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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 0 points 1 year ago

You missed a golden opportunity for a subtle and unnecessary joke by making it Kicking Dogs Party and Supporting Dogs Party

Or... IDK... Kissing Dogs Party and Ned's Stabbing Dogs Always Party. With Supporting Dogs Party as the middle.

...

Just me?

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Wait, are you saying that sometimes the central authority amasses all this money and power, and then doesn't do good things with it? Even though they're saying that they are?

Holy shit. I think you might be onto something...

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev -1 points 1 year ago

I wonder what the racial makeup of that group of experts is, or how they would react if the virus was spreading in a community that included their families. Or what is the racial makeup of the people funding this whole organization and deciding what is and isn't some kind of "quicker than 2 years timeframe" emergency situation.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The dems are absolutely still corporate dogshit.

Most of them, yes. Hey, quick question, what's happened to corporate taxes, and working-class wages adjusted for inflation, over the last 4 years? How has the NLRB's role in economic life changed, and what have the results been?

Speaking of putting people in boxes, everyone criticizing from the left is a secret trump supporter, and lying about their values.

Not everyone, no. The people raising objectively false criticism of the Democrats and occasionally accidentally saying "Democrat Party" or saying they make $400k a year and as a good communist, their big concern about the Democrats is that they're raising taxes and all you other communists should definitely feel the same way and stop supporting them -- those guys are secret Trump supporters, yes.

If you want to invest the time, read the whole thread and then come back and tell me that that person isn't (1) clearly lying, in a particularly hamfisted fashion, about why they don't want you to support the Democrats (2) not from the US or even familiar enough with it to be aware of how common or uncommon a $400k/yr salary is.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 155 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Holy shit; I thought at first that this was about the US state

And nothing about that seemed all that out of place 😕

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

, as well as data from studies carried out once the vaccine was deployed during the 2022 mpox outbreak. More than 1.2 million people in the United States received at least one dose of the vaccine at that time, and studies showed it provided a high level of protection against mpox.

Yet the W.H.O. did not open formal consideration of that research until last week.

Deusdedit Mubangizi, the W.H.O.’s director of health product policy and standards, said that the organization’s group of experts would meet the week of Sept. 16 to consider the submitted data, and could issue a license as early as that week if they were satisfied.

I stand by my assessment

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Three things are happening:

  1. It is easier to dismiss someone's argument outright if you can put them in a box without needing to engage with anything they're saying
  2. Historically and particularly in the 1990s, Democrats were sort of corporate dogshit, so a lot of the left got used to opposing them (often bringing up MLK's "white moderates" speech)
  3. There are a lot of shills on Lemmy who really want Trump to get elected, and do it by attacking the Democrats "from the left" with various dishonest talking points, and if you point out that any of what they're saying is objectively false, they will call you a centrist as a way of dismissing you (see point #1)

The center isn't automatically right (often in the American political spectrum it works out as the average of killing all the immgrants and free school lunch, which is not a happy central point to reach). But also, simply applying a label to someone and dismissing them doesn't automatically mean you're right either, no matter how popular it may be.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

TL;DR no one gives a shit because they aren’t white people and they have no money

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 1 points 1 year ago

This is a common talking point, totally dishonest in this case. What are you claiming the real inflation number should be, and why are you saying the prices of what real world goods went up by that amount? Like with citations and precise numbers.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So… nothing about Uighurs?

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

When you compare what is happening to the Palestinian people versus the Ukrainian people

I wasn’t doing that. They’re obviously massively different situations. I was just pointing out that Cornel West is okay with genocide, just only certain types of it.

Oh hey Jimmy - what do you think of Uighur genocide?

continue aggression against the nations around them

Kek

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, but they can’t leave the airport. The precise definition of an emergency is when you can’t say “You know what? This is too dangerous, let’s not fuck with it.” They’re still up there precisely because if that was the scenario, with them on the ground at the airport, they would clearly choose not to fuck with it, because a key component is busted.

Better analogy if you wanted to be precise about it would be: There’s some serious problem with the plane which prevents safe landing. Broken landing gear or similar. They’ve got plenty of time, plenty of fuel, they can fly around and figure things out for as long as they need. But, they need to land, and the safety of the landing is not assured once they commit to whatever best plan they can come up with.

In that scenario, it is never the engineers on the ground or the controllers who dictate the solution and the plan. There’s a book of procedures to follow, there’s input from the engineers which carries a ton of weight, but at the end of the day the crew is responsible for making decisions, because they’re the ones who will be dead if it doesn’t work out right.

The company doesn’t have a meeting of top directors and then radio the pilots what to do. Because, even if the directors of this theoretical company didn’t have a history of blowing up airplanes through their negligence, they’re just not the ones who are supposed to make those decisions, honestly. NASA management getting “input” from the engineers and then escorting them out of the room so they can meet and make decisions has killed quite a few astronauts at this point.

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