Notices by Truth Sandwich 🥪🇺🇸😷 (truthsandwich@qoto.org)

Maybe we should use our brains and reject craziness?

Osama bin Ladin is not an intellectual powerhouse, so why are ignorant kids falling for his ideology?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlLvQBT3yR4&ab_channel=J.J.McCullough

#politics #populism

The best argument for Zionism is the rampant antisemitism being demonstrated on Fedi by the far left ever since Hamas massacred hundreds of Israelis.

#israel #zionism

Some technologies should be illegal.

I’m not going to link to it, but YouTube just recommended a video about the DesertTech Quattro-15, which allows an AR-15 to take 53-round magazines.

As a reminder, civilized states limit you to 10-round magazines because they know that there is little defensive use to more rounds but much offensive use.

So don’t worry if you forget the name: you can be sure it’ll get coverage when it’s used for the next mass murder.

#firearms #guns #uspol

@CptSuperlative

Is it bad for us to mine lithium instead of importing it?

@CptSuperlative

Hey, @woozle, any idea why my toot above doesn’t appear on your server?

@waldoj

I remember when Bernie Sanders railed against millionaires. I also remember when, after he got his third house and accumulated millions in assets, he changed his tune and now rails against billionaires. Can’t wait until he makes his first billion and switches his demonization to trillionaires.

#populism #politics #berniesanders

Why Trump, in one graph.

#uspol

@WiseMagic @georgetakei

Only a vote for Biden stops Trump, which means that throwing away your vote only helps Trump.

You’re a Trumper. How does “purity” feel, Trumper?

@admitsWrongIfProven @WiseMagic @georgetakei

Bad take. This has nothing to do with the de facto two party system. It has everything to do with the far left rejecting democracy.

@SETIEric @WiseMagic @admitsWrongIfProven @georgetakei

FpTP, even without an electoral college, prevents third parties from winning. It's Duverger's law.

A third-party vote is a protest vote, which is actually just a type of protest, not a type of vote. The anti-liberal left, in refusing to vote for Biden, is helping Trump. And they don't care.

@WiseMagic @SETIEric @admitsWrongIfProven @georgetakei

The anti-liberal left is you. It’s people who follow Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and AOC.

They’re not Democrats. They hate liberals. And they care more about harming liberals than stopping Trump.

They’d rather throw their vote away in empty protest than to do their part to block the rise of fascism.

@admitsWrongIfProven @WiseMagic @SETIEric

An amazing display of cluelessness. Why are you even commenting if you have nothing intelligent to add?

@admitsWrongIfProven

I’m going to block you now.

@ntnsndr

Again, how? A co-op is owned by its employees, so would it need to take out some huge loan? Maybe issue bonds or something? How?

This is the real-world reason why co-ops generally can’t compete.

@ntnsndr

If it were a co-op, how would it have gotten all of the money it needed to buy or least the real estate?

@cpoliticditto

“I was a big account of MySpace” is what, then?

(QT of https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@glnews_mirror/111205299716227367)

No, I don’t think Bibi engineered this: never ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence.

But, yes, he’s using this attack as an excuse for genocide.

The parallels to 9/11 are obvious.

@lxo

Again, it’s not about me. They are literally a single-party Communist nation that calls itself socialist. They even call their bad flavor of capitalism: a “socialist market economy”.

And it’s a historical fact that, as is the case for other “communist” countries, the revolution starts by confiscating private industry and replacing it with a command economy.

This is an uncontroversial historical fact.

@lxo

I was kind enough to offer the example of right-wing politics masquerading as economics.

I let you provide the example of left-wing politics doing the same.

@lxo

Technically, there are proposed alternatives to capitalism that are even dumber than socialism. For example, various forms of anarchism.

But what you’ve suggested so far is a Marxist critique of capitalism that justifies some sort of worker coop economy. Sounds like socialism to me.