I sadly don’t think that’s the case. I still talk to people every day who are parroting 50s-era anti-communist propaganda straight from the mouth of the CIA unironically. Circumstances may be dire, that I don’t dispute, but I feel like they’re going to have to be considerably worse before most people are willing to overcome their indoctrinated bias and start considering alternatives that don’t involve ‘maybe make capitalism suck a little less?’
Kissinger was Jewish, so that was antisemitism. That’s how it works (according to Israel), any political statement or action made against anyone who is Jewish is antisemitism, right? :P
Hmm, someone call maga a waaaaahmbulance, it’s nappy time.
I mean it’s definitely both, but the fashy admins were the last straw.
If you feel like hunting for it I’d be happy to look at it, but I’m not gonna go digging in your posts for who knows how long to find it.
Yep, entirely fair. S’why I left.
I’m not complaining about people leaving, just saying the bots are not the biggest problem.
That’s fair, it just seems like that if they’re going down the list of problems looking for things they can do to make reddit a better place, it doesn’t make sense to not start at the top.
I agree that’s definitely the case, but I think the problem here is that most Americans can’t tell minorities apart, they see brown skin and assume. I once watched a grown adult yell ‘Mexican go home’ to a Pakistani couple, and this sort of thing is far too common.
Yeah it’s definitely the bots and not the fashy admins that drove me away from reddit.
It was just a half-assed attempt to provide an example, I’m just a dude on the internet who doesn’t write headlines all day, I’m sure someone who does could come up with something better.
You know what, I think maybe I was a little overzealous in my reading of that person’s comment. I just went and reread it and realized there’s not a lot there, so I was probably assuming intent or meaning that may or may not have been there. My bad.
Yup. When he did those nazi salutes I didn’t think ‘omg he’s secretly a nazi’, it was ‘omg that fucking 12-year-old edgelord cringe-factory is so fucking proud of himself for pulling that off.’
To be clear I do think he’s a nazi, just not because of that salute. Dude has some weird ideas about ‘spreading his seed’ and shit that I’ve only ever seen in fanatically religious communities and among white supremacists.
There are better ways to say that if that was their intent. Like:
They’ve also pointed to passages of Mangione’s writings, which described Mangione’s deepening fixation on UnitedHealthcare and an increasing malice over what he claims to be the corporation’s greed.
Purported greed just smacks of cowardice.
I’ve been on the internet since like 1992 and I’ve never once capitalized it, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen it capitalized. shrug
No, I have to assume he’s doing it on purpose and thinks he looks cool and fails to realize what a complete fucking moron he looks like.
I have been reading The Onion for decades, and it’s bad when even I can’t tell the difference between legit stupid shit Trump says and made up stupid shit.
I dunno what this article is about, all I see is that image of elongated muskrat being bad at wearing hats. :P
That country doesn’t exist anymore, and it hasn’t in generations. Anyone who believes otherwise has been drinking a bit too much of the kool-aid. What we have left is a bunch of rednecks who trot out that line about tyranny to justify holding onto their guns, and otherwise a bunch of fat, happy people who have little to no real idea about what’s going on at home, much less around the world.
Mind you, as you pointed out in my comment elsewhere, I agree that it’s hypocrisy and cowardice, but that doesn’t mean I’m okay with expecting people to sacrifice themselves (especially when you’re not willing to put yourself on the line too) for some heavily-propagandized patriotic ideal that is pure fabrication at this point. Especially when the reality is that tyranny has been winning here for a long time and most people seem fine with it as long as things aren’t too uncomfortable for them (which amounts to: they get to drive their big stupid SUVs and watch football and pretend that they’re temporarily-embarrassed millionaires.) The idea of ‘rugged individualism’ has been drilled into this country’s head for at least the last 40 years I’ve been paying attention to politics, not because it comes from the core of our national identity, but because it divides us and hampers efforts to engender class consciousness.
What I’m trying to do here is thread the needle: yes there is hypocrisy and it should be called out, but, as the rest of the sentence you quoted says, it’s also a little bit hypocritical to expect others to do what you aren’t here doing too. I understand the frustration non-Americans feel at the direction this country is going and the implications it has for them, and trust me when I say that some of us feel the same way too. But I’m a disabled man in my 50s, I’m more useful on the information/ideas/inspiration side of things than on the front line.
I’m not “keen”, I’m merely fucking exhausted.
Me too, man, me fuckin’ too.
That’s interesting. Like it seems that, like most people, he had a complex relationship with his heritage and the way it manifested in the world. But what’s especially telling is despite him making the antisemitic comment about breaking of the 1973 ceasefire it turns out he gave them the green light to break it, so that makes it seem like that comment might’ve just been an act for the benefit of others. Saying the equivalent of ‘Oh lawd, those silly Israelis are breaking ceasefires again’, etc, to conceal or misdirect from his involvement in giving them the go-ahead.
But also this isn’t particularly relevant to the joke I was making. Which is that Israel calls anything said or done against Jewish people for any reason antisemitism, so I was turning that back on Israel for doing/saying things against a Jew. It’s funny regardless of Kissinger’s relationship with his ethnicity/religion or Israel because it’s about Israel, not Kissinger.