Machinist @ Machinist @lemmy.world

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okay, that's immaterial to the current discussion.

I would think Netanyahu is closer to the greed and corruption model. He needs the war to keep his slimy ass out of jail.

1991, with Limbaugh really gaining popularity. Conservative radio had found the secret sauce and this was arguably the first big win. The goals were certainly fascist.

I'm from a particularly backwards place. Thinking back on it, this may be when the big change started happening.

I think I would point to 9-11 2001 as the actual tipping point.

Mike Johnson is fucking spooky. I've been saying this for a few years now, when his Covenant Eyes usage made news.

He is a true believer, he's on a mission from god. He's smart. He will not care about the people crushed by the machine, as that is the fruit of their depravity in his worldview.

Watch this motherfucker. Trump and Vance are motivated by greed and power. You need to look to fundamentalist Islamic leaders for a similar mindset to Johnson.

I'm pretty okay with Duggar snark and Sister Wives snark. My girl follows all of it. Anything that spotlights the abuse inherent in fundamentalist Mormonism/Evangelicalism is mostly a good thing, in my book.

No clue about the particulars on this. Never heard of her before.

That's a great Fitzgerald quote. I had to look it up. Written after The Great Gatsby but published shortly before, The Rich Boy is a novelette. From 1926.

1926. I fucking hate knowing history. I fucking hate feeling like Cassandra.

Sometimes a DIY icepick lobotomy doesn't sound like a bad idea.

I love that you somehow caught a downvote on that. It's almost a direct quote.

"Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had. " W. Kelley, Wharton Professor. Died 2011!

That's how fucking dumb he was.

That's been a minute.

I remember kids in my school wearing shirts with tanks running over Saddam with the caption, "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up." I remember how happy my mother was about it.

I thought Ghislane was the Mossad contact, wasn't her father actually in Mossad leadership? Epstein was the 'party' boy, gag, and Maxwell was operations?

I'll go with you.

I'm still going to want to have a hard talk with God about why She allows cancer babies and such...

It's been a long time since I read the book, but I remeber it being medicore late golden era. Hubbard had no understanding of radiation and his characters tended to be good or evil without a lot of nuance.

*Hubbard/Herbert

Yes, but I would recommend being fucked up and in the company of others.

Don't go there alone or you will only find sadness and anger.

Yeah, drunk or stoned with a group of SF nerds shit talking it would be a fun party, actually.

It's a terrible movie. Verges on so bad it's good. Uses more dutch angles than a crooked windmill.

Book was mediocre with a Mary Sue main that had Goodboy for a last name.

BBS -> Slashdot -> Reddit -> Lemmy -> ???

They all have their time. I'll see some of y'all on whatever is next. It branches, I didn't do digg.

Telomere length is the only thing I can think of, but that's totally a guess and I don't know much about it. Telomeres, as I understand it, are padding at the end of DNA and shorten as you age.

Fucking Quiverfull. Eugenics bad, but I really hate those fucks.

Hell, line em up, tell them to grab ankles, and I'll take care of it with a pair of pruning shears.

Yeah, that tracks. She sounds like a sweetheart . It's deprecated, but it's not like a memo went out. It was much more common when I was a kid, I remember my grandfather griping about it and trying to make the change.

We moved North recently and I'm having the same problem with a different term. Lots of Italian in the area. I've always pronounced it eye-talian, it's not a racist thing, I'm just a redneck and that's what I learned. Some people find it offensive, so I'm trying to change it.

Well, I guess they find it offensive when they can understand me. Feels like I'm speakig a different language from everyone around here a lot of the time. I have an easier time talking to black folks than I do white, dialect is much closer. I regularly get jaw-drop suprise when I'm in public and say something.

Also having a hell of a time with Yes Ma'am/Yes Sir as there is high trans/enby representation in my social scene. I just apologize and move on. Southern charm and politness is a huge help.

I'm mostly self educated and my speech patterns are so stereotypically deep southern that most people assume I'm backwards. I was mostly raised in a Sundown town. All those inbred jokes and such. Black folks pick up that I'm not backwards faster than white because they understand me better. I find language and dialect fascinating, do a lot of involuntary code switching. When bullshitting with a group of white men around here, when I get comfortable, I unconsciously drop into full redneck speech and they really have a hard time understanding me.

As for colored, the below image is a good representation of why the term is problematic, it was used on Jim Crow signs. Calling a black man, "colored boy" is fighting words and roughly equivalent to the N word. I refer to white men as boys all the time but unless it is a mixed race group, I do not refer to black men as boy.

Yeah, it's all going to be regional. I'm a redneck, and, to some extent, queer. However, call me those things with the wrong tone and we have a problem.

Minority is nice because it's relatively short compared to groups-other-than-white and similar clunky terms.

"Minorities," is now sometimes used in an insulting way, but it's usualy obvious when someone is being a racist shithead.

At the end of the day it comes down to respect, intent, and tone. Basically, don't be a fuckhead and be polite, folks will tell you how they want be called.

Minority is probably the best term when you're talking about not-white.

In general, African American is seen as silly just like Latinx is. Caucasian American is used ironically as a mild insult: "That boy is such a Caucasian American that he keeps a loaf of whitebread in the glovebox."

Brown people is also useful shorthand but you have to be careful as it can be insulting without proper irony. "Those rich old white guys sure do love killing brown people for oil."