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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Them being in space really is the only comparison. I wouldn’t expect to see something like Let That Be Your Last Battlefield to feel like a good Star Wars story in the same way that I wouldn’t expect Riker and Picard to fight each other with laser swords atop planetary Mt Doom while screaming their feelings at each other after 2 movies of building up their relationship.


  • Yeah, I suppose when I try to address all of OP’s bot bait lines like I did, it sounds like a disjointed AI generation. I suppose we’re in a day and age where AI generation really is that nearly indistinguishable from real people to the average person. I’m sure there’s plenty of times I’ve been duped by AI generated text.

    Still if it was a bot, it probably would have been an immediate response instead of something that showed up an hour after OP posted. And this comment wouldn’t have been posted almost 30 min after your response to me.


  • Apologies that leftists aren’t too much of cowards to hide behind talking heads promoting stochastic terrorism. I mean it’s not like leftists lying about what operations are being performed at hospitals led to bomb threats being called in or riling people up calling for trial by combat and needing to fight like he’ll moments before people violently entered the capitol building. Or constantly threaten to run over protesters, and many times actually do.

    I could spend more time looking up and pointing out all the right wing violence, but asymmetric bullshit principle and all that. Fuck off, progressive and left leaning people are tired of the double standard when it comes to political violence.


  • blackbelt352@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHold on!
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    Every social media is a vehicle for propaganda.

    As much as I want to agree, not really, straight up racism and sexism drove racist and sexisf rural white voters to the polls and a failure to adequately address the genocide in Gaza dissuaded more progressive voters from turning out.

    Authoritarian governments are never good

    Again authoritarian governments are never good.

    Once again, authoritarian governments are never good.




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    My point is that beyond capitalist oligarch pushing the illusion of culture on everyone globally, independent of national origin, most of the cultures within the US have some sort of trace back to European traditions. I’m not exoticising Europe as some “haaaah European traditions are so great and incredible and ancient and mystical” I’m saying that Eurpoean traditions, which have very long histories compared traditions born in the US, heavily influence many of the cultural touchpoints of citizens of the US, especially white citizens. There is no uniquely, independently cultivated non-eurpoean culture held by white people in the US. Ok there’s one uniquely white american culture and we literally fought a civil war over it.

    Being “culturally white” in America is pretty synonymous with people trying to make the Confederacy again. Meanwhile the rest of us are over here celebrating the traditions our grandparents or great grandparents brought with them to the US from Europe.


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    Ahh yes I completely forgot that the monarchies of European nations only existed for the last 300 years and are in no way historically backed by a religion that’s existed for almost 2000 years which was has a holy book very significanly based on another religion dating back 5000 years. And I totally forgot that Christmas was a totally unique winter holiday that definitely didn’t borrow any traditions from Yule and the Norse or Saturnalia and the Romans which as we all know is not where Vatican City is located nor did the Roman Empire make Catholicism the official state religion in the 300s AD. And wow I totally forgot the english language was completely perfectly formed as it is today less than 300 years ago and isn’t the result of milennia of linguistic adaption of half a dozen different languages.

    And I completely forgot to worship my culturally mandated Trump and Oprah statue this year and instead celebrated the Feast of the Seven Fishes and served a big pasta dinner on Christmas Eve and Day that has historically nothing to do Italy or the Italian migration to the United States. Ahh how could I be so careless and thoughtless and wow my memory is so bad.


  • The difference is negligible. The widespread opiate crisis in the US isn’t because of street drugs and militant cartels and gangs. It’s because of over prescribing of opiates by doctors overworked in understaffed hospitals, or because it’s the only med insurance will cover. The end result is the same, both are corrupt private organizations that have taken power from their respective governments through flexing violence and money. And if you don’t think major corporations can’t be violent, just ask any number of whistleblowers who are 6 feet under.



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    Eh people overblow what Jesus did to the moneychangers and merchants in the temple. Yeah he made a whip and used it to drive the animals out, and he flipped over the tables scattering the money everywhere. But he never tried to to hurt people, just get them out of the temple and disrupt all the commerce going on.

    Jesus Christ Superstar’s temple scene is probably the most accurate recreation of that passage as written in the Bible. He trashed all the stuff, flipped tables and sent everyone else away. He wouldn’t have beaten people to death, that’s not the message he preached or the actions he took.


  • It’s our national Mythology, we’re a land of migrants and refugees. People have been coming to this land for 500 years, yeah that’s a long time compared to our perspective, but there are traditions and cultures in Europe that predate even knowing about the existence of other land in another hemisphere by an additional 1000 years.

    And the culture you describe as dominant over the world while yes is predominantly white, is just unchecked capitalism and neoliberalism and a product of whoever controls the largest military and acts as the economic measuring stick to the rest of the world and that if any other nation were to unseat the US as the dominant economic and militant force, then their oligarch’s culture would dominate the planet.



  • In general it’s asking another person to change their appearance to suit your preferences rather than just respecting whatever mood they’re in or how their naturally resting face just looks, it’s a dick move. Forcing a smile also sucks. It takes some amount of conscious effort to maintain a forced smile and smiling does engage quite a few muscles in the face, about 43 different muscles to make a smile.

    Combine all of that with the history of women very much not having any kind of power in our society, and it takes on a more sinister tone when directed at women, hinting at the idea of someone’s only valuable because they have a pretty face and it should be pretty all the time.