renownedballoonthief

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Reminds me of the joke about a man that dies in a flood waiting for good to save him while turning down any actual rescuers.

Meat eaters: if you need a sign from God or fate or whatever to start being vegan, here's yet another one. Try not to drown before you change your mind.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Example #732 of why ethnonationalism is bad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I encourage you and everyone else to read this 1999 article from Palestinian activist Edward Said about why a one state solution is the only viable path to peace.

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

The arm rest seamlessly and senselessly blends into the rest of the couch.

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

Can you join Teams meetings in Firefox? I think that's the only real issue I've had with it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I guess that the soy yogurt I had for breakfast and the vegan mozzarella that I had on my lasagna for dinner last night were all just in my imagination.

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

The problem is that you're arguing that from a position of valuing keeping your toys that go pew pew real loud and real fast over valuing the general public safe, though.

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

It boggles my mind that willfully hosting CSAM is (rightfully) illegal, but willfully hosting anti-vaxx content that definitely leads to the deaths of children is a-okay.

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

Skip the fines entirely and introduce criminal charges for executives of platforms that host anti-vaxx content. Have a complaint about the contents or safety of a vaccine? Feel free to submit your study to a peer-reviewed journal, or shut the fuck up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It only ever was weird in the most middle class, white, liberal definition of the word.

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

And to Texas of all places. At least there'd be a decent argument if the move was from Texas to Maryland.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

China is anti-mask and anti-vaccine? Do you lick lead paint for fun? From the same source as the OP article, this is what anti-vaccine propaganda looks like:

https://www.ntd.com/coronavirus-outbreak

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The Upton Sinclair classic is filled with labor relations, leftist struggle sessions, and disproving American imperial propaganda, but we get a movie about mean oil man doing mean things. What a travesty and an erasure of Sinclair's message. The man could layer irony on so thick that it would make Chapos jealous. Has anyone here read the book, and, if so, what are your favorite passages? Mine is:

Someone mentioned another stunt of the returned soldiers—their setting up a censorship of moving pictures. One Angel City theatre had started to show a German film, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” and this Hun invasion had so outraged the Legion men, they had put on their uniforms and blockaded the theatre, and beaten up the people who tried to get in. Tommy Paley laughed—the courage of each of those veterans had been fortified by a five-dollar bill, contributed by the association of motion picture producers! They didn’t want foreign films that set them too high a standard!

Then Schmolsky. He was too fat to comprehend such a thing as irony, and he remarked that the directors were mighty damn right. Schmolsky, a Jew from Ruthenia, or Rumelia, or Roumania, or some such country, said that we didn’t want no foreign films breaking in on our production schedules. An hour or so later Bunny heard him telling how the Hollywood films were sweeping the German market—it wouldn’t be three years before we’d own this business. “Vae victis!” remarked Bunny; and Schmolsky looked at him, puzzled, and said, “Huh?”

Vae victis, indeed. The entire text can be found here for free:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70379

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