Where do Nixon and Reagan fit in this
Ougie
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How do I put this, the fact that a platform may be used by unsavory characters in some specific capacity and context does not affect normal people who use it to communicate with friends - which is what chat apps were designed to do. People use discord to talk to their friends while playing games. They use WhatsApp, signal, telegram and so on to text with friends. At least that’s the primary usage. Now if one were to venture out into the wild and start engaging with strange animal fuckers in obscure channels etc, that is something that doesn’t play into the average user experience.
So one’s friends become zoosadists - whatever that is - if they’re chatting via discord?
The argument that there’s creeps using a platform is moot if you’re using it to communicate with your friends. Which is what people do. It’s so weird to me, like, the same can be said about Signal etc etc but nooooo, there it’s only the good ones chatting. Get outta here with this shit.
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Crazy Fucking Videos@lemmy.world•More crazy Christians taking over a planeEnglish
2·27 days agoYes because half the time on Ryanair flights you are subjected to their own advertising. What fucking perfumes they carry, their shitty lottery thing, their sandwiches blah blah. Honesty all this shit should be illegal. It’s like unskippable ads while I’m trying to listen to my music. The comms should be only about plane safety and flight information.
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Work Reform@lemmy.world•How would Sam Altman have any idea what humans enjoy?
6·1 month agoHe probably tweeted that from a yacht in the Mediterranean.
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Work Reform@lemmy.world•How would Sam Altman have any idea what humans enjoy?
2·1 month agoThis is not talked about enough! How deeply sad and disturbed hobbyless individuals ascend to positions of power and make everyone’s lives worse from there.
I wouldn’t say they’re mutually exclusive, way I see it, it’s more that there’s facts and then there’s the way people feel about facts. For example, it shouldn’t matter how people feel about the situation in Gaza, whether one is sympathetic towards one side or the other etc. There are facts about what is happening, who is doing it etc that cannot and should not be ignored. The greatest propaganda machine that has ever existed is tirelessly working trying to sway public opinion and it’s working. That’s why I hate such fucking stupid memes, fuck that girl and her condescending look, keeping quiet is complacency. If you think it doesn’t matter what a random idiot online thinks, next thing you know the world is full of random idiots and they control the narrative, and all of a sudden what you thought was a perfectly reasonable position is now a fringe conspiracy theory and Joe Rogan is fair and balanced. Don’t look far, how do you think the US ended up with two far right parties?
Screw feelings. The truth is worth discovering.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do you do when you have a song stuck in your head?
2·2 months agoMy theory is that songs get stuck in your head when you listen to a small part of it so then your brain tries to fill in the rest. So I guess you’d have to listen to the whole thing to make it go away. Haven’t really tested this thoroughly enough so if you do, let me know.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Friends claim influencer injected himself with gold to gain “superhuman” powers before his deathEnglish
18·2 months agoHis artificial hairline looks worse than if he were bald. And wtf is going on with his jaw?
Hah I’m not worried mate it’s all good, I just find it interesting how certain interest groups can change narratives from one day to the next. Btw this misrepresentation extends to all the non-English speaking peoples, who are basically excluded from the internet.
I’ve noticed a trend lately - not sure how far back this goes - but it appears to me that aspects of the Greek civilization are very often attributed to the Romans and mentions of the Greeks are often reduced to derogatory memes (like how easy it is to be Socrates because there was only a bunch of people alive at the time and other such bs) and of course let’s not forget how gay everyone was (as if that’s a bad thing but whatever). Couple that with misconceptions about Alexander the great and how he was supposedly a Slav and Macedonias weren’t Greek blah blah, the fact that the Turks are trying to claim that everything that now lies in modern day Turkey is “theirs” etc etc, the claims from Christians around the world that Christian ideas are the basis of the western civilization and morality in general as if they didn’t just appropriate everything from past religions and belief systems… Anyway rant over.
Here we go again with the random shitting on the Greeks.
Bet the girls in England looked way better than this 9000 years ago, nothing like cro magnon apes no no they didn’t eat fleas out of each other’s backs where’d you hear that
Because in Greece there was truce during the games. It’s part of the rules.
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World News@lemmy.world•Paraguay beat Germany on penalties to reach last 16 of World CupEnglish
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Technology@lemmy.world•Ferrari marketing boss quits just weeks after EV launch backlashEnglish
8·2 months agoCar actually doesn’t look that bad, true. I guess it’s just not what people expect when they hear Ferrari. Imho it’s one of those cars that won’t sell now but in 50 years it will be a sought after rarity.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•The way this egg peels in infuriatingEnglish
2·2 months agoSo how’s the peeling going?
I’m genuinely asking wtf?
You think him fleeing to Russia is inconsistent? It seems to me that the organizations he’s exposed are the sort of outfits that would murder someone like him, so in order to stay alive I don’t know what other choices he would’ve had.
Agree on Greta btw, but to continue with the same example, I would say that killing a little girl is less likely, because it would create a martyr. And if she were ever in danger I wouldn’t hold it against her if she chose to disappear somewhere. She’s already done more than enough.
My point being, I don’t necessarily see the difference, and I’m a bit confused at the apparent hesitation to label Snowden a hero. Tempted to assume that the smear campaign is working even in these circles.




Yeah he’s just trolling the “far left” smh