angstylittlecatboy

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Date better people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Youre better off asking why women overall are more likely to read.

I think people above a certain age won't believe me, but I swear when I was growing up (born in 2001,) being smart and having hobbies associated with smartness was made out to be unmasculine. I don't even know how that happened, but from a young age we all thought of reading as a women's hobby. I think there weren't many male characters in children's media of that era that were smart and not made out to be uncool, but I might be misremembering.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Rank and file MAGA don't. The actual politicians do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Elitism and exclusion are how we got to the mess we find ourselves in.

And that's why I would not let Lemmy users run society. The userbase here is people who like the idea of left-populism, but hate the population.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The fear of "giving people legitimacy" was valid when it was relatively unknown alternative right thinkers that you had to be paying attention to know their names, and even when Trump had an electoral college victory. But in these days, your Trumps and Rogans have more than double the legitimacy that you even have to give out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

From my perspective, zoomers are most of the people talking about it. We remember the '00s.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

When I was a kid (born in 2001,) not having this shit was a point of national pride.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's popular in the Northeast and I'd assume the PNW as well.

So basically the states that you can actually play ice hockey in

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Didn't know Creed was Christian (and it seems at least debatable whether they fit the label of "Christian music.") So that hurts my point I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

When's the last time a rock band was labeled a "science band", but you can name four or five christian bands without even listening to them?

I feel like a pedant, but I'm sorry, the notion that most Americans can name five Christan bands/artists is bullshit. Maybe most Bible Belters can. Christian music gets the designation of "Christian music" because it is segregated away from everything else, listened to by a large, but still niche demographic who are already very religious, and treated as a joke by everyone else (including most non-Evangelical Christians.)

I can name two, Skillet and Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. The former is just the band I see mentioned to make jokes about Christian music, and the latter I saw on a show about one hit wonders (the hit is about domestic violence and doesn't even have faith based undertones.) If I start making exceptions like "became Christian after the height of their fame" (Kansas and Kanye West) or "stopped being Christian before they became known" (Katy Perry) I can get to five.

And on that note, what would a "science band" be? Like, a band that writes lyrics about new scientific discoveries? Yeah that'd have more in common with Nick Jr. than most music, secular or not. Most music deals with emotions in a way Christian music can but "science music" couldn't. The closest would be philosophy, but there's already a ton of music drawing on philosophy, and nobody segregates it from normal music because it's not music that only appeals to a specific demographic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I'd absolutely post this online but I wouldn't wear it as a shirt

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It's people who run apologia for anything the Chinese government or even Chinese business does.

Meanwhile I remember that TikTok helped Trump' s youth outreach campaign with the message they gave when US access was restored, so they've already signalled they're not on my side.

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