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piped: https://piped.video/watch?v=eZVT_zOBCVY&t=0

from the movie "Axis of War: The First of August"

wish there was a higher quality version tho

[-] BJyXJe4LhZetOzA0@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[-] BJyXJe4LhZetOzA0@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

:order-of-lenin: brilliant investigative journalism here

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by BJyXJe4LhZetOzA0@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2688493

i live in a predominantly white area so i get some racially-motivated and provocative comments from time to time

i just ignore them with a clear look of disapproval (+ sometimes a side-eye) because i don't have the time to educate every single random stranger and it's just not something i want to bother myself with (though i know i should to an extent).

i feel like replying with an insult that they won't understand would make it very clear that i take offence with that they said/did without them reacting to what i actually said and would make me feel better that i retaliated rather than keeping quiet.

(plus responding to an ignorant comment with something they'll be ignorant of feels pretty retaliatory to me)

so what are some non-English (or obscure English) retaliatory insults? ideally they should be a common insult (though it's optional ig), short and should sound like an insult to an English speaker

EDIT: to clarify, i'm not concerned about further escalations as virtually all of these exchanges happen in passing where no one is able to continue the conversation (which is why i'm okay with responding in a potentially rude way).

but maybe ignore the last point about the insult sounding like an insult. saying an unknown phrase in a different language should be enough to suggest my disapproval

[-] BJyXJe4LhZetOzA0@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago

okay then we charge money for each pronoun so the rich have their own, lend pronouns with high interest to the poor (+ make pronouns mandatory) and bail out the pronoun banks when the market collapses

[-] BJyXJe4LhZetOzA0@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

i wonder what coalition/pact they'll have to form after:

  • ANC/EFF seems kinda plausible
  • ANC/DA sounds awful but an broad parliamentarian coalition has been done before (90's) so maybe? though they have major differences so I don't see it working long-term (plus DA are LIB)
  • ANC/MK would probably never happen (+ wouldn't be a very safe majority). also small parties tend to overpoll (though idk if thats the case for South Africa) so they may not even get enough votes anyways
  • ANC/independents and other parties also seems possible w/ an electoral pact, but idk how many of them actually align themselves with the ANC or have similar ideas
[-] BJyXJe4LhZetOzA0@hexbear.net 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

sounds like an interesting read

my knowledge of the Congo is limited to the '60s so i might take a look at this book

[-] BJyXJe4LhZetOzA0@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago

so that's where it comes from

huh that's cool

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2611919

this was an interview between contributing editor Ann Garrison and Execute Director of Friends of the Congo Maurice Carney.

on May 19, 2024, he [Christian Malanga] died in a quixotic coup attempt involving a force of some 50 armed men and lasting for all of three hours in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa. Reports are that three of his men and two Congolese police officers were also killed, and that the rest of the men were arrested.

On the same day, in a more serious and significant undertaking, two Morehouse College professors [Samuel Livingston and Cynthia Hewitt] held up a Congolese flag behind President Joe Biden as he addressed the 2024 graduating class.

[-] BJyXJe4LhZetOzA0@hexbear.net 37 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

race and intelligence being 7th most controversial Wikipedia article is crazy

[-] BJyXJe4LhZetOzA0@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

Thinking Arabs "invaded" Israel and that as foretold in the Bible, they should be "kicked out" of the "stolen" land to be "given back" to the Jewish people.

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