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- on Youre In Prison Right Now Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2d ago
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on MMO Quests Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2d ago
A friend of mine talked me into playing WoW with him once. He had me spend 4 hours doing fetch quests and skipping an entire encyclopedia worth of dialogue to level up to the point that we could start playing dungeons, then during the first dungeon he told me to just follow behind everyone and collect the loot they left behind. I snapped and couldn’t do it anymore after that. I was genuinely on the verge of a mental breakdown.
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on ah yes in c/animemes@ani.social · 2d ago
First off, sociopathy isn’t a thing. It’s a made up term a fake psychologist made up to put people on death row in Texas for personal gain. Go listen to the Behind the Bastards episode on it. The actual diagnosis is “psychopathy”
I was only mirroring the language used by the person I was replying to. Great podcast though, I’m already a regular listener.
Look at all of the growing injustice and inequality in the world, spurred on by CEOs, dictators, and billionaires. Just look at health insurance, where hundreds of thousands die each year from denial of care. Look at Elon Musk and DOGE defunding USAID, which resulted in over 100,000 children dying across the world. Look at the destruction and death that Russia has brought to Ukraine to try and conquer them.
Look at everyone in this thread who looks at all of that pain and misery and would want to do something about it. You’re calling them immature? No, you’re the one who’s immature, with all of your bullshit pearl-clutching.
I agree that something must be done, and I understand where the desire to kill those responsible comes from. I feel the same frustration myself, but I also know that engaging in adventurism won’t solve jack shit. At best it can bring temporary relief, and at worst it can trigger an escalation of the violence/repression it was intended to address. The individuals who are most visibly responsible for the injustice in the world today are merely appendages of a much larger group of powerful institutions which are themselves motivated by incentives that are systemic. What I am doing here is not pearl-clutching; my objection is a strategic one, not a moral one. I won’t shed any tears for dead health insurance CEOs, oligarchs, or dictators, but I will always advocate for organizing with others to address the systemic drivers of injustice rather than acting alone and throwing your life away in an act of impotent violence. It’s better to live for a cause than to die for one.
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on ah yes in c/animemes@ani.social · 3d ago
Problem is he completely lacked a systemic critique of society and fixated on crime, which he took for granted as the cause of all problems. For Light, all evil in the world comes down to individual moral failings, and by getting rid of the criminals he was eradicating evil.
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on ah yes in c/animemes@ani.social · 3d ago
I mean, dictators have historically often met with a rather grisly end (Mussolini shot and hung upside down by his toes, Hitler blowing his own brains out, Gaddafi sodomized with a bayonet) and that doesn’t seem to stop people from pursuing the same power.
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on ah yes in c/animemes@ani.social · 3d ago
That is not how it works at all, and it’s actually a very childish way of thinking. There is not some finite pool of monsters these positions of power draw from, the positions of power make the monsters. “Power corrupts” is the most common trope in fiction since the advent of fiction for a reason and it’s baffling that so many people still don’t get it.
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on ah yes in c/animemes@ani.social · 4d ago
The entire theme of Death Note is that power turns people into sociopaths and that no matter how many “bad people” you kill you will never actually succeed in cleansing the world of evil, but I guess no matter how ham-fisted you make it people will still miss the point. It’s funny that a lot of people complain that Light has an unrealistically naive view of morality and yet this comment section seems to be teeming with people who are equally immature.
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on ah yes in c/animemes@ani.social · 4d ago
Killing a leader doesn’t get rid of the position of power that enabled their misdeeds.
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on ‘The People Building AI Earnestly Believe That It Could Kill Us All’: Anthropic Researcher Quits Dramatically in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
All these Silicon Valley tech bros have been reinventing religion over and over again for years while believing themselves secular rationalists.
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on uspol r(ule)ant in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 Sep 2026
This entire smear campaign is just an attempt at assigning guilt-by-association to progressives. A full-throated condemnation of Hasan Piker will only be taken as an admission of guilt for their prior association and the media will continue to use it as a line of attack, so it’s less than pointless to do so, it’s counterproductive because it would only alienate those who agree with Hasan while doing nothing to appease “moderates.”
Stop pretending you care about electability. It’s obvious you’re not doing this out of concern for Abdul’s chances of winning, but out of hatred for an online personality you have a weird parasocial vendetta against.
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on uspol r(ule)ant in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 Sep 2026
I keep tabs on political figures I don’t like as well. I don’t do it by watching their content regularly for years. Your online habits are abnormal and unhealthy.
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on uspol r(ule)ant in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 Sep 2026
I think you just outed yourself as a chronically online hate-watcher who should not be taken seriously. You realize it’s not normal to regularly watch content made by someone you hate for years, right?
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on uspol r(ule)ant in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 Sep 2026
The point is that you’re taking the bait set out by right-wing and Israel-backed smear campaigns and that you even care about Hasan wearing a Mao suit is a result of that. If Hillary came out and said free Palestine they would start non-stop accusing her of being a Chinese psy-op using her Mao suit preference as “evidence.” Most of the things listed in the last paragraph of your post are false such as Hasan denying the Uyghur genocide, supporting the invasion of Tibet, and lying about LGBTQ rights in China. You only believe these things about him because you have accepted the mainstream media lies about him at face value and refuse to think for yourself. As for the Houthis, characterizing them as terrorists and considering someone a terrorist supporter for reacting to their propaganda is hypocritical if you don’t apply the same logic to those reacting to US or Israeli military propaganda because they are also terrorists (and much more prolific ones at that).
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on uspol r(ule)ant in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 Sep 2026
None of you clowns care about Hillary Clinton wearing Mao suits, but act like it’s a problem when Hasan wears one.
I think this way about wall decorations that are just vaguely relevant words like “EAT” in people’s kitchens or “LIVE LAUGH LOVE” or “HOME SWEET HOME.” Might be the autism talking but looking at them feels like a message being forcibly injected into my skull and I find them very annoying. Advertisements are even worse and are genuinely infuriating.