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I think it's always been like this. I'm old as dirt, and I remember noticing the same thing in the 90s

We desperately need to teach critical thinking skills and source evaluation

History will never forget how Hitler KHS because of all the voting going on

Finger painting sounds like incredible fun, but I still remember one of the first finger painting works I ever made as a child, which was alternating blotches of red and green that looked satisfying to me. The teacher said, "Oh, a Christmas plant!" which was a completely uninformed assessment because in reality it represented nothing but pretty colors. It was the first time I knew what it felt like to create something that was misunderstood by the viewer.

What I'm saying is, I know how David Lynch often felt.

I like them, but I'm always behind someone who looks like they've never used technology more advanced than a telegraph before

There's a lot of nuance here, and I don't think anyone can answer the question about ableism sufficiently, but as a demisexual I just want to say that "why do you think the character is handsome when you don't know the character" seem like words from a person who has not yet discovered they are demi and thinks everyone is just like that lol

Pig butchering scams

https://youtu.be/bW4wYV0V-5s

My co-worker was a victim of one of these scams for 5 years, and she wouldn't listen when we tried to tell her because in her mind the guy was totally real

Also, people vastly overestimate how many people are actually going to read an argument between two online people. Only the most chronically online of redditors read that shit. Most people find it very off-putting, and you actually risk losing credibility if you continue to engage. (Said as someone who has very much and repeatedly made the error of continuing to engage.)

In that case, it's better to just make a top-level comment that's far more likely to be read than a response 4 replies deep in an insufferable debate. You don't continue the chess game for the sake of spectators once the pigeon has shat all over the board and knocked the pieces on the ground repeatedly. They're just wasting your time at that point, which for most of them is their only goal in the first place.

Maybe we'll even bring a few other illegitimate colonizer states like Israel down with us.

Should I start drafting my apology video to the accelerationists now?

Here's hoping the USA falls and doesn't get back up again

Filed under four-panel memes I was actually hoping would be loss

Capitalism has sustained a self-inflicted injury

Racist members of a racist party. I hope the Democrat Party collapses so people stop spreading this "lesser evil" bullshit that downplays their atrocities.

I've used the separate search box for so long that I forgot it's not the default

Ah yes, the USA, a genocidal slave state world-renowned for not being imperialist and oppressive.

Iirc there's a community on .world that's specifically for centrists to go into various leftist spaces, act like absolute pendejos, then post screenshots about "censorship" by "tankies" when moderators take action.

Yep! And it wasn't that long ago I actually lost my job explicitly for being gay, which was totally legal. That's one of the reasons the US has to fear-monger about other nations, so we won't notice the exact same things or worse happening here.

liberal ignorance and apathy 🤝 Israeli propaganda

It's already here. We exploit incarcerated people for slave labor, and (I'm sure purely out of coincidence /s) we have one of the highest incarceration rates of any nation in the world. Not to mention private prisons, which is not a thing that would exist in any state existing in good faith.

It's always like a bucket of ice water to the face having friendly chats with people on xiaohongshu about their daily lives and then coming here and seeing a wojack meme comparing China to fucking Israel of all things lmao

A better comparison to Israel would be the US. They're both illegitimate settler colonial states conceived specifically as genocidal ethnostates.

I guess this anarchist is a "tankie" ¯(ツ)_/¯

I guess Mexico is a "tankie" nation too, since they support Palestine and trade with China. Hell, almost everyone is a "tankie" unless they're a US or Israeli nationalist.

I'm not sure why I'm arguing with an ableist wojak-style meme lmao. I'll just sip my coffee.