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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Then do us all a favour and remove yourself, if you’re going to go full nihilist and hopelessness. If all you are willing to do is be inactive and continue to consume then we’d rather not have you around doing nothing but contributing to the problem.

    OR

    Join the rest of us and DO SOMETHING! Fight for something you want, do you remember that feeling? Have you ever known it or have you always been this pathetic? And if you truly believe that there is no hope then why not end it all by taking out some of these polluting fuckers with you?! Don’t get depressed, get radicalised!!!





  • Should we start a list of CEOs that should be exempt from Adjusting?

    I’ll start:

    James Timpson

    So Timpsons as a store are a fantastic company that operate on what they call an “upside-down” management where employees have the authority to do whatever they think will deliver good customer service. They also go out of their way to employ ex-convicts to give them a good wage and any support they need to rebuild their lives with more than 10% of their workforce being ex-convicts.

    James, specifically, has overseen incredible work with the Prison Reform Trust which works to improve prisoners access to education, mental health, push for alternative community focused punishments for less serious crimes, etc.

    He’s now currently minister for Prisons and is actively looking at Prison Reform policies to ensure that reform works and the prison population is reduced so more prisons don’t have to be built.

    What do you think?


  • It’s almost like the general populace NEED TO BE TAUGHT about what makes up the government and what it does.

    Look, whatever political philosophy you ascribe to, you need to understand what government institutions exist and what they do so:

    1. You can understand where your tax is being spent.

    2. Which ones you should contact for the appropriate service or issue resolution.

    3. When you start becoming politically aware, you can form opinions on how you think these functions should or should not be performed by your ideal institution (or individuals).

    And

    1. They SHOULD be both celebrated and criticized so the public are informationally and emotionally invested in these institutions that impact your (whole) life directly or indirectly. That, in the ideal scenario, encourages an informed and engaged populace that can work collectively to improve these institutions.

    These institutions, like anything built by humans, need to be maintained, upgraded, remodeled, or replaced effectively for human society to continue to exist. You’ll have ideas about what ones, why, and how and we should get to hear about those ideas and discuss them.

    That ONLY happens properly when people have at least some idea of what they’re talking about.

    Else this is what you get; some unelected Muppet treating it like a spaghettied server and pulling random ethernet cables out and listening for what screams.



  • I see some of you have never played Battleshits before.

    Rules are as follows:

    • Two people enter a toilet cubicle each and proceed to try and shit.

    • The first one to shit wins.

    • If both players have shitted then the size of the shits is judged and the largest shit wins.

    It is a puerile and crass game of speed, deception and defiantly not for the weak-stomached as I found out to my own detriment as a spectator.

    This has been your daily reminder that we are all just slightly more evolved apes with access to the power of gods.



  • The gun culture in the US is derived from shooting trespassers on your property when it was a colony because the British learnt from the Spanish colonies it’s much easier just to get your colonists to do self defence rather than having to deploy your own army everywhere.

    The whole “well organised militia” part of the 2nd was just the founding farthers fan-boying over Switzerland being a republic in a sea of monarchies. Might have started out that way, but as soon as the US had imperial ambitions outside of it’s own continent that requires a professional federally controlled military and therefore the militia model is obsolete.

    So really the 2nd amendment as a means of securing personal freedom from tyranny was and has been not much more than a comfort blanket for libertarian-minded Americans.









  • ThePyroPython@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldSwasticars
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    10 days ago

    So yes that is all true.

    However, the mental link of the name “Swastika” with the Nazis has had 90 years of reinforcement in popular culture.

    If you want to perpetuate a meme that annoys Elon and damages the Tesla brand (because I think they still spend $0 on marketing) then:

    1. “Swasticars” is a very good phrase because it’s a portmanteau and everyone (in WEIRD nations) can work it out, have a little giggle, and then spread it as a meme.
    2. Explaining that it’s technically incorrect by going “well actually… (Pushes glasses up)” is not going to help spread the meme and is just being a bit pedantic.