Aqarius
@Aqarius@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Thet benefit by feeling closer to (what they imagine is) their culture. We’re talking about people who left for some quick cash and ended up spending 30, 40 years there. They have a daughter that’s born there, grew up there, and never lived outside of there, and they worry she’ll be sad when she has to break up with her boyfriend “when we all move back home”. They feel like they’re separated from their nation because they are, and psychologically deny this by voting for someone so rabidly and loudly nationalist they can hear him all the way in Frankfurt.
It’s similar to folks from, idk, Boston, who will occasionally vacation in Ireland and conclude “they’re not Irish at all over there, they don’t even paint rivers green on St. Patty’s!”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Diaspora, while benefiting from free movement and pluralusm, often feel like they’re losing their identity. In turn, they seek to symbolically reassert this identity by remote-voting for the most far-right maniac they can find. The fact that such a maniac would never have let them in, and will ruin the country, doesn’t bother them as they don’t live there anymore.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 1 week ago:
I often get the feeling those people see everyone who voices dissent as one big amorphous blob. It’s as if every conversation on a topic is part of one long argument, and you get assigned every claim that anyone ever made. Almost like they watched that “moops” alt-right playbook video and drew the exact wrong conclusion.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 1 week ago:
I was under the impression it was the “Hillary warned us” and “Putin is behind everything” crowd, since it mirrors the MAGA saviour and conspiracy fantasies.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 weeks ago:
That’s a “converter” in the same way an ejection seat is “a chair”.
- Comment on What's the matter Aquaman? 3 weeks ago:
Or, right, the last one was “forever”. nvm.
- Comment on What's the matter Aquaman? 3 weeks ago:
At least link the murmaider one first!
- Comment on Things are about to finally change! 4 weeks ago:
I change it to whatever track I’m on. Komm, süßer Tod!
- Comment on Things are about to finally change! 4 weeks ago:
You joke, but can you honestly tell me this place wouldn’t be full of people making trolley problem ““arguments”” about the obviously correct choice to make?
- Comment on Tigers 🐅 🐯 1 month ago:
Also, the vast majority of mammals don’t see green either.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 month ago:
Yes, fragility is disgracefvll veakness. To defeat the enemy ze men mvst be strong, zey mvst be heroes, zey must have vill to seize vhat zey vant. It vill to pover zat vill tvrn little boys into strong men. Zis is antifascism.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 2 months ago:
Tikky II got me through my entire education.
- Comment on RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread 2 months ago:
“Why contain it? Let it spill over into the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end, they’ll beg us to save them.”
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 months ago:
- Comment on check it before you wreck it 2 months ago:
I agree.
Except for the “this paper will be sad if you don’t read it” one, that one’s on point.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 months ago:
Frankly, it’skind of the opposite: the slavery part of the argument is obvious, simply because IIRC the model of chattel slavery the US south operated on was only viable through the constant flow of new people to feed into the meatgrinder. The “better off” part is kinda dubious.
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 3 months ago:
Have you considered just carrying a big leaf around?
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 3 months ago:
Or, like, at least a caffeine gland or something.
- Comment on For a group that considers .world to be Reddit 2.0 and a "CIA propaganda front" they seem to get awfully mad whenever it comes up 4 months ago:
If it worked like that, everyone would have defederated .world cca December 2023.
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 4 months ago:
That’s like saying you can read a sentence written in rot13. Technically yes, you can decipher it, but it’s not as easy. The spaces are used for a reason. Same with punctuation.
You know that trick where people can mostly recognise words with scrambled letters, as long as the first and last are right? Long, unknown words scramble that, and force you to parse them “manually”, and even then, in your own example, you can easily misread (and then have to go back and correct yourself) cANYou…, canYOUREad…, …ceEVENTho…, …venTHOUGHT-HEREar…, …ghTHE-REARen…,
- Comment on Caption this. 4 months ago:
When the opening goes out of its way to divert the conversation into political blame slinging, the vitriol is very much warranted.
- Comment on Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable? 4 months ago:
What are you talking about? Current absolutely changes! Your own formula requires I=V/R
- Comment on Where's the mayor? 5 months ago:
I’d hazard a guess that your first “because” is mistaken, and point out that the mayor is himself a former cop.
- Comment on Where's the mayor? 5 months ago:
I’d hazard a guess the post titled “Where’s the mayor” is more likely about the mayor than about the arsonist.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Depending on the angle (a lot going on there) you could go with “denial”. As in, you’re lying, because if you’re bot, then my life sucked, and that’s unacceptable, so you’re lying.
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 5 months ago:
champagne
lol
- Comment on Anon creates a business plan 5 months ago:
Tipping is not already included in the price of the meal. Living wage is included in the price of the meal.
That is the tip. In the US, “tipped” labor often has a reduced minimum wage, under the expectation that they make the difference up in tips.
- Comment on Drink the climate change away 5 months ago:
It’s a very creative way of making milk that isn’t spoiled, but tastes like it is.
- Comment on Forbidden magic 6 months ago:
How many goddamn ads can you fit into a wiki?
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 6 months ago:
Beowulf (2007).
Yes, the cgi aged badly, but everyone panned it for the plot change, which was the thing I liked about it the most!