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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (17 children)

Oh look a tankie trying to push bullshit tankie rhetoric.

Last time I checked I didn't get thrown into prison for life, shot or run over by tanks because I disagreed with my boss.

I swear that tankie logic is that of a person who gets busted doing meth in the bathroom at work and then complains when they get fired, claiming their boss is an "oppressive fascist".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Workplace democracy is tankie bullshit now? Ok then.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Right? I'm trying to figure out how I could be a tankie but also in the US...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your geographic location doesn't dictate your beliefs, opinions, etc. At all. I have a friend that grew up in America, he's Muslim, he's got family in Jordan IIRC. But I was like, you're pro-America. Right? No, turns out he much prefers Jordan & wants to move someday.

Maybe you espouse tankie beliefs. Or maybe not, idk your life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to communists who express support for one-party communist regimes that are associated with Marxism–Leninism, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberals and right‐wing factions as well

So, not me. but still random lemmy users will screech tankie at me.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago

Oh please, the intention of this post is so fucking transparent in its tankie rhetoric of trying to paint the west as an evil blight.

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