buckykat

joined 2 years ago
[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

It even gets historicized according to that old trick. Luddite is now used to mean reactionary against new technology, but the original Luddites were just against how the bosses were using new machines to disenfranchise and impoverish them.

[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

thinks Hollywood is engineering a communist Red Guards plot to kill conservatives

Every day I wish the left were as cool as the right thinks we are.

Youtube's algorithm is really eager to guide people into the alt-right pipeline. You basically have to immediately block any channel that seems even a little bit sus to keep that shit out.

Additionally, there is a draw for conservatives to geekdom in general: antisociality and a belief in one's own intellectual superiority.

[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 2 years ago (3 children)

created then lost to

[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

No, it's not a battle between workers and technology. It is, as ever, a battle between workers and bosses. The technology is only a problem because the bosses own it.

[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

The devil doesn't need more volunteer advocates, he's got plenty of paid ones.

[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 years ago

The American pro-Israel lobby has a lot more to do with evangelical Christians looking forward to their apocalypse than it does with Jewish people.

[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 years ago

"Tankies" is used to mean several different things, from the horrible pro-Putin stuff over on lemmygrad to anything left of liberal. I'm reminded of how the right wing of the UK labour party called their sabotage of Corbyn "Trot hunting"

[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Statistically, a lot of the threats probably came from law enforcement

[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Convincing greens to be anti-nuclear is one of the greatest tricks the fossil fuel industry ever pulled

[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The Taliban is what happens when the US government funds and arms a right wing religious militia

[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's your opinion on Ayn Rand?

[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago

It's the final form of artificial scarcity, scarcity alone without even a thing to be made scarce.

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