Shotgun_Alice

joined 2 years ago
[–] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago
[–] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Spicy piñata!

[–] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

America likes to romanticize the past even in the way they approach teaching history in schools. They don’t put in explicit words, the true nature of horror of war and death but instead make it palatable for children. Because we grow up hearing stories of war under the guise of heroism, and gallant men. We lose sight of the nameless and faceless dead in wars. They exist only as numbers in a page and nothing you actualize in your mind. I feel if we taught with honest and explicit recounting of events things would be better as there would be no appetite for war. One thing that always stood out to me is how we learn about the forced migration of indigenous peoples out west. In the US we learn of it as “The Trail of Tears” and my god if that isn’t the most saccharin romanticized way to describe a holocaust. Call it what it was the forced death march of indigenous people. See when you change the language even though we’re talking about the same thing the internal response is very different to those two characterizations.

[–] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

This was the first thing I checked too, everything says leans right in their reporting and doesn’t shy away from that fact. Definitely propaganda machine.

[–] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (6 children)

So I did a class on the art of the video game and MoMA (museum of modern art) has a number of them in their collection. There is even a Wikipedia article on it. Wikipedia Article

[–] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 66 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Called it. Soon all we’ll only be able to play baby games like Elmo’s big adventure puzzle book land, or something like that.

[–] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 56 points 9 months ago (4 children)

The Babylon bee is religious conservatives attempt to have their own satirical newspaper. The fact is the Onion just does it better.

[–] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My husband, chi tea latte, rainy fall weather, being home, in bed under the blankets.

[–] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Back in the day when I was a teen, I was cooking the time clock at work. Got asked about it on one of the occasions I had and corrected it before they could check it. The time clock we used didn’t log adjustments and everyone had a password that had the ability to adjust the time clock. I’m almost certain I wasn’t the only one doing the same thing. I was more surprised they couldn’t figure out access levels for the thing. Tbf it was a pretty old POS system.

[–] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

lol, yeah, I stopped it from happening with this magical thing called “lying.”

[–] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

Why would he quit when he’s part of the cover up.

[–] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Oh well, I guess it’s great the US is part of the ICC and has huge sway with what happens there. Like could you imagine trying to tell something you’re not even a part of what to do.

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