Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]

It isn’t like American elections are in any way real or the government of the United States gives a fuck about the people who live there.

Pfft! Obviously elections in the USA are legitimate. After all, every single US state and electoral district is situated entirely on land that the USA legally annexed, right?

I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level is the first thing that comes to my mind. The Little Witch Academia series is also a classic.

False consciousness, as we say, is very widespread in the United States compared to other countries. I think that one part of this is that the United States is built on the stolen resources of exploited countries, including its very own territory, which is occupied illegally in violation of treaties with indigenous nations. These stolen resources allow the United States to essentially “buy” the loyalty of its citizens. I also think that another part of this is that the United States isolates its people from the rest of the world in various ways, for instance that monolingualism is very widespread in the United States, or Americans consume less foreign media, et cetera, and this means that Americans exist in more of a bubble compared to other countries.

In the ruling class of the United States, the furthest left that you get is Bernie Sanders, because people like Bernie Sanders or historically FDR or Huey Long etc exist to facilitate that buying of loyalty that underpins the whole of American society. That is, they exist to make exploitation less apparent and hardships more bearable, without addressing the conditions that lead to exploitation and hardship in the first place — so they’re the political equivalent of a smoke break or office pizza party, basically.

Hell yeah

K-On!

The fact that I can recognize that picture even with my instance’s default blur filter over it

Nazi forum

I can see why. Although the stars occupy a larger portion of the sky, they are also further away than the moon. So either version of the phrase makes sense in its own way.

as they say - shoot for the stars, and you may just land on the moon.

I’ve only ever heard, “shoot for the moon, [and] even if you miss you’ll land among the stars”, which is the phrase as it was first said by Norman Vincent Peale. But maybe swapping “moon” and “stars” is a common enough variant of the phrase that I just haven’t heard before.

I’m honestly curious about what abuse potential this has compared to other federated platforms, because “it could be used to host dox” is a complaint that I’ve heard about Lemmy as well.

Why the heck would it be referring to the Israeli special forces? It’s obviously in reference to Thoth.

Cause they seem to be hating on pretty much everything LGBT related.

In which case I might phrase it as “bizarrely, vitriolically anti-LGBT comments” or something

I don’t know if I was foolish for reading the comments but shyeesh that crap feels like it needs a content warning

“…also every 39 minutes they stab your balls”

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What I’ll never be able to understand is why people seem to think that stuff like this is going to convince anybody to change their views on… well, anything, really.

All of this stuff is stuff that we’ve heard repeated ad nauseam in school, in educational video cassette children’s cartoons, in political commentary on TV and in print editorials, in public speeches by government officials, in conversations with people we know, and so forth. Belief in the separation of powers and checks-and-balances being effective as implemented in a liberal democracy, is such an ingrained part of mainstream understanding of politics literally since early childhood, that anyone who believes to the contrary must necessarily already be familiar with the arguments for it, and have rejected them.