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@shortstories Sometimes, yes. It comes from true believers as well who are not getting tax dollars too, because they geniunely think that our bloated bureaucracy of a system is good and cutting jobs is bad not only because of the government workers no longer having make work jobs but that those jobs are supposedly critical to "running our country."

Seeing many talking heads make a big deal out of government employees possibly losing their jobs does not inspire any sympathy from me. When there are economic struggles on any scale in the private sector, people lose their jobs. Why should government employees get special status of job protection?

Yes, cuts do often happen to government jobs, but I see far more protest at government jobs lost than losses in the private sector.

@atomic >Queering and Decolonizing Theater Practice

Theater is already very "Queered," so it pointless to do any more of that.

@Aether >greatest cinematic masterpieces in the history of films

So doing a competent job on super hero movies is enough to qualify for a cinematic masterpiece, huh? I will admit I enjoyed the early movies, but let us not kid ourselves into thinking they were among the greatest movies ever. They were movies made for the masses, and they succeeded.

And the later films certainly have not maintained the same quality.

@deprecated_ii @Heil_Honkler @redneonglow @Nudhul I guess the "green bubble shamers" are more interested in homosexual men than heterosexual ones, since I cannot think of anything more gay than owning an iPhone as a man.

Okay, I will be fair and say that you can be a straight man and have an iPhone. But if you "green bubble shame" as a man you are engaging in women behavior. Because if you are a man why do you care what someone else uses for their phone? It is just a tool you use.

Got my daily dose of cringe with NPR talking about the pay gap in women's sports compared to men, where they stated "Although men pro athletes get paid X times more than women pro athletes, the women athletes get more traffic on social media."

As if social media is not full of fake/bot posting. And along with that, social media being used more by women. And being talked about online does not correlate with real life popularity all the time either.

@PraxisOfEvil unfortunately too many Millennials learned the wrong lesson regarding what made the Boomers suck. They hate the "I got mine" mentality not because they think it is inherently wrong, but because they won't get theirs themselves.

I am disappointed that my generation (Millennials) are not able to grasp that we should not have the unsustainable system at all rather than try and make it last longer by doubling down on what caused the problems in the first place.

@deprecated_ii this is going to have the opposite effect, as I recall an study done in the Boston area where they planted people speaking Spanish at bus stops and found that upon hearing conversations in other languages the people living there voted more to the right as a result.

So more likely this will have the opposite of the intended effect.

@C_J_S @Aether I was thinking there might be some fabricated elements as well. Anyone can just post a story on Twitter. I recall seeing a lot of the same shit about how "someone I know totally died from Covid." Never trust too much what you see with stories, even if they go along with your biases.

What the fresh hell is this? I suspect this story was thought up by someone in the West, not the East. Unless it somehow correctly points out that being obese is not desireable, I will no doubt be skipping this one.

@unabomber if anyone wants to deny that they are an organization or say "it's just an ideology," just deal with the assholes wearing black. Regardless of their word magic labels, they are committing violence and property damage, and they should be rounded up for those actions.

Anyone who does not support rounding them up should know that without the government, people would respond with frontier justice. So "fascism" being gone would not make them less hated.

Any time I have seen some leftist dipshit argue that "Antifa is not an organization, it's an idea!" Whatever they want to claim, it really does not matter. Whenever you see some assholes dressed in black committing violence and property damage, they are cleary organized. I have no pity in the event of their arrest for being labeled as part of a terrorist organization. Because even with their retarded reasoning, they are still committing the acts regardless of their wordmagic labels.