markr
@markr@lemmy.world
- Comment on They hated him, for he spoke the truth 5 months ago:
Leg breaking was invented to handle the idiots who were in to their bookies for way more than 100%.
- Comment on I have to pay extra to remove ads from Prime Video 5 months ago:
I assume you meant decent. Prime has always been substandard. They are indeed a descent service gliding right down into the enshittification cesspool.
- Comment on Dave Chappelle’s Obsession With Mocking Trans People Continues in New Netflix Special ‘The Dreamer’: ‘I Love Punching Down’ 5 months ago:
Uh, it is?
- Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"? 6 months ago:
From now on I’m calling it Foot Football. That other game is Hand Football.
- Comment on What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in? 8 months ago:
Oligarchs funding a resurgence of fascism in order to protect the global system that is wrecking the environment, successfully it seems.
- Comment on How is woke a religion? 9 months ago:
And on a related note, zen buddhists have a pretty vile subsect that is entwined with Japanese militarism and has been for centuries. However there are a lot of buddhists who are really good people, and lots of buddhist sects likewise. As with almost all religions, it depends on the particular flavor of ideology they have adopted.
- Comment on How is woke a religion? 9 months ago:
Depends on the monk. The shitty Buddhists in Myanmar support genocide.
- Comment on How is woke a religion? 9 months ago:
It’s a horrible graph. Likely they meant ‘evangelical protestant’ to differentiate that group from protestants like Lutherans Methodists Anglicans etc.
- Comment on How is woke a religion? 9 months ago:
just about every police reform has failed to provide any independent oversight, failed to address the core problems, and generally just poured more money into the already bloated and militarized police force.
- Comment on How is woke a religion? 9 months ago:
Lumping ‘always’ with ‘sometimes’ is cooking your results to meet your objective.
- Comment on How is woke a religion? 9 months ago:
you oddly misspelled ‘fascist’ as ‘conservative’.
- Comment on Is this it? Is there anything more to life, am I missing something? 10 months ago:
Also I am just thrilled that so many here have encouraged you to view your awareness of just how shitty the system is as a mental illness, as a failure on your part to be correctly integrated into society. There is nothing wrong with you. What is wrong is the system itself.
- Comment on Is this it? Is there anything more to life, am I missing something? 10 months ago:
Yes There Is! I am here to tell you that your fully alienated existence can be mediated by engaging in your commodification as part of the spectacle of end stage capitalism. Consume and Be Consumed!
- Comment on How much did photography "stole" painter jobs ? 10 months ago:
Also illustrators for newspapers - as the tech for mechanical reproduction made it possible to put photographs into newspapers and magazines most of those jobs disappeared.
- Comment on So what happened with the protests in Iran? 11 months ago:
Iran is a fascist theocracy. There is no ‘consent of the people’ operative there. The theocrats kill enough people to stay in power.
- Comment on Elon Musk wanting to remove dim theme from twitter 11 months ago:
The only spectrum he is on is the asshole spectrum.