fosforus

@fosforus@sopuli.xyz

politics: green/libertarian

geo: anti-r***ia, anti-religious extremism, anti-fascist, anti-trump

gaming since 1986

linuxing since 1996

psych: drinking too much coffee, wasting too much time and energy in here

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fosforus,

I thought there was definite leftness there, I feel like it was perhaps more moderate, balanced, and based on facts. But perhaps I just grew up.

fosforus, (edited )

As an 80s kid, before I learned a few things about how the world works, fear was very much one of the top feelings I got when near guys I knew were gay. Perhaps you youngsters got to skip that phase.

I never translated that to hate, though. I don’t exactly understand how that process even works. I’ve hated a few individual people in my life (100% because of what they did to me), and I feared none of them.

fosforus, (edited )

Children don’t generally take responsibility of anything: adults do.

fosforus, (edited )

Your comment suggests that you are completely immoral and thoroughly evil. Please stop talking to me as long as those two things are true.

fosforus, (edited )

Well, you’re not wrong, but what I replied to (“don’t know what capitalism is” and “are rent seekers”) wasn’t exactly filled with nuance, either.

fosforus, (edited )

What were you promised? Like, owning a home? Home ownership rates in the US have been in the 63-70% range during all of 1966-2023, almost completely stable. Local purchasing power is #5 in the world for americans. What exactly is the problem over there?

We in Europe are having it much worse if you look at the data, especially now when Russia is being fucking Russia.

fosforus,

Or perhaps we know history and economics.

fosforus, (edited )

You’re implying that the meme “capitalism bad” has amazing amounts of nuance.

fosforus,

Reality seems to again be more like Aldous Huxley than George Orwell. We will pay to get these things in our heads eventually.

fosforus,

Israel is not apartheid, and it’s obviously not committing genocide. Hamas is for genocide.

fosforus, (edited )

I’m guessing you’re gonna say that there is no genocide if not all or most of the people are killed, because then their people have survived. But, genocide also incorporates cultural genocide.

No, I’m saying that population doesn’t grow during a genocide.

That’s the fate the Israeli state wants for Palestine. It is still technically genocide.

But… Palestinian Arabs are >20% of the population of Israel. You’re making absolutely no sense.

fosforus,

Does it really sound like that? Should you perhaps try to steelman my argument in your head?

fosforus, (edited )

They are bombing Hamas terrorists, their enemy, not refugees. You must remember that Hamas fighters and civilians look exactly the same, and they deliberately lurk among the civilians. This is obviously not genocide.

I’ll give you a hint in form of a question that may lead you towards the truth: What happens to the amount of population in a genocide?

fosforus,

I feel like there’s some weird context here. Why does Stefanik want to get that “yes” and why are they reluctant to say it? Would it be a declaration of some university policy that would lead to suppressing the demonstrations or what?

fosforus,

I don’t get all the Apple hate from the Linux community.

Being poor hurts. Distributing hurt makes it feel better.

fosforus,

I’m uplifted too when people I strongly dislike die, but I wouldn’t post such things here.

fosforus,

Oh come on, that is such a lazy argument. I suppose you’re an economics PhD then?

fosforus, (edited )

What, genuinely, is unpleasant to imagine about a Stateless, Classless, Moneyless society?

That attempts to implement it invariably lead to shit, apparently.

fosforus, (edited )

If you’re looking for a thoughtful legal analysis, you should check this out: thenation.com/…/harvard-law-review-gaza-israel-ge…

This seemed like a high quality analysis by a respectable academic, then the very first source I checked out turned out to be an amazing exaggeration. The article states

Tens of thousands are injured, and over 45% of homes in Gaza have been destroyed.

So I check the source, which is a paywalled WSJ article. Already the title of the article is

At Least 45% of Housing Units Destroyed or Damaged in Gaza

Destroyed or damaged. Should I check the other sources for similar “mistakes”? Perhaps I just got lucky and found the only bullshit reference from this article written by a Harvard Law School PhD graduate?

Or perhaps Harvard Law Review was onto something when they didn’t publish it and I would be wasting my time looking through all of them instead of just trusting them on this.

I’m very comfortable calling the campaign against Gaza in the last few weeks genocide

Why?

fosforus, (edited )

Netanyahu has gone on record saying he has helped prop Hamas up in order to sow division between Gaza and the West Bank.

Do you have a source for this? I couldn’t find it, although this was pretty close: timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-…

fosforus,

A standard political compass.

fosforus,

Children: uhh, it’s now even worse

fosforus,

Like, adl.org/…/fringe-left-groups-express-support-hama…

But I guess you wanted me to explicitly say that “some left” are doing that. That’s fine. It is indeed a fringe portion of the left, and also not everybody on the right are hateful nazis.

fosforus,

You should check out how my workdays go. They’re mythological!

fosforus,

I was feeling the last part had some more story behind it so I went ahead and found this:

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/bad10f85-869c-4bb2-a0ca-cfd0e9bcc83e.png

Seems like I’m a full-blown woke communist too

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