What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for money? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

There are no truly apolitical people, but there are people who were raised with very little politics (feral children) and people with an impaired ability to engage with politics (people with ASPD). They seem very sad.

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Well the difference is that one makes things in the future different than things in the past, while the other makes things in the future the same as things in the past.

Sorry Gary, I’m pro-voting. But to make it up to you, here’s an anti-Democrat article on My blog: The Democrats’ Secret Plan to Destroy Democracy

They hate arabs too, and arabs are semitic peoples

Yeah, I know, whoever thought campaigning against Joe would lead to things getting better was a fool. They had far too much faith in the intelligence of the Democrats.

Wow, I never considered that they might be using AI to type out those really long replies. Come to think of it, they do type them really really quickly

Anarchists are not necessarily against all involvement in electoral politics. Some advocate voting when the possible outcome of an election could be disastrous (for example, if a fascist or quasi-fascist party looks likely to win the election).

What your source is actually saying is that we cannot rely on voting. I fully agree with your source that voting will not effect change. In fact, My post is not advocating for voting as a means of change. It is advocating for voting as a means of preventing things from getting worse, while we use direct action to make things better. Because the thing is, voting does work as a means of change when one side does it and the other doesn’t. And the fascists will never stop.

The way I see it, we’re on a deadline. If we can’t immunise enough people to this BS by the midterms, then Trump will declare himself dictator and there will need to be a civil war. And if the Americans can’t get a grassroots movement strong enough to start that civil war, then we’re doing world war 3. And I don’t want world war 3.

In early 2024 I also saw a lot of people say “There’s no way people are going to vote for Trump again after his disastrous first term, so let’s use this election cycle to push for a better candidate than Joe, even if it costs the Ds a few votes”

Yeah…

No, he was really really racist for the time. But he did get better at the end.

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Trump won by outraging leftists. I think outraging rightists is a viable strategy. We don’t need to appeal to the right, we need to appeal to the people on the left who haven’t been voting on the left. The people who showed up for Biden but not for Harris.

Interesting. This planet orbits an orange dwarf which is much more stable than Sol, so it could have had longer to develop life. And this orange dwarf is pretty bright, so it’s going to be easier for us to analyse the data from it. We’ve only seen it transit in front of its star once so far, and it was picked up as a planet by volunteers combing through Kepler’s data. Once we get some new telescopes up in space in a few years, we can keep an eye on it and see what its atmosphere is made of. If it has enough CO2, then it’ll probably be the right temperature for liquid water and life.

I learned about this stuff from video games. The MA5B is full auto.

Australian oral histories are the most accurate and consistent in the world. While the Library of Alexandria was burning down, Aboriginal Australians were preserving knowledge from tens of thousands of years ago. If you want to know what life was like 10,000 years ago, all you have to do is go talk to an Aboriginal elder.

We had 60,000 years of communism here in Australia

Most of that isn’t related at all to his superheroics.

Stane and Killian became problems for the world long before Tony became a superhero. Hammer was inspired by Stark’s superheroics, but Tony’s whole goal for that entire situation was to keep the Iron Man technology out of the hands of people like Hammer. With Toomes, it the federal government stepped in to take over the job and the city didn’t properly compensate him. He should have had a better cancellation clause in his contract with the city, Tony isn’t responsible for that contract. And Mysterio was exactly what Tony believed him to be. Seems like most of Mysterio’s goons were people mad they weren’t allowed to design weapons anymore. Quitting evil makes assholes angry, that’s not news.

The only supervillain I attribute to Tony’s actions as Iron Man is Ultron, and Ultron definitely isn’t a manifestation of Capitalism and the current world order. This comic is arguing that superheroes enforce the status quo, but I don’t believe Iron Man has acted to enforce the status quo through his superheroics. Your argument that he created those supervillains doesn’t convince Me either.

Actually, Tony, Pepper, and Obadiah together owned more than half of the company’s stock. Obadiah would have needed virtually ALL of the other shareholders to agree to such a lawsuit, and he decided to use violence instead of bothering with the headache that would have been. After he died, anyone trying to do the same would have needed to get Ezekiel Stane on board, while Tony and Pepper were consolidating their control over shares and offering a lot of money for anyone who wanted to cash out of SIA while it was still worth something. So yeah, Tony stopped that from happening by being good at business, it wasn’t just plot armour.