Crankenstein

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[–] Crankenstein 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

To have "more or less" of something implies the effectiveness of the product is directly caused by the metric being measured.

The amount of time a genotype took to evolve has no bearing on the effectiveness.

There is no such thing as "more/less evolved". There is no gradient. Something either is evolved to adapt to its environment or it isn't.

[–] Crankenstein 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They get more votes because when you only have two candidates, and both are appealing to the right, the one who is fully right wing will beat out the one that is offering half assed attempts at pandering. And that isn't even beginning to get into the propaganda from the right that Dems are nothing but sleezy liars who will say anything to get their way, and then the Dems literally start doing that, won't win over anyone from across the isle.

A simple analogy is you have two cake shops, both selling for the same price (a single vote). One advertising a generic square cake and the other a three tier masterpiece with all the bells and whistles. It's quite obvious who is gonna get the most customers.

Meanwhile the rest of the population gets further and further disillusioned with the system and stops participating when its obvious that it doesn't care to represent their interests.

[–] Crankenstein 4 points 1 month ago (7 children)

And there is no political leverage the proletariat has to push for policy change after the election. The pressure came from "do what we say or at election time we vote for someone else"

Well, every fucking election when it comes time to follow through after they again failed to hold up their end of the bargain the majority gets cold feet and caves to familiarity because risking change is scary.

[–] Crankenstein 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Exactly. Can't have change from within the system when the vast majority willingly throws away their political leverage and uncritically grants power to genocidal imperialists.

How many empty promises must people fall victim to before they decide to do something other than beg for change?

[–] Crankenstein 7 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Cool. I don't love America. I fucking despise this country and everything it stands for. Israel can fall with it, never should have existed in the first place.

The world would be leagues better for it.

[–] Crankenstein 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

Not less evolved. Just evolved differently for alternative environmental circumstances.

There is no hierarchy of evolutionary traits. Just an amalgamation of traits that are or are not useful in the current environment. What genetic makeup is effective in one place and time is useless in another, and what was once useless may now be beneficial.

We have no clue how threatening they could potentially be.

[–] Crankenstein 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

This very succinctly explains why I, with AuDHD, find it practically impossible to get anything done as I slowly rot from untreated chronic illnesses.

[–] Crankenstein 8 points 2 months ago

Knew a guy. Young dude, former military but broke his back during parachute training exercise so out on disability fully. 4k+ a month. Lives in a 4 bedroom house in a modest, rural town. Constantly complained about never having enough money. Dude would spend damn near half his monthly check on new accessories for his collection or a new piece. Every month.

Dude was selfish as fuck and such an idiot. Didn't know until I had to live with him. Glad I'm not stuck there even if life is technically harder.

[–] Crankenstein 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Literally annoyed right now because some dimwit fighting ghosts, saying that I was advocating for tolerance of right-wing fascism, because I said that the Balkanization strategy was not the strat in reply to a third individual's comment.

Also trying to say something about vulcanization, but idk what the chemical process of mixing rubber with sulfur has to do with geopolitics.

[–] Crankenstein 1 points 2 months ago

Vulcanization is a chemical process of rubber by treating it with sulfur. You have no clue what you are talking about and it is obvious. You want to call me worked up?

How about you stop getting so worked up trying to be morally righteous, fighting ghosts of your own creation and "GTFO" with your fallacious assumptions misrepresenting my argument. None ever said that we have to tolerate fascists.

Did you just not fucking read the top comment in this thread by shikotohno, that specifically said to rely on BALKANIZATION, the process of a country breaking up into smaller, often hostile, independent units typically due to economic, religious, or geopolitical interests, to solve the political strife within the country, or are you just daft?

The strat isn't to give up and acquiesce to letting them have their own playground to perpetuate their oppression, just because it isn't happening in your backyard, at the cost of sacrificing hundreds of thousands of innocent people trapped within the regions. You can't "Deprogram the Trump Cult victims and rehabilitate them into the decent society" if you give the Trump cult their own independent region.

[–] Crankenstein 5 points 2 months ago

It's pretty obvious that any creative endeavor that requires artistic influence will always be handicapped by our current economy.

As soon as all of these dev companies became large corporations, their mission changed from creating a fun, entertaining experience into producing the cheapest possible product they can get away with that will still sell and generate revenue.

Art requires risk and imperfections, but risk and imperfections are diametrically oppositional to the economic endeavor of generating the absolute most potential profit possible.

[–] Crankenstein 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe people will wake up to understand our system of "law and order" never was meant to serve people, only capital.

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