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[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 months ago

Everything remotely bad is attributed to Russian/Chinese subterfuge. I'm reminded of the nordstream explosion. every liberal in my personal life was convinced russia sabotaged their own pipeline. no amount of common sense or evidence could override the decades of propaganda. parenti

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

This is their own update as of 1/25, showing 152 workers killed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

i haven't seen a few of the other best picture noms, but i agree with this. especially if you are comparing barbie and poor things directly. on its face poor things is better visually, in its direction/acting, and in its plot. beyond that it grapples with its narrative topics better than barbie, chiefly feminism.

bella has more agency as a character than all of the barbies, even as the 'mental toddler' as others describe. and that agency only grows throughout the movie/with her character development.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I think you've got the right idea. A lot of the people I know that are into golf just like hanging out outside with friends. Sure a few of them are well off, but I think the appeal as you age and have kids has more to do with being the 'third place'.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 8 months ago

there are comments in this very thread that are doing that lol

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

It finally happened, today is a good day

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

well said. this type of liberal pacifism isn't pacifism at all, but rather a preference for the slow, abstract violence of the status quo to revolutionary violence. I'm reminded of the twain quote you had in the mega a few weeks back.

I feel as though anyone with an appreciation for history must acknowledge the necessary role of violence (or the threat thereof), in the slow march of progress

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

its so hard not to feel alienated or experience derealization

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Absolutely. The way that I have been able to break through with the liberals in my life has been by comparing it to the Nat Turner's rebellion, the Haitian slave revolt, or the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Sure, you can sit here comfortably in the imperial core and talk about how no violence is acceptable, but could you honestly blame the slave or the ghettoized for their violent uprisings? Especially since any attempts at negotiations or peaceful protest have been met with violence in this case - the 2005 ceasefire and the march of return.

Abhorring violence of this type is liberal idealism at its finest

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago
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