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I watched it and now I'm chilling

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[-] tocopherol@hexbear.net 78 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The violence here are the thousands of people who die prematurely because of inhuman practices by insurance companies, this shooting is self-defense.

[-] cliffracerflyyy@lemm.ee -1 points 2 weeks ago

Since this probably isn't satire, I'll add that US Americans will find a self-righteous spin to justify their barbaric thirst for blood.

[-] Kumikommunism@hexbear.net 42 points 2 weeks ago

It is true. There are lots of people in the US like you that will justify millions dying of preventable causes for the profits of corporate investors. It is unfortunate that nothing will satisfy your bloodlust except for millions more poor people dying.

[-] cliffracerflyyy@lemm.ee -1 points 2 weeks ago

Your defaultism is showing. I wouldn't set foot in your shithole.

[-] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 37 points 2 weeks ago

Millions being denied healthcare and dying of preventable causes: I sleep

One capitalist pig who made his fortune on the backs of sick people getting capped: when will the barbarism end?!?

[-] cliffracerflyyy@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Murdering people looks like a surefire way, see France and the guillotine. No more billionaires there any more. A country of balance.

[-] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 37 points 2 weeks ago

You suggest just letting em be instead? Don't bother the rich because it's pointless?

[-] cliffracerflyyy@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

So your only alternative is a public execution, gotcha.

[-] nicklewound@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Not the only alternative. But it's nice too.

There's more than one way to skin a cat.

[-] Antiwork@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

~~A cat~~ A CEO

[-] miz@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

five million ways to kill a CEO

[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

Well we don’t have a civilized government like China that would execute these dipshits so you take what you can get

[-] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

Where did I say anything about it being the only alternative?

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

lmao of course the german would advocate for ineffective anti-fascism

[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago

Then don't comment on problems you don't have to deal with. Our insurance industry is misery incarnate.

[-] cliffracerflyyy@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago

Humanity's problems are everyone's problems. Are you perhaps against free speech as well?

[-] pastalicious@hexbear.net 30 points 2 weeks ago
[-] cliffracerflyyy@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago

You're confused.

[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

"Humanity's problems are everyone's problems, and I'm joining the war on the side of problems."

[-] Kumikommunism@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago

Literally nothing in my comment implied you were from the US. I assumed you were not because of your smug comment.

[-] abc@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

hey just wondering, what do you call this drink??

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

fuck me do they have a racist name for hot cocoa?

[-] abc@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Like most European things - yes.

It's a Christmas market drink - hot chocolate with rum in it. It's called Lumumba - named after Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Congo who...was assassinated by Belgium (well, by separatists technically but the Belgians were the ones who dug him up and dissolved his body in acid & had his bones crushed and scattered) in 1961 because they wanted so desperately to hold onto their colony which had broken away from their control. The US, UK, and Belgium were all very happy about it because at the time during the Congo Crisis, after the UN refused to step in and help, he'd been appealing to the Soviets which made him a dirty communist so why not.

Eisenhower hated him, Dulles was all for assassination, MI6 supposedly had a hand in facilitating his execution. And yet still in 2024, a scant 4 years after Belgium finally repatriated what they had left of his remains & possessions back to his family in the Congo, Germans still go to Christmas market and ask for a lumumba and go who-did-this when you point out that they're basically celebrating colonialism in their own little way.

Many such cases across Europe and Belgium/Germany especially. Mohrenkopf and Negerkuss ARE NOT racist names for chocolate covered marshmallows, yes that means "Moor's Head" and "Negro's Kiss" but they're NOT racist names; stop trying to destroy tradition by getting them renamed!!!

[-] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

And every city named Matamoros definitely isn't calling for genocide!

[-] OptimusSubprime@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Many such cases across Europe and Belgium/Germany especially. Mohrenkopf and Negerkuss ARE NOT racist names for chocolate covered marshmallows, yes that means "Moor's Head" and "Negro's Kiss" but they're NOT racist names; stop trying to destroy tradition by getting them renamed!!!

Shit, that's like reading about the racist ass city names in America. Shit like "Dead N**** Hollow, TN", "N**** Foot, VA", and "A.N.N.A, IL"

[CW: Turbo Racism]

https://www.theroot.com/dead-negro-and-other-towns-with-unbelievable-racist-nam-1851447014

https://www.vice.com/en/article/theres-hundreds-of-racist-place-names-across-the-us-heres-why-its-hard-to-change-them/

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

I had no idea that's where the name comes from. Knowing it now I feel like reclaiming it somehow. It's a great drink and having one named after you is cool af. I wonder if there is a way to decouple it from its colonialist bs

[-] abc@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

i don't think there's a great way to decouple it from the colonialist origins, given the reason the drink is named lumumba is because it is 'chocolate with a shot (of rum)' and you know...Lumumba was an African who was shot to death...but who knows maybe he's looking on from the great beyond and going "yeah i would've named the drink that myself. probably would be better to name something else after him that isn't based in racism

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago
[-] cliffracerflyyy@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] abc@hexbear.net 23 points 2 weeks ago

ah well, i guess i'll take the insufferably smug german over a racist one but buddy you're not making yourself any friends here

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