straightjorkin
@straightjorkin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do the Brits keep talking about this car. 11 hours ago:
Why is the nsfw?
- Comment on Lightning bugs!! 2 days ago:
At least deer act like prey animals
- Comment on Why is there so much separation in the USA between people who identify as "black" or "white" compared to other regions like South America? 2 days ago:
In 1865, the U.S. ratified the 13th amendment that reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Essentially ending slavery as we know it.
And since then, the wealthy have been attempting to do everything they can to bring it back.
It started with the black codes and Jim Crow, doing a facsimile of slavery and violence. This merged into segregation, and then on to red linning and unequal judicial practices. In the civil war, the south got poor white men to enlist by convincing them that freed black men would take their jobs, and we see this continued rhetoric today.
As a result, black people have been grouped together by way of literally preventing them from being in white areas, and for the last 70 years, relying on how difficult it really is to move up and out of any area. You know the best way of passing down wealth? Real estate, which black people have been pointedly pushed away from by redlining and segregation. Ultimately, black Americans have developed their own parallel culture, one that white people have historically shrieked away from. So we end up with two very different groups that see each other as different.
- Comment on Lightning bugs!! 2 days ago:
Seeing how Australians react to kangaroos like they’re just slightly more dangerous deer is so jarring
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 days ago:
I do think it’s a Russia thing. Putin getting America to alienate all of its closest allies, so that it’s only Russia left to aid.
- Comment on Reddit's servers every two months [Day 91] 2 days ago:
Greg Sestero (mark from this photo) tours around doing showings of it at local theaters. He’s got some pretty good jokes.
- Comment on The Highest-Paid Actors Of 2024 (Including all earnings, film salaries, & other forms of income) - The Rock Tops the List with $88M 6 days ago:
Crazy that not a single one of them were tied to anything in the awards circuit
- Comment on Oscar 2025 Thread 6 days ago:
No she got the baccal fat surgery and it made her looks way different. Also her eyebrows were makeup ed away which would also contribute to being unrecognizable
- Comment on ‘Anora’ Takes Best Picture Oscar As Sean Baker Wins Four To Tie Record; Lead Acting Prizes To Mikey Madison & Adrien Brody: Full List 6 days ago:
Unfortunate for Conclave. It’s a fantastic movie but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t surprised that it got any Oscar nods.
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 1 week ago:
The fatal flaw of the internet is that you can find people who are into similar obscure stuff that you’re into, but that also means the nazis can also find each other
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 1 week ago:
- Comment on a challenge appears 1 week ago:
My last text message was a sext sent in the name of science(testing the Ai that apple apparently now has reading everyone’s texts) so probably I won’t do this.
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 1 week ago:
Free range porn, like our ancestors used to watch
- Comment on Anon worries about Kojima 1 week ago:
Personally I really like it, in like a power washing simulator way.
- Comment on The Brutalist director Brady Corbet says he has made ‘zero dollars’ from the film 2 weeks ago:
I have nothing to gain from lying. What do you have to gain from being an asshole here?
- Comment on Anon compares Harry and Ron 2 weeks ago:
I mean, she was very reactionary with her writing book to book.
- Comment on The Brutalist director Brady Corbet says he has made ‘zero dollars’ from the film 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t just read the article, I listened to the podcast the article is based on. Nothing I said was untrue.
- Comment on The Brutalist director Brady Corbet says he has made ‘zero dollars’ from the film 2 weeks ago:
He will get other jobs that will make him money from this, but this one? Not really.
- Comment on Day 217 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 2 weeks ago:
Op, when are you gonna play Hello Kitty Island Adventure?
- Comment on Anon visits a bookstore 4 weeks ago:
I think it would help sell physical media if Brandon Sanderson didn’t write 7 million words and sell a brick.
- Comment on Anon visits a bookstore 4 weeks ago:
Don’t forget about the stand with a sign that says “Booktok made me read it” and it’s the same 3 books repeated ad infinitum and despite all being first editions they all have sprayed edges.
I hate what book tok has done to the book world.
- Comment on They're coming 4 weeks ago:
Be the change you want to see in the world
