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[–] uis@lemm.ee 74 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Russian presidential debate:

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[–] lath@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You discriminating against the dead? Lifeism enabler!

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

MY rotting corpse just has some stiff joints, that's all.

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[–] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Obnoxious, lying, seditious, narcissistic, rotting corpse vs. tired, confused, rotting corpse.

[–] Hoomod@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You forgot felon and rapist for the first one

[–] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 16 points 1 year ago

Ah, so I did. Not sure how I managed that, considering how relevant those points should be here.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

I'm concerned about the less rotted corpse employing living humans. Sounds like nepotism to me.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago

Don't give up skeleton!

[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago
[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

Glad to see things will improve in the US!

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Rotting" is a state that won't last past the middle 30s. By 2056 they'll be fully decomposed.

[–] Tixanou@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A friend of mine just sent me a Facebook link that says that decomposed candidate #2 was caught taking bribes from corporations ...... and that they're a communist.

[–] acetanilide@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

They both start with C, so it sounds legit.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

Who do you want running the country? The litch or the revenant?

[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you've ever watched Overlord you'd know the dead deserve to rule over the living

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Anime has a disgustingly right wing bent, which should be expected from a country that's been run by the right since 1955 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_System.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's almost like the main cast is supposed to be the bad guys

[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've only finished the anime up to season 4, but I don't think the theme is that "Nazarick is evil and evil skeleton overlord is fun", but rather "do the ends justify the means Nazarick takes", given that Ainz wants to create a utopia where all races live in harmony. It's very interesting writing given how much time and humanity is given to side characters that are eventually destroyed or imperialized by Nazarick.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

They are somewhat nuanced and ideologically motivated bad guys, I'll give you that. And it does make the anime interesting, especially compared to your standard isekai/VRMMO anime

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[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

For someone that hates the right you make a lot of generalizations. Every country with power is a mess politically, but that says nothing about their art.

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[–] BurningTurtle@feddit.org 4 points 1 year ago

Depending on the tier of undead.

[–] ssj2marx@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lemmitors: You don't understand! I'm not voting for Slightly More Rotting Corpse, I'm voting for the Slightly More Rotting Corpse administration. Yes it's true that both of them support nuclear warfare along the Mexican border, but Rotting Corpse would be dropping more nukes with higher frequency on the climate refugees so we have to vote for the lesser evil.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What would be the alternative

[–] force@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Shoot them

We're allowed to kill Abe Lincoln and JFK, why aren't we allowed to kill these guys? Why does Reagan get plot armor out of all the presidents? Who wrote this shit?

To be fair JFK getting shot was pretty epic though. He almost caused nuclear holocaust (although a more rabidly anti-communist president may have definitely caused nuclear holocaust), war crimed the South Vietnamese a ton, and stabilized Israel. RFK getting assassinated was less epic because that gave us Nixon

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[–] ssj2marx@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As I've said elsewhere, to fix it from within the system itself you would need a bloc of people willing to punish one of the parties for moving right by withholding their votes and their donations. To fix it from without the system is also possible, but would require some "authoritarianism" in the form of people with guns. Anything else is just people flailing around ineffectually and getting mad at others who aren't flailing in the ineffectual way that they prefer.

Either way you've got the same problem: getting a large enough group of people together who are willing to do the thing. Socialists of all stripes have been trying to crack that egg for over a hundred years and the only ones who had any success were the ones that managed to get the peasants on their side because peasants have a certain amount of class consciousness that proles don't.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

so suppose you let trump win to spite the dnc. then what? what are you going to tell all the people whose rights are being taken away?

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Sorry; what would be the alternative NOW?!?

I don't see all that happening before it's time to vote, so isn't what you're saying now a bit of a distraction from the very real risk to the stability of the country?

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When the American populace as a whole is brainwashed into believing the only choices are red and blue, you have to accept that whining about it and voting green (or not voting) is going to accomplish nothing.

So make your colorful allegory and feel good about yourself on the internet. In the end, you are accomplishing less than the people you look down on who recognize the shitty reality of our situation.

[–] ssj2marx@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If choosing red or blue doesn't work, and choosing another option also doesn't work, then what good does feeling self righteous about your decision to pick one over the other do? Unless you're suggesting that the shitty reality of our situation is that we're fucked and nothing will work at all no matter what - which is a level of defeatism that I don't think is very helpful either.

[–] Charapaso@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Voting for the slightly less shit option makes it easier for the things we do in parallel to have a positive impact: direct action doesn't get slowed down much by voting once a year or so.

[–] ssj2marx@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I won't deny that people can do multiple things at once, I just don't agree with the premise that voting matters in the current paradigm.

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[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

But Slightly More Rotting Corpse has the better environmental policy which we'll need before the last remnant of Florida is fully swallowed by the sea in the next 4 years.

[–] aaiding@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago

For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium, for whom a thousand souls die every day, for whom blood is drunk and flesh eaten. Human blood and human flesh – the stuff of which the Imperium is made.

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

You forgot the orange spray paint.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Remember the good old days when we got to choose between a giant douche and a turd sandwich?

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