Schmoo
@Schmoo@slrpnk.net
- Comment on I need an adult 4 days ago:
Also green.
- Comment on I need an adult 4 days ago:
A lot of old writing refers to the sky and the sea as green.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
This is textbook defamation. Hasan’s chat is constantly telling him he should sue whenever he watches mainstream media making shit up about him on stream but he has always declined, but recently they’ve escalated the defamation and are making increasingly serious allegations against him, so IMO he’s shown remarkable restraint thus far and he absolutely has the right to sue over this.
- Comment on Going Back ↪️🏨 1 week ago:
The hotel can get away with it because they underpay an exploited worker to do all the cleaning. AirBnBs are so particular about cleaning because the owner is either doing it themselves or hiring an independent contractor. It’s bourgeoisie vs. petite bourgeoisie.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 2 weeks ago:
I said that multiculturalism was the norm, not that everyone was holding hands and singing kumbaya. I also am not saying that colonialism is new or unique to Europeans, it just so happens that European nations are the most recent colonial powers and we happen to be living in the historical period immediately following their rise to hegemony. Obviously conflict and colonialism existed prior to European colonization, but it has never before had the global reach and dominance that European nations achieved. The fact remains that prior to colonization by Europeans, many regions around the world were more diverse and politically complex (i.e. multiple cultural, religious, and organizational paradigms existed parallel to and in conversation with one another). Though there was conflict, it was more local and restrained with different groups finding ways to coexist even if the relationship was tenuous. It’s impossible to deny the profound impact of Europe’s global conquest on the political environment in which we all currently live.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 2 weeks ago:
This is such an ignorant take. Multiculturalism is actually the norm in most of the world throughout history, and the rare instances of isolationism are more often a result of geography than culture. The current xenophobic and nationalist state of the world is an aberration resulting from rampant and ongoing colonialism in the past few centuries. Many nations that exist today encompass regions that were far more multicultural and politically complex prior to their colonization by Europeans.
As for the West, our current secular humanist values are the result of the enlightenment period in which European colonizers appropriated and synthesized the ideas of colonized peoples around the world. The reason we don’t live up to them is because we stubbornly refuse to reckon with our colonialist past and present, such that we just go on living with the contradiction to the detriment of the world and ourselves.
It’s honestly kind of amusing once you stop giving a shit.
Not caring doesn’t make you cool, it just makes you another cynical asshole among many. IMO the world could do with less cynical assholes.
- Comment on There's a Jimothy born every minute 3 weeks ago:
It’s always interesting to see how what kinds of things go viral change with the times. The recent trend of cute or weird animals becoming internet-wide mascot sensations for a while before moving on to the next one says something about our current cultural moment, but I’m not sure what exactly.
- Comment on protestation (advertisement sucks) 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Probably accurate 1 month ago:
Thomas Paine is the only one I could tolerate hanging out with. The rest are getting pushed back into the time machine and sent to the Devonian period.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The Vietnam war began with majority support and slowly became unpopular over time. The Iran war started with the majority opposing it, and is the first war where that’s happened in US history. It’s a very different political climate from the Vietnam war era.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I think you’re underestimating how gen Z would respond to a draft. There has been no generation in US history less supportive of war. I think a significant number of gen Z would gladly turn their weapons on the general that asks them to commit war crimes without hesitation, and that’s if they even manage to drag us kicking and screaming to the front.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I fucking dare you to try it bitch. The backlash would be legendary.
- Comment on Trailer love, trailer life 1 month ago:
Looks like an American suburb but without yard space.
- Comment on Using conservative logic 1 month ago:
This is the logic behind conversion therapy and they actually do this (albeit with the addition of electric shocks and all sorts of abuse).
- Comment on Sometimes it be like that 1 month ago:
You’re connected to someone by a time thread like in Your Name and you just ruined someone’s life.
- Comment on Anon judges Karl 1 month ago:
You don’t have to adopt the ruling elites’ definition of success. You talk about politics being a means and not an end, but you still insist on calling winning an election success. If the end/goal is determined by ideology then so is the criteria for success, and my personal criteria for success is improving quality of life for as many people as possible. Winning an election can be a means to that end, but just seizing power does not by itself merit the political theory that enabled it. Fascism has proven quite capable of seizing power in liberal democracies with capitalist economies, but I would certainly not call that success.
- Comment on Anon judges Karl 1 month ago:
If we measure the success of a political theory by its ability to take, hold and exercise power
The success of a political theory should be measured by its ability to improve quality of life. Taking power may be a prerequisite, but that alone is not success. Seeing the seizure of state power as an end in itself is a mistake that leads to an authoritarian dead end.
- Comment on British Charlie Kirk wannabe beaten up debating people in Manchester 1 month ago:
So he’s less of a British Charlie Kirk and more of a British Nick Shirley.
- Comment on Cheese is available 2 months ago:
It’s not illegal to call it cheese because it has an emulsifier in it, it’s illegal to call it cheese because it’s mostly water. That’s what the emulsifier is for; it allows the cheese to mix smoothly with the water. They would rather call it “American cheese product” than “mostly water with <50% cheddar” because no one would buy that when the 100% cheddar is sitting right next to it.
- Comment on Cheese is available 2 months ago:
It’s an emulsification of water and a mix of cheddar cheeses with preservatives, stabilizers, and an emulsifier (obviously) added. It has some culinary applications but the real reason it’s made that way is it lets Kraft get away with selling less cheese overall for the same price as a block of 100% cheddar of the same volume by marketing it as a different type of cheese (American) rather than what it actually is (watered down cheddar).
- Comment on Pink Ranger 2 months ago:
So they’re trying to stop him from calling a vote on a bill that would create a pathway to citizenship for foreign workers. It’s xenophobes resorting to force because they’re afraid they can’t win democratically. Makes sense given how conservative Japan is and how low voter turnout is among the youth.
- Comment on WOMEN. 2 months ago:
Toxic masculinity teaches men that emotions are feminine, so to preserve our identity as men we are conditioned to suppress, hide, or find ways to describe our emotions as something other than what they are. That’s why men like Zerush think women are more emotional when the reality is that there is a difference in how men and women describe, express, and act on their emotions due to cultural conditioning. Hormones determine when and to what degree certain emotions are felt, but not what kind of emotions are felt or how they are expressed. That is determined by cultural conditioning and individual personality.
- Comment on I don't know about that one 2 months ago:
Moralizing to drug addicts helps no one. All it does is make you feel better about yourself for a bit and make someone else feel worse when they’re already down and using to cope. Your attitude actually contributes to a culture that promotes unhealthy relationships with substances.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
When I come across someone IRL who loves AI I avoid the topic around them. My opinions on the topic are likely to offend them, so to avoid hurting their feelings or causing conflict I won’t mention them. Now, if it’s someone I care about I’ll find a way to gently broach the topic because I know that heavy AI use is causing them harm and I don’t want my family and friends to lose their grip on reality.
- Comment on The Matrix 2 months ago:
*W. Sisters now.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
British food isn’t real, British food can’t hurt you.
- Comment on Shutting down a piracy site 2 months ago:
They’re talking about the Global Sumud Flotilla, a group that regularly attempts to break Israel’s blockade and deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, and is intercepted by Israel every time. Israel tortures and humiliates the humanitarian aid workers before sending most of them back to their respective home countries. The most recent one had the sister of Ireland’s president on it and the Israeli terrorist Itamar Ben-Gvir recorded the abuse of the aid workers and posted the video on social media celebrating it and european countries still haven’t done anything about it.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 months ago:
My only gripe with this is that the state in its current form cannot be trusted to be an impartial judge of what constitutes hate speech. We see today that many states around the world are using anti hate speech laws to suppress criticism of the state of Israel. Giving the state broad powers to crack down on speech that it deems hateful will inevitably result in the state deciding that all criticism of its actions or the actions of its allies constitutes hate speech.
- Comment on Top-selling video games ever (2025) 3 months ago:
It’s what the kids these days are calling “friend-slop,” which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s just that most of the value comes from creating zany situations for your coop pals to get into and let hilarity ensue. It’s a bit like a lot of card games in that way, it’s simple because it mostly just has to get out of the players’ way and allow social interaction to happen.
- Comment on Crowd goes wild 3 months ago:
They’re making an effort to make them illegal too.
