Deacon

This should be seen for what it is: the latest in a series of “boiling the frog” escalations on totally rewriting the history of black people in this country.

They look so real

I’m 44 and this is actually stone cold sober reality but have a day friend.

Everyone should really read ALL of this image. The headline obviously resonates with a ton of people, but there is a bigger message here that people need to engage with.

I don’t know if this is OC from the author or not, but this is genuinely brilliant.

It isn’t helpful to think of them as losers. Like the image says, no bread all circuses. Without making any inferences about these two people pictured, the media and public focus on their engagement is in the service of maintaining and strengthening the status quo power structures.

Resist the urge to dismiss this as crank conspiracy thinking. There is a system, even if it wasn’t designed and even if it isn’t organized. And the media is by and large a tool of that system.

Because those issues are about protecting the status quo power structure, not about protecting kids.

It isn’t a game I play. It’s a universe I visit from time to time. I fucking love it

And did I say sorry I’m late? I meant I’m sorry I’m here.

It should all be legal! Even my Mohammed Rule34 collection.

They are all pieces from the same starter kit.

They just keep getting weirder and weirder.

To be clear, only one of the claims in the OP image are verified in this article; the claim that Donald Trump paid for this ad.

The article doesn’t address how the timing of the ad relates to the timing of his trip to Russia, or who booked the trip, or whether InTourist is run by the KGB.

Which is why I fucking hate this format of conveying “information”. This is right wing style info sharing and it’s gross.

Maybe it’s all true. I want it to be, because President Taco is so clearly Putin’s creature that I yearn for a story to explain how it happened, or when, or why.

But this image doesn’t do anything but force me to go try and verify these claims on my own.

I am sure I join his family in heartfelt celebration that he will finally be receiving his eternal reward.

He did, and apparently it was A Succulent Chinese Meal.

Less gross is still gross.

As a liberal, I firmly believe that eating your own feces and drinking your own urine is bad for you, can make you sick, and should probably be avoided.

Just saying, in case any maverick conservatives wants to dunk on me. I am easily owned.

Is there a fire in a fireplace or stove? I’m there.

I appreciate them going to the trouble of making their appearance better match their ghoulish personalities.

Ironically the source of much of their liquidity.

In the very broadest sense I don’t disagree with you. Making a community private is a useful tool and can help to simplify strict entry guidelines.

However, given that “Cater to a very specific group of people”, refers to basically half of earth’s population in this case, I do have some quibbles.

I don’t have the data in front of me, but I bet that women represent something quite less than half the population of Lemmy. It doesn’t even stretch the imagination to suppose that they represent just a fraction of the user base.

So this isn’t a niche interest or obscure sub-culture we’re talking about. This is an artificial minority population. Is the simplicity of going private worth the added obscurity and increased friction to what should be organic community growth?

As it is, you had to see it, decide to engage with it, and then learn that it wasn’t meant for you, and you’d have just preferred to remain unaware it ever existed. Never mind that would also ensure most other People remain unaware it exists.

Is it really such a hardship on you for the filter to be set a little wider for the good of that community?