I still vaguely remember back in the day when Oprah platformed "the Secret" and brought all this "manifesting" drek in to public view. Oprah has used her massive viewrship to cause incomprehensible damage over the years.

Her story really would be fascisating from a Marxist perspective. The way her platform gave her such an enormous soap box from which to steer and influence culture, and the ways that she and the systems that supported her show chose to use that soap box.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I HATE "THE SECRET"

[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

you want the secret? your ex boyfriend's pathetic

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

paging @TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago

I love The Monarch and I hate fake religions created by Western occultists by appropriating Eastern religions so this scene is a banger for sure.

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 19 points 8 months ago

Do you think the half a million children who die of malaria every year simply fail to believe in themselves hard enough? Or are we subject to physical reality?

[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ask him if he thinks that would work for Palestinians in Gaza

Or just tell him to refer to this emoji as a rubric for when idealism works vs doesn't us-foreign-policy

[–] Beluga@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago

Already asked him if he supported Palestine and the first sentence was “it’s difficult”

[–] sawne128@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

... but you do not make it just as you please; you do not make it under circumstances chosen by yourself, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.

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