Relevant Andrea Dworking quote from Right-Wing Women:

“Most women cannot afford, either materially or psychologically, to recognize that whatever burnt offerings of obedience they bring to beg protection will not appease the angry little gods around them.”

And:

“Because feminism is a movement for liberation of the powerless by the powerless in a closed system based on their powerlessness, right-wing women judge it a futile movement. Frequently they also judge it a malicious movement in that it jeopardizes the bargains with power that they can make.”

But crucially:

“Women intend to save themselves when sacrificing some women, but only the freedom of all women protects any woman.”

What’s the performance hit for sandboxie?

I know it’s not ideal, but I mainly use an old airgapped/no internet pc to running older/less demanding games. Obviously there’s a risk that the system becomes corrupted and infects the usb stick I use for file transfer, but that’s the gamble I’m taking right now.

If anyone reading this thinks it’s super risky, don’t hesitate to let me know. I’m kinda assuming that most malware/harvesters/miners/viruses will want to connect to the internet, and not go the usb route. Seems like it’d be too much of a hassle, unless you want to take down a nuclear program.

I used to use steam for some stuff, but everything’s so expensive and I’m tired of all the forced updates and always on requirements, so I honestly can’t be bothered and torrent as much as possible. Only buying from GOG now, so I can at least share games with the household. Fuck 1 person licenses.

To paraphrase Tacitus, because I’m feeling fancy:

They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name freedom, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace.

It’s interesting how even the Romans thought they were the good guys, while literally enslaving millions and condemning millions more to starvation.

Humans haven’t changed. Great powers haven’t changed. Cunts are still running the world.

America isn’t particularly special. It’s just more of the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

From the looks of it, because he’s about to do a poo.

Which often results these same people to think that polite or nice people are weak or don’t pose a threat. Which can be a very stupid mistake to make.

If it’s free, you’re the product.

I’m running into the same issue as I move away from American companies. It’s not a coincidence that better privacy laws, often mean less free stuff.

I should point out that the cinema experience used to be better. People have become more selfish.

Also, it heavily depends on the kind of movies you’re watching. Trash attracts trash.

The interesting thing is that IRC plenty of economists think negative externalities (costs imposed on third parties) should be factored into price. That way the market would actually be fairer, more free, and more efficient.

For example, often the price of a product doesn’t include the environmental cost. So for example product A is cheaper to make than product B when you include the environmental cost. But manufacturer B is able to pass the environmental cost on to the tax payer, so the sale price of product B is cheaper in shops, and manufacturer A can’t compete. It’s effectively a subsidy of inefficient and unethical companies. The product which in total costs less to make has a higher sale price than the more expensive product, because we as tax payers and a society are effectively subsidizing the less efficient and more polluting manufacturer. That’s the opposite of a free market.

This happens all the time, even if you ignore direct subsidies. Whether it’s meat, oil products, stuff made in countries with lax regulation (and even more negative externalities), stuff made by underpaying workers and forcing them to rely on the government(and tax payer) aid, etc. etc.

Obviously, this is the kind of wealth distribution and inequality society and the media rarely see as problematic, because it is so deeply ingrained. But never let the right tell you wealth distribution is a taboo. They’re quite happy with wealth distribution when it suits them or their masters.

What accusation? I posted a picture.

Perhaps instead of labeling politically inconvenient pictures propaganda, you could try simply not defending questionable people.

Am I wrong to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you’re actually left wing? Or are you yet another boring and immature cosplay communist tankie, stuck in his teenaged contrarian phase, who ultimately doesn’t actually believe half of the nonsense they spout, and ends up being a useful idiot for fascist regimes because they’ve never heard of a false binary.

Please could you provide a source that you don’t stick your thumb in your butt then lick it.

I can wait.

Soviet hammer and sickle. It’s utterly absurd, but yeah.

I think some people get off on being contrarian and not being part of the mainstream. Lie to themselves that it means they’re special.

We’re all a bit like that, vanity is the Devil’s favourite sin, but most of us largely outgrow it in adulthood. I hope I have anyway.

I’ve literally seen and heard German tankies praise Trump for trying to force the Ukrainians to capitulate to Russia in Ukraine. They like that he’s undermining NATO and wants to appease Russia, think it’ll bring us Peace in Our Time. Literally marching with a communist flag, and saying Trump has the right idea. Horse shoe theory applies.

Like many they’ve fallen down the rabbit hole. Became justifiably critical of traditional western media reporting on Iraq, Israel, Vietnam, Argentina, Guatamala, etc. … Turned to supposedly more critical media, which unfortunately are often operated by Russia, Iran, China, etc. Became indoctrinated, before they realised said media are even more biased, just in another direction.

It can happen to anyone.

e: I see someone downvoted me withing 5 seconds of me writing this comment, probably without even finishing reading it, so apparently I hit a nerve.

we’re all america, we all own this.

Not everyone on the internet is American. From a non-American perspective, it is good you point out that previous presidencies also have a death toll. Doesn’t get much better if you go further back, either.

Not that chauvanism is a specifically American disease, but I can’t help but think that American exceptionalism means that America is often in denial. Imagine having to explain naming a clothing store Banana Republic, to a survivor of the Guatamalan genocide.

Weirdly, it’s actually quite reassuring from a non-American perspective. Trump’s bad, but not exceptionally so.

Sure he’s stabbing Europe and Ukraine in the back, but Bush and Obama helped cause and perpetuate a refugee crisis that seriously destabilized the EU and helped fuel the rise of the far right. Not as if Biden was particularly quick in delivering weapons to Ukraine either. Obama’s reaction to the annexation of Crimea wasn’t stellar either.

Sure, he’ll probably invade Venezuela, but Maduro is no Allende, and the leader of Venezuela’s opposition is no Pinochet.

Sure, he’s tariffed South East Asia, but he’s not going to start another war in Vietnam or bomb Laos.

Sure, he bombed Tehran, but it’s not as if he overthrew the democratically elected government, and paved the way for the Islamic Revolution. That was Eisenhower.

Sure, Trump’s supporting Netenyahu. But under Reagan the US arguably helped Iraq build chemical weapons, knowing that Saddam would use them against the Iranians and Kurds.

Sure, Trump’s a racist who has a contentious relationship with African leaders, and is perpetuating the myth of a white genocide in South Africa. But it’s not like he had Lumumba, the democratically elected leader of newly indepenent Congo murdered, that happened under Eisenhower. An assassination that would arguably ultimately result in the first and second Congo war, and the death of roughly 5 million people.

It should be reassuring for Americans too.

Sure, ICE is bad, but it’s not like he’s put 120,000 people in concentration camps like Roosevelt did. He hasn’t deported up to 2 million Mexican and Mexican Americans either, like happened under Hoover. Not yet, at least.

Cheer up America. This is business as usual. This is America. Don’t catch you slippin’ now.

He is good at flooding the zone/firehosing/deadcatting. That’s for sure.

Not a great way to run a country, not sure if it’s always deliberate and/or pathological, but good for ratings and helped get him elected twice.

I do think he has declined mentally since the 80s. He’s an old man, doesn’t always look well, and appears increasingly erratic. Not a doctor though, so what do I know. I’ve grown cynical about his supposedly imminent demise, just like I’ve become cynical about his supposedly imminent jail sentence.

I don’t understand why we’re so willing to believe that the people who have completely taken over the United States of America with minimal effort have somehow done this while being literally stupid.

Overused, but might be Dunning Kruger. Less intelligent people, overestimating their own intelligence, and underestimating that of others. If so, it would explain why the same people who are certain Bush is a moron, are often unwilling to change their minds when presented with evidence to the contrary. That and it feels nice to think you’re smarter than other people. Vanity is the Devil’s favourite sin.

Not that I like Bush, just want to make that clear.

Also, Trump likely is stupid, from what I can tell. Although I have heard critics say he has or at one point had a measure of cunning, which certainly may be true given he won the presidency twice.

Not that this changes Trump being a dangerous man.

Nope. Saw him speaking off the cuff before he was a presidential nominee.

Relatively high SAT score. Score higher on his transcript than John Kerry. IRC scored relatively high on his air force qualifying test too.

He purposely dumbed down his language and it helped him get elected.

As opposed to Donald Trump, where at least one professor has said he’s a moron.

To be clear, I’m not saying Bush was a good president. Quite the opposite. If anything him being relatively intelligent makes him more culpable for what happened.

Were you alive and old enough to remember GWB’s term? Or are you going entirely on second hand information?

Yes. I was studying political science at the time.

No, I am not going by second hand information. I’m going by how he spoke before Karl Rove told him to dumb it down.

Donald Trump went to Wharton

At least one of Donald Trump’s professors has said he’s an idiot. Not true for Bush, who scored relatively well on his SATs. IRC John Kerry’s transcript scored lower than W Bush’s. IRC Bush’s air force qualifying test was also relatively high.

To be clear, I’m not saying he’s a good president. If anything I’m saying stupidity isn’t an excuse for what happened during his tenure.

Unable to connect.

Hug of death?