[-] oddsbodkins@midwest.social 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I joined it because "Midwest". To be frank though. Local posts are in the 10s a day. I never see them unless i select local only. I've seen a fair bit more left position represented than would seem representative of the Midwest. Not that it's a bad thing. There is an instance pinned post about the administration standing with the protesters. Which again isn't specifically a bad thing. (I'll look at the discourse inside later) I see screechy hyperbolic posts about "genocide Joe" getting generally down voted. So I can't make any real comments about any strong vibe. But no. Not all of us are coping with severe head trauma like archcomrade.

I think it's safe to say he may just be loud, obnoxious, and perceived as being more representative than they are. Due to how inactive the rest of us seem to be.

[-] oddsbodkins@midwest.social 3 points 8 months ago

Military police? Absolutely. China's police are in service to the state much like military police. It definitely tracks.

[-] oddsbodkins@midwest.social 3 points 11 months ago

Said someone who's never mastered it. I have a college education myself. And work in IT. I'm just not that much of an egoist to disrespect people like you do. I've met truly skilled and great people doing menial jobs and not being compensated enough. You wouldn't last a week at most of these jobs. You feel you could master in an afternoon. Simply because you'd be dealing with people like yourself.

[-] oddsbodkins@midwest.social 8 points 11 months ago

I think you made a non-sequitur. They never said anything about that. Simply pointed out how all jobs require knowledge and training of some sort to be good at them. Perhaps in the future you should debate in good faith and not create straw men to push a false narrative.

[-] oddsbodkins@midwest.social 4 points 11 months ago

Training is training regardless of how you receive it isn't it? Perhaps you should take your own advice.

[-] oddsbodkins@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

Yes. But generally it takes long-term constant exposure to the thing they think they hate. In order to override the indoctrinated or programmed in misconceptions.

[-] oddsbodkins@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

She has shown a number of times and in a number of ways that she is incompetent. Forgetting or for going swearing in the jury etc etc etc. But she's got the position for life.

[-] oddsbodkins@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

What do communists and socialists have to apologize for? To be clear I know what you are hamfistedly referring to. But it isn't "communists" or "socialists".

[-] oddsbodkins@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

It's because as a solid minority. That is often hated in the places they once had jurisdiction for good reason. You generally don't get the chance. Or if you did, it would close you off in a tiny little Echo chamber that's already far too strong. And I say this as someone who is supportive and open towards communism and abolishing Concepts such as private property and replacing with personal property. But I am sanctially against ml communism.

I absolutely think there can be a discussion about whether or not Vladimir Lenin's Legacy on the whole was neutral. He definitely did some good things for russia. Though those same things were happening around the world regardless. So it is impossible to say that they wouldn't have happened without him. But it is possible to say absolutely that a lot of death destruction and brutality were enabled by him. And his ideology single-handedly setback discussions of all left-wing Economic Development for a century or so. Those defending Stalin Mao or even Xi today. Well I don't have anything diplomatic to say about them.

[-] oddsbodkins@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The ongoing litigation against the company begs to differ. Also didn't Musk step down as CEO of Twitter a while back? It seems his tangential bullshit has quite an impact. I'll be honest I think the people actually working at Tesla do their best to try to moderate his unadulterated fuck ups. But they're not safe from it and neither is anyone else who does business with them.

[-] oddsbodkins@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

No it isn't. Naturel conservationism is about conserving nature political social conservationism often generally just shortened to conservatism is about conserving and preserving political and social power. Nothing more nothing less they are identical just about different topics.

[-] oddsbodkins@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

While that's true most people are unaware of the places actual role. In the United States at least in the police are not there to protect or serve you. They are there to protect the property of the wealthy. And not much else. They can and will kill you with impunity if afforded the chance. We need to completely reform the police. Because the problems with them stem far far deeper than their simple gang behavior. And that is a sad truth. The police are off the little more than a state or municipality in sanctioned gang.

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