GreenKnight23

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

then that's what will happen. The Trumps will likely embezzle their fortune from tax payer dollars by only applying tariffs from shipment origin, allowing billions to come through SA, which in turn may fund more fascism in SA and ultimately help support Russia.

it would be the biggest liquidation of a country in history as all the American wealth is pumped into SA and distributed out from there.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 23 minutes ago

As a non-drinker of coffee

the rest of your opinion is moot. you have no say in this because you don't understand the concepts behind coffee.

I had to stop drinking coffee for health reasons. it was fucking awful. drank a cup a day for decades. I couldn't function properly even six months later.

eventually I started drinking decaf, it helped.

you know why? the routine. the caffeine content is abysmally low but it comforts me first thing in the morning. It's probably the same for many coffee drinkers.

so really, do you want to inhabit a world where at least HALF of the people you know start their day out on the wrong side?

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Kids need respect

no, kids need understanding. respect is earned. the difference between the two is trust.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

well said malicebot9000!

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I've had comments with you before.

I know what you're about, and you're just boring. same old rhetoric over and over again.

no thanks.

oh-you-again-5ce21d-613915157

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You are misunderstanding how the system is supposed to work.

no, I think you have the misunderstanding of how it actually works.

We have a responsibility to vote, but no candidate is owed a vote.

given the choice, you want your genitals mutilated or your head removed? if you choose nothing then you get both. technically you don't need to chose, but it's in your best interest to make the choice that allows you to survive.

The government is meant to execute the will of the people. That's why we live in a democracy. That means that the government is supposed to work for you. The politicians are supposed to essentially be public workers that are hired via votes of the citizens.

a government is not meant to execute the will of the people. a government is meant to control and maintain a society. the people are to control the government through their will to ensure the society supports the will of the people. Unfortunately, some people forgot this and have refused to participate in the will, IE voting, and have weakened our society to the point of fracturing.

politicians are not social workers, they care about maintaining control and exerting their will on the people. the job of the people is to ensure their elected officials reflect what the goals and will of the people are. Unfortunately, some people forgot this and have refused to participate in the will, IE voting, and have weakened our society to the point of fracturing.

your views on governance and politics is so antiquated and skewed you can't even see what's going on in front of you because you're so blinded by the past.

"its not fair, the gubamint should be like dis!"

No one is owed our votes. They are supposed to earn it.

no one is owed freedom, no one is owed liberty. You are supposed to fucking earn it by participating in the election and helping us move this ship away from disaster.

this election was like playing tug of war with the helm and having half of our supporters watch from the side complaining about how, "we didn't want to go this way so we're not going to stop the ship from crashing into those rocks."

at one time I had hope for the future but now I can see I was wrong. We're doomed, not by the corruption, not by the sadistic megalomania, but from arrogance and apathy that flows from lazy Americans.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

fucking amazing, it should be stickied to the top of every political community.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

And yes, people not voting are just trying to be left alone.

unfortunately as an adult you don't get that luxury. if you want to be left alone, move to Uzbekistan and live in the mountains.

You're advocating for violence against people who just want to go to work, have a beer on Friday, and feed their kids.

I'm advocating for violence against Nazis.

if they didn't vote, who will know unless they tell. and if they tell, then they clearly want to incite, because by your definition, they "just want to go to work, have a beer on Friday, and feed their kids". I don't think anyone who wants that would even care enough to mention they didn't vote, and in a few years they'll be too ashamed to bring it up anyway.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

So now not only do we have to vote, we also have to guess which one is the correct one with no communication.

If you have to guess which one is the bad one...

And you say there's not a transitive power here but you keep describing a transitive power. Oh and you've called for violence against people who just want to be left alone.

No, I'm calling for violence against Nazis. Violence against actual Nazis is always acceptable.

I shouldn't have to motivate you to vote, nobody should. If you're not motivated to vote, then you accept the ramifications of your actions.

We'll come back in six months to see how you're feeling about it all. I'm feeling that you're probably gonna have a great time though.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 0 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

Oh I don't like Nazis either. But his political campaign isn't built on Hitler's. It's a pretty stock modern campaign that had better ~~messaging~~ propaganda than the Democrats. And before you accuse me of liking his ~~messaging~~ propaganda, he won the election. So it was better ~~messaging~~ propaganda.

fixed it. The fact that you're calling it "messaging", tells me all I need to know about you.

Calling everyone who doesn't vote for the Democrats a Nazi just isn't a winning message. That may seem weird to you but all everyone else hears is that you don't know what a Nazi is, and you're just throwing a word around.

I'm not calling anyone who didn't vote for Democrat a Nazi. I'm calling anyone who didn't perceive Trump as a fascist threat, and voted against the obvious choice, a Nazi. Either you understood the threat that Donald Trump poses to continuing American life as we know it, or you actively supported him being in power. There will no other options but Harris and Trump. There's no gray area. It's pretty black and white. You either vote against the fascist, or you support the fascist.

Especially this new transitive power of being a Nazi by doing nothing. Even in the aftermath of World War 2 you weren't considered a Nazi without a party number.

Technically German citizens didn't do anything for the rise of power of Hitler. People still make jokes about how Germans are Nazis. 99% of the population there wasn't even alive for World War II. The shame was immeasurable and impacted Germany economically and psychologically as a culture. Why would there be shame if they weren't ashamed of what they did? And if they were ashamed, that means they're guilty. Guilty of what? Being a Nazi.

I wonder how the prisoners in the concentration camps after World War II felt when they went back home and their neighbors knew where they were and still they did nothing. Do you think that they... understood their neighbors weren't Nazis? Do you think they cared? I don't.

By the time you're done accusing people of being Nazis by the transitive power, everyone, yourself included, will be a Nazi. After all, you might accidentally sit at a table with one and then poof, you magically get an evil fashion sense.

One does not "accidentally sit at a table of Nazis". When you find out the table is Nazis, you fuck up the table.

Whenever I find out somebody's a Nazi, I punch them in the face as hard as I possibly can. There's no delay. There's no guilt. Believe it or not, a fist straight to the face. Today, I'm proud to say, my daily life is 100% Nazi-free. I'm not sure how much longer I can keep this winning streak up though. You may willingly sit at a table with Nazis out of a sense of politeness, but I will burn that motherfucker down.

So no, there's not a "transitive power" on Nazis. It's pretty cut and clear. You either are a Nazi, or you are not. Like if you voted against fascism, or not.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -2 points 22 hours ago

you're funny, maybe they might put you in the camps last.

 
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