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I saw a BlackPeopleTwitter post yesterday where one local (so, black) user gave another Asian user a coveted "invite to the cookout" for posting some decently well meaning kinda intersectionalist words, and they ATE THE FORMER USER ALIVE, saying paraphrased obviously "we give this privelage out way too readily to people who evidence the bare minimum decency". Some people want to gel so bad they jump the gun and so you can't assume one minority giving you a privelage related to their community stands for all in the community. The paradox of the N-pass.

Not surprised in the least to see them turn on LGBT people. But EQUITY FOR BLACK PEOPLE is now too "political" to risk. I know I shouldn't be surprised because one necessarily preceeds the other and yet. I hope Jeff Bezos gets ejected into space next time he takes a vanity space trip. Coward. Nazi suckup coward.

I dunno guys. Trump is talking about starting WW3 pretty openly. Its probably a distraction but we don't get the benefit of ignoring an incoming president literally threatening war with our allies.

If you are Lebanese its pretty weird a foreign country blew up your sports star and put her in a coma. Like wooooaaaah. Weird shit. Haha. My country is being attacked and even soccer isn't safe.

Get out of your own head.

Boys are trained to avoid doing anything "girly". It is everything from being encouraged toward military service to being socialized to be unhygenic on purpose or being trained never to cry. But people NEED safety, cleanliness, and vulnerability, those are human qualities. Boy and manhood is becoming increasingly detached from humanity to some. Most well adjusted people will realize everyone has feminine and masculine aspects and EVERYONE has basic human needs like... to cry when bad things happen.

For boys like Andrew Tate, Ben Shapiro, etc femininity is abhorrent, so masculinity has become an increasingly bitter imposition. What matters to them is defining themselves outside of femininity and any attempt to deduce what masculinity is or can be are irrelevant outside of that. Its the result of seeing sex as a caste system they're at the top of. Queers and college professors come shaking the trees and they don't want to fall out. So now manhood more than ever is about fucking loathing women and gays.

If foreign actors like Russia decide to influence the Fediverse (which is already highly radicalized), they'd have a very easy time.

If? Did you see the mental gymnastics and agitprop going on around the election to get Trump elected? One or more nation state botnets is already deeply entrenched here. Since the election they became inactive and the stream of murder/suicide-"leftist" posting died down. Denialism of the Russian disinfo operations, which are well documenteted at this point, is also decently common here. I will probably get a comment about it in fact.

Boot licker.

Yud dismissing it makes it seem more plausible in retrospect

Republicans, by boldly overlooking large quantities of sexual misconduct committed by many of their most prominent members, show horny 20 year old male voters that it’s ok. The GOP understands and tolerates them.

Rape culture? On MY Lemmy?

Folks really wanted Baldwin's balls over this because he was Trump on SNL. A large part of this whole case was disguised political animus.

Neoliberal art cannot answer these questions. Arcane is great and at times even better than great but it is a platform to advertise League of Legends. They can't properly resolve Piltover/Zaun for the same reason newscasters can't say out loud "Luigi Mangione is based as shit". That fundamental truth about our society is like yellow cake uranium broken up into fine powder and lying on the ground to the media and artists working on corporate IP.

For the same reason I was struck in season 1 by how amazingly well done the characters are and how it doesn't matter because like the protagonists of a Marvel movies, their character arcs bend inexorably toward them becoming video game superheroes. As if caught zipping around a black hole at the speed of light as they dance toward the event horizon, there is no path that leads to peace for any of them because their characters have to be in position to become League of Legends champions who battle it out in toxic gamer Valhalla forever.

Arcane is so much better than Riot Games deserves and its because its a Riot Games property that held it back from saying the things it clearly was thinking about (Jace and Victor, Piltover should be fucking dissolved, Caitlyn should necessarily do jail time). I hope Arcane inspires people to always be critically examining their favorite stories for the untold stories still inside them because that's what made the show great for me. But it was only as earnest as it could be given the circumstances.

I paired down a much cruder response initially to just what you read because I thought about it and realized this was the case. I still find it disgusting to use whataboutism to ignore Europe's racism. If your answer to is to shrug off your own country's white supremacism because America is worse that's bullshit. It isn't as enlightened as you think it is.