probablyaCat

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[–] probablyaCat@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sealioning. I haven't heard of this before but this sounds like a very interesting phenomenon. Do you have more information? Is this a new term? Where did it originate?

[–] probablyaCat@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

Not interested. Let me know when we find the heavy metal aliens. Or David Bowie's home planet.

[–] probablyaCat@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago (9 children)

What a crock of shit. Practically every historian says it was caused by soviet policy. The only debate that occurs if whether it was due to stupidity or intentional genocide.

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I could keep going. Gonna tell me how the Holocaust was a lie too?

[–] probablyaCat@kbin.social -2 points 11 months ago (46 children)

Woohoo both systems suck. You can actually believe that just because one system is bad, what is considered the opposite is also bad. Marx was not some omniscient doctor manhattan. He had some ideas. Some were good critiques on capitalist culture. Others were fantasy that do not function in the real world.

[–] probablyaCat@kbin.social -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure there were extra houses after all those people that starved to death.

[–] probablyaCat@kbin.social -2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah those soviets sure got rid of the homeless problem. Can't be homeless when you were intentionally starved to death.

[–] probablyaCat@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I saw when that happened. I don't do the open sharing. But it is easy to identify me as a Jew plenty of other ways. Including online with things attached to my real name. So it is what it is.

[–] probablyaCat@kbin.social 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Yeah this doesn't bother me. And I tend to be a somewhat paranoid person. But I got convinced to do one of these by my partner. And so far, no regrets. They had some family surprises, but they don't regret it either. If they make some cool new meds with my DNA (honestly even if I have only the knowledge that they made meds from 23andme) I'm just going to go around saying hey that might have my DNA in it.

Just wait until you guys find out what they're really doing is cloning us all to replace us with mindless worker drones. I accidentally met mine. They were nice. Bought me a coffee. Then I got real sleepy and woke up half buried in the woods. Real strange day.

[–] probablyaCat@kbin.social -2 points 11 months ago

It's interconnected, sure, but I think you'd have an uphill battle that it doesn't belong to that person.

[–] probablyaCat@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

So are you arguing that both the governments of Israel and Palestine in no way represent the people they govern?

[–] probablyaCat@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

But these groups and people weren't the same people as the ones that walked across the land bridge. The cultures had long since diverged and were different. Wars had been fought. Whole groups died or merged. And if you go back a little further, they are all closely related. I don't think the point is that the slaughtering and pillaging was OK. It is that you cannot have a good faith argument on fixing current problems by trying to focus only on arbitrary time periods to claim certain privileges. I am very much in favor of doing more to make the lives of the native americans better, but I also will not make the argument that descendants of Europeans or Africans have no claim to the land there either. Because to do so is not in good faith and just ignores reality. Any time period you pick to decide who has a claim to a place is arbitrary. We cannot change the past. We can only change the future (but we are limited by the confines of the present).

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