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Showerthoughts

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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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  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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submitted 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by Voidian@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Anarchy is very cool, until someone has the wrong opinion.

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[–] plyth@feddit.org 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

They banned me for asking if fascism with human rights could be possible.

The interesting part is that it could be that despite the west's support for human rights we could already be in a form of fascism. But that discussion could't be had because the question already triggered a ban.

So I think banning helps to keep an instance clean but it also prevents interesting discussions.

[–] berg@lemmy.zip 6 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Migrants and refugees are under constant attack throughout the west. The US has secret police racially profiling, beating, killing, illegally kidnapping and disappearing people. Civil rights are rapidly being restricted and rolled back. Israel does a genocide and bombs every county in it's vicinity while the west offers it's boots, bombs, and blessings.

The west doesn't support human rights, and the fascists are already in power.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

The west doesn’t support human rights, and the fascists are already in power.

Unfortunately as a society we believe that we support human rights so as a society we are not ready to face our fascist traits.

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

I don't think it's fair or productive to conflate America or Israel with "the West".

First of all, it's an ancient term used to describe sides in a conflict long since over, in some cases containing countries that don't even exist anymore.

Secondly, it includes countries that actively oppose the US and Israel's actions, like Ireland, or Spain.

Third, it doesn't make any fucking sense, because it includes Japan, which is about as far east as you can get.