I can’t think of any that I’d be particularly surprised by at this point.

My mother chose my father. Toxic relationship, divorced in two years.

My mother chose my stepfather. Wholesome relationship, still married some dozen years later.

Aw, is Roberts furrowing his brows really intensely?

lmao, no, not even, he’s looking ashamed and doing less than the bare minimum, just like at the impeachment proceedings.

When Luigi Mangione ALLEGEDLY did a good deed for the benefit of all of society, you mean?

My grandfather’s dog tags from Vietnam. He always kept them swinging from his rear-view mirror. Swore they kept him safe.

Also swore up and down that he wasn’t superstitious, lol.

The Houthis possess over plan B: flatten all Saudi oil reserves and refineries and collapse the global economy.

Fucking lmao.

But I think I liked it better when they did an empty gesture in support of gay rights rather than against them

Just one of those things. Means nothing about the companies themselves, but means everything about where society in general is at.

23. Back when I was whole of body.

Currently 30.

Honestly can’t think of any that aren’t already here.

“Working together regardless of class”

Not liquidating the bourgeois classes? Sounds a lot like class collaboration. I think you need a fiver in the GULAG to sort your head.

This is suppose to be a Canadian app why are we flooded with everything that’s happening in america?

New to Federation? You’re on Lemmy.ca, which is Canadian, but this community, !news@lemmy.world here isn’t based in Canada. You might find more luck in !canada@lemmy.ca or !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca, though!

Beanposting, now that feels like an eternity ago…

What part of it was an atrocity again?

Golly gee I wonder

Also why do you think Chinese people don’t learn about it?

Because the Chinese government’s official line is that the protesters were violent thugs who had it coming, Jesus fucking Christ.

Don’t worry, now that their favorite fascist is in power, they’re [checks notes]

… complaining that Dems aren’t doing enough.

I mean, Dems aren’t doing enough, but one would think that with a strategy like “ensure the Dems lose” one might have some sort of alternate method for dealing with the consequences of ‘success’.

Rent free.

Atrocities live rent-free in my mind?

I guess that’s technically true?

Why not? I hear dying in a plane crash is a fairly quick way to go.

Ain’t like it was in mid-2023. The tankies mostly stay off of .world anymore, thank the gods.

That’s why we call him JDPON Don - this dumbass is going to dismantle the empire and usher in global proletarian revolution.

Accelerationist fascists simping for oligarchs under the belief that THIS time it will work out for them. How surprising.

So you think people just happened to decide on a narrow range of positions that are highly convenient to the ruling powers in society?

Other way around. Ruling powers have established themselves around the narrow range of positions that people take. It’s why you see the same rot in every society, not just modern or Western or capitalist ones.

Modern propagandists have realized it doesn’t matter if the truth is out there—you just need to make your narrative the loudest, most available, algorithmically boosted option and most people won’t put in the effort to question what you put in front of them.

Sounds a lot less like a monopoly and a lot more like people choosing to be lazy and uninformed.

Free will is an illusion

I knew you were going to say that.

and this completely ignores the near monopoly they have on the media and information people are exposed to.

Not really. We live in one of the freest eras of human expression, political and otherwise, ever known.

Also, this isn’t saying they cause all problems, just a lot of them in our current society.

I very much read it as “We shouldn’t be enemies of each other; we should be enemies of the billionaires!”

But the awful truth is that, while we should be enemies of the billionaires, we are also very much justified in being enemies of each other. The idea that these people are just puppets dancing on their masters’ strings strips them of the very real agency they have and willingly exercise in service to abhorrent values and goals. If the apocalypse came tomorrow and no estate was worth more than a few days’ work when the dust settled, these people would still be parroting the horrible positions they do now.