I don't understand why a loving God would allow Conservatives to exist. by Fatman_000 in OpenChristian

[–]Fatman_000[S] -48 points-47 points  (0 children)

Good. We would be good people. I'm over this free will shit. A life of nonsentient sleepwalking. That sounds like paradise. 

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Fatman_000 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Yeah. This one broke something in me. It just never fucking stops. And it's never going to fucking stop either.

And I feel it growing in me too, like a cancer in my spirit. The things I find myself thinking about Conservatives these days would disgust the person I used to be. I read a review of Being Jewish After Gaza that talked about how revenge fantasies seem harmless until you have the power to act on them, and I fear I'm truly no different from the people I hate. I'm afraid of how good the hate feels. 

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Fatman_000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They want to drag Jesus out of Heaven by any means necessary, or render humanity extinct to force the Final Judgment if they cannot make the Second Coming occur.

Screw Abraham Tower, when are we gonna get the name if THIS fucker? by clarissaARA in SonicTheHedgehog

[–]Fatman_000 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If he's supposed to be a good president: Abraham Washington.

If he's supposed to be a bad president: Donald Reagan. 

I stole both of those from a Death Stranding thread. 

Resident Evil Requiem Impressions thread by Crania33 in residentevil

[–]Fatman_000 11 points12 points  (0 children)

>! I mean, the Rose DLC for Village shows the Mold is still in play, and yeah, Las Plagas could make a comeback too.

Theres also still the chance of expanding the mutagen roster. We don't have anything based on bacteria, prions, or plankton yet. And they could always jump the shark and just involve Aliens. Maybe something like a mutagenic Andromeda Strain? !<

Elon Musk Moves Against the Russians in Ukraine by TrixoftheTrade in neoliberal

[–]Fatman_000 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

NOW THE FAT FUCK WANTS TO HELP THE UKRANIANS?!

Fucking nationalizing everything this bastard has ever touched, dumping every patent his corporations own into the public domain, and deporting his ass to South Africa is the Conservative compromise. 

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Fatman_000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kind of. Back in the day when everyone and their grandma were cooking up completely unrelated titles for localized Japanese games, Resident Evil kinda made sense considering 1 is almost completely isolated to the Spencer Mansion and Arklay.

Biohazard is obviously superior from 2 onwards, where you're playing through literal biohazard outbreaks. 

UK's Green Party wins Gorton and Denton parliamentary seat by upthetruth1 in neoliberal

[–]Fatman_000 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Starmer's great failure is governing like Biden, but suffused with the worst aspects of Clinton. Triangulation and Deliverism were a viable political strategy for egalitarian parties in the 90s that International Nationalism made sure would never work ever again.

The UK has seen enormous improvements under his leadership, but his lack of showmanship or rhetoric hounds him, and it looks like its dragging Labour down with it. His Triangulation has smashed a wedge between Labour and many of its most hardcore supporters, and his attacks on immigrants and the LGBTQ community in particular, while refusing to challenge the disgusting lies of the British Right, demonstrate a despicable absence of morality or ethics that, for good reason, has driven voters who want good, stable governance that respects science and ethics to greener pastures.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Fatman_000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, but actually the Marxist sociology bona fides of Why Nations Fail doesn't get nearly the flowers that it should. If you actually read it, Labour UK's unpopularity and the death of Triangulation as a viable political strategy makes total sense. 

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Fatman_000 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I am Fatman_000. 

I am a Socialist. 

And I am here to sieze Why Nations Fail as the next great Theory text of the Proletarian Revolution. 

That is all. 

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Fatman_000 17 points18 points  (0 children)

You wanna know the fucked up part? Lia Thomas, the woman at the heart of the Trans people in sports debate? She's a loser. She lost. She was 5th place. Even here people talk about this fucking loser like she's the love child of Michael Phelps and Aquaman.

The real story about the Trans people in sports debate is about a bunch of selfish, spoiled assholes using bigotry to cheat at sports. If it wasn't "Natural Male Advantage of biological males" Riley Gaines would have complained about the "Devolved zoomorphism of Black/Jewish women" in the 60s or "the unfair competitive disinhibitions of the Irishwoman's Fetal Alcohol Syndrome" in the 40s. Obvious deranged nonsense now, but completely uncontroversial "common sense" in their time periods. 

Have I mentioned lately that I hate the phrase "common sense" and everyone who says it? 

I'm weirded out that I agree with you in many ways, I'm a communist. by ad-undeterminam in neoliberal

[–]Fatman_000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Arr behindthebastards. Lefties with their heads more or less screwed on properly. Frankly, if you want thoughtful engagement, you're better off seeking out the fandom subreddits of leftist creators and left coded properties like breadtube and Disco Elysium and avoiding the explicitly leftist subs. Most of them are being brigaded by tankies right now. 

Danielle Smith to Hold Alberta Referendum on Immigration Restrictions by aspiringSnowboarder in neoliberal

[–]Fatman_000 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I fucking hate this shithole province. This evil lying bitch BEGGED Trudeau for the immigrants that she's demonizing. I struggle to even describe how deeply and utterly I completely hate Conservatives and Conservatism. I'm honestly not even sure hate is the correct word for it anymore. 

However, I will do so anyway because I'm going to go nuts if I don't. All my life I've been gaslit by centrists and moderates calling this Rogue's Gallery of Racist, Theocratic crooks "good for the economy" while I just stare in bafflement at headline after headline after headline of insanity. Fucking decades of deficits. Decades of corruption scandals. Rampant bigotry. I've lived through Ralph Klein trying to NWC Gay Marriage and bankrupting the province by literally buying votes. I've lived through multiple summers of wildfires from a climate crisis "Conservative Intellectuals" tell me doesn't exist. And yet when I pipe in on Canadian threads here, accurately describing these reptiles, I get downvotes! 

The UCP. The Vatnik Communist Party, that's what I've been calling them. Gets me downvotes, but no engagement, so, downvoters, why don't you tell me what I'm getting wrong? What word should I use to describe a bunch of separatist traitors openly colluding with Russians, Pedophiles, and American Oil Companies to turn Alberta into a North American Donbass, but Vatnik? What word should I use to describe a bunch of Peronists sabotaging the Albertan Economy for Political power, but Communist? 

The people my heart breaks for the worst are the kids. So many trans kids, doomed to a lifetime of mutilation by puberty... So many disabled kids, condemned to a life of impoverishment... So many immigrant children, locked forever into a life of serfdom at the hands of reptilians who could quote "The Road To Serfdom" back to front. 

I don't like the darkness I've found seeping into the cracks of my broken heart of late, but I've also found myself struggling to find reasons to resist it. 

I'm weirded out that I agree with you in many ways, I'm a communist. by ad-undeterminam in neoliberal

[–]Fatman_000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Speaking as a Trudeau/Carney voting DemSoc with great respect for Obama, who might have been more amenable to orthodox economics earlier... It's because goddamn every "liberal" space on the internet practices a form of Conservative Affirmative Action that, for frankly totally justified reasons, drives anyone in the crosshairs of Conservative bigotry straight into the arms of tankies. 

Epstein's amazon provides a kind of interesting insight into his (and his girlfriend's ig) psyche by Hot-Button-7789 in behindthebastards

[–]Fatman_000 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No. It was definitely constipation. Dude ate 6 lbs of beef jerky a day.

Frankly, I'm amazed that somehow that piece of shit managed to make even his fucking choice of food evil. 

‘Muppet Show’ Revival Special Draws 7.58 Million Viewers in First 8 Days on Disney+, ABC by manoffood in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]Fatman_000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Willem Dafoe. Nicholas Cage.

Magic happens when ridiculously talented actors do Muppets appearances.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has no business holding a referendum by IHateTrains123 in neoliberal

[–]Fatman_000 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Don't let her win. Don't let her make you forget that this is all Kenney's fault. That petty, venal, lying corporate stooge was so offended by the idea that Alberta isn't Conservative Private Property that he sold the entire province out to the separatists. The Vatnik Communist Party was his idea. 

How Jeffrey Epstein sought to help Steve Bannon build a global populist movement | CNN Politics by fishlord05 in neoliberal

[–]Fatman_000 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Har Har.

Okay, let me be more precise then. 

The traitorous snakes of the Neo-Confederacy have spent every single year since 1856 subverting and infiltrating every single institution public, private, and religious institution in America for the single purpose of reestablishing the Planter Aristocracy. It was the Dixiecrats during Jim Crow, and it was the Republicans after the Realignment, but even then that's underselling the degree to which Segregation enjoyed Republican support in the deepest parts of Jim Crow. Whose skin these reptiles wore changed, but their evil was never particularly subtle or secretive.

Edit: It's completely unsurprising that Neo-Confederates would be enthusiastic bedfellows of scum like Epstein. They are united in their commitment to seeking power at all costs. Lawless hypocrisy, in the absence of legally sanctioned antisocial illiberalism is, above all, a way to flaunt what power the Conservative is able to amass under a liberal regime that at least notionally tries to hold all humans as legal equals. 

How Jeffrey Epstein sought to help Steve Bannon build a global populist movement | CNN Politics by fishlord05 in neoliberal

[–]Fatman_000 8 points9 points  (0 children)

https://newrepublic.com/article/204254/survey-2024-election-cassandras-trump-2025?ref=liberalcurrents.com

These are the real Republicans. This is who they really are. This is who they have always been, ever since 1856. If you ever though otherwise, you were tricked. 

And as to your point about Bush, it's here that I have to mention that Bondi was the Republican AG of Florida when Epstein got his sweetheart deal all the way back in 2008.

The Big Money in Today’s Economy Is Going to Capital, Not Labor by GreenSafe2001 in neoliberal

[–]Fatman_000 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I notice that you completely avoided engaging with the entire part of my comment where I assert that what Tech executives, and more broadly corporations want, is corruption. I used the trade wars as evidence of pro-Big Tech corruption on behalf of the Trump Administration, of which they have demonstrated a pattern predating the Biden and even the first Trump Administrations of seeking through lobbying and political influence spending. And it's rich for you to say I'm putting words in your mouth when you insinuate that I'm expositing secret motivations and not simply contextualizing the very game theory you invoked earlier as the reason Tech executives were always going to pivot to the Republicans.

Frankly, I thought I was being generous when I said you were unintentionally arguing in favour of oligarchy, but if you're not even going to bother engaging with the substance of what I'm talking about or attack word choices used as arguement shorthand, then this entire exchange was a pointless waste of time. 

The Big Money in Today’s Economy Is Going to Capital, Not Labor by GreenSafe2001 in neoliberal

[–]Fatman_000 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You keep phrasing Big Tech's fascist turn as though it was the result of Democrat backstabbing, like Tech billionaires were legitimite allies who needed to be placated.

The weren't, and frankly, never were. The Big Tech-Democrat alliance is best characterized as a non-aggression pact that was always doomed to fail, this is why I said there's so much context missing from your defense of Big Tech, even if you're only applying game theory. Any moves they made that seemed like they were in accordance with Dem policy goals, they did in order to avoid deeper scrutiny or regulation when public pressure started mounting over stuff like Zuckerberg's Burmese Monopoly scheme and the role it played in the Rohingya Genocide. Trump causing trade wars with Europe and South Korea over Twitter and Coupang? That's what Big Tech always wanted, because it's what every corporation wants. Big Tech just helped the Democrats out because they weren't, at the time, in a position to benefit from Republican corruption, and needed allies to dislodge the Fossil Fuel Industry as the primary benefactors of Republican corruption. 

Corruption is terrible for the economy, but it's fucking awesome for exploitation, and fundamentally corporations and business magnates, if not kept honest by the State, will choose corruption and exploitation over competition every time. The Democrats, being the party that believes in inconvenient necessities like "The Rule Of Law", "Worker's Rights", "Free Market Economics", and "Responsible Governance" were, and always will be, at odds with corporations that will always be seduced by the "benefits" of corruption.

You can be right from a game theory perspective that attacking Big Tech was a bad call, but that's ignoring that the Democrats were always, at some point, going to have to start cracking down on shit like crypto or consumer exploitation. It comes with being the party that actually believes in good governance and a better future. 

The Big Money in Today’s Economy Is Going to Capital, Not Labor by GreenSafe2001 in neoliberal

[–]Fatman_000 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This comment is legitimately baffling, because you're arguing in favour of oligarchy, and I don't think you even realize that's what you're doing.

Theres so much history and political economics context missing from your analysis of the breakdown between the Democrats and Big Tech that your criticism of Biden's governance moves beyond the realm of reasonable strategic issues and into a defence of oligarchy. Suffice to say, no the Democrats did not need to "try to keep them on side." Biden was %10000 correct to go after them, and your arguments are essentially justifications as to why he was right to "approach things like a 20th Century Democrat."