[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 112 points 7 months ago

For any moderate woman reading this who hasn't heard: REPUBLICANS SEE YOU AS 2ND CLASS CITIZENS.

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submitted 7 months ago by dangblingus@lemmy.world to c/london@lemmy.ca

People act like Riverside is this super dangerous street because there's always accidents/fatalities on it. What people don't really appreciate is how many drivers on London roads are drunk at any given time. Also, Riverside is basically one long straight race track with one 90 degree turn. Drunks love driving on Riverside.

Truth is, you could add traffic calming measures, but the city does sometimes just randomly remove its own infrastructure because we love wasting money.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 164 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Genocide of our indigenous population mostly. The worst of it ended in 1996 when the last residential school closed. Basically, the Catholic Church under the authorization of the Canadian Federal Government in the 1800s and onwards, abducted children from indigenous communities, took them to boarding schools where they attempted to assimilate them into Eurocentric culture by punishing them for speaking their own language and practicing their own culture. Beatings, sexual abuse, and neglect were commonplace, with many children dying of illness, exposure, or violence. Many children survived the schools and are still alive today to tell us about it. There are also mass graves at several of these schools where children's corpses were dumped and hidden from public view, until ground x-ray technology came around and we found the graves.

Also, random weird fact: women weren't allowed to have bank accounts in Canada until like 1964.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 115 points 8 months ago

Criticizing. Israel. Is. Not. Anti-semitism.

Is criticizing Saudi Arabia "Islamophobia"?

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 84 points 8 months ago

Well this oughta change a few hearts and minds. War is hell, but this is a straight up crime.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 98 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If nothing else, this terrible unnecessary war has shown the West's cognitive dissonance.

Hardcore right wing people generally hate Jewish people, unless the Jewish people are fighting Muslim people, then it's "Jewish people have the right to self-determination!"

People on the left generally do not hate any specific ethnic group, however, we have a long history of criticizing Israel for their apartheid. Being met with the furor of everyone else calling us anti-semites is nothing new, but never has it come so forcefully from so many people all at once.

Moderates in the center aren't speaking out at all for fear of being called anti-semitic, maintaining international relations with a nuclear power, and secretly hoping that this takes attention away from the climate crisis so we can keep going business as usual in favor of the ruling class.

More important than the cognitive dissonance though, is the fact that everyone in the West believes their opinion is the best and will solve everything.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 97 points 9 months ago

Amazon is literally aliexpress but with a more sophisticated UI.

Nothing but absolute shit chinese knock off products. No longer can you get the same kind of savings like you could in the past. You're basically paying full retail now, plus prime or shipping.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 131 points 9 months ago

I don't understand how having a rainbow nearby isn't protected by 1st amendment rights.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 87 points 9 months ago

Oh fuck no. Silksong is never coming out.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 186 points 9 months ago

Have a regular PC hooked up to the TV. That's my smart machine. I control every aspect of it. Fuck Smart TVs.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 109 points 10 months ago

Him showing up to a Valorant tournament is some next level "how do you do fellow kids". Like, what's his business being there? I mean, if you told me that he secretly just spends his days playing Valorant and shitposting on twitter, it would make a lot of sense.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 92 points 11 months ago

Stop paying attention to him. He was over validated as being a great interviewer, but that's only because he created a safe space for right-wing reactionaries to pander to conservative bros. His takes are trash, his hyper masculine routine is tired and lame, and he is a regular source of immediately debunkable misinformation.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 100 points 11 months ago

Imagine losing your arbitrary blue check mark because you didn't buy enough ads on a platform that no one really uses anyway.

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