ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]
“Cause slavery to disappear and you will have wiped America off the map of nations.” — Karl Marx, The Poverty of Philosophy
This user is a white American and wishes to apologize for the direct benefit received from slavery, imperialism, etc. Please criticize accordingly
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ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Have you given up on America?English
13·6 months agoOf course, if you’re going to use US foreign policy, you have to include things like the 1973 coup in Chile when the US overthrew a democratically elected leader to install a dictator, because the US didn’t agree with the democratic leader’s politics
ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Post Deleted!English
2·7 months agoa weird parasocial relationship a lot of people have with him where everything wrong he does is just an oopsie
This is interesting, as there are plenty of other celebrities who have a sort of “cult of personality” like this. I could be misinformed but Donald Trump and Oprah Winfrey come to mind. I wonder what kind of phenomenon causes this and if there is any psychological research behind that.
gaming, like every media has always been political
Good point! The way technology itself is designed can even be political. I’d highly recommend reading Langdon Winner’s essay Do Artifacts Have Politics? about this.
ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Post Deleted!English
177·7 months agoI can’t tell if you’re being genuine or not, but there is a difference between using a swear word ever and being a hateful bigot and using slurs against marginalized groups
ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netto
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Meet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you can read them for freeEnglish
10·7 months agoThis is an insult to children, who are generally willing to share and kind people, unlike these corporate ghouls
ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netto
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Netflix does it again. Record subscriber gains.English
581·10 months agoEven Asahi Linux literally had to deal with this just to get 1080p:


I think your comment there might have crossed the line into ableism