JamesStallion

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

The descendents of the grand historian still making themselves as popular with authority as always

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

They are sentient beings and they know they are slaves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I recently tried to explain to Lemmy that non-white working class voters see their social program as weird and off putting. I was downvoted to oblivion just for honestly relating an opinion from people these chronically online "allies" would never hear from, because they simply don't associate with seamstresses/fruit packers/construction site crossing guards etc. Not to mention the majority of these folks can't speak any language but English.

Tell my Chilean wife how she is going to make more money tomorrow than she did today and she will listen. Tell her she is a bigot because she believes that it takes more than "feeling like" a women to actually "be" a woman and she will stop listening. That is what just happened here.

I am from a different cultural context than her and I tend to believe what the people who study these issues have to say ie: gender affirming care saves lives. But to say that this one issue determines a persons entry or exclusion from our ever shrinking tent is political suicide, no matter how much we might wish that wasn't the case.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I live near a primary school and there are multiple "YES ALL MEN" slogans written on the walls right next door. I wonder what those boys will think about their place in the world when this is what the walls are yelling at them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The only thing you can be absolutely sure of as a liberal white male is that no one likes you or wants to hear from you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am quoting a reply to me from above, let alone the obvious implication of the phrase "thanks for proving my point" from OP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No one wants to hear this, but it's pretty much only educated white and black folks that believe in the social program that has been floated by the democrats the last few elections. The country is a lot more diverse than that and South Asian, East Asian and Latino folks are largely what this site would call bigots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

just pointing out that in no time at all I was implied to be a danger to women based on my comment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (5 children)

"Perhaps not, but as a woman your response to this post nevertheless makes me view you as unsafe."

wow, that didn't take long did it?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or maybe these college white leftists don't actually know shit about how working people, non whites and women very much included, feel about anything at all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

RIght, my criticism of our anti fascist political strategy obviously means I'm a menace to women. I should inform my wife.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Yeah I'm "butthurt" that the worlds most powerful "democracy" just elected a fascist. What are you 12?

edit: I disagree with the mod action above. People should be able to see how infantile the conversation has become and maybe reflect on how we got here.

 

All us WEIRD (western educated industrialized rich democratic) countries seem to spend a really embarrassing amount of time talking about the pointless minutiae surrounding our candidates for office and their personal lives.

We are also prone to backing very crap candidates based on personality, rhetoric, appearance ie: things that have nothing to do with being a good executive or legislator.

I think we should ban names from the election process and just have each party submit their ideas in writing and let people vote based on those submissions.

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