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Trying my hardest to be civil in this uncivilised world.

  • The fact that this perspective is e-boo'd in Western spaces is so depressing. Oh well.

  • Those are my regular t-shirts now that my new job has me wearing long sleeve shirts. I must have about a dozen or so!

  • Not me but if I found a cool Rurouni Kenshin or YYH shirt in the wild I'd definitely get one, lol. I did have some t-shirts of Jesus whipping bankers that I used to wear to work often, though. 😅

  • Haven't American vassals and anyone in their sphere of influence become Americanized/Westernised as well to different degrees? Japan, SK and the UK, for instance, certainly have. I've even heard right wingers in France use American talking points like "woke", and French people don't speak English on average either, lol. In the end, I guess their version is submitting to "liberal democracy" or whatever.

  • Can you give us any examples? Personally, I just finished doing a series of highly weighted uni assignments so for about 3 weeks everything was off in the world and suddenly jumping into traffic felt very alluring, lol.

  • Hopefully, but Western European supremacy has been around since the days of Rome so I'm not that optimistic. 🥲

  • I mean I'd like to believe I said something with a bit more sense, lol. IMO, all of it boils down to "waaaah I don't like to hear West bad because I'm a Westerner and my identity is tied to this long-standing human cancer". The smartest among them just wisely understand they can be good and guided even if their neighbours aren't, that they don't HAVE to go along with their countries' crimes, and the other ones complain. 🤷

  • Second case, then. 🤷

  • What do you mean by liberal? Do you think those who don't sow have the right to reap? Do you love the subjugation of the global South? Do you think America, despite things like slavery to the police forcen routinely murdering African Americans and now ICE kidnapping Latinos and Trump again, is anything but a white supremacist settler colony turned world hegemon and the culmination of Western imperialism?

    Or are you just a not too racist capitalist who doesn't think about politics that deeply? Liberals are either knowingly disguising their immorality or just too unaware to care or think about it. And idc about your hyperfixation and I assume you like them the way people like trains and not because it makes you feel strong and condone murder, ofc.

  • Are you not?

  • My native country suffered from Western imperialism back in the 1500s and still is at the very least "managed" by America today... when we (basically the rest of the world) have to fight the same main villain, that IMO is the result of culture, for over 500y and more even if you're idk West Asian for example, I don't really see how you could expect the world to think differently. If we ever have to suffer Chinese or idk Nigerian world control, I'm sure we'll switch our tone.

  • Anyone who's pro Western imperialism and disregards their culture's involvement in the subjugation of the global South is right wing and of those there are many here. The only reason it's such a craaaazy take is because most Americans/Westerners couldn't give two shits about the death their elected governments push as long as gas at the pump is cheap and Netflix pumps specials.

  • That's such a difficult question to answer but I'll share what I think I should.

    https://youtu.be/itLIM38k2r0

    Consciousness and reality: a very competent interview with big-brained physicist Roger Penrose.

  • Crazy throwback.

  • Didn't the girl come out saying nothing happened? Like repeatedly? I'd think twice about taking an American talking point seriously, it's a nation of warmongering liars after all.

  • The cancer of the world. 😞

  • SW is a shadow of Dune (and a Vietnam war allegory?) with as much substance as one, and they stretched that nothingness way too much with new movies and shows of the IP. Old Trek had, at least, a pro-life, hopeful, morally upright vibe to it, so it gets my vote. 👍

  • That's the take of someone who doesn't understand belief.

  • I haven't since Facebook, and I stopped using it in 2011-12. Nothing to do with morals or idk digital know-how, I'm just very easily triggered by people spouting half-baked, often morally disgusting opinions, and I'd rather not get my day ruined finding out a person I had partied with and gotten along fine was actually either very dumb or very evil. At least on Reddit/Lemmy/the chans idk the person so the emotional impact is lessened. 🙃