Doubledee

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[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 20 points 20 hours ago

To the curious: it was worse, it was not as good as Heinz or Hunt's, and it didn't fill the void of Dad being deployed to the illegal war (that he apparently really wanted to go to). Would not recommend.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 5 points 20 hours ago

Happy to be of service. rat-salute

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 6 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I remember my parents using special George W Bush ketchup when he ran against Kerry, I guess Kerry was married into the Heinz family or something.

Maybe we should start a maga spice company to get in on the grift.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

La carroza, la carroza! Invertido! Carta de guerra, de venganza! La vi sin ruedas sobre un rio obscuro! Un maleficio! Carroza de muertos, llena de huesos!

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wasn't the problem that Hindenburg could appoint any chancellor he wanted if he rejected the pick of the legislature? By the time this election happened he had been ruling by emergency decree for like 2 years. And he was a conservative, even an imaginary alliance of centrists with the SPD and KPD would not have been able to force his hand if he didn't want to accept a nomination he didn't like, and he didn't like the socialists or the communists.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

I don't think China wants to be the enemy of the US. They are the largest trading partner of the US. They seem genuinely interested in cooperating and bettering their own society. USians seem to be the ones bent on enmity. The US apparently thinks building infrastructure and developing the economies of other nations is 'malign influence.' The US killed citizens of allied nations through propaganda to ensure they wouldn't become friendlier with China, who was offering them vaccines while the US and Europe were hoarding their own.

The US sees 'being a large country and having influence' as threatening, there's no way to peacefully coexist with a country that sees everyone else as a threat by default.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well we could devote those resources to solving the problems they are criticizing maybe. It would improve the lives of USians and undercut the arguments being brought up.

Spending billions to tell other countries that more infrastructure is actually bad is probably counterproductive and wasteful. Like how we spent money to kill Filipino people by telling them to avoid the Chinese produced covid jab.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Right, he doesn't expect to be listened to, he's cynical about democrats in a way Katie isn't.

Edit: I dunno maybe I'm totally off about him, it just feels like he's being jaded about them, not trying to defend Kamala. Maybe I need to kill my Showdies.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

Warmbo is such a great character. There are almost no caricatures of libs from a left position that embody what's so irritating about them like he does.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I think Cody is generally better than most of the team and probably has more control over what comes out of his mouth for the videos. The more everyone else talks the more lib it seems to get.

I think he's been friends with many of them (especially Katie) for a long time and tolerates their lib takes because they are friends.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a smokescreen, we can't credibly claim to have a stronger or healthier industrial base or social system, all we can do is pretend we're ahead in imaginary tech arms races.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

It was inevitable.

 

An upbeat pop rock song about capitalist alienation? Satan? Falsetto? Hell yeah.

 

Hey folks, this is probably silly but I'm taking suggestions as to how to handle a situation I'm in now. My bill for internet has gone up like 50 dollars in the last few months between the promotional deal expiring and the affordable connection subsidy going away. So I called a competitor to see about changing service. I wasn't able to shop services online because something was wrong with my address, so phone call it had to be.

It took like an hour and they have to come out to see whether I can actually get service still. But they tentatively signed me up for service so I got an email a couple hours after the call.

They have me being billed for a landline.

It's still cheaper than I'm currently paying but I'm absolutely not going to use a landline. So I'm in a bind.

Do I call them back and try to out-talk a sales rep to get them to just sell me internet?

Should I go to the physical store location in my city and talk with them in person? We still don't even know if I'll be able to get service, would that be a waste of everyone's time?

Should I wait and resolve it after the 'can you get service' question is resolved, or will that make changing it more painful?

Some other thing I'm not thinking about?

 

Marg bar Amerikkka

 

Hey, so I'm hosting a campaign of Comrades and next session I'm thinking of having the party on site when a spontaneous strike starts. For context the setting is homebrew, WWI ish with fantasy elements. Obviously they can participate in organizing the workers and talking with people who attempt to intimidate or buy off the strikers but I'd like to have a few more tricks and nudges on standby to keep things going just in case. Any suggestions? Currently I've got "dealing with potential police actions" and "the company sends Pinkertons/infiltrators" but I'd appreciate your thoughts.

 

Link for the morbidly curious. Burgerites really haven't learned anything since 2000.

EDIT: Egg on my dang face for not noticing the bluetooth bar blocking out half of the evil things this dupe is saying.

 

My child's library book coming in with an inspiring image for the community.

rat-salute

 

Sorry if this is the wrong comm for this, I never post, but I'm most of the way through Age of Extremes and I'm a bit baffled. I get that he lived a long life and saw a lot of stuff but his analysis of the 20th century seems really defeated and... I mean liberal?

He has some pointed critiques of RES states that veer really close to saying revolution is impossible, that the market cannot be stopped, that basically we have to accept that communism was never a possibility and move on. It is really jarring after the previous titles. Am I misreading him? Some of it might just be old dude stuff, I guess, he has some old man takes on art at least. It just seems like he is totally despairing by the end of the last book, but everything I saw about him made it sound like he was a committed Marxist until he died.

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