piccolo

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[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I feel like there are a lot of Bernie Sanders style left liberal who are not ready to be deprogrammed on China yet but would appreciate Blackshirts and Reds, at least in my experience talking to people in USA and Canada

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

I can't imagine that that'd happen, they need to maintain some level of "we're trying here" in order to effectively rile up their base to vote. Not appointing someone to the NLRB is much less noticable than Supreme Court justices stepping down. I think that the optics are best for both parties if the Supreme Court is basically always a 5-4 split one way or the other, or it is always 5-4 (R). That way the line is that it's always this close to {getting the Supreme Court back,the other team getting the Supreme Court} to mobilize voters.

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'd say if tomatoes are out of season and you're cooking them anyways, like in a stew or a sauce, even bad canned tomatoes are probably better. If you have access to good fresh tomatoes, they can be better than most canned tomatoes, but like high quality canned ones are hard to beat.

Also, the less processed the canned tomato, the better it is. If you want the best tomato flavour, get whole canned tomatoes, rather than diced or crushed.

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

AP and ABC called PA for Trump, it's joever

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AP just called Pennsylvania

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

My guess is Decision Desk, they've called the election for Trump (incl PA, WI, AK, but not ME-2)

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 37 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Lol I was there recently and also noticed that. The whole museum was full of propaganda, but it was cool to see some of the exhibits, like the Trabant. Some "fun" anticommunist highlights included:

  • The dystopian evil jail cell run by the communist dictators (about the same size as the room I rent in [major city, imperial core country])
  • The dystopian evil kindergarten with a rigid schedule including play and nap time
  • The dystopian evil standard allocated apartment that EVERYONE had and there was NO individuality (much bigger than the room I rent, and for much less money)
  • The dystopian evil SEX that all the HORNY EAST GERMANS were having (the museum explained it as a result of there being nothing else to do, lol)
  • The dystopian evil DIY repair culture
  • The dystopian evil tired bureaucrats who looked more like people than Bond villains
  • The dystopian evil LGBTs who weren't forbidden from existing by the state
  • The factory farming that happened under the DDR (which, like, as a vegan, sure, but it's not like the Federal Republic or any Western country wasn't doing this)
  • There was literally a panel saying that all Eastern bloc states weren't allowed to deviate from the USSR's policies or will, then gave an example of the DDR doing just that to resist Soviet reforms in '85

And every single bullet point here made my blood boil (supposed to be a translation of some of the key terms, without propaganda):

spoiler (sorry, I only photographed the English text)

Anyways, I guess I funded anticommunist propaganda by visiting and also buying a DDR patch

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Can I be racist to Fr*nch and Br*t*sh people too?

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Aren't hand counted ballots the most reliable form of counting ballots and the hardest to tamper with? I must say that I don't really trust voting machines

https://web.archive.org/web/20201105081005/http://berniewouldhavelost.com/

https://harpers.org/archive/2005/08/none-dare-call-it-stolen/

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

I saw that a couple weeks ago when I was looking into note taking software and decided to go with Joplin instead (though even besides that I think joplin is a better fit for me)

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago (5 children)

If Trump loses in 2024 he might run again in 2028 and the orange boogeyman will continue

[–] piccolo@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

Titanium camping gear could also possibly be a fit?

 

I'm at a loss for words with this

 

Love voting for the lesser of two evils candidate who won't let women wearing a hijab in to their campaign rallies! Can you imagine the lib reaction if this happened at a Trump event?

 

some real great takes here bootlicker

I was brought up in a household that was anti military.

Only as an adult was I able to form my own opinion.

Without a strong military in the past we would certainly not be here today and without a strong military now, who knows what other nation might decide to attack our sovereignty.

It's childish to be anti military - it shows you do not understand the interconnectedness of our society - good and bad.

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It's disingenuous to ignore the effect the aggression of the cold war and its aftermath had on the current Russian situation.

Bro, I don't know what warped version of reality you live in, but without a strong American military to stand up to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, you'd be speaking Russian right now. Ukraine blew their chance to join NATO as soon as possible like everyone else did when the Cold War ended, and they are now being slaughtered en masse by Russia in their attempts to turn them into their newest southwestern oblast.

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As a liberal raised during the backlash to the Iraq War, my attitude towards the Military Industrial Complex has really changed in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s seemingly inevitable invasion of Taiwan. Add in the possibility that the US could be dragged into new wars in the Middle East and even possibly South America, and I really don’t think we have the luxury to say “weapons bad, let’s not build any”.

Being the policeman of the world absolutely sucks. War absolutely sucks. But one of the best ways to prevent China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, etc from saying “might make right, let’s take this land and these resources from our neighbors, since no one can stop us” is for the US to say, “no, we will stop you and we have the will and the tools to easily do it.”

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who's responsible for the US choosing to police the world? who-did-this

The US is the most benign empire one could wish for. History makes that plain, and just peeking over the fence at contender's tendencies and track record further reinforces that. Easy moral justification backed by actual moral justification.

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brainworms

in honour of all the defense of us atrocities i present to you: the hacker news logo with the fascist "life rune" symbol:

maybe we can get that as an emoji in the same vein as reddit-logo

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