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Anyone watching The Lowdown staring Ethan Hawk? Its really good. It constantly reminds me of The Big Lebowski. Probably one of the best shows I have watched in a while.
Ty for the recommendation comrade 🫡 I’ve added it to my Sonarr instance and am excited to watch it!
So for as long as I can remember I dress how I wanted and did my own hobbies. Colorful or alternative clothing, being a open and accepting person, that kind of stuff. And I suffered a great deal of ridicule for it in my hometown, being called gay and whatnot.
So years go by and I continue to be me, you know. Dress in my own type of clothes, enjoy my coffee while reading a book outside, whatever. And after leaving my hometown and moving into the big city some years ago I finally felt like I found a place where I could do such things without facing homophobia.
Only now this whole ‘aesthetic’ has been hijacked by the performative male meme which is now, imo, turning into another form of homphobia (haha real men can’t read books or wear flashy outfits by themselves, they must be acting to get laid!). It is reinforcing patriarchic views of what men can and cannot like. Men can’t like stuff women happen to like without ulterior motives, or without being gay.
most people in the real world don’t care about some mean, cynical meme discourse, just keep doing you and try not to let it get to you (which is admittedly easier said than done). rejecting toxic masculine posturing and being an open person sounds pretty based to me, for what that’s worth!
the performative male meme is just a method of social conditioning for fascism. As was the tradwife thing before and the whole cleangirl/“feminine energy” BS. Too bad clueless libs are actively furthering it.
Reminds me of the time a lib got very enraged because she disputed that complementing someone for their “good genes” was eugenicist.
Socialism is inevitable as long as we keep on fighting for it.
Saw an ad for a funeral service and immediately thought they must be hedging their bets on an invasion of Venezuela happening and going very poorly.
The empire is eating itself
not saying you or anybody else here is doing it, but seeing even the self-identified “leftist” yankees scream blue murder over this is so funny lol. The people who live here have been destroying ancient cultural heritage sites longer than any of us here have been alive but sure, let’s weep blood over a ballroom that’s not even 100 years old that’s getting bulldozed to build another, fancier ballroom.
Death to America except for the tacky ballroom or something. Never mind that yanqui settlers bulldozed the mounds of cahokia or drowned Celilo Falls, the oldest continuously inhabited location in north america, for funsie.
Or that the guys who lived in that ugly, glorified plantation house carved their faces into a sacred mountain (overseen by a KKK member no less). For fun.
I don’t even think it’s a “fancier ballroom”. Most likely just an excuse so they can expand the Fuhrerbunker. 40 billion to Argentina I feel like is going to be a life-line incase the plan they have doesn’t work.
Tbh I am against this only because I think the White House should be a museum dedicated to the USA’s history of colonialism & imperialism.
The Lincoln Memorial will be a museum for the USA’s white supremacy.
The Capitol Building will be dedicated to the USA’s history of capitalism.
The Washington Monument will be demolished and the stone used to build a statue of Fred Hampton in its place.
Nah raze it to the ground. Somethings are better forgotten.
Yeah I’d have to agree. It’s the same logic as the argument that plantations should be preserved for history. They were the Mcmansions of their era and ugly af anyways and if the ancestors of the people enslaved there want it destroyed, we can take pictures of it and put THAT in a museum.
Especially now with the advances in 3D-prininting, digitization, simulation, and modelling we dont really need to sanctify purely ideological structures with little utilitarian use.
40 billion sent to Argentina and they’re probably rebuilding the fuhrerbunker on the left side of the House and claiming it’s a “ballroom”. Will history rhyme?
It is starting to rhyme. There is a comrade that I follow in Red note that explained this with a poem from China:
- “Behind the rich man’s gates, food and wine go to waste, while out on the road lie the frozen bones of the poor.”
The poem is old but it fits perfectly with the US knowing that there is an ongoing gov’t shutdown and demand for food banks is increasing.
That’s just one state. It gets crazier when you look at cities and realize with the cost of living MOST people rely on SNAP especially in some of the northern states. Things are going to get very dire when it comes to food.
living through history hits different after being raised to believe history has ended
So, might seem dumb on my end, but I actually never heard of Gödel’s loophole. Do you think he just predicted that a President could collude with Supreme Court and just rubberstamp everything or was it some 4d chess nonsense regarding constitutional convention/Article V or the ability to create new states?
What do you all think it is? I can also see nothingburger as it really didn’t go anywhere, which seems odd considering the nature at the time.
if i were a famous logician i would make a big thing about a loophole in the constitution and 100 years after i die they’d find out it was something stupid like “no one has to follow the law lol”
Exactly what I was thinking, I would not be shocked if that was the case. All though, Godel wasn’t like a rube or anything so I dunno. Woulda been a huge hit to the credibility.
What intrigues me is that the judge straight up was like
“nah, don’t wanna hear it.”
“But I can prove it! Einstein brought me here with-”
“nope. Not opening that can of legal worms, fuck off.”
flaw in the constitution, which, he said, would allow the U.S. to legally become a fascist state
turns out it was just the entire document
It would be really funny also if it was related to the judiciary and the judge was just like “Nah, don’t wanna see it”.
Good day. Coming somewhat out of the left field here (pun not intended), but I figure this is a good place to request.
There used to be a link floating around, of a cia internal report on Stalin, showing that he does not hold singular power in USSR, contrary to the “dictator” narrative. I couldn’t find it otherwise. Could someone please send me this link?
Thanks in advance!
it’s this, although I believe it was from a contractor rather than the CIA itself
Hey, new to Lemmygrad, but if I have an account here, I can’t post on hexbear, for example? Because I see some people with @hexbear.net posting here, but if I go there, I’m unable to. Or do I need to enable something somewhere?
You have to access the posts from Lemmygrad. You can use the “All” view, or visit specific communities (e.g.
lemmygrad.ml/c/news.net). You can also subscribe to communities and then use the “Subscribed” view.Ah, gotcha, thanks!
shit just got real
took a look out my window and BOOM, BIG ASS AMERICAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER BROTHER GET OOOOUUUTTRHHAGJ
Started a new job recently, should allow for more free time. Looking forward to it.
I hope you all have a nice week comrades!
Don’t you just hate it when your mortality gets shoved into your face? I just noticed that my hairline has started to recede and my hair is starting to thin out on top. Its not a vanity thing, its just the reminder that my meat suit is starting to degrade and I can’t get a new one.
One of the biggest reasons I work out tbh. Both my grandpa’s died mid seventies so K always saw that as old. They were old for me when I was a child as well but they were actually like end of fifties / early sixties then. But they were like old grandpa’s already, just sitting inside, having health issues and whatnot. Years of smoking, drinking and bad diet caught up to them.
Then I met my father in law some years ago who has since embarked on a four month bike journey to Northern Norway and is also currently renovating a cabin in Sweden all by himself. All at the age of 66.
My point is: even though we are mortal, we have the option to get the best out of it as possible. It might not stop a receding hairline or decreasing eyesight all together but it might be the reason you can still cycle thousands of kilometers when you are far above 60.
alternative lesson: Don’t look in the mirror for more than a moment and you won’t see death coming up behind you.
does anybody know who the painter is?
trying to find out was maddening and sadly i came up empty, but i did learn that it is on display at the JV Stalin Museum in the basement of the Hotel Stalingrad in Mamyev Kurgan
thank you!! but yeah it does seem like this is pretty much a dead end, sad
I had a bit of a snoop around too. Only thing left I can think of is to email The Hotel Stalingrad.
Was standing in the train today with some orthodox Jewish guys, who seemed to be discussing if they were on the right train. One of them came up to me and asked me if they could use my phone to call someone since they did not have a phone. I said sure and gave them my phone. One of the dudes proceeds to call.
Then I realised: I have a big Palestinian flag sticker on the back of my phone lol. Got a bit nervous because of that but they don’t seem to mind or see. Most of the time they aren’t zionists but still tensions are a thing.
Do you use guided access ?
Not sure what that is so probably no lol
According to the Apple dictionary: “An Apple feature that helps you focus on a task by temporarily restricting your use of your iPhone, iPad or Mac to one app, and by disabling other areas of the screen.” Do with that what you will I guess.
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