On .world, any point of view that contradicts mainstream American talking points is immediately a tankie point of view. It’s to the point of self-parody by now, but these morons actually think they’re defenders of democracy and justice or some shit.
He’s also a Palestinian immigrant who built his entire fortune from nothing. And you’re getting downvotes for pointing out the very real common refrains used against many entertainers of color. Everyone freaked the fuck out because Beyoncé put on a cowboy hat for chrissake.
It’s almost like all the most ignorant hivemind elements of Reddit just moved over to lemmy.world - glad they’re mostly confined to one instance at least.
What the fuck is with the quotes around ‘genocide’?! Not blaming OP for the source’s headline, but I just can’t believe editors are still playing these games
By that logic, if it’s not practical to protest every single injustice in the world, we just shouldn’t bother.
I’d say genocide is a good place to start, wouldn’t you?
Not even close to the same thing, but okay.
I also like, “Israeli bombs strike Gaza”. How did Israel’s bombs get up in the sky? Did they not expect them to fall to the ground and explode?
How about “Israel bombs Gaza”?
Their economy has allegedly been on the brink of failing for the past three years according to US state department talking points. Surely any day now the Ruskies will surrender…
“Let’s just say, for argument’s sake, that I may do things for money that are bad enough that other people want to kill me… how much money would I need to pay someone to not feel that way?”
This is a pretty typical Western way of completely misinterpreting karma. It’s supposed to describe how negative energy travels through the world, and white people just think it means “bad thing always happen to bad person”.
Daddy’s Dogs. He’s in Printer’s Alley standing a little ways down from their location there. You can actually see the sign behind the red and white sign for Fleet Street.
It was covered in an episode of Radiolab and they interviewed the guy who experienced all of this. I’m not invested enough to find a source but it’s definitely not an urban legend.
Are you seriously trying to predict the actions of the US federal government using an argument based on logic and common sense?
No that would be:
Touchin’ meEEEEEEEeeeEE! Touchin’ yoOOOOOOOoooOO! Touching’ me YEAH I’M TOUCHIN’ YOOOOOOU!
As a musician who has had to play it more times than I’d care to admit, I just want to remind everyone that Neil Diamond wrote that song about an 11-year-old
Found the fascist!
Don’t know who downvoted you, you’re absolutely right. Just as an anecdotal example, my grandmother was an extremely intelligent and progressive Italian-American woman, but Columbus was the one thing she would never budge on. It goes back to a time when Catholics had to constantly defend their loyalty to America. I’d imagine St Patrick’s day was a similar thing. It was these immigrants’ single point of pride that other Americans would respect and understand.
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How many people have you shot?
Meme-ing is surius biznus dammit!