ShieldGengar

A “funny” joke in the US is asking a non-white person where they’re from and they respond with something like “Indiana”

Americans are fuckin idiots

source: at least two high viewership TV shows

What’s the .io death? Looking this up is particularly frustrating.

All modes of transportation should be abolished because every day they’re used in kidnappings, murders, and drug deals. At the very least, we should allow warrantless searches of all people based on the gut feeling of militant high school dropouts. That certainly won’t be abused.

Well anything is anything. He recommends physically mailing your contacts hoping they’ll write an 1800s-style letter back.

I thought it was a security definition download; as in, there’s nothing short of not connecting to the Internet that you can do about it.

I use lazyvim and this is my experience in neovim as well. I don’t think it’s a weird place, it just puts the onus on the end-user to tailor their experience.

They did really good at marketing. “If you don’t use Apple, You’re poor.”

I haven’t downvoted you, and sucks that it’s happening, but usually the “both sides” crowd don’t understand that there isn’t much nuance to their argument. For example, Nazis want to kill all non-aryans. Others, want to live. The compromise there is only kill some non-aryans. Is that something you’re okay with?

If not, why do you think talking to Others would change the rhetoric on the Nazi side? There clearly one extremely bad side here, but that’s an easy example. Real life is littered with less-extreme versions. For example, I saw an article the other day of someone who wouldn’t sell their house to a woman of color after they finally met her. What a bunch of knobs.

I agree that culture and togetherness is the best way to cure these people. In general, I’ve started to see racism as a mental deficiency; it’s something that could be treated. But what you’re saying is tone deaf. “Go get yelled at by the far right, maybe you’ll find common ground” is not an experience you’ve likely had to deal with i.e. your advice sounds like it comes from someone that hasn’t dealt with virulent intolerance before. Sure, with someone you like, talk to them…get them mentally efficient again. But fuck off if you expect me to do that to strangers who have, for decades, bullied people like my friends to the point of depression and suicide. Understand that it takes a lot of time to deprogram someone, and you’re not the one doing it. In fact, you want victims to do it.

Finally you said something that bothers me. “Don’t shun the far right”. You’re right that we shouldn’t ignore them. They should be monitored, closely, because they’re dangerous. But stop giving fuckheads a platform. It’s ridiculous that as a race, we’ve had to listen to all the town idiots berate and spew their hatred. Emotionally-immature people get caught up in their rhetoric before they’ve had the chance to grow into a decent human being, and by the time they’re 35, it’s too late; they’re now the racist uncle at Thanksgiving. Americans have a laugh around the holidays, but deep down it’s truly vile. And even if that uncle turns it around at 36, the damage has been done to countless people he’s interacted with. “Oh but he’s better now” just isn’t good enough for his victims.

My kids aren’t listening to all right-wing fuckheads, because I know they’re not there yet, emotionally, to critically think about what the belligerents are on about. If you think your kids are special, great - good for you. But remember that every interview about a christofascist mass killing has their friends, family, and neighbors going on about how “he was a nice boy”. The people selling this bile are much better at selling than others are critical thinking.

Not sure if you’ve seen this.

I have lots of Japanese family and friends, and none of them understand the horrors of WW2. As far as they were taught, America just randomly dropped nukes on them. They’re mad because they think of Japan as a victim, not a monster that needed to be stopped. They raped and pillaged everyone who wasn’t Japanese.

At least Germany teaches their kids about their atrocities in hopes that they never repeat it.

Whenever someone in a large truck is driving like an asshole I always think “wow he must be in a rush to go kiss his dad 😊”