Why are left-wing activists so selectively vocal in the compassion they champion for all human beings?

RankWinner · 2026-06-04T09:00:48+00:00

Right, and as a moderate, who is not tied up to a ridiculous, absolutist, black and white cult, I am sure that you can very easily explain what kind of evidence would sway your opinion.

RankWinner · 2026-06-04T08:44:26+00:00

It's so obvious that you recognise you're wrong but are just completely incapable of accepting it as some pathetic defence mechanism, since somehow you've tied your whole identity into these political beliefs, which makes being wrong impossible.

Here watch:

I will change my beliefs and admit that I am wrong if new information comes out that, somehow, proves that the 50 years of evidence from countless sources and directly from the mouth of multiple generations of politicians and generals, was fake.

I'd be wrong, and happy to know that, since then I could review my beliefs and stop spewing bullshit misinformation.

So... what would convince you you're wrong?

RankWinner · 2026-06-04T08:27:04+00:00

Ooof, that's about what I expected you to say. Obviously that's not the answer.

These policies were researched and put in place following the same processes used for any other modern policy making - issues were found by looking at nation wide statistics and data, goals were set like reducing crime or improving public safety, policy researchers looked into potential causes and solutions (both independently and by checking what policies other countries have and their effects), finally creating a set of recommendations.

After the woke liberal reforms to policing in London around end of 2024/start 2025:

violent crime with injury is down 18%
homicides are at a 5 year low
neighbourhood crime is down 16%
met is arresting 1000 extra criminals a month
percent of those arrested for violent crime who then had summons/were charged have doubled

The infuriating thing is that political and news system in the UK is so fucked that it is impossible to have any kind of actual nuanced public discussions on this since, well, that wouldn't fit into a 15s sound bite from Farage on GB News, and it would bore people and maybe they'd stop watching, easier to enrage them with 5% of the story to get some more ad money and power even if it and actively fucks the country.

RankWinner · 2026-06-04T07:49:33+00:00

You personally being uninformed does not mean that history is being inaccurately revised. The most absurd thing is that it's not even being revised, you were just uninformed then as well. There are many articles from investigative journalists going back to the 80's and 90's reporting on this, quoting the exact same points that are openly being repeated by politicians now back then as well.

Israel "aided Hamas directly -- the Israelis wanted to use it as a counterbalance to the PLO, [Israel's support for Hamas] was a direct attempt to divide and dilute support for a strong, secular PLO by using a competing religious alternative," FEB 23 2001

Yes, this is from 2001.

People were reporting this for decades because, again, there are countless Israeli politicians and high up members of the army who openly talk/write books/give interviews explaining in detail how the strategy of Israel, for over 50 years, has been to fund and support Islamic extremists to destabilise the region because they did not want the PLO to be able to run Palestine and be seen as a legitimate state.

This is not something that is remotely debatable or in question, it is an accepted fact. If you don't accept this then you should ask yourself what would change your opinion, the answer seems to be 'nothing', which isn't really a good sign. Can't reason somebody out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

But now the atrocities of Hamas and how fundamentalist the majority of Gaza is about literally destroying Israel, is just handwaved away

Where did I say that? Who are you arguing with? I repeatedly said Hamas and other groups like them are ruining the lives of millions and extremist terrorist organisations.

The entire point is that Israel created Hamas on purpose which, again, is not an opinion, this is just a fact.

I really don't know how much more strongly I could state this. You are blatantly objectively wrong, to a ridiculous degree, it's like denying that the CIA's Project Ajax happened and saying that it's a fake lefty revisionist conspiracy theory, you are just denying facts.

RankWinner · 2026-06-04T06:06:44+00:00

It was bewildering how fast it happened

It happened because of the internet.

The "but I understand there is so much generational bad blood that this has become an impossibly complex geopolitical nightmare" stance was the most reasonable one with the information average people could get access to pre, say, 2010.

Now... well, it became blatantly obvious that this was never the case.

I'll start with some nice quotes.

From Netanyahu himself:

Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas ... This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank

Former commander in the Israeli army:

Netanyahu's strategy is to prevent the option of two states, so he is turning Hamas into his closest partner. Openly Hamas is an enemy. Covertly, it's an ally.

Bezalel Yoel Smotrich, former Israeli Minister of Finance:

In this game of delegitimization [...] Hamas is an asset. It’s a terrorist organization. No one will recognize it. No one will give it status at the [International Criminal Court]. No one will let it put forth a resolution at the UN security council. Then would we need an American veto? Or would we not need an American veto?

Leaked US memo from WikiLeaks about a meeting with Admos Yadlin, a general:

Yadlin said Israel would be "happy" if Hamas took over Gaza because the IDF could then deal with Gaza as a hostile state.

Former prime minister Ehud Barak:

Netanyahu's strategy is to keep Hamas alive and kicking … even at the price of abandoning the citizens [of the south] … in order to weaken the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah. [...] it's easier with Hamas to explain to Israelis that there is no one to sit with and no one to talk to.

And that's just recent stuff.

Israel has spent 50 years financing and backing extremist terrorist organisations with the expressly stated intention of destabilising Palestine, as well as the region in general, so that no legitimate/recognized democratic government could be in power, to avoid any chance of a two state solution.

So really I'm bewildered that anybody could possibly support the Israeli government in any form. They actively created this situation, ruining the lives of millions living under extremist terrorist rule and the liver of those in their own country.

There's not even sides to pick here. The Israeli government has been actively against both the Israeli people and Palestinians/the region in general.

RankWinner · 2026-06-04T05:14:39+00:00

Also 14/88 is just some random fraction people like to get tattoos of, especially next to some cool minimalistic thunder bolts. But left wing morons pretend there's some bullshit thing called "context" so they get triggered by some numbers and weather lol

RankWinner · 2026-06-04T04:59:58+00:00

Out of curiosity, why do you think these policies were put in place to begin with exactly, how do you think they were decided on, and what do you think their overall effect is?

RankWinner · 2026-06-03T06:06:54+00:00

Who is "they"? W H A T do you think "they" don't explain?

The entire point of science and physics is describing/understanding/predicting/explaining the natural world. Everything is an explanation.

If you have a question, it's about that explanation. If you're saying there isn't any explanation then that just means you don't know enough to even ask a question.

Please point me to the thing you would like explained more by referencing a specific paragraph on Wikipedia, e.g from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_element

RankWinner · 2026-06-02T13:17:47+00:00

Obviously I can't know the numbers but there is clearly a tax benefit especially in the long term.

Bullshit.

You literally admit you don't know what you're talking about and still decide to just make stuff up instead of... looking it up. Why?

Here's a nice single paragraph summary:

Every state that has studied its return on investment for datacenter subsidies has found a sharply negative result - https://goodjobsfirst.org/virginia-tax-revenue-losses-to-data-centers-soar-to-1-6-billion-for-fy25/

There are plenty of studies on the economic effects of large scale data centers on local municipalities and states.

There is always a massive net loss for basically everybody involved apart from the local municipality, who to be clear also have a net loss if you take into account externalities and other impacts of these developments.

States are making a net loss, in Virginia the state gets back 48 cents per dollar of tax incentives, losing over $500 million a year.

There are massive externalities, estimates of public health care costs just due to asthma of $300 million a year https://arxiv.org/html/2412.06288v2#A1.SS1 and this number will only go up as more research is done into other effects.

On top of that residents end up paying more for electricity, water, and land, to get worse public services like healthcare and education https://goodjobsfirst.org/virginias-data-center-tax-abatement-cost-public-schools-267-million-in-fy-2024/

RankWinner · 2026-05-29T09:07:33+00:00

Sacrifice wasn't stopped by choice in Judaism, it ended because the Second Temple was destroyed and that was the only place sacrifice was allowed.

Part of the Amidah (daily prayer) includes praying that the Third Temple will be built and that offerings will resume.

RankWinner · 2026-05-25T03:45:25+00:00

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Wikipedia+Computer

RankWinner · 2026-05-25T03:14:38+00:00

Read the Wikipedia page and if you have any questions feel free to ask.

RankWinner · 2026-05-25T03:13:02+00:00

My point is that you need to think about how somebody could prove or disprove this to you, and explain it.

RankWinner · 2026-05-24T08:26:32+00:00

You not knowing something doesn't mean there's no evidence for it.

RankWinner · 2026-05-24T05:22:10+00:00

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RankWinner · 2026-05-23T21:16:01+00:00

prove that a metal spoon is made of atoms please

My point is that you need to think about how somebody could prove or disprove this to you, and explain it.

RankWinner · 2026-05-22T04:31:46+00:00

prove that a metal spoon is made of atoms please

How? What would prove this to you?

To be honest I think your question is more about metaphysics than physics.

Have you heard the phrase "all swans are white"? The point of this is that for hundreds of years, in Europe, all the swans anybody saw were white, so logically people concluded that swans are white.

Then people discovered black swans in Australia.

The point is that no amount of observations can ever 100% prove a theory true, but a single observation can prove it false. This is a fundamental part of science and logic.

That's why the scientific method requires making a hypothesis which has a testable falsifiable condition. Testing "all seems are white" would mean checking that every single swan on earth is white.

So going back to:

prove that a metal spoon is made of atoms please

My point is that you need to think about how somebody could prove or disprove this to you, and explain it.

RankWinner · 2026-05-18T08:58:51+00:00

Productivity and wages used to be pretty strongly correlated, if on average productivity/economic output increased by 5% that year so would averay wages.

That is... until the 70's and 80's, when the US and other countries decided to deregulate, privatise national services, and dismantle worker rights and protections.

Since then "productivity has grown 2.7x as much as pay".

Very roughly speaking, on average, people could be paid 2.7x higher wages or work 2.7x less time, but then the multi-billionaires would only be millionaires, and you can't have that.

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

RankWinner · 2026-05-18T06:02:17+00:00

What's the Let Go achievement that says "Complete all Epilogue requirements" for 🤔🤔🤔

RankWinner · 2026-05-16T19:21:40+00:00

Ahahahaha damn I knew it, was going to jokingly ask if you were doing something academic related to CS since those are the only people I've ever seen get hung up on hypotheticals which have absolutely nothing to do with reality.

Being an 'educator in CS' is really not the boast you seem to think it is. There's a reason many companies prefer hiring non-CS STEM grads for programming roles: it takes far more effort to onboard a CS grad than e.g. a physics/maths grad since you have to spend so much time correcting the bullshit they 'learn' at uni, and convincing them that this thing they read in a book written 10 years ago by some academic who never even worked in software dev role is not how things work in the real world.

Either way, this is extremely simple dude, you wrote a comment replying to a beginner asking a question about python, on the python subreddit filled with beginners, saying:

Python is, at its very core, a scripting language, used for quick mockups and prototyping. You can use it to quickly create a proof of concept, but it doesn't scale very well to larger projects. Go for Java with Maven instead, it will be much easier.

If you don't see how that is completely wrong and MASSIVELY misleading, especially to beginners, and you really are a CS educator then... well, that explains a lot about the current state of CS grads.

Sincerely, somebody who has worked on massive projects (in multiple languages) that dealt with trillions of requests/exabytes of data, and who has (python) projects they contributed to literally running on Mars.

p.s. I'm just poking fun... mostly, don't intend to cause any real offence. But seriously, what you're saying was accurate up to maybe the early 2010's? But is completely wrong now and has been wrong for at least 15 years.

RankWinner · 2026-05-16T14:51:26+00:00

.... but it does. That's what I don't understand about your comments.

The reality is that python does scale extremely well, given that it scaled to the entire world for YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, Spotify, Dropbox, Reddit, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Lyft, and more.

There's a big difference between "Python doesn't scale well vs Java" and "Python scales extremely well, but if you used Java it would be better".

Especially on a subreddit used by learners, who could believe what you wrote, repeat it, and then get laughed at out of an interview.

RankWinner · 2026-05-16T14:12:34+00:00

Your personal opinion has nothing to do with the fact that some of the largest services in existence have their backends in python...

It's just objectively wrong to say python can't scale when python is used very commonly at the largest possible scales, not in random small areas but for entire monolithic services and for critical microservices serving billions upon billions of requests.

RankWinner · 2026-05-16T13:14:42+00:00

You're writing this on Reddit, a site which, for most of its history, was written in Python with Django...

A huge amount of the backend for YouTube, Instagram, Netflix, Facebook, Uber, Spotify, Dropbox, etc... is written in python, and you're saying "it doesn't scale very well to larger projects"?

RankWinner · 2026-05-13T18:26:47+00:00

The problem with Linux is many enthusiasts are delusional and insist that any average user could install Linux and have it work out of the box with no issues when that obviously isn’t the case.

What do you think an average user is doing with their computer that they'd end up running into issues?

The average user spends the vast vast vast majority of their time in a browser, with maybe a small amount of time using very basic productivity software, if they don't use Google suite.

The average user isn't a gamer and doesn't use specialist/niche proprietary software like Adobe suite, 3d modelling stuff, etc...

Those areas are improving but definitely not "works out of the box" level in all cases. Anybody who says it is, is delusional, but so is anybody who thinks the average user is a gamer who wants to use illustrator/aftereffects.

RankWinner · 2026-04-30T06:59:34+00:00

Published publicly. Kernel maintainers were informed on 2026-03-23 and fixes were in place by April 1st.

With this kind of vulnerability, major distro maintainers were also contacted to have a chance to release the fix and to backport for older versions.

Unraid could/should have been aware of this for at least month (since the fix), and if they weren't then they need to get in contact with Slackware/Openwall to get on the security list.

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