Zombiepirate @ Zombiepirate @lemmy.world

Proud anti-fascist & bird-person

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Normally I'd agree with you.

But so many Americans are pretty goddamned stupid.

"You know, I've given her her due. Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn't mean it has to change," Kelly said. "Jesus was a white man, too. It's like we have, he's a historical figure that's a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I just want kids to know that. How do you revise it in the middle of the legacy in the story and change Santa from white to black?"

Yes, not to mention that our society has been specifically and intentionally set up to benefit white guys for 500 years.

Yes, another student brought that up and he wanted to move on pretty quickly.

Worst teacher I ever had: an ideological parrot who clearly wanted to use the public school system as his personal soapbox.

I had a highschool government teacher in Texas in the 90s, and he was a Rush Limbaugh quoting freak.

He always cried about how there are no holidays for white men. When I asked about presidents day he said that "they made Washington and Lincoln share a day while Martin Luther King Jr got his own."

These are the fragile, casually open racists who the modern GOP is courting.

L'homme Arme is such a cool composition. I'd love to hear a more period-accurate version, but this one is pretty great anyway.

Maybe it's aspirational.

Big shock that you're standing up for a drunken blowhard just because he's a fascist.

Never would have expected that from you.

He's a cryptofascist. I don't think he's come outright and said it, but when he portrays himself as the semi-ironic white supremacist god "Kek," he knows that it gives him enough plausible deniably that he can play his fashy little denial games.

After his sieg heil the other day, there's no longer any room for doubt.

So he didn't outright say it, but if I flip someone off while grinning and telling them they're number one, there's no denying what I'm actually saying.

Simple: rules are for people who aren't like them.

Their whole political philosophy is derived from this axiom.

I heard an interview with the sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson, and he said something that I love: "pessimism is almost a dereliction of duty."

If we want the world to be a better place, we have to make it a better place.

I don't think I've gotten to that one yet.

My kid and I are really into Bushido Ball, which is such a cool game.

UFO50 is probably my favorite release of last year.

It's one of the reasons reactionaries hate her so much.

And also that she's a woman of color who didn't stay "in her place."

And it's so annoying to hear liberals parrot the same shit because the conglomerates who own liberal media don't want to change the status quo.

Genau wie das Mutterland es früher gemacht hat.

But... You brought it up? Nobody else was talking about it.

Are you just disappointed that people are talking about it? Isn't it a bit unreasonable to demand other people avoid a subject that you don't like? You're free to not engage. I'm really just confused who you're talking about that is saying this stuff, especially since you said the Target thing.

Then aren't you doing the thing you're complaining about? Choosing to discuss identity politics over economics?

I'm still not following then.

Why would you list pride merch in Target as one of the problems with the Democrats if that's not one of their problems?

Do you have anything to support this hypothesis that supporting vulnerable groups was what cost them the election instead of them being the party of the status quo? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding?

Like I said, I'm with you that they need to focus on economics that has an effect on people's lives. I just don't follow your other point.

I agree with you that the Democrats need to focus on economic issues, but I'm not following on the "identity politics."

What did the Democrats propose to do about pride merch in Target?

And you believe him?

What a mark. He doesn't give a fuck about you, he's there to get revenge on the people he hates and to enrich himself.

And he used tools like you to put him there because you hate your fellow Americans.

America first my ass. Imagine voting for someone because they want to protect your fragile masculinity.

Wearing a Confederate flag should be as intolerable as wearing a swastika.

Celebrating Robert E. Lee is like honoring Erwin Rommel.

There's a reason the "unite the right" rally organized over the removal of a Lee statue in Charlottesville: he is an ongoing symbol of white supremacy despite the lost cause myth perpetuated by reactionaries.

He was a cruel slaver who sought to permanently entrench the practice. There was nothing honorable about what he fought for and he doesn't deserve the respect of a single person, much less that of the government.

Edit: Some added context for this piece of shit, from an account of one of the enslaved people he inherited who expected to be emancipated upon the death of their previous enslaver as promised:

[W]e were immediately taken before Gen. Lee, who demanded the reason why we ran away; we frankly told him that we considered ourselves free; he then told us he would teach us a lesson we never would forget; he then ordered us to the barn, where, in his presence, we were tied firmly to posts by a Mr. Gwin, our overseer, who was ordered by Gen. Lee to strip us to the waist and give us fifty lashes each, excepting my sister, who received but twenty; we were accordingly stripped to the skin by the overseer, who, however, had sufficient humanity to decline whipping us; accordingly Dick Williams, a county constable, was called in, who gave us the number of lashes ordered; Gen. Lee, in the meantime, stood by, and frequently enjoined Williams to lay it on well, an injunction which he did not fail to heed; not satisfied with simply lacerating our naked flesh, Gen. Lee then ordered the overseer to thoroughly wash our backs with brine, which was done.

State courts in both 1858 and 1862 denied Lee’s petition to indefinitely postpone the emancipation of his wife’s enslaved people and forced him to comply with the conditions of the will. Finally, on December 29, 1862, Lee officially freed the enslaved workers and their families on the estate, coincidentally three days before the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect.

Give a real comic five minutes to roast this motherfucker and we'll see who's sensitive.