I’m an Undecided Hobbit, Torn Between a Dark Lord Who Promises an Age of Chaos and an Elf Queen Whom I Just Wish I Knew More About
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    5d ago 86%

    I want Palestinian lives to be saved

    Harris is going to continue Biden's policy of calling Bibi an asshole behind closed doors and sending billions of dollars of bombs while structuring shipments to avoid congressional oversight.

    I want Ukrainian lives to be saved

    Harris is going to continue sending billions of dollars of support to Ukraine so more Ukrainians can be fed into the meat grinder, because it's good for the military industrial complex, and the less of Ukraine there is left standing, the more can be sold for pennies to privatization interests. Russia has been offering peace for a long time and Ukraine has been made continuously to reject it by Western nations because it's in their interest to burn Russian military assets and sell Western ones.

    I want American lives to be saved

    Harris does not support universal healthcare and talks about wanting the deadliest army on Earth, a thing that you cannot have without killing people.

    I want clean air and water for the generations to come.

    Harris supports bailing out crypto investors. If she gave a shit about the environment she wouldn't subsidize the Planet Burning Funny Money. She'd also perhaps distance herself from Biden, who has signed more oil & gas leases than Trump did.

    I want everyone, not just Americans, to have a chance at a better life and control over their own lives and bodies.

    The American Hegemony is one in which millions must starve to death every year and billions live in substandard conditions to support the excess of a few million privileged consuming monsters. If Harris cared to improve lives she wouldn't support the continued wars in Israel and Ukraine, she'd support M4A, she'd break with the neoliberal doctrine she's run with her whole life, she'd name and reject the neocolonialism that keeps America floating on top of the broken bodies of the global south. She will never do these things, but she will put a Republican in her cabinet.

    Harris is further right than Biden. Trump is an uncontrolled rabid ape, correct, but Harris will be no less vile or murderous a leader, just less openly rude. Her border plan is more extreme than Trump's was.

    History has showed us that voting for the lesser evil doesn't work. There is no righting of the ship, just more and more steps towards greater evil. The Democrats serve capital, just as the Republicans do. They didn't grant abortion, a Supreme Court decision did. They didn't legalize gay marriage, a Supreme Court decision did. They never enshrined them in law, but stole credit for the work of radical activists when polling told them it would boost their voter count.

    Are the Dems less repugnant than the GOP? Yes and no. They don't want to ban abortion federally, great, but they're not going to legalize it either, and they're not going to stop the GOP from banning it state by state. That's how they are on every issue.

    You speak of voting between 100% Hitler and 99% Hitler as the only choice you have. I reject that framing. Local political action is vastly more effective than voting for President unless you're one of the lucky 100,000 that live in the right swing districts. Join the DSA or the PSL. Go to school board meetings and tell the book burners driving cross-county to try and ban transgender students to fuck off. Read revolutionary theory and discuss it with others.

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  • I’m an Undecided Hobbit, Torn Between a Dark Lord Who Promises an Age of Chaos and an Elf Queen Whom I Just Wish I Knew More About
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    fox
    5d ago 89%

    Didn't Galadriel straight up say that if she were given the power of the Ring she'd turn into a tyrant? Like, if the choices are Sauron (tyrant, given the power) and Galadriel (tyrant, given the power) it seems most correct to pick Frodo (trying to unmake the source of corruptive and destroying power).

    Like, if anyone wielding the Ring for any purpose will be subordinate to its will no matter their intentions, and ultimately will subjugate all others, then the dichotomy is not which wielder, but whether the Ring should exist or not.

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  • Havent ren faires been queer central since inception?
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    5d ago 100%

    It was invented in the 1960s by a teacher for her classroom, and then she hosted a bigger one for a radio station fundraiser, and people liked playing pretendsies so they sort of took off. They've always been pretty queer events (in that anything camp is going to be queer). The whole vibe of a Ren Faire is to just do it up anachronistic style or dress up like a fairy tale. You get drunk, browse handmade semi-medieval wares (sometimes it's fairy wings) and have fun looking at the people in elaborate costumes

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  • China Is Outspending the U.S. to Achieve the ‘Holy Grail’ of Clean Energy
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    1w ago 100%

    I think we could do better than the sun if we really tried. Compost emits more energy per volume than the sun's core, there's just way more core to emit energy

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  • Ryujinx is dead after being contacted by Nintendo, sad day for switch emulation.
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    3w ago 100%

    Emulation specifically is wickedly hard and there's a reason basically every emulator has a team of dozens to hundreds of contributors and is in active development rather than capable of perfect emulation

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  • How many extra pronouns are now in the game?
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    3w ago 100%

    There's 7 hours of cutscenes in Death Stranding and one is more than half an hour long. Let the man make films so we don't have to plod through mocap anymore

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  • What a normal take for someone to have, i sure hope libs are normal about it CW: many scratched libs
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    4w ago 100%

    Why are we expecting a musician to endorse anyone? She should have exactly as much electoral weight as anyone else, i.e. none. Like, a community or union leader giving an endorsement means something but a musician? What, is Kamala going to fund bigger concert venues? Direct R&D to discover new chords?

    Also, Harris is a cop, I don't see any cop deserving endorsement from any member of the LGBTQ+ community for any reason. If the choices are a fascist (capitalist) and a fascist (cop), there's no worthy opponent to endorse and only the system itself to condemn.

    Also also, Roan in that same interview said it was important to engage on local candidates more than national ones. It's not like she's rah rah on Republicans because she's unenthused about the génocidaires in power, she's telling people their votes are more impactful locally because again, both national candidates thirst for unlimited Palestinian blood, and no good comes from voting for either of them.

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  • Neither of the demons on stage is described by the demon who posted that

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    I don't watch HBO or whatever it's hosted on and ![black-mold-futures](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/55035acc-b15f-4e52-85a1-3226ec249e1a.png "emoji black-mold-futures") seems to hate it, and I'm barely online enough to understand half of what they spew into the air

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    Seriously there's like 8000 of them now and it's still all about shy guy, the lizard, and the plague doctor. Move on.

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    neurodiverse fox 2y ago 100%
    Fuck Temple Grandin

    Lady's out here acting as an advocate for autistic people and also designing ways to industrially kill animals more efficiently. You can't claim to be empathic to animals and then build ways to slaughter them.

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