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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.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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I can eat sushi, pizza, samosas, kebab (kabobs, döner or shawarmas depending on your frame of reference), gyoza/pot stickers/tortellone/pasteczki (or whatever), noodles/ramen/spaghetti, knödeln/kroppkakor and so on and so on. Leaving lots of cultures unsaid.

I can enjoy music, cringy cultural movies (animated and not), fun cirque sessions (even without animals being endangered), go to festivals for various cultures, enjoin then in our cultures of scouting, mountaineering, hiking and share my love of enjoying nature.

I can drive electric cars, communicate on Internet forums, keep in touch with new friends as well as loved ones across the world.

I would be in a much poorer world without you all.

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[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 193 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

collapsed inline mediaOur blessed homeland vs. their barbarous wastes

How dare you not pledge your undying allegiance to the spot of dirt that you were born on!??!?!?

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 31 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

What's it called when you live on the right side and agree with the labels?

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 46 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 19 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, the original, unironic meaning, now largely extinct through misuse.

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[–] bier@feddit.nl 14 points 19 hours ago

Exactly don't people understand these foreigners steal our jobs, while at the same time they are all lazy and live on welfare?

[–] match@pawb.social 10 points 21 hours ago

And 'defend' it by destroying all other lifeforms nearby (regardless of whether they precede you)??

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 68 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Agreed 100%. Unfortunately the people who need to read this are not on Lemmy.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 25 points 15 hours ago

I've seen a few anti-immigrant comments pop up around here that have been upvoted and they've made me pretty sad.

This thread makes my immigrant ass happy though so thank y'all.

[–] Bunbury@feddit.nl 10 points 11 hours ago

Well, by the look of this comment section there’s at least one who really needed to hear the message, but seemingly didn’t take it to heart.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 58 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 15 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That is pretty on the nose, but still an interesting perspective.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago

It might be on the nose, but we sure as hell have regressed in my short lifetime.

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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 38 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

The world would be a lot poorer without the music genres that spawned from the USA and UK, too. And most of those were only possible because people from Africa were (forcefully) brought to the USA.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

I don't think that logically follows.

Music genres that came out of poor black sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta could have just as easily come from middle class black manufacturing workers in Congo or Nigeria, if the continent had been integrated with the industrial west back in the 19th century rather than raided and plundered for 400 years.

Hell, maybe it would have come from middle class American Natives in the Mississippi Delta. Or Chinese rice farmers in a country not ravaged by opium. Or Iranians not ground under by the Shah's dictatorship. Or Austro-Hungarians who weren't cannibalized to fight the Napoleonic Wars or the 30 Years War that caused the Caucasian Exodus across the Atlantic.

The Peace Dividend reaped across the Gulf Coast and the Mountain West that gave us modern western music could have been collected anywhere.

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[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago

Southern blues really were the catalyst that brought about rock and country music. There are some good clips of people playing rock solos in a jazz form. The chord progressions and phrases are the same, they're just played with a different feel. There's one guy on YT who's short I've seen a lot of that does it fairly frequently. A bit clickbaity title like, "rock guitarist plays a jazz gig" and then he'll solo something like slipknots psychosocial over a jazz backing. It's pretty awesome.

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 26 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

I immigrated to the US when I was too young to make that decision myself. Now I'm immigrating to another country. I literally don't know what it's like to not be an immigrant, and I'm tired of receiving nothing but hate for it. At least my new city is more welcoming.

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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 26 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Some for me. So many cultures, languages and cuisines mixing. But in my case even im an immigrant but the plot twist is im european. Overheard someone talking about how bad immigrants are and they proceeded to say "but youre one of the good ones". Only context you need to hear is im white.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 15 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

"Unser Jud' ist eh gut."

That's a sentence that was often used in Nazi Germany/Nazi Austria. It means "Our Jew is good anyway, [but the others are evil]". It basically means that you keep believing the propaganda, even if the people you know don't fit to the propaganda at all.

Nowadays this sentence is used to satirize the statement you posted.

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[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 25 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

dont let the fascist whoresons read this, they will frame you mentally deranged and a danger to their homogeneous society

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Fuck their homogenous society, its total lack of art, its dog shit food, and its boring everything. Plus its queerphobia and intellectual stasis. Stillness is death. They have guns; they can get that for themselves any time they like.

Plus I'm kind of autistic. People already look too much the same. If they stopped being different colors and sizes with different types of hair i would not be able to go outside.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 23 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Some of those who burn crosses
Are the same that love kebab bosses

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[–] bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 22 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

great point, and many countries would be literally poorer as well.

even undocumented immigrants pay about $100 billion in taxes to the US each year.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

I loath people that claim immigrants aren't paying taxes and just taking free money. If they have an official job, they're paying taxes and every time they make a purchase, taxes are paid, just like everyone else that's not rich.

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[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 22 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The problem is when immigrants from countries with lower labour standards and poorer conditions are effectively used as "scabs", to suppress wage growth and unionization. And I fear the capitalists who benefit from this are pushing the "you just hate immigrants" narrative to protect it.

[–] Regna@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago (13 children)

And how do you propose the solution?

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

I would stop normalizing the theory that immigrants are here only to do badly paid jobs.

I've hear too many times "without immigrants who would work in insert miserable badly paid job?".

Immigrants are not here to do the most miserable jobs without getting properly paid for it.

I think progressive forces should stop with that discourse. I find it a little dehumanizing. If you don't want to do that shitty job I don't know why anyone would think that a person, only because they are an immigrant, want to do it for you.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 11 points 18 hours ago

But that's a response to "they took our jorbs!". It's a reframing for immigrants targeted at the reactionaries. But it is the reality - immigrants, particularly undocumented or agricultural visa recipients, are the bedrock of our society

It's terrible that they are in such unethical conditions. It's terrible that they have a carve out for child labor for seasonal farm workers. The entire power dynamic is akin to indentured servitude at best

But what we have to do is give them legal status and protections first.

They are not working the worst jobs because that's what we tell them they can be, they're working the worst jobs because they're extra exploitable

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[–] solarvector@lemmy.zip 9 points 19 hours ago

Seize the means of production?

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[–] cynar@lemmy.world 21 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

Looking back at the history of England. We have had wave after wave of immigrants/invaders. Each wave brought a period of tension. That period was followed by a period of innovation.

The new people, with new views means old ideas are re-evaluated. New skill, flavours and modes of thought became part of our culture.

Even our language improved. Part of English's power is the level of nuance with word choice. A loft of that comes from melding multiple root languages in.

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 19 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

Fun fact for you: All döner is kebab, but not all kebab is döner. Because döner is just a type of kebab (grilled meat on a stick). Which also means that shawarma's status as kebab is questionable, as it's ~~usually~~ sometimes roasted or pan fried, as far as I know.

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[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 13 points 21 hours ago

I live in London and immigrants have made it the best place in Europe for trying all the food 😍 I’ve been saying for a while I wish I could vote for more of them they’re so nice and they bring pizza recipes

[–] Kurious84@eviltoast.org 12 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

It didn't take long before they started deporting anyone and everyone. By no means just violent criminals. Horse shit.

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[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 11 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I fucking love the diversity of the United States. It enriches us all.

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