I am not up for the responsibility of modding, but I'm happy to make a bot for posting once a week about notable upcoming releases that week with good RT scores? Or is that too spammy in nature to be a good idea to do?
mozz
joined 2 years ago
I mean you can expect whatever you want.
As commonly happens, step 1 "I AM STRONG, I SHALL DO AS I LIKE, FUCK YOU, WHAT YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT" has progressed by step 3-4 into "However could you be so rude, this is definitely not allowed, won't someone think of the rules and how unfair it is that this is happening to me?" I honestly don't know why that exists as a general rule but it is definitely a noticeable pattern in the world.
Yeah, but ozma specifically claims to be far left -- like so much so that he can't stand any establishment Democrat, as far as I can tell, even Joe Biden who's significantly more left than the normal (fairly depressing) Democratic standard. That's the only thing that makes it incongruous. Along with getting confused that anyone else from the far-left (as he claims to be) would ever criticize CNN, because after all, it's liberal.
I don't actually agree with calling ozma a Russian or corporate troll. It is extremely clear to me and most other people here that he's some sort of bad-faith mass poster of disinformation. But yeah, for myself I don't tend to throw out accusations of particular nationalities or anything like that, because the truth is that none of us have any idea. Sometimes there will be some poster who has a weird and entertaining confluence of ideas that don't really belong together that involve some particular nation, and so it's not hard to figure out, but ozma's not that. He's all "no Biden" all the time, with a 40% mixture of random other generic-leftist topics to attempt a fig-leaf of being just a normal poster.
Honestly he just irritated me by starting it up as far as immigration. I'm honestly a little surprised that he's still doing this, since as far as I can tell the result most of the time is just to tee up people to be able to downvote him and talk good things about Joe Biden in a way that would be weird if they just came from nowhere and said "IT'S NOT HIS FAULT IMMIGRATION IS SUCH A MESS RIGHT NOW." But IDK; maybe the posting of the constant memes and repetition and purely putting it out there is doing some good things for his objectives. Kind of like pushing junk climate science so there will be a "debate" in the public perception instead of "yes of course it's fucking real why is this even a question."
Well I mean what else is he supposed to say 😃. Honestly he played it off pretty well; I think trying to argue the point definitely wouldn't have been a smart thing to try to do.
(The one from this thread was just a little off kilter, honestly. The thing from before where he was surprised that I, a left person, would ever have anything bad to say about CNN, since after all it is liberal -- that was super weird. I was just reminded of it when he did a lesser version of it here.)
Dude I'm fuckin trying 🥲. Immigration is the one of the bad-faith criticisms that really gets under my skin because it is personal to me in a couple different ways, and this thread is absolutely filled with people who are talking pure bullshit about it for malicious reasons.
Anyway I am happy if you found my input to be useful. I'm gonna go back to just pretending this tide of total crap isn't washing around the rest of the thread and restrain myself from spending the rest of my night typing hostile and condescending replies to it all.
Maybe trolls depend on the mods being overworked, and so they like to jump on opportunities to be gratuitously dickish to the mods and try to spread hatred and discouragement, to serve their own weird little purposes.
Or IDK, maybe they are just dicks and like being hostile.
You can join the conversation here where I talk a little more about the background of that decision -- because it came up over there, I looked it up, and migrants are currently waiting years for their cases to be heard (just to put some facts behind what I was saying in that comment).
Wow. That's crazy. Wow. Yeah, cool cool.
Anyway, what should Biden do to fix immigration?
Have we had run-ins?
IDK, other than his absolutely war-criminal support for Israel I'm not aware of all that much about Biden that is real ammunition. (Not that that's a minor issue 😢) Pretty much everything else has crumbled into weird half-truths and propaganda when I've been poking at it, I think; what were you thinking of when saying he's doing egregious stuff?
I also don't think that refusing to vote for Biden is going to make anything any better. If someone is doing direct action to change things, or an influence campaign to try to push him to the left, that all sounds frickin fantastic. Just committing to not voting doesn't really make sense to me though -- it's functionally the same as saying you'll vote for Biden no matter what; i.e. basically no pressure at all to change his policy (but with the added horrifying danger of maybe electing Trump.)
I knew a guy who rode in a tank in one of America's foreign wars. He said that the original "The Roof is on Fire" was a much-loved thing to play on the sound system in the tank. That and death metal.
one interaction with a cop and the legal system from destroying my life
Uhhhhh
I have bad news for you about the USSR
Every system has good and bad, and the US is so bad at so many things that most industrialized countries do for their citizens no problem, that I would never be the one to say it doesn't need radical improvement. And I really do (truly) get what you mean about living in a non-capitalist society and the wonderful things about the system just taking care of you (which it doesn't in the US). But at the same time, "needs were taken care of" and "don't live in fear" are two things that are very very far away from what was the stable reality of living in the Soviet Union.
Oh, boy! I love when people say this.
Biden took half a trillion dollars’ worth of action on climate change which he funded by taxing Amazon + friends which ticked emissions down to 40% reduction by 2030 which is way too late and nowhere near enough no but he started working on it the instant he got in office and had to do the whole thing twice because Manchin blew up the first much more aggressive one at the last minute so yes we need to do a hell of a lot more but it seems weird to pick out the ONE guy in American government who has achieved ANY level of forward progress and give him and only him criticism about how we can’t possibly elect him especially since the other guy wants to undo even that step and start blowing up the planet even harder which makes me question a little bit whether you REALLY care about climate change or whether your explicit targeting of the one guy who made some progress on it is maybe motivated by something else
Also there's student loan forgiveness, 15% minimum corporate tax, 7% increase in wages at the bottom end as compared with inflation even when inflation is at historic levels, NLRB providing legal backing for union activity for the first time in quite a while
I have a few others on the list. The news talks about a bunch of weird bullshit so the fact that all of that happened is virtually unknown in this country. Doesn't mean it didn't happen, though.