SocialMediaRefugee
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- Comment on Petty pedantry 1 day ago:
Technically he is standing on earth unless he is standing on ice.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion 4 days ago:
Mixed case, brilliant rebuttal!
- Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion 5 days ago:
Extremists on both ends demand purity of thought
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Only in the official public sphere, off to the side it is very sexualized. Ads and tv shows are full of sexual references. You hit strange limits though like genitalia cannot be shown in movies (not X rated) but you can use a fake penis on men and a merkin on woman which is ok for some bizarre reason. The US forced its prudishness with genitalia on the Japanese after WW2 which is why they pixelate it. It likely has its roots in the US as a mainly evangelical Protestant settled nation vs the more Catholic and reformation Europe. Eastern cultures also have their own rules about nudity and sex but it isn’t seen as inherently sinful.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
If you go to the roots of it the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism) see the natural world as corrupt and a barrier to god. Nature was something to be “conquered”, human impulses are sinful and sexuality is especially impulsive and therefore sinful. It encourages all kinds of stuff like adultery, kids born out of wedlock (a big problem back then), and STDs (generally considered a divine punishment for sex). Clothing also denoted social rank and was even enforced by law.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The 700 Club. It was on constantly during the day when I was a kid.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Hitler was very narrow minded when it came to international politics. His mindset barely extended beyond Europe. To him the US was “over there”. He thought though that Britain would side with him as racial peers with similar attitudes (i.e. colonialism).
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Stalin wiped out the officers in the Red Army because he perceived anyone with any authority to be a potential threat. Anyone who had been around for too long was a threat. This set the stage for the Germans to steamroll them in the opening of Operation Barbarossa because you had a Red Army that was completely dysfunctional due to the slaughter of its leadership. He probably would’ve turned on Beria (NKVD) too if he had the chance.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
So they started the project to dismantle education in America.
I’d say it was more of a pushback by the religious right against what they saw as liberalism in the schools. Starting with the late 70s then the election of Regan you saw a huge rise in the evangelicals and they became affiliated with the republicans.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
In the 60s the counterculture decided that all authority and anything taught to them was wrong and they thought they were smarter than anyone else and their gut feelings were just as valid as education. Hippies and conspiracy obsessed right wingers converged towards things like quack medicines, conspiracy mongering, etc. Anti intellectualism has become the norm. No one with a normal personality would run for office now because the knee-jerk response is to pile hate on them so you only get dysfunctional people running for office. The internet has only made things worse by allowing these people to find each other and reinforce their beliefs.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
People have been stupid for centuries.
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The average education level has been low or nonexistant for most people through most of history so everyone was equally dumb. Public education is a relatively new thing. People have been vulnerable to greed, deluded thinking, etc since day 1.
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The internet has allowed stupid people to find each other and reinforce each other’s stupidity and create a race of conspiracy obsessed super morons.
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The internet has also distilled everything into negativity to the point where everyone and everything isn’t just questioned but warped and rejected. Even the most basic advice on public health is now rejected. You’ve got people rejecting basic facts and science. Everyone who runs for office gets subject to so much hate and lies that no sensible person would want to run for office now leaving only questionable personalities willing to do it.
I’ll add that America’s obsession with individualism, which ironically becomes groupthink like with MAGA, has become extremely poisonous. It is making it impossible to do even basic things like improve public transportation, gun control, education, healthcare, public health, etc. It is like we’ve become a nation of children who can’t handle being told to go to bed and brush their teeth.
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- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 1 week ago:
Because a lot of Americans think he is the warrior fighting the evil gub’ment
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 1 week ago:
Because over half the people voted for him and are convinced of everything he says and does. My f’ing BIL thinks Trump can’t do anything wrong. Just go question him on other social media, especially a state subreddit, and people will say things like “so you are in favor or waste and fraud!?” like it is case closed.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 week ago:
Studies show that people on the left are more trusting of others in general than those on the right. It is reflected in their obsession with guns and their rejection of social programs.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 week ago:
He wants a king, not a democracy
- Comment on This whole "Sign in to prove you're not a bot" thing is pissing me off 3 weeks ago:
Pops up begging for my email are worse. I’ve started putting “admin@<their domain>” as the email and signing them up for everything.
- Comment on What ever happened to QAnon? 4 weeks ago:
They went on about the “deep state” because their goal was to create a deep state.
- Comment on Why Are People Surprised When Trump Actually Follows Through? 5 weeks ago:
He was entertainment to them. He’s like the frat brother who suddenly says “Let’s do a road trip to Florida!” (from NY) and everyone just laughs and goes “Ok, sure”. Then they see him loading up the car.
- Comment on Discord requiring you to add a phone number **after** the creation of your account 1 month ago:
It is a trade off vs scammers
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 month ago:
It’ll take decades to repair it
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Unless you are a corporation.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Well then you can block them from investing in the US or owning property. That would put a serious crimp on them.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Lots of people fled England in the 50s-60s because the tax rates were insane. George Harrison even wrote “Tax Man” about it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Norway taxes your wealth if you try to leave
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 month ago:
If there are timestamped records for things like name changes then you’d get “duped” SSNs
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 month ago:
Billionaires are stealing our dollars, tax or otherwise.
- Comment on A troll (https://lemm.ee/u/shinigamiookamiryuu) is a new moderator of AskLemmy on Lemmy.world. What can be done about this? 1 month ago:
I thought I left reddit to get away from this
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 month ago:
I cook a lot so I have never used DD and for pizza the place near me does their own delivery. I really hate extra fees.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 month ago:
Probably because the real trick is getting recognition. In the fog of a million voices on the internet all vying for your attention it is hard to make yourself a brand name. When people think of delivery now they automatically think of doordash.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 month ago:
Yup. I’d make a tray of lasagna, in my bachelor days, and it would last me about 4 days. Of course I’d be really tired of lasagna by then lol