PayPal/Visa/MasterCard do way more than just payment processing for one company.

Valve wouldn’t need 25,000 employees just to process payments for their own platform.

That’s not mental healthcare… That’s just different drugs.

It really is. If you don’t mind potential instability, upgrade to the latest alpha build. I haven’t had a single crash in months, and cosmic desktop is already way better than Gnome, and Cosmic Store (pop shop replacement) is very fast.

They are descriptive terms used in the article to describe the statistics. They don’t change the statistics, 54 excess child deaths a day.

Buddy, the US is quickly becoming a third world country. Yes, mass school shooting are normalized but that’s the symptom not the root problem.

nor help with their problems

See? You identified it yourself. Universal healthcare that includes quality mental health care that isn’t driven by profit is the solution to the listed problems, I’m not sure why they listed drugs and failed to recognize healthcare as the solution that too, but people turn to drugs to drown the depression they can’t treat in a healthy way.

Israel was democratic socialist

No one wasn’t arguing that Israel is a democracy.

Are you sure?

The country was founded as a colonial ethno supremacist project and its founders said their biggest allies will be the antisemites on the premise that they will rid their countries of undesirable Jews.

There was never any form of democracy in Israel, there can’t be. It’s built on the subjugation and erasure of the indigenous population which has and continues to outnumber them. Palestinians have never had equal rights, and most of us are spread across the world because we never got our right of return granted.

That’s not democracy. You’re spreading a bullshit narrative.

Liberals are Zionists, and things won’t improve until the left like you realize it. Democrats are not your friends, they say what they need to get your votes, but they like Jeffries and the agree with him. Your petitions’ numbers reflect that.

They were trying to be funny, don’t be too literal.

I think (that’s how I interrupted it, I don’t know) the intent was to reflect the insufferably arrogant tone of most people who exclusively complain about AI as if it has no benefits and will be the sole destroyer of our society.

Yes, I’m a piece of shit for using a phone made by a capitalist corporation and contributes to harming the planet. I don’t deny that I live in a horrible society that forces me to be a bad human just to survive.

I also don’t call people stupid for telling me my device is bad for the environment. I still eat meat, I’m not a vegan, but I understand and completely agree that it’s terrible for the environment. By recognizing it, I can be conscious of my consumption and reduce it.

I also use LLMs conservatively, I use them where they add value and I don’t use them frivolously to generate shitty AI slop.

I’m conscious of its dangers and that drives my consumption of it.

But I don’t pick and choose. I don’t eat animal products three meals a day and bitch about someone using an LLM to edit a file instead of manually working on it for five hours.

Just be consistent is the message they were communicating, not that you shouldn’t complain about 85%.

It’s not, you’re just personally insulted. The livestock industry is responsible for about 15% of human caused greenhouse gas emissions. That’s not negligible.

You aren’t the genocide’s enemy if you’re still supporting the same unapologetic people that started it. You’re just self righteous.

If you can’t accept legitimate criticism of your side, you’re in a cult.

I’m not a republican, I’m a socialist Palestinian. Biden did start and enthusiastically support the genocide that Trump is finishing.

Obama contributed to this. He campaigned on opposing settlement expansion, supporting a two-state solution, and acknowledging Palestinian suffering, but in office he largely upheld U.S. support for Israel, backing down on settlement freezes, defending Israeli assaults on Gaza, vetoing UN actions, and signing a record military aid package.

So as a block it’s your #1 feer, but in a jar it looks super delicious?

I have answered, you’re just refusing to listen. Here, more concretely:

If I’m in the voting booth, I mark my ballot for a candidate who is not committed to genocide, even if they can’t win, because I will not personally authorize mass killing. I do that knowing it won’t “save the election” but it will keep my hands clean and my voice consistent.

The moral act is not about picking the winner. It’s about refusing to give your consent to mass slaughter.

We’ve seen this before. In 1930s Germany, the Social Democrats tried to stop the Nazis by partnering with “less fascist” nationalists. All it did was normalize authoritarianism and clear the path for worse horrors. Palestinian resistance thinkers like Ghassan Kanafani warned of the same trap: if you accept a colonizer who promises to bomb you less, you’ve already agreed that your people’s right to live is negotiable.

That’s what Democrats are banking on, that you’ll abandon your principles to stop “the worse guy.” But the pattern is clear: once you accept one genocide to stop a bigger one, you’ve agreed that genocide is a bargaining chip. And once it’s a bargaining chip, it never stops, it just changes targets, until one day the target is you.

REVOLT!

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came

I think the moral choice is quite obvious, history is literally repeating itself, and we should have learned this lesson. If you let the Democrats genocide Palestinians, who will you let them genocide next? Are you certain you’ll stop when they start domestic genocides?

The only moral choice is to stand up to Nazis, even the nice ones.

Yeah but that allows poor people to just grow their own shitty weed and we can’t have that in a capitalist society. It has to go through billionaires and their corporations so they can grow moldy weed and sell it for ridiculous profits, for your safety of course.

They want privatized “medical marijuana”. Look at the Florida model, “dispensary” at every corner and none of them seriously pretend to be medical anymore, not even the doctors. Just show up and say I have back pain, and you too can buy shitty weed that makes billionaires richer.