WatDabney

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[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Black Hole Sun.

It's a tedious, grating and ridiculously repetitive dirge.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 6 months ago (2 children)

"The mob" and not the studies dating back well over 100 years pointing out the undeniable link between asbestos and lung disease.

I could go out right now and find the most drug-addled junkie living in a cardboard box under an overpass, and he'd be a better president than Trump.

Probably smell better too...

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 159 points 6 months ago (25 children)

Setting aside the veritable TITAN-loads of shady shit Palsntir is up to, it's also worth noting that Reddit's policy changes have made it clear that providing a platform for the spread of disinformation is a central part of its current business model, so I'd assume that not only is Palantir using it for that purpose, but that they are far from alone.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes - the Democrats are not leftists.

But neither is any site that would unironically refer to "Caitlyn Johnston, Sulieman Ahmed, Rob Schneider, Megan Kelly, Matt Gates, Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens, and even some Zionists" as a political "spectrum,"

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I had forgotten all about Greenwald.

If I'd stopped and thought about it, I likely would've presumed he was basically living in a cave and talking to himself, sort of like Gollum.

many figures across the political spectrum, including Caitlyn Johnston, Sulieman Ahmed, Rob Schneider, Megan Kelly, Matt Gates, Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens, and even some Zionists, publicly defended Greenwald.

That's not a spectrum.

It'd barely even count as an arc.

Due Dissidence is a multimedia one-stop shop for left politics

Left?! Left of who? Mussolini?

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Funny how you changed the topic from an arm of the corporate media haranguing people to volunteer to people freely choosing to volunteer....

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Why should ordinary people already burdened with responsibilities donate their precious time and energy just so that some rich fucks can hang on to even more of the wealth they neither need nor deserve?

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (12 children)

Volunteering and child-rearing doesn’t really build a mansion or yacht now does it?

How much volunteer work is necessary only because the agencies that should have and would have done those things have been shut down to fund tax cuts for the rich?

Or even more directly because the problems being addressed are a direct consequence of government policies instituted solely to benefit a handful of wealthy donors?

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 7 months ago (21 children)

You should work more so that the 1% can buy more mansions and bigger yachts.

Duh.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago

They need to be sitting in their plush offices at the top of buildings full of busy workers to keep up the pretense that they deserve their obscene pay. Sitting in a plush office at the top of an empty building just shines a spotlight on how useless they actually are.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 7 months ago (3 children)

So even the little tiny bit of work they have to do to justify their obscene salaries is too much for them.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 7 months ago (6 children)

How do angry, hateful, vicious people like MTG convince themselves they're Christian?

I don't think it's a pose - she appears to be entirely sincere about her claim to Christianity.

And I understand the basic mechanics of it - they pick and choose which parts of the Bible to highlight and which to ignore, and how to self-servingly interpret the ones they do pick.

But in a more fundamental sense, I still don't understand how they do it. Are they really entirely devoid of self-awareness or conscience? How is that even possible? Or do they have at least some rudimentary self-awareness and conscience, but they just ignore it? How is that even possible?

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