This is the most “Portland Antifa Bookstore” thing I’ve read all week. You’re not more “principled” or “balanced,” you just want certain things to replace other things, (solarpunk lol), and you’re fully committed to avoiding the easy solution at all costs. Comfy Americans who want to stay comfy with no tough moral decisions ever make the worst kinds of leftists.
Yeah no way could you leave out Canada lmao. As soon as i graduate i’m fucking moving.
Western Europe? Scandinavia? China? Uhh Albania? No idea yet. As long as it’s not this soulless nightmare petrostate. Fuck the rent here and fuck the work culture.
What a moving, salient political take. Good thing “Just stop it and leave us alone😡🤬” is a belief that always survives against armed militant resistance
It’s freaky how easily this can apply to other fields as well. Take psychology for example - think tanks and other media donors churn out articles like “What’s driving the ‘No Hope Effect?’” or “The Science of Who’da’thunk-ology” to mystify basic cause-and-effect phenomena like paranoia, social alienation etc. Always written so solipsisticly and “quirkily”, offshoot of those early hipster-era bathroom readers like The Book of Awesome, like it’s written by a clueless parent trying to explain out-of-their-league concepts to a toddler. The whole OP comment’s also spot on for politics, economics, hell even modern military/police tactics (at least for the US). Look how robotic and consequently jumpy they get with that training.
The business and political giants who fund this stuff love to try and re-label a concept to sell it back to the public, as if it were brand new, so they can guide the overall public dialogue. It’s social engineering 101.
Who gives a fuck. What kind of motivation could you possibly have to defend these boring, evil people anymore. Look at how mediocre and small your excuses for warmongering are compared to the demands of the army who took over this struggling, formerly colonized nation. You “lost people” in a fucking air conditioned building while an entire country was ripped apart and turned to slavery, because powerful people wanted one leader gone. America has no character or soul. You’re Walmart and an army. You fight wars to “defend yourself” and selfishly, cowardly hide the explanation for you being attacked.
A Cuban teenager unwittingly found himself on the front lines of the war in Ukraine after accepting a job offer he received on WhatsApp to do “construction work” for the Russian military, according to Time magazine....
The second one makes for one less Nazi. Thus less warcrimes. Dont tell me theres some magical “cycle of hate” you’re beholden to, just for putting down a child-killing government operative.
Anti-trans organizations have said that their position against gender affirming care center on “protecting kids.” Now, a Florida judge has allowed them to proceed with their next target: trans adults....
Western consumers need media to cater to their terminal Aphantasia, I guess. Feels like some weird postmodern Hayes Code thing major studios want.
Looking at the US media landscape today, you’d think imagining fantasy worlds without connecting it to Earth was illegal. Same with the horde of recent graduate YA authors who seem to care more about book sales than writing. You just instantly get this uncanny valley feeling where it’s clear the writer’s never trained their sense of abstract thought (and assumes you don’t have it either). Plus, the fact that these authors have any sense at all of what today’s media “tropes” are completely fucks them over, as they insecurely try to dodge them, unconsciously add them anyway, and only end up with more generic stories (at least they’re Marketable!). They’ll only remind you of everything you’ve already seen, or know. You’ll forget one as soon as you read another. Unironically feels harmful to a growing kid’s creativity.
In conclusion, I think adult audiences who scrunch their noses and say “That was weird” should be bullied more. They use it like a genre label, so young artists get spooked and avoid it.
LMAO, as a kid i watched “The Master of Disguise” and during a shameless Michael Johnson cameo i legit thought they called Michael Jackson the fastest man on Earth.
The point is that either way, the US government has the corporations “life” in its hands. If they go down, the Fortune 500 bailouts stop. That’s when the gun goes off.
Funny how these people think they deserve any equal respect or recognition as a human on this site (Remember le human!) when their honest to god conversational cadence sounds like a machine-translated speech algorithm. Would you respect this person’s time if you met them for real? And if they started talking like this?
For those who work with the public: What was the worst situation that occurred between you and a customer?
Why is Lemmygrad hated in the wider space of Lemmy?
I’ve been trying to find a good Marxist instance, but Lemmygrad and Hexbear are widely hated. Why is that? Are there any good leftist instances?
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Minimalists (reddthat.com)
UAW expands strike as nearly 9,000 workers walk off job at Ford's largest plant (www.upi.com)
Israel's siege of Gaza is illegal, EU says (euobserver.com)
Reddit be like (programming.dev)
What is a popular book that everyone buys but nobody reads?
Israel-Palestine escalation live: Strikes hit Gaza after Hamas offensive (www.aljazeera.com)
Microsoft causes learned helplessness (lemmy.sdf.org)
Technically it's always the first in China until they get removed from the movie (startrek.website)
What UI design trend do you hate the most?
I personally hate rounded corners and shadows added everywhere. Makes most things look crappy and smudged.
“We Will Not Stand Idly By:” Mali Warns Against Repeat of NATO’s Libyan War in Niger (peoplesdispatch.org)
Where to get hot trendy ideas? (lemmygrad.ml)
Non Americans, what province is the "Alabama" of your country?
In terms of having the “marrying cousins” stereotype.
New wave of Mastodon users thanks to Elon Musk floating around the idea of charging everyone for Twitter (media.tech.lgbt)
Just the basics (startrek.website)
A Cuban teenager was offered a job doing 'construction work' in Russia. Instead he was sent to fight on the front lines in Ukraine. (www.businessinsider.com)
A Cuban teenager unwittingly found himself on the front lines of the war in Ukraine after accepting a job offer he received on WhatsApp to do “construction work” for the Russian military, according to Time magazine....
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No Longer About Kids: Florida Judge Allows Trans Adult Ban For Large Swaths Of Care (www.erininthemorning.com)
Anti-trans organizations have said that their position against gender affirming care center on “protecting kids.” Now, a Florida judge has allowed them to proceed with their next target: trans adults....
What are some harmless ways to prank someone?
Isekai (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth?
I dont remember the age, but it was before Kindergarten, thought men came into the house at night to load the next days shows into the TV.
People of Lemmy, I dare you to name ONE billionaire that's done anything good.
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Fears of peace talks with Putin rise amid US squabbling (thehill.com)
Schools in France send dozens of Muslim girls home for wearing abayas (www.aljazeera.com)
Schoolgirls who refused to change out of the loose-fitting robes have been sent home with a letter to parents on secularism....
18+ JBP has got u bro (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Need a plate of generic, insipid platitudes with a giant helping of bad science and misogyny?