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NoYank. Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

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Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

Anti-imperialist comm to help you in your personal journey of cultural anti-imperialism.

American culture has spread all over the world, it has dumbed down and impoverished our variegated pre-colonial and non-capitalist cultures. Every time you yank yourself, a bit of their culture worms its way into your mind. Sometimes it's explicit propaganda like Top Gun, but sometimes it's subtle: the contempt shown for the poor, the celebration of selfishness, the value-system of their empire.

All inputs enter the mind, are absorbed, and blossom as thoughts and deeds. Mass-produced culture dulls you and makes you a boring, mass-produced personality. And nations are losing their personality by letting one imperial power do this to them.

That the empire is doing this as a more-or-less deliberate tool of influence doesn't need stressing.

Stop doing this to yourself. Don't watch their television. Don't watch their films. Don't read their stupid news and politics: ABC and CNN and NBC and the rest. Don't be so fucking boring. You don't have to be boring and stupid. Turn off your TV. Pick up some of your country's classic books, or listen to African funk, or go to a storytelling night.

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It's really weird the way American media lays on this 'Dark' stuff in such a try-hard way (lemmy.ml)
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This is what I get when I look up 'quotes from Yellowstone' –

Why?? What's the point? "Ooooh look at how evil I am, I am so amoral, I don't care about anything except money and power."

It doesn't even advance the plot, they're just doing it to be weird.

I made it about two minutes into that new British show about gladiators for the same reason: every single line of dialogue is like this.

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[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Also, who the fuck is writing this? Well-fed guys in Hollywood who have toy poodles and use tanning salons?

[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I really hate shit like the first quote because willows are incredible trees. They've also been super useful to humanity for tens of thousands of years, from everything from baskets to aspirin. You can chop off a willow branch and stick it in the ground and it grows a new tree. Try that with oak (although oaks are also cool).

Whoever wrote that knows nothing about trees. They just thought, "bendy weak not-bendy stronk." Oh not a modern, commercial timber species, must suck. Drives me nuts they pretend to be "men of the land" then say some stupid bullshit like that. It doesn't make them sound hard. A stone age man could make a fishing net out of that willow that would feed his family for a year. Fuck outta here.

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago

I also hate that quote, but mainly because the idea that your character is determined at birth is so, so stupid.

Why would you judge a willow person if that's just what they were? Hell, why would you be proud to be an oak person if you had no say in the matter? It's basically saying, "my few admirable traits come from genetics. I never actually bothered to hone any skills".

Unfortunately this type of argument falls on deaf ears because people look down on others for simply being what they are all the time. But it's fucking stupid.

[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Furthermore, the willow bends in the storm and and survives whereas the inflexible oak breaks.

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

haha what a great comment

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Something about individualism, a way of life and ideology propagated by western world, civilization, and capitalism, promotes shit like this, especially in pro-property settler-colonial countries like Amerikkka

[–] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've been thinking a bit about the similarities in settler based cultures lately. The commonalities with Israelis, Northern Irish "loyalists/unionists" and Americans is amazing. They all have the same extreme paranoia and racist supremacy. Absolutely assured of their righteous place as being better and above others. Machismo and a rugged individualism. Triumphalism, ultraviolence, callous inhumanity, over the top flag waving right-nationalism.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall for some of the conversations they have with their kids to teach them their culture of hate. How they pass the message of hate and bigotry down about their superiority.

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Northern loyalists fly Israeli flags in solidarity

[–] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago

It's really a damning tell, they identify with each other.

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