If Batman was real today, he’d be Donald Trump.
That’s what these (alleged) “super heroes” really are… idealized, ubermensch-esque metaphors for the actual power wielded by the rich and privileged.
In fact, I’d say that Batman is the ultimate Objectivist wet dream - he perfectly personifies the fascist (as Batman) and the capitalist (as Bruce Wayne) in one person. Even Ayn Rand’s creepazoid ancap sugar-daddy “heroes” didn’t manage that.
I have no idea why people think chickens look stupid when they walk… to me, the way they walk just looks like the way they walk. And the prospect of a T-Rex being that alert and agile is pretty terrifying.
Not sure about that paper - it recommends ocular irrigation (with water) for OC gas… the exact thing you mentioned hurting so bad in your first response. The thing to remember here is that a lot of the discourse on this doesn’t distinguish between the use of a liquid to flood particles away from skin and membranes through it’s kinetic action (possible with CS gas and very necessary with white phosporous) and relying on the chemical properties of the liquid itself to bring any kind of relief.
The capsacin is dissolved in an oil,
That only counts for OC gas (pepper spray) - most anti-dissent chemical weaponry doesn’t contain capsaicin. Milk won’t do shit for CS gas, for instance. For CS gas, water is the only thing that works.
Considering how many different types of this shit there actually is and the fact that they can mix them up pretty easily regardless of what the law actually says makes a one-size-fits-all solution pretty difficult.
edit: did I just say a one-size-fits-all solution to this is difficult? Silly me.
I’d say it’s more apt to think of capitalism as a parasite that turns all the functions (as you described them) of an organism into something that induces self-destructive behavior that only serves the short-term goals of the parasite - you know, like Cordyceps fungi.
Nope. In a hundred years, bog-standard trains will still be a far superior idea.
Man, I am so glad I didn’t turn into that - my extended family actually like having me around.
Thinking about the gaming magazines I used to read as a kid in the '90s.
I remember those fondly.
It would be an insanely short-sighted practice to not keep masters of these publications forever, no?
You’re talking about capitalist organisations here… there’s nothing about them that isn’t short-sighted.
The raw files probably take up a few CDs’ worth of space for the entire run of the magazine.
Nope… just one cover page probably takes something around 300mbs at a minimum and could be a whole lot larger depending on the quality of the imagery used (if I remember my time in the printing/publishing industry correctly) Storage of already printed material in those days was always an afterthought.
Do they retain the files forever?
Highly unlikely - a lot of the storage just got dumped at one point or the other since there was really little reason (profit wise) to return to anything at all. There might still be an old Mac sitting around somebody’s garage or backyard which still contains the stuff, but I won’t be holding any hope out for that. There’s always the chance that some employee still has the disks somewhere (you’d be amazed at how necessary it could be have proof that you actually did work somewhere and actually did work on this or that specific thing - the bosses were notoriously petty), and I suspect that’s how a lot of stuff ends up on places like archive.org.
The corporates themselves don’t give a shit - as soon as the profits roll in, it’s all expendable as far as the overpaid geniuses in the fancy offices are concerned.
attacking swimmers at the beach
That I could live with.
That made me conclude that religion is probably fake, no matter if there’s a god or not.
That’s not it. All religions are real - regardless of whether the things any given religion worships is real or not.
Religion is as real as money, borders and race.
Destroy it.
Who did you think presided over colonialism, genius? Martians?
By the time of the Great Irish Famine (one of the British Empire’s earliest achievements) the transformation of England from a feudal society to a liberal one was complete.
The US was literally founded as the model for the liberal nation state - it’s entire history of genocide, slavery and yes, colonialism was drenched in the tenets of liberalism from the moment the constitution was signed right to this very day.
Go redo your history - and, this time, don’t get it from PragerU.
opportunities
Really? It has nothing to do with the hundreds of years of colonialist looting and pillaging liberals presided over that is still ongoing today?
freedom.
Really? This has nothing to do with with the targeted maldevelopment of the 3rd world presided over by liberals that is, again, ongoing to this very day?
Way to go outing yourself like that, white supremacist.
Liberty means freedom
And has liberalism delivered any of this?
And a good thing it is, too - if you liberals were managing it lemmy would have been sold off to Meta or Google a long time ago.
Second these are factually correct statements.
Sooo… you’re a fascist.
Third I do not support or endorse fascism
It’s not your personal feels that dictates your politics, genius - it’s the narratives you buy into and motivates your behavior that does. Do you need to be reminded (again) whose narratives you have regurgitated here? The ones you openly claim to be “factually correct?”
You’re a fascist - you just haven’t worked up the intellectual honesty to admit it to yourself yet.
Overt fascism is merely the visible tip of the iceberg, genius.
You want examples of you regurgitating narratives created by fascists to hide behind? Sure thing!
Also imo its incredibly nieve to lump anyone who identifies with republican as an alt-right Nazi. That is literally the same generalisation group think blame game that Hitler used to blame and prosecute the Jews.
The right is riddled with far right extremists same as the left is riddled with far left extremists.
They are completely comparable acts both Hitler and the left are finding real examples of a problem
So its antisemitic when the right does it but acceptable to literally call for the destruction of their nation if the left does it
If I really wanted to equate the left with Hitler I would point out he gained most of his public support from promising everyone land a fammilly and job. Sounds like the same thing socialism is promising.
I guess it’s just pure coincidence that you are peddling these excuses for fascism over and over again, eh?
You’re here running interference for fascists because you’re not a fascist?
Call the internet historians… this is a historic first!
I don’t see how which group ur pandering to matters?
Of course you don’t, fascist.
Get off the fucking internet and go civilly speak
Which part of…
I have been hearing the garbage fascists peddle since birth.
…didn’t you understand the first time around, fascist?
I mean… c’mon. Captain America is low-hanging fruit - the correlation between Captain America and actual US behavior in the world essentially writes itself.
Superman is a far more sophisticated representation of US-style liberalism - but, just like liberalism itself, that doesn’t make Super Cheese any less of a reactionary.
However… we can talk about the individual politics of these characters all day long - and we’d be missing the entire point of the metaphor in it’s entirety.
The problem with the “super hero” genre is not the individual politics of the characters concerned - it’s with how they normalize and justify the concentration of power in the hands of these exalted individuals.
In other words - the problem is fundamental.
I think he understand them perfectly, because…