NAFO and its consequences have been a disaster for the online discourse.
Imagine having the confidence to make ahistorical claims that are this outrageous. Either you're duped or you're an op.
NAFO and its consequences have been a disaster for the online discourse.
Imagine having the confidence to make ahistorical claims that are this outrageous. Either you're duped or you're an op.
I challenged this notion with a lib the other day.
The watermelon originated in Africa. That doesn't mean that the vile caricaturised depictions of black people eating watermelons is somehow not inherently racist.
You can also look to the origin and continuing usage of the swastika, especially in Asian cultures, as another example here - you aren't going to tell me that the right-angled unicode swastika being used by westerners on the internet isn't done in service of fascism 99% of the time.
And on that matter, don't let erm-ackshually dorks tell you that the 90 degree swastika wasn't used by Nazis and isn't representative of them. One of the most famous depictions of the Nazi swastika is a right angled one:
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1214749781387436032/pu/vid/450x360/o0Nxlts0lffM8lUv.mp4
This came through on my news feed today with the headline "Is this the turning point? War in Ukraine"
Here's the turning point:
If you can't spot it, it's that tiny blue area in the zaporizhzhia oblast, on the border of the red area.
But how will they confirm that it's him when Prigozhin is such a cunning master of disguise?
>tfw you troll Hitler so hard that he quits his job as a politician and takes up art again, making a mural of himself in the Führerbunker on the 30th of April 1945
Actually it's from page 45 of The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath by Dan Stone if anybody is interested
"Your side isn't entitled to my vote. If your side wants my vote, they have to earn it."
Libs:
"Chiner killed a bunch of its own people and that's how they lifted themselves out of extreme poverty!!"
Also libs:
"Chiner is sitting on a demographic timebomb [which is false, btw] which will cause their population to crash and it will tank their economy!!"
Let's not pretend that your politics aren't inherently authoritarian as well.
Either you support capitalism (or worse), which is grossly authoritarian as it inflicts massive violence not only via warfare but through mass starvation and deprivation, or you support socialism, in which case you have two options:
The violent overthrow of the current system (spoiler alert: that's a very authoritarian thing to do!)
The gradual reform of the current system, meaning maintaining the status quo for an exceptionally long time as we ever so slowly creep our way to a more just economic system while countless people starve, go homeless, die without healthcare, end up in yet-another war and so on (which is a very authoritarian proposition, just throwing away the lives of the poor in your own country—not to mention those in the developing world—just so you can have a neat and tidy reformist approach that doesn't rock the boat.)
I, too, do not have a smartphone or an internet connection 😔