[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 1 points 9 hours ago

I really need to see Tombstone and Heat.

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 2 points 12 hours ago

You can go to Xinjiang and check it out yourself if you want. On the other hand, just try going to Palestine...

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 9 points 21 hours ago

Imagine literally paying people to vote for someone and they still lose lol

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Wait, really?! This isn't an April Fool's joke, right?

I didn't think he was that old...

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

"The sun cannot be blocked."

Nice.

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago

So who is this? Some new streamer guy? I can't keep them all straight lol. Every time I learn one, there's another one. By the time I learned who Mr. Beast was he already had like a whole media and food empire lol.

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They helped Korea which was nice. And I think Vietnam.

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 70 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's got liberal, Western sources in there too, like Politico, New York Times, The Guardian, etc.

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If they treat the world like the US did during its century, probably, but so far that doesn't seem to be the case. They don't have military bases spread all around the world, they haven't dropped a single bomb, they have businesses and loans they give out but they don't force you to have a certain political or economic system (unlike the West which gives their loans with requirements for austerity attached).

I think the only issue is that they seem to be over correcting and are too uninvolved with other countries. So it will probably be fine lol.

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ya it's interesting that the audience looking for the faux intellectualism of debate pro Shapiro or Professor/Pseudo-Father Peterson seems to be waning. It's like people know the logical arguments suck and want to embrace the shitty aspects without having to embrace it.

Could also be that he's more situated for the new, rising audience of Gen Z's streamer culture instead of the millennial's YouTube video culture, too.

Either way, it does seem to be the logical evolution of 4chan and /pol/.

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I remember some of us kids talking about marriage in elementary school. We didn't super understand it yet, but still 🤷

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

Missed you guys. I should really make a Lemmygrad account for if that happens again.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by SevenSkalls@hexbear.net to c/movies@hexbear.net

Looking for a way to get into Lynch's work. I know, a little late, but I feel like I'm missing out on something with all the condolences going out today. I've heard good things about Twin Peaks? Does it still hold up?

What about his movies? I've heard great things about Mulholland Drive, although I was very confused when I got halfway through.

Are there other works that are better to start with or just that people generally recommend as being good?

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by SevenSkalls@hexbear.net to c/movies@hexbear.net

I know it's a little late this holiday season to ask this question but as a lover of the holidays, I'm curious what others think. I usually watch the schmaltsy, cutesie ones I watched as a kid, like The Muppet Christmas Carol or Mickey's Christmas Carol.

But it means I haven't watched the other dramatic (or possibly horror, considering the ghostly subject matter) retellings of the story as much.

Which adaptations of A Christmas Carol is your favorite?

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by SevenSkalls@hexbear.net to c/books@lemmy.ml

What's some books with an interesting vision of the future? I don't just mean more advanced technology, I mean the way it's organized.

I find often people can't envision past the society we have now. There's that quote, "It is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism", and it seems more and more true, but sci-fi authors seem best equipped to actually imagine beyond that.

I've heard some sci-fi authors mentioned in this category before, like Heinlen, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.

I haven't read any of them lol. Would have no idea where to start within them that fits this category, or what other choices there are that people would suggest.

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