Dictatorship of the proletariat

Hot take, if shit and broken glass is one of the options my waiter offers me I’m gonna have some fucking questions about any alternative options

Biden says Hamas is the only group preventing peace after describing a deal Hamas agreed to and Israel rejected

Trump calls out that actually Israel is the one preventing peace

“And they’re right to do so and should finish the job”

Or could it possibly be that being wishywashy on Gaza is actually the problem? An overwhelming majority of Americans believe this is a genocide, the majority of democrats are anti-Israel.

Saying “Israel had a right to defend itself after October 7th but it needs to slow down” like Bernie did at rallies for him just pisses off both sides, you’d be better off calling for bombing Tel Aviv.

Principle Investigator, it’s the professor in charge of a lab

Academia can be really chill as long as you don’t have aspirations for greatness

As someone who just likes doing bench work and absolutely never wants to be a PI I’d much rather stay in academia. No profit motive means much less pressure and no one checking too closely on what I’m doing.

My PI tells me what she wants, I tell her how long that will take and if I’ll need extra assistance, and then I give her the results when I have them. Then I fuck off whenever I want and as long as my rats get fed no one really questions it.

Honestly transcription in general is the only use I’ve seen for LLMs that I’m like “Yeah actually that’s pretty good”

2020 radicalized my mom and her politics now are “let the streets run red with the blood of the bankers” and she just sorta assumes I know what I’m talking about but we still frequently find new anti-communist brainworms just because the shit she was taught growing up is absolutely insane.

People talk about how Gen Aloha isn’t learning how to read and that’s a problem but fuck, Gen X got no history education whatsoever, they just threw a bunch of McCarthyism into the history shaped hole in the curriculum.

She listened to blowback season 4 and was blown away, she had absolutely no idea what happened in Korea

“It’s much more difficult to fight a country with actual weapons than prisoners making rockets out of plumbing supplies”

Tbf I always thought Dishonored was specifically thinking about this fucking guy

Who did in fact suck dick

Our intrepid hero just watched as a group of rebels executed some of the tyrannical leader’s soldiers. They’re shocked! How could they do this? Don’t they know that killing is what the tyrant does? The rebels laugh it off. It had to be done, they would’ve done the same to them

A More Civilized Age discussed this exact point recently; There’s a very valid reason for resistance fighters to not take prisoners. One, keeping prisoners requires resources you may not have. But more importantly, the goals of a resistance group and the goals of the occupier are not the same.

As a resistance group your goal is not total military victory and occupation, your goal is to make continuing the occupation as painful and expensive as possible, to convince the occupying force that continued occupation isn’t worth it. Taking prisoners directly goes against this goal, unless you plan on using those prisoners as some sort of bargaining chip. Especially in a sci-fi setting where wounds can be healed quite quickly and thoroughly and so the wounded can be back in action very quickly.

And YES! They would have done the same to you! Without hesitation! And they still might try if you don’t kill them!

I’m looking at you, Avatar The Last Airbender

Spend the finale rightfully knocking Fire Nation airships out of the sky, killing everyone onboard, only to let Ozai live.

And that’s after Aang went fishing around for anyone that would tell him it was okay to spare Ozai because literally everyone around him including his past lives were like “No man you really gotta kill this guy”

As mid as that movie was it left such a great setup for a third movie and instead of letting Rian or even a third director stick the landing they gave it back to JJ to have a childlike tantrum and spend the first 20 minutes undoing the bits he didn’t like

The tacit acceptance of monarchism and aristocracy as normal and legitimate things

Something that I thought dealt with this well was The Magicians.

cybernetics makes you evil

I love Star Wars but this is so core to it and I hate it. “He’s more machine now than man; twisted and evil.”

The longer the war in Ukraine has gone on the more pro-Putin I’ve become

It’s looking more and more likely honestly

on the hunt for violent criminals

Should’ve looked in a mirror Jesus fucking Christ

When WW2 ended the unification of Germany was still in living memory. It would’ve been so reasonable to split it up. Like not into West and East Germany but into multiple actual separate states.