[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 112 points 11 months ago

For any moderate woman reading this who hasn't heard: REPUBLICANS SEE YOU AS 2ND CLASS CITIZENS.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 164 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Genocide of our indigenous population mostly. The worst of it ended in 1996 when the last residential school closed. Basically, the Catholic Church under the authorization of the Canadian Federal Government in the 1800s and onwards, abducted children from indigenous communities, took them to boarding schools where they attempted to assimilate them into Eurocentric culture by punishing them for speaking their own language and practicing their own culture. Beatings, sexual abuse, and neglect were commonplace, with many children dying of illness, exposure, or violence. Many children survived the schools and are still alive today to tell us about it. There are also mass graves at several of these schools where children's corpses were dumped and hidden from public view, until ground x-ray technology came around and we found the graves.

Also, random weird fact: women weren't allowed to have bank accounts in Canada until like 1964.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 119 points 1 year ago

Criticizing. Israel. Is. Not. Anti-semitism.

Is criticizing Saudi Arabia "Islamophobia"?

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 98 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If nothing else, this terrible unnecessary war has shown the West's cognitive dissonance.

Hardcore right wing people generally hate Jewish people, unless the Jewish people are fighting Muslim people, then it's "Jewish people have the right to self-determination!"

People on the left generally do not hate any specific ethnic group, however, we have a long history of criticizing Israel for their apartheid. Being met with the furor of everyone else calling us anti-semites is nothing new, but never has it come so forcefully from so many people all at once.

Moderates in the center aren't speaking out at all for fear of being called anti-semitic, maintaining international relations with a nuclear power, and secretly hoping that this takes attention away from the climate crisis so we can keep going business as usual in favor of the ruling class.

More important than the cognitive dissonance though, is the fact that everyone in the West believes their opinion is the best and will solve everything.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 98 points 1 year ago

Amazon is literally aliexpress but with a more sophisticated UI.

Nothing but absolute shit chinese knock off products. No longer can you get the same kind of savings like you could in the past. You're basically paying full retail now, plus prime or shipping.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 131 points 1 year ago

I don't understand how having a rainbow nearby isn't protected by 1st amendment rights.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 87 points 1 year ago

Oh fuck no. Silksong is never coming out.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 189 points 1 year ago

Have a regular PC hooked up to the TV. That's my smart machine. I control every aspect of it. Fuck Smart TVs.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 109 points 1 year ago

Him showing up to a Valorant tournament is some next level "how do you do fellow kids". Like, what's his business being there? I mean, if you told me that he secretly just spends his days playing Valorant and shitposting on twitter, it would make a lot of sense.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 117 points 1 year ago

Listen, I love Sinead, but she had some serious mental health issues. She became a catholic priest after lambasting the catholic church over child sexual abuse, then left the catholic church, then converted to Islam in 2018? I think if we want to completely divulge every single issue she had in her life, it does a disservice to her memory. From my perspective, there's no reason other than mania that I can think of why someone like her would convert to a faith like Islam.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 96 points 1 year ago

Imagine losing your arbitrary blue check mark because you didn't buy enough ads on a platform that no one really uses anyway.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 117 points 1 year ago

Newsflash: unironically listening to modern country like Jason Aldean or any other arena country act, makes you an idiot. It's a bad song, with bad lyrics, with bad music, sung by a millionaire larping as working class. Everything about Country is a lie.

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