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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any relations experts?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As an awkard person I’ll admit that it would reassure me somewhat. I mean, I wasn’t going to but I’m glad it’s an option. It’s like feeling being accepted despite messing up before potentially messing up, which allows us to skip that dreadful moment between messing up and being either forgiven or despised. And come on, imagine shitting in a closet by, uh, mistake, and not fully expecting that your entire social live is now in ruins and you need to delete all of your social media and move to different country. It could be worded better, sure, but it’s a neat gesture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GET REKT⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, check Jeffrey Dahmer media portrayal. It fed well into the “gay panic” of the times. Check this article from 1994: latimes.com/…/la-xpm-1994-11-29-mn-2780-story.htm… Emphasis of the lust, homoeroticism etc. being the driving factor of the murders, while there are no mentions of diagnosed mental disorders. And yeah, “murder gay” sold far worse than, for example, “murder black” which is a timeless classic media go to each time any socioeconomic strife involving any black people happens. Seemingly the public was less receptive of the “murder gay” narrative so they eventually moved on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GET REKT⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem to misunderstand humor. It is humorous specifically because there is no link between murder hornets and the aformentioned groups of people that USA “waged wars against”. The fact that you’re stressing that the joke “took extreme liberties” is kind of absurd - that is the point, to subvert expectations. Which is a part I already explained in the comment in which I explained the joke once. Let me go in for a deeper dive.

  The language of “USA waging wars on XYZ” is often used by media to fabricate distorted view on reality, in which a group of people is presented as threatening to the country despite the opposite being the case. That language is well known and it is well estabilished as a useful propaganda tool. Reaction to usage of that language in cases that warrant outrage (as in, for example, for groups of people I’ve mentioned in my first comment) would often be one full of sympathy towards the victims and, at the very least, distrust towards the media outlet that used it. All of that sits well within the expectations of the reader.

  The aptly named murder hornets however murder bees, which almost everyone knows is a bad thing for the world in general. There isn’t much things that would make people in general think “that’s bad”. They do not have a good reputation and none reedeming qualities.

  They’re not what you would expect one to defend, you would not accuse USA of a psy op to smear their name, and you would not think that they perhaps have a stockpile of oil that that old, dastardly United States of A wanted to steal. And that’s the subversion of expectation, portraying the murder hornets as victims of USA propaganda and comparing them to unjustly prosecuted people. That’s the humorous part. Do you get it now?

  You’re trying to somehow tie it to the work of people that pulled this off, but you only could go for calling that disrespectful if you believed any disrespect was meant, and that would require you to believe my (already explained) joke was meant as serious defence of the hornets. And I’m sorry, but that’s just dumb. I don’t feel like you misunderstood the joke, but rather that you’re trolling for the sake of rage baiting. I’d appreciate it if you stopped.

  And if you understood all that and still feel like my joke wasn’t funny, I’m sorry, it does seem you aren’t a part of audience that this joke was meant for, and my frivolous joke-comment written while morning-pooping did not brighten your day. I’m sure something else will, as long as you put effort to find it. Good luck!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GET REKT⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny, that’s exactly a reply one would expect from a 4chan dweller. Is there a miniority or other group of people that USA demonized for profit that you’re angry I’ve neglected to mention in this joke about imperialism and hornets, or was there something else that triggered you to go in swinging with insults? Apparently at least one other person found it funny, so I feel like the reason the joke didn’t land with you might have to do with you not being the target audience, whatever it might be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GET REKT⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate that, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GET REKT⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was a joke about USA assigning threatening labels to anything it threatens or exploits to make public afraid of it instead of being supportive of it. As most jokes, it based on the subversion of expectations, which in this case was the suggestion that hornets are good and misunderstood. Comparing them and what they’re doing to bees to gay or black people was intended as a sprinkle of dark humor, implying their (hornets!) destructive nature finds parrarels with the multitude of oppressed kinds of people.

  Way to tell me I’m unfunny and my sense of humor sucks, man (jk)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GET REKT⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah sure “murder hornets”. Like “murder japs”, “murder communists”, “murder vietnamese”, “murder gays”, “murder blacks” or “murder arabs” before. I think I’ll hold off celebrating until I know how much oil those hornets had in stock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting analogy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, listen, I’m not making a case for all of them, but…

  Seriously though white people fucked stuff up for native americans and africans pretty hard, and just because it’s not discussed in the slightest and everyone (white people) pretend it’s not an issue, it doesn’t mean it’s not an issue. It’s less about white people though, and more about capital class that upholds the status quo, the by-product of which is the white supremacy - and that is very parrarel to the zionist claim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donuts are good for you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In this economy???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Binary search⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And why should we trust you about that, you cio talker

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please be patient.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  don’t worry guys I’m keeping track of it it’s moving very fast but oh fuck sorry guys my bad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not you when you're dooming.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only thing I can promise you with somewhat high degree of certainty is that you won’t stay that way for long. 2-3 years tops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cucumber 🥒⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As we well know all women and men in history that lived together with someone of the same gender were just friends. There are many historical records in which esteemed historians depicted the factual truth of deep friendships. Luckily for the rest of us, those noble seers always knew all context required and bore no prejudices towards anything whatsoever. That is a model cucumber. It even tastes like one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Centipedes Don't Fuck⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was ready for lizard people but bug people is where I draw the line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t they? I thought they released the second one a bit later

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you seem angry

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hermit Crab Housing Market⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had a gallon of PCP if that counts though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hermit Crab Housing Market⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They eat some of their weak. On the other hand, show me a hermit crab billionaire. I think they have something good going there, let them cook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this normal for girls or just a extreme edge case? (Serious question)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, that is the transgender agenda, we switch genders each time we open lemmy and use blahaj plushies to stabilize, don’t blow our cover like that in public though jesus christ

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My dad fought the Nazi's they lost. The world knows it. What is the deal with their recent resurgence?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalisms’ unsustainable model of infinite growth requires something like imperialism to keep going, and even if you could point out alternative venues for capital acquisition, it’s still what people in power want, since it gives them more than just fuel for capitalism, but also more power. Countries and companies that do not rely on imperialism directly, most often rely in others that do. While it’s not entirely futile to discuss whenever that has to be the case in theorethical capitalist solution, it is the case in one we’re living under, and since it’s the ruling class of hyper-wealthy that make decisions about the worlds future and current state of affairs is result of those decisions, it is the system we have to deal with. Unless, you know, we bring out the guilottines and start over, but I don’t see much point in retrying capitalism to see if it won’t lead us down on the path to facism again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"they say this house is haunted. I've been living here for the past 430 years and haven't seen a ghost yet"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But that would only work under assumption that in any group of people at least one of them has to be a ghost, or at the very least the chance that there is a ghost in a group of people is greater than 0, right? Is it something about the chance of someone being a ghost being truly unknown, and thus all possible values of probability being taken as equally rational, and with infinite number of possible values for probability of someone being a ghost for infinite number of them observing that no one in a group of people you’re in is a ghost… No, that wouldn’t work either, because it would require an assumption that this specific group of people might have a ghost among them. Assuming anyone can be a ghost with unknown probability still only works when the group you’re observing is entire population, does it not? Limiting it to specific group of people relies on it being representative of entire population, and random groups are not. Especially if you were to be a ghost, that would already make a group you’re in rather unique. Or not, depending on what’s the unknown value of probability of someone being a ghost.

  I mean, what???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"they say this house is haunted. I've been living here for the past 430 years and haven't seen a ghost yet"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand, please explain

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Olympic casual GigaChad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He looks like he commented to someone doing this sport professionally that it look easy and now, with a bit of disdain and irritation, he had to show them what he meant by that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a dream⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I once got up sitting and started to touch mine and my girlfriends ankles. The reason I apparently gave, highly distressed, was “The Orcs, they’re coming. I need more skeletons. Give me your bones.” and returned to sleep after she told me to sleep. I also once held my cat at the finger-gun and proclaimed it was a doppleganger and it was trying to rob us, after which I pleaded stupidity and fell asleep again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a quantum computer⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I might be talking out of my ass a bit, but if I remember it correctly the “observer” part was about it being impossible to measure velocity and observe a location of a thing (electron, photon etc. I think) at the same point in time. I don’t think it actually had an effect on the particle, i remember there were some bad experiments where the measurement influenced the the thing because the measurement itself like taking a photo or whatever they did was enough to disturb… stuff.