SpookyBogMonster
@SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
- Comment on ..? 5 days ago:
You have a child’s understanding of the world
- Comment on ..? 6 days ago:
“Tankie” was originally a British slang term from the 50s.
In 1956, when the Soviet Union invaded Hungary, the British Communist movement was split over whether this action was cool, or sucked.
The people who thought it sucked derided their opponents who thought its cool, as “Tankies”, because the images in the newspapers featured lots of photos of Soviet tanks rolling into Budapest.
After this, it stops being used for the most part, until it started being reclaimed by socialists online as a tongue-in-cheeck insult to throw at each other. Because, let’s be real, it’s a silly sounding word that’s fun to say, and silly words are among the UK’s biggest cultural exports.
Eventually though, Tankie breached containment and started to be used by people who had zero connection to any kind of socialist movement or history, and its meaning began to warp.
I’ve seen Marxists, even those think the Soviet invasion of Hungary was bad, called tankies. I’ve seen Anarchists called Tankies, I’ve seen right wing guys who love trad russian Orthodox Christianity called Tankies.
It’s a word that doesn’t mean much anymore. It’s like when your grandpa calls Joe Biden “Pinko Scum”
- Comment on bold words 6 days ago:
“you’re a girl”
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 1 week ago:
Oh, 1,000%! I use the nicotine+ front end for soulseek on Linux, and it’s wonderful
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 1 week ago:
Yet another reason I’m dropping streaming in favor of ripping CDs and listening to locally stored files, like it’s 2009 again
- Comment on Anon disrespects their elders 2 weeks ago:
Its consider cringe by “the youths” to be out in public
FTFY
For a lot of young people, the cultural norm is that any kind of sincerity is cringe.
I was talking about this with a friend recently, but is there any culture for 13 year olds anymore? What music do they listen to? Because when I was a teenager, a mere decade ago, there was still a distinct youth subculture that I just don’t think exists anymore.
None of this is to shake my fist at a cloud and say things were better back in my day. But I do think that Covid, the proliferation of algorithmic social media, and the death of third places, have all contributed to a generation of kids who think going outside and having a nice time is insufferably cringe, when they should be going to an all ages punk show, wearing stupid clothes, and having experiences
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 3 weeks ago:
Aoc didn’t do the DK64 stream, someone else did she just showed up at one point
- Comment on lightbulbs 4 weeks ago:
I don’t mind a daylight bid for overhead lights, but they have to be supplemented with warmer lights elsewhere around the room
- Comment on This American dude on his way to his Japanese fluency decides to talk to a local Japanese grandpa 4 weeks ago:
It’s hard for Americans to understand life outside of the big cities in Japan
I saw Non Non Biyori, it’s like that /s
- Comment on PSA 4 weeks ago:
You shouldn’t. The person your thanking is promoting bigoted Pseudoscience
- Comment on PSA 4 weeks ago:
Eat shit, get your pseudo-scientific nonsense out of here
- Comment on Noooooo 5 weeks ago:
My mom does this, but she says it in the most foreboding way imaginable.
“Call me as soon as you can…”
I’m thinking someone has just died, but no. She just wants help with the lawnmower or something
- Comment on Finally, the FPS I keep asking for: Deep combat, classic modes, and an honest-to-god server browser 5 weeks ago:
Praise the developers who actually made the thing
- Comment on Poor Jeremy 5 weeks ago:
So this is why Gezebelle Gaburgably likes snails so much
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I look 10 years younger, after having been on Estrogen for a couple years.
This guy’s attempts to look younger have culminated in him getting on some Picture of Dorian Gray shit
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 1 month ago:
I love checking Lemmy in the morning, and seeing all the German language Memes. I can’t read them, since I don’t know German, but I like knowing that they’re over there, doing their thing ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on the year of the linux desktop 1 month ago:
They meant the verb, not the noun
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 1 month ago:
Sure, in some instances that was the case, but it’s wrong to assume that indigenous north Americans didn’t have cities or large scale agriculture.
[Agricultural practices in Cahokia],(www.uapress.ua.edu/…/feeding-cahokia/) for instance, wasn’t a European style monocrop. Rather, “Farming at Cahokia was biologically diverse and, as such, less prone to risk than was maize-dominated agriculture” ^(see link above)^
And Cahokia was, for a time, the political and economic center of much of indigenous north American, with the city itself being of comparable size to many European cities in the same period.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 1 month ago:
So, there were indigenous societies that were highly class stratified, or did bad things to the environment. No one is denying that.
But generally speaking, indigenous peoples in say, the Americas, developed methods of agriculture and other forms of production that were more economically sustainable than the European methods that settlers brought, and then revised to be more extractive.
The dust bowl, for example, didn’t just happen. It was a product of Colonialism. A region which was relatively recently colonized, had its forests and grasslands ripped up, in favor of shallow rooted monocultures that couldn’t sustain drought conditions.
There weren’t dustbowls for the millennia prior to colonization, but a sudden shift in the mode of production, to a highly extractive one, artificially produced an ecological disaster
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 1 month ago:
There’s another layer of complexity here that you’re glossing over, I think, and that’s class dynamics within the Maori population.
It can both be true that traditional Maori lifeways were more sustainable, and that modern, Maori owned fishing companies are over fishing.
The coming of the white man didn’t ruin the sustainability of fishing, because of something ontologically bad with white people, but because they enforced an extractive, capitalist, economic system onto the region.
Colonialism pulled the Maori into a broader world system which generated a group of Maori with enough capital to, say, found fishing companies, and a wide swathe of Maori who can’t.
And paradoxically, that capital generation from unsustainable, capitalist, fishing practices is probably one of the things that allows Maori communities to have a degree of sovereignty, all the while said fishing practices are undermining their ability to continue to sustain themselves.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Post hog, loser, I bet my girldick is bigger than yours
- Comment on Rushmore 2 months ago:
Yeah, for any gringos with a limited Knowledge of indigenous history, imagine if ISIS genocided 99% of the world’s Catholics, and then built a giant statue of its founders on top of the ruins of the Vatican.
That’s what Mt. Rushmore is
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 2 months ago:
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 2 months ago:
Yeah? Well I blew into your mom’s mold last night!
- Comment on Barn Spiders 2 months ago:
God forbid women do anything
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 2 months ago:
While that specific scenario is unlikely, I do hope that Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party succeed in dissolving the UK
- Comment on Asking the difficult questions 2 months ago:
I saw the title, and hoped someone was summoning Demons from the Key of Solomon or some shit. Like they were worried about their dog getting possessed.
But yeah, “am I hurting my dog’s brain with a card trick” is pretty funny too
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 2 months ago:
It’s a proxy server that works kind of like an Advanced version of the Wayback Machine. So old PCs like this, can connect to something like what the internet would’ve been like when they were first made.
I have the Protoweb browser on my Linux mint machine, running through wine. It’s fun to poke around at, and great for internet archaeology
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 2 months ago:
Run protoweb on that bad boy, and keep it alive 😎
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 2 months ago:
Well, I’m taking estrogen, so they’re about to become real