Bennyboybumberchums

@Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there… Well, Im not conservative. So, what else you got? Oh, thats right, fuck all. Because all this is American nonsense.

  And not for nothing, but ALL of America is right wing/conservative. You can call yourself what you want, but at the end of the day and to the rest of the world, its just two right wing lunatics going after each other. Im a left wing socialist. You are no different to me than a MAGA fuckwit. You just say slightly different things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  1. No, Im not talking about the woes of unregulated social media. Im talking about all the spoon eating cunts who cant think for themselves anymore, and repeat popular thing for up arrows. Regulation isnt going to stop dumb people from being dumb.

  2. The connection between the two, is that you’ve all gone so far off the reservation, you associate the image of a gun on poster for a light hearted action adventure movie as condoning violence. Or worse, removed it because it might be triggering to some people.

  I really didnt think it was that hard to follow, but here we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Where did you get that I was afraid of anything?

  Must be so weird looking at that meme, and not getting it. Be brave, little toaster, Be brave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, that picture is pretty accurate. Im 48 years old. I live in Scotland, Im a left wing socialist. But to Americans, which is a fucking laugh considering they have no left wing party, Im pretty much a nazi. Even though, I havent moved my opinion on any issue in over 30 years.

  Social media has made you all insane. You dont have opinions of your own, you the endless chase for up arrows. At best you get your opinions for talking heads on youtube, telling what you think, what to feel about whatever fucking nonsense is making the rounds to get your engaged and clicking. Make no mistake, if being an actual nazi was the popular thing, youd all be doing it. Thats how fucking sad you are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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  This is how I feel about todays politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A word is watered down when it is used to describe anything and everything. And in case you missed it, we are surrounded by idiots being idiots and doing just that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  assholes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But it has been watered down. Its been watered down by all the culture war weirdos who claim everyone who doesnt agree with them, is a nazi and fascist. And its not just the left aiming at the right, its fucking everyone. Dont like video game? You must be a fascist. Dont like a movie? You must be a nazi!

  Its like “paedo”. That one lost all meaning as well. Even going so far as to label dating 25 year olds “paedo behaviour”. Social media, if it does nothing else, totally ruins the meaning of words in favour of gaining worthless internet up arrows by saying popular thing over and over and over and over again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ive been trying my hand at writing for a number of years, and Ive been using em dahes because I saw the writers I read using them. Now all of a sudden everything Ive ever written looks like AI slop because of that one thing lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I call those women… never. Had a girl turn up with a friend, everyone paid for their own drinks. And this was in the early 00s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Last time a chick brought a friend with her, I got on better with the friend… And I went home with the friend. Pro tip, if youre bringing a friend. Dont make it a friend thats better to talk to than you are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Making good games that arent pay to win trash will do that too, ya know…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So, just the same soulless cash grabs as usual going forward?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Me: “Hi, is Sarah there?” Her mum, voice away from the phone: “Oh, Sarah. Its a boy for you. Is this your new boyfriend?” Sarah in the back ground: “Mum, stop. I’ll take it up stairs.” Her dad: “Hello, who is this?” Me: "Eh, hello. This is Benny. Im phoning for Sarah. Her Dad: "What you phoning her for? Me: "Eh… Sarah in the nick of time: “DAD!!! HANG UP THE PHONE!!!”

  Or after going out for a few weeks/months

  Me: “Hi, Its Benny. Its Sarah there?” Her Dad: “Hold on.” Her Dad in the background with zero attempt to cover the mouth piece: “Sarah, that wee pricks on the phone for you again.” lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You said world, but I assume you meant internet. Social media is hate and fear factory. Main stream media went that way as well. Which in turn affected American politics, and is now doing the same elsewhere. Meanwhile, in the real world, everyone is just being normal. Having fun with friends, moaning about the weather, looking forward to holidays, or movies, or parties, or whatever. Its all very normal when you turn off the hate machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at everything, never limit your information diet to things that back up your opinion. Challenge everything. If its true, it will hold up to scrutiny. If its bullshit, you’ll find a fuck load of people calling you an asshole, but never explaining why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk in his own words.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Im not whitewashing anything. Thats just an assertion your making because you cant handle being wrong. DEI solves nothing. Just like affirmative action, solved nothing. Theres a generational gap in the US between blacks and whites when it comes to equality. And you dont solve that with tokenism. The real racist is you, and people like you. Who think black people in the US deserve nothing but handouts and special treatment.

  If you want to correct the mistakes of the past, thats money. Thats money to every single black family that was held back 100 years ago by the systemic racism that targeted them, while whites were given every advantage to gain and accumulate wealth.

  You just want to say popular thing that gets you worthless internet points, but does nothing to solve the problem. You are the cancer of the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk in his own words.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I never said everything he said was good. In fact, I said it wasnt.

  I dont know about the Clarence Thomas quote, but I know he said the same about Ben Carson… Which is a big yikes, Im sure you’ll agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk in his own words.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I already did. Twice in fact. What a silly goose you are. Just desperate to call people racist, so you can get your little up arrow touched.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk in his own words.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You think treating black people as human beings and giving them the same access to education as their white counterparts is “mask off”? What mask do you think I was wearing exactly???

  Go back 100 years, and you’ll find white people in the US putting up barriers to social mobility towards black people. That means not giving mortgages, or if they did, only for certain areas, and even then only at silly mark ups. The problem started back then, and its never been corrected. And no, DEI does not address this. Giving special treatment to the chosen few is not any kind of solution to the problem. Its little more than a way of saying “look, we’re one of good ones. We let you into our private club!”. If not supporting that shit makes me racist, well, thats fine. Cos the only people who would call me racist, are the type of people who always want black people with their hand out so they can get a pat on the back when they put some loose change in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk in his own words.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Im not explaining why its correct, Im explaining why he made it. Because the general idea is that he was just straight up racist. Which may very well be true, but if you have the context of why he said it, or at least the context in which he presented the argument, then you can understand it and challenge it. No? If all you think of someone is that they are a racist, then you can easily dismiss them. But that doesnt challenge the point. And if you hate that so many others are listening to the point, then its on you to challenge them with truth, rather than just calling them bigots and getting a pat on the back from like minded internet strangers.

  Im advocating for people to arm themselves with information. I dont really see why thats so wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk in his own words.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Its all ragebait, mate. Left, right, doesnt matter. Media, both social and mainstream, wants your engagement. And there no better way to do that than rage. The brown man who just got off the boat and raped a young girl, the blue haired landwhale who said “all men are rapists by design!”, Charlie Kirk said black people suck, etc etc etc etc. Its all ragebait, all the time. Anything to keep you engaged, and them making money off of you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk in his own words.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because those are examples of what he was talking about. Im adding context. Information is king. Do you not agree? If you dont know something, how can you ever hope to understand a persons point of view? If you dont understand their point of view, how can defeat them in debate?

  The easy way to look at this, is the thing that almost everyone does these days. They take one example of something that offends them, and then applies it to the whole. The immigrate who rapes a child 2 minutes off the boat, the left wing lunatic with blue hair that says all men are rapists, the right wing lunatic that says all women should be in the kitchen. We see these examples everyday, and people use them as excuses to be horrible people. Does my pointing out the RAF and the Oxford Union instances make something true? No. But you need to know them, so that you know where someone else is coming from. So you that you can say “yes, but…”. Too much of online discourse is “thats lie!” with nothing to back up the claim. You can google those two things, and see that they are true. And you can then understand why someone might make a claim based on those two examples. But thats when you would, or should, point out the instances where it wasnt the case. Thats how the debate goes. We dont just accept what strangers on the internet tell us is true, or worse what gets us worthless internet points.

  The only way to combat hate is with truth. And in order to gain truth, you must have information. Even when that information breaks what you thought to be true, or just makes it harder to prove whats true. I cant just be circlejerking all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk in his own words.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, Im not going to take offence, but I will point that you have in fact misrepresented what I said. The question is why?

  I mean, you currently have Trump in the white house. He seems to be setting the stage for a tyrannical government that controls freedom of speech. His followers call for violence against those who dont agree. Its at this point you should be asking yourself, are you glad you have weapons to defend yourself if this orange buffoon comes knocking on your door to take away your citizenship and send you to a 3rd world prison for the crime of wrong think?

  The question then becomes, was the few deaths every year a price worth paying for that protection? Its up to each of you to answer that question. There is no wrong answer.

  The actual more important question is how can you have that protection, while at the same time lowering the amount of gun related deaths every year. But for some weird fucking reason, both sides want an all or nothing solution. No room for compromise, just anger and hate.

  Also, lets see you get dogpiled and not just give up and start telling people to fuck off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk in his own words.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is my point, he doesnt need to be edited.

  As for the rest of what you said, sorry, but thats just not true. People who werent qualified or as qualified as others got preference over others because of their skin colour in those instances that I mentioned. If you want to argue that its not that wide spread, thats fair enough. But it does happen, and I proved it with these two easily variable truths. Im sorry that hurts your feelings, but maybe you need to grow up a little bit, and understand that the heroes and villains of the world dont fit so neatly into the boxes youve prepared for them.

  Also, the point about DEI isnt that black people or women or whoever else gets a job. The point is about the companies making these token gestures of representation so they can get a pat on the back from social media. And that its these companies that have created this atmosphere where people are looking at black people in jobs and unsure if they gained that job through merit or because some company wanted to fill a quota.

  More to the point, because they create these token placements, we dont address other areas like black people have fewer opportunities to get the education needed to compete on an equal level. Black people arent stupid, but its easy to see that they are limited, especially in the US, to having access to higher education. And even more so prestigious higher education.

  The problem, IMO, of DEI is that it addresses the symptoms in a superficial way for social media back slapping purposes, but doesnt address the causes of why these programs need to exist at all. Is this a right wing view? I think black people should have better access to the tools needed to compete, you think they should just be handed things as they need the charity. But you call me the asshole? Hmm…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk in his own words.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Im not doing either of those things, but whatever you need to tell yourself to make yourself feel like youre winning at something…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk in his own words.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Im not giving it any respect, Im simply pointing out that his comments are edited. Thats it. Im not saying hes right. Only that we should be pissed off at what he said, not what clickbait told us he said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk in his own words.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, its worth a few deaths to have the ability to defend yourselves against a shit government. What about that isnt fucking clear?

  Gun safety laws are why I DONT AGREE WITH HIM!!! Im not arguing his point, I dont agree with him. Im saying that what he said want “Fuck them kids!”, which is what all of you are saying he said.

  I know you want the worthless uparrows, but for fucks sake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ralph⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you seen the state of vet bills these days? Youd be yelling too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk in his own words.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it wasnt. Thats the point of context. You want to hate him, I have no issue with that. I dont really like him either. But the difference between us is that I hate him for who he actually was, you hate him based on twitter posts that were meant to monetise your outrage. We are not the same.