• ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    121·
    12 hours ago

    I’m in Philly and I read local reports of I.C.E. Raids… 😖 (I’m a US Citizen, but I’m not white)

    Just google “Philadelphia ICE Raid” and you’ll the what I’m talking about.

    I saw some reports that some college kids at Temple University, are pretending to be ICE agents and harassing people, they got suspended (hopefully expelled). They are facing charges of impersonating the authorities. (probably getting a pardon by their nazi in chief)

    • zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world
      1715·
      22 hours ago

      Gonna get downvoted, but conservative ideals should be present to some minor extent to balance things out. I don’t mean modern conservatives or Republicans, but the concept of fiscal conservatism (e.g. preventing waste in the military). I’m not talking about the fIsCaL cOnSeRvAtIsM that current Republicans preach either, like hollowing out social programs to give tax cuts to their buddies. So yeah that’s of course not what we have now, but there should be a healthy balance for that kind of thing.

      • Fedizen@lemmy.world
        4·
        13 hours ago

        The people who say this tend to forget that if you only take the “good things” from conservatism it ceases to be conservatism. The conservative ideology is garbage and only leads countries to a sort of destructive cannabalism.

        • zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world
          11·
          4 hours ago

          Basically what I mean is the mindset of doing everything possible in your power to be self-sufficient. I think I’ve gone so far off the left side I’ve horseshoed around. Everyone should be striving to be as self-sufficient as possible and not need to rely on external forces. I’m far from it, but I’m trying, at least given the past few years (and especially this month) I’m preparing for bad situations.

          • Fedizen@lemmy.world
            1·
            4 hours ago

            That is the mindset that got us here. Maybe it will help to double down, but the reality is we don’t know, we’re in uncharted waters

      • Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        331·
        22 hours ago

        The problem is that what you describe is not conservatism, it’s just basic competence in governance. It’s an impressive achievement of the radical right that they have managed to get people to conflate the two.

        • zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world
          55·
          20 hours ago

          Sure that’s fair. Whatever you want to label it, there needs to be some kind of balances against full progressivism so it doesn’t go extremely far to the left. I say this as a pretty far left progressive in most things, but have some minor conservative ideals (such as individuals wanting to support themselves without relying on outside sources). Again, I’m well aware that’s not modern Conservatism in the US these days.

          • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 hours ago

            such as individuals wanting to support themselves without relying on outside sources

            You mean we shouldn’t have social welfare programs?

            No public healthcare, no public housing, no public infrastructure, no public health services, no free public education, no social security, no universal basic income

            How are any of these bad?

            Knowing Better has an incredibly informative video about the history of meritocracy, rugged individualism, and fiscal responsibility in America. I think you’d find it interesting

      • Vinstaal0@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 hours ago

        Describing the good of the opinions that are more on the right side of the spectrum isn’t going to come across as good if you use conservatives to describe it.

      • SolidShake@lemmy.world
        33·
        17 hours ago

        You won’t get downvoted. Ideally you’d have both parties suck it up and work together and combine ideologies. But… well you know… Babies

        • zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 hours ago

          Nah, I’m not talking about the actual current Republican party nowadays. They need to die out and form a new party that’s actually conservative. It’s the most corrupt swamp straight outta Uzbekistan or Russia at this point. The things they’re doing now, no Democrats should compromise on ever.

        • Vinstaal0@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 hours ago

          Ideally you wouldn’t have two parties, but have an odd number of parties to figure it out. So three at minimum

  • trolololol@lemmy.world
    121·
    20 hours ago

    In my country you need to be accused of being a communist in order to be arrested. Well sometimes there were no accusations just arrests, but at least we were an official dictatorship.

    Signed: anywhere in South America in the 80s. Thanks Obama McArthur

    Epiphany: are climate scientists a tool of communist hoaxes? Dang, you’re all getting arrested soon aren’t y’all

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    104·
    1 day ago

    Nervous laughing … as the police keep pounding at my door

    Yeah, it’s going to be hilarious to be fighting in WWIII while everyone tries to convince themselves that it isn’t WWIII

          • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
            24·
            1 day ago

            Ok then. Why don’t you explain to the class what conditions are requires to sensitive, since you seem pedantically obtuse to getting the point of why people might leave specific details out.

            • isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de
              2·
              15 hours ago

              First of all, sorry for the harsh response, I was in a hurry and I probably passed off as a dickhead

              secondly tho, from the video you sent yourself at 9:43 “Nitromethane, all by itself, is a high explosive, but it is so inert, it’s almost impossible to set it off”

              And that’s what I (probably in a bad way) implied in my first message, nitromethane requires to be sensitized with something like ammonium nitrate (to make ANNM) or with ethylene diammine (to make PLX) (or really with any basic substance, even sodium hydroxide you get as a drain cleaner can work, but it gets too sensible and can detonate on its own while you work on it)

              Here’s another video that shows nitromethane just plainly burning

            • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
              21·
              1 day ago

              Edit: I originally had a very hostile response here because the “obtuse” comment struck a nerve.

              Some people aren’t “obtuse” by choice.

              Many people, especially neurodiverse ones, look at your behavior and find it “obtuse” if not outright disingenuous and obfuscatory.

              I realized you may also be feeling frustrated and maybe didn’t mean to be uncharitable and hostile to differently operating minds.

              I may not understand what you were trying to imply, but it crossed my mind that this may be beside the point because the actual point is that we’re living in a situation where, if people actually said out loud what was REALLY on their minds, it would get them in trouble. And this is because the world is extremely dangerous and volatile right now, we’re all probably feeling very much IN DANGER from it, and not being able to talk about it honestly and plainly is indeed VERY PAINFUL.

              So I retract my reflexive and poorly considered demand that you explain yourself, and I merely instead suggest that the person you were responding to wasn’t trying to entrap you. I was just as confused about the implication as they were, I surmise, but merely knowing that the implications are … “Spicy” … is enough.

              Sorry for being mean about it.