skisnow

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

That sub wasn’t like this a year ago. This is a stark tell that the sub has either been captured by bad-faith agenda mods, or is being heavily botted. Or both.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

He declared that “cis” was a slur and banned Twitter users who used it

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

It’s a good way to get answers to Password Recovery questions that people forgot they used when signing up to some website or email service 15 years ago but are still active on

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Sadly also too tall for the blood to reach their brains, resulting in Shit Art Syndrome and Dick Hygiene Forgetfulness.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Lucky I’ve not encountered him, the urge to talk to him like a 5 year old would be too great.

“What a big truck you have! And it’s so high up! I bet you have to do a big jump to get up there. And look, it says “WAR” on the front, that’s fun! Did you put that on yourself, or did you ask a man do it for you?”

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

They always remind me of this guy on account of the unfortunate subtext

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sadly if you spend any time on LinkedIn, most management types still look up to him as a role model.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago

I could admire someone sticking to their principles in face of losing money, but when the principles are “be a dick to marginalised people for the lulz” you’ve just got a garbage human being

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If money is speech, what is a company “saying” when it donates to both parties?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah I’m with you, because I don’t understand why a “dumbass” would be the speed of light.

Makes more sense for God to measure things in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ugh, this is like the whole tipping thing. Used to be that it was 10%, now it’s 25-33%?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sadly this is the same the world over.

In the lead up to Brexit, UKIP had a startling number of foreign names on its roster of candidates. Immigrants and children of immigrants, who were so keen to pull the ladder up behind them and be treated by others as a “true” native, that they devoted serious time and energy to making it happen. They don’t like seeing other immigrants because they involuntarily project their own feelings about those immigrants as outsiders, back onto themselves.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9

As the party fielded more and more candidates who championed economic-right policies in order to attract corporate donations, the idea of "purity testing" was turned into a stock phrase to attack critics using labels, instead of justifying it on its own terms.

Phrases like "moral purity" now serve two functions: firstly, to dismiss criticisms from the Left wholesale without having to discuss them directly, and secondly, to blame them for the rise of fascism.

In theory it was also supposed to serve a third function of bullying the Left into voting Democrat, but that didn't work.

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