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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3·1 month agoYou will own nothing and be happy
Pro tip: Apparently your comment got removed. Since obviously we wouldn’t call for violence, feel free to
4·1 month agoLemmy is addictive even with no algorithm or dodgy corporate ethics for example.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by this?
a 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.
177·1 month 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
Of 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