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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Leftist here: I swear to fuck if I hear one more Tankie put a "Trump winning is actually a good thing because Kamela's literally the same person as Trump" card on the table with a "Actually North Korea is this amazing paradise and EVERYONE ON THE FUCKING PLANET is just pretending it's awful. Source: Trust me bro!" stat booster

So help me God I will.... Roll my eyes and drown my sorrows in another round of Dead By Daylight where I hope to find a Jonah in the lobby because I'm a Killer Main...

Seriously, why can't we have unity like the Rightists do? I mean they just point and say "Look! It's a gay!", they all form in a line.

If I point and say "Look! It's a fascist!", the whole squad starts pointing at each other and somehow I'm "cancelled for being a rape apologist" because the way I pointed was actually a dog whistle because it vaguely resembled the ancient Anti-Black symbol called "Ligma" popularized in the year 19Dickety2 in response to white men being annoyed that black people could afford chewing gum or something... Which obviously everyone totally knows is a real thing!

I just want us to ya know, save the fucking world from Neolibs and Literal Nazis before we start doing purity tastes on each other. Like, can we wait to do the "Everyone in the group gets chronic backstab syndrome." shit AFTER we win?

I mean fuck the Deadly Alliance had the fucking patience to wait till they killed the main cast, Raiden included, before that shit.. and they're literally Shang Tsung and Quan Chi, the exact two people I expect to constantly lose Among Us by reporting each other when they're both the Imposter! In a SELF-REPORT! Because I'm reliving all of my negative experiences with other socialists, and when I'm angry I try to make the nerdiest references I can make while still ensuring there's a chance for others to get them.

starts frothing, dies of self-inflicted rabies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So what's Dead by Daylight about? Also any decentl places I could watch it without spending much?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Sorry if I didn't make it clear. Dead By Daylight is a multiplayer horror game famous for its surprisingly deep story and for including crossover elements.

5 Players enter a match. 1 Killer (Which can be an original character made for DBD like Deathslinger or The Nurse, or a character from a famous game or movie such as Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm Street or Nemesis from Resident Evil) who hunts down the other four, and the other four are various survivors who must find a way to escape the map before being murdered to death by the killer.

As a Killer Main, I typically opt for the Killer Role and only play as a Survivor every now and then.

The game typically goes for 20 dollars on Steam, but is typically sold for 7 during sales.

Though it's one of those dealies where if you're there for the crossover content, you'll need to pay real money.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

i dunno friend, purity tastes sound pretty fun to me

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I haven't seen anyone say Trump winning is a good thing, nor have I seen anyone say the DPRK is a paradise (closest to that is people saying the DPRK has living standards around the level of Cuba these days). Where are you finding these people at significant enough numbers to cause you anguish? Legitimate question here, you're calling for Left Unity but it seems like you're misframing others at best, which goes against that ideal.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I will admit that I'm exaggerating out of frustration, but the idea that North Korea is "Actually a real nice place to live, preferable to America in some respects" is one I hear a lot (I do hear about China being a paradise)

And for the record I was kicked out of my local Socialist Chapter for refusing to endorse a Green Party Candidate who was openly transphobic and talking about nixing expanding healthcare access in favor of just "curing autism with crystals", the head of which responded to by calling me a rape apologist, which doesn't make any sense. (Also a white cisguy calling a transgirl a "Rape Apologist" for not going along with transphobia and ableism is sus)

I was hardly the only nay-sayer, he got a lot of backlash for supporting this person, but the fact that I wouldn't play ball with one of my oppressors seemed to really piss in this guy's cornflakes.

Wasn't the only odd thing about the guy, he actually condemened Bernie during the 2020 primaries, citing a "Refusal to advocate for violence against the police" as "Proof that he just doesn't care!", when that was never a realistic thing to expect a candidate to do.

So I have dealt with a lot of crazy unreasonable types "on the front lines" so to speak.

Also I sadly have dealt with a lot of "Even though it means letting Trump win, we can't lift a finger to help Biden/Hillary/Kamela because they're literally not as bad as Trump on this one issue."

My point still remains, can we please just focus on actually being productive before we turn on each other?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I can't speak for the chapter you were a part of, but I think the idea that the DPRK isn't a hellhole, actually, and is more like Cuba as an impoverished yet slowly improving society is a valid point to take against common allegations as such. The PRC is certainly no paradise either, but it has rapidly improved, and I think acknowledging that as well is also valid. I questioned what you alleged because I haven't seen anyone say the DPRK is paradise, period, nor the idea of Trump being better than Harris.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It happens all over Lemmy, at least it does. Anecdotes aren't typically considered reliable.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't be obtuse, he was obviously being hyperbolic.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But doesn't that hyperbole get in the way of a desire for Left Unity? If someone says "Harris and Trump serve similar interests" and someone interprets that as "Trump is better than Harris, actually," that fundamentally changes the point the person was making. Hyperbole is only useful as long as the quantitative change in a claim doesn't change the fundamental equation, if it does, it becomes strawmanning.