and if the owners want to spice up the “show”, why not also support the classic tracks that fans love by having extra spec races on Saturdays? It can carry points, but make it actually exciting to watch instead of a mediocre repeat of what we are going to see on Sunday. This shit is just off the top of my head by a disaffected fan for the last decade that can come up with better ideas to improve the sport while I am half drunk and high than the owners that have turned it into little more than professional wrestling for billionaires, oligarchs, and authoritarians. I guess it’s always been that, but damn, at least it used to be more entertaining.

So awesome having qualifying on a Friday while people are working. Thank you Liberty Media for ruining F1. I used to watch every minute of every session, preseason testing when they bother to film it, follow off season rumors, you name it since 2011. This year I promised myself I was done with F1 but have mostly followed qualifying results and even watched a few first laps and final laps. But there’s been what? One race worth watching this season. I bet everyone subscribed here can name it. Maybe this is what people want, the viewership numbers and money seems to be pointing to so, but the sport has left me behind at some point in the past five years.

I’ve been waiting for a ryzen framework laptop since spring 2021. I’m in batch 1 and can’t wait to get my hands on it. I’m sure they will have these BIOS/firmware issues sorted out by launch, and I’ve been waiting this long so a couple more weeks isn’t that big of a deal.

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ok boomer

Thanks for the discussion and that quote is a good reminder that it is my love for the people that makes me a Marxist. Everyone that sees this thread and hasn’t seen The Motorcycle Diaries should put it on their list, it played an important part in my early radicalization.

There’s a lot more I could and want to say but probably shouldn’t. But I just want to finish by saying that we would be so lucky to be in our 60s or 70s and living in a world shaped in the image of our politics and to have the younger generations yelling at us to shut up because we are out of touch. I hope that we both see that day comrade.

We are all the result of our material conditions. Which is why as marxists we should assess groups of people that are useful for propagandizing and radicalizing to our cause. And “old people” are the last group I would be focusing on and that I would expect to have success with. Yeah, most boomers aren’t capitalists but most of them support capitalist interests even when it goes against their own interests. They are too far gone and shouldn’t be trusted as a group to support the cause. If that hurts some boomers’ feelings, then honestly, shut the fuck up and go talk to your peers and convince them to quit fucking over the planet.

How many boomers told you that you would become more conservative when you got older? I don’t know about you but I’ve only become more radicalized and I can see the same thing among my fellow millennials even the ones that don’t have class consciousness. And the zoomers are doing even better. We are all the result of our material conditions and boomers as a whole were given opportunities that they stripped from their children and future generations. Even now as we sit in the crumbling ashes of late stage capitalism they still support the same failed policies that got us here in the first place and are eagerly embracing fascism. Understand your enemy, and never underestimate their contempt for you.

Correlating age with political beliefs is a fucking pseudoscience

I stopped reading here. No it’s not, it’s call statistical trends that have held up and gotten more right wing over decades. Yes, not all old people deserve the wall, but until a majority of them stop being selfish class traitors they deserve no sympathy or compassion. They, as a whole, are reactionaries who have had a “got mine, fuck everyone else” attitude their entire political lives. They have raped the earth and the global south and left their children and grandchildren with a lower standard of living and honestly only grim outlook for the coming decades. And overwhelmingly they still continue to show no remorse, no understanding of the death and destruction they are wreaking on the world, and so they deserve no compassion and should be treated as enemies just as any reactionary.

I’ll trust the nuclear scientists that say that the release is safe, but there should be a transparent international panel, including China which has concerns about the release into fishing waters, that is given access to conduct their own tests with all parties agreeing to release their findings.

I honestly think less of anyone still using it, including most of my coworkers and many people on the left that I otherwise respect. It’s literally the largest nazi propaganda site on the internet right now.

https://youtu.be/8uGGeV8A-BM?si=x1fLe4V_di5xObx2

My current car is an ‘07 Yaris too. It’s also totally bare bones including manual windows and locks and no cruise control (the only feature I sometimes wish it had). It’s economical and much funner to try drive than most bigger cars, trucks, and SUVs. And on multiple occasions I have been able to parallel park it in tight spots that cars in front of me had to pass on.

Western weapons manufacturers and their shareholders are winning pretty big right now.