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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (18 children)

That's what intersectionality is about, and why fascists focus on driving wedges between groups

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[–] Fletcher@lemmy.today 38 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Why do you think the fascists try so hard to keep them divided and fighting each other?

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[–] dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Welcome to the radical left.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Well, unless you're some kind of Democrat. In which case, get your bougie, genoside lovin' ass outta here. Only the real leftists will be allowed under the banner.

[–] executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 20 hours ago

I see what you did there.

[–] Arkouda@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How do you define a "real leftist"?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Good question!

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I'm uhh a Democrat in name only. My father was a Democrat and my voter registration says Democrat, but I don't believe in their neoliberal values

[–] dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago

What are you talking about?

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[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago

Hence divide and conquer.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 10 points 20 hours ago

And even more people under the same social class should band together that would have a much bigger majority

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The oppressive class usually isn't a majority (capital owners/rich, religious fanatics, morning people), but they dictate so much more of our lives, what to feel, who to hate - so much so that they make the majority work for them against the minorities (that don't affect the lives of the majority in the slightest - but that's just how the oppressors retain control & power).

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[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

This assumes the minority groups can all agree on things in order to “come together.”

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

They're deliberately being divided.

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[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 6 points 21 hours ago

That's not how that works.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Getting every group to do one thing together is harder than you think.

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 4 points 1 day ago

This is a lesson that the religious fundamentalists currently running the USA have weaponised.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Probability not relevant under a dictatorship or first past the post elections, but…

See also electoral alliance

[–] executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

UK has FPTP and had a coalition from 2010 to 2015.It's unlikely to work in the US where the non-rep/dem parties are basically negligible.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago

That’s a good point. Even though the voting system makes it harder, it doesn’t make it impossible.

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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 3 points 20 hours ago

My hyper coalition an-cap-com people's democratic uniparty dictatorship will save the west.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bernie Sanders always talks about a multi racial coalition

[–] Arkouda@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago

It is at least a step in the right direction.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Aren't there more women than men in the world

(And I'm ignoring the million other thimgs I could say rn bc I dont have the emergyctk type)

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[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

All these minorities may share a common problem yet it's unlikely they have the same vision for the solution.

that sound you heard was stephen miller getting cold sweats

[–] plant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I wish I could have the courage to collect downvotes like you

And in your own thread!

[–] Arkouda@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago

Thank you for caring about a metric that doesn't matter for me. Do you worry about everyone's down votes or just the pretty ones like me?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Main problem: agreeing on a banner design. Also a fair amount of hating each other.

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