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[โ€“] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago

"Charlie Kirk was a wonderful person"

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Totally buying the touristy theme park version of whatever other culture. No, the people at the resort don't actually think you're great. No, tripping with a self-proclaimed shaman who charges a month's local wage to resolve your mommy issues is not how the locals do mysticism.

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"We need to help African kids!"

These often don't know a single African country besides "South Africa"

[โ€“] ratten@lemmings.world 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"$1 million isn't a lot of money."

[โ€“] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Have you seen "Crazy Rich Asians"?

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago

That could be rich people from anywhere.

[โ€“] narr1@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

A close friend (bless his heart) asked me if I "really think China is more free than, say, France?" when talking about things like freedom of the press and journalistic integrity. I've seen a lot of that recently, that because we live in a country which had been once considered to be "socialistic" that the stories we are told and things we have been taught wouldn't align as much with what global and local capitalists want us to believe is true. At one point I remember him critizising me for using the term "wage slave" (which I used jokingly but w/e) because "none of us here are actual wage slaves". Because you apparently have to be an Asian child in a Nike sweatshop to actually be opressed by capitalism. My brother, no-one is free until all are free.

[โ€“] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I mean, france is more free when it comes to the freedom of the press

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[โ€“] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"freedom" is such a vague concept though, mostly used for bullshit rhetoric

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