Touché 😅

As much as I hate the ruling family of Saudi Arabia… get off it:

https://www.bts.gov/browse-statistical-products-and-data/info-gallery/us-petroleum-use-domestic-supply-and-net-imports

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/how-much-crude-oil-does-us-import-by-country-2025-01-31/

Your information is dated. We are net exporters of crude oil for the past 15-years with majority of import from Canada and Mexico

But for what it’s worth - fully believe renewables are the way forward for geopolitical and ecological stability. This is the more important narrative

Thanks for providing something closer to an articulation of a solution…

Although I’m not sure disengagement from the (corrupt and intentionally ineffectual) two party system does much more than to continue to disenfranchise left voices - absent substantial momentum towards 3rd-spaces not present (or being built) today.

I think I basically agree with everything else you have written. But your tone comes across poorly, to me at least.

Friend.

You write two paragraphs responding to my comments on the effectiveness of your rhetoric and have nothing to say to respond to what you derisively refer to as “straw men” for the other three points I raised in (online) discussion with you.

I’m forced to roll my eyes a bit as I feel vindicated in my point on rhetoric.

I would close by saying, I haven’t seen you assert a compelling positive solution to what you problematize correctly, other than don’t vote / vote 3rd party (which no one sees as the answer, maybe not even you?).

If I may be so bold, some reflection on a solution on your side would be helpful - as would articulating it at the start of your attempt to converse with fellow left/left-leaning internetizians you are seeking to influence

I and (at risk of speaking for others) many of the other commentators agree with at least 80% of what you have written and close to 100% of the spirit of your argument. But a few points to reflect on:

1. You are not winning anyone over with your rhetoric in your first posts
2. Infighting, purity tests, and micro-clans are common methods used by the right to fragment the left
3. Voting third party in a general election in the US as a protest vote is close as to as impactful as not voting, be prepared for those consequences and for people to call you out on it. Of course there is no doubt some justification
4. Relatedly acceleration is not viewed as a viable political strategy by most on the left (who aren’t naive new comers to political discourse)

Also the album cover for hardcore punk band the Anti-Heroes album Underneath the Underground

The best kind

Fucking sad

Sending love. Good on you for what you do

Meta

Interesting. So it is a closed space. Can’t say I agree with that approach - but not my place to decide either.

Thanks for clarifying.

I don’t know what was said above, why was it removed? Was it extreme or are we now censoring divergent comments on DB0?

I feel like that is a bit antithetical to the politics of this page and my own.

Just checking. I’ve noticed the walls of the fediverse closing a bit and I don’t like it

What the fuck would you propose they do?

This is cool not dull - no need to be dull in this world amigo

I didn’t get “owned”. I got banned. Trust me I have a lot to say.

Let’s just start from the assertion Zelenskyy is a Nazi, is the Hexbear argument that there was a genocide of ethnic Russians in the Donbas prior to the invasion and/or that Poroshenko was not a fascist while Zelenskyy is much more hard right authoritarian. Either way you are full of shit.

Center speaker is matched to stereo front, rear are intentionally under powered… as someone who appreciates good sound - the mixing on most every movie is fucked (and some TV - HBO looking at you). It’s not a set-up issue.

Interviews with sound mixing techs indicate this is because everything is optimized to theatres and then only slightly remixed.

For the basic consumer we would much rather have audible dialogue than ear shattering gun shots…

Except I have Dolby 5.1 set-up and it’s still dogshit

I mean fuck that cunt

The “CEO” looks like he is 12 - typically LinkedIn BS

What about the “metaverse”? I thought that was your thing?