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  • AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.worldtoStar Wars Memes@lemmy.worldI'm getting old
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    12 days ago

    What does this mean, you admit this particular show is not very good but might eventually be good?

    This stupid woke/dei shit is just the culture war du jour, if the product that was being released was excellent, there wouldn’t be as much fuel to call a show bad for whatever reason.

    But as the previous poster noted, there have been properties that were celebrated on release because they are good. The first Mandalorian episodes meet a near orgasmic fervor.

    Acolyte at best is maybe just ok to not very compelling imo, that’s up against the other now recent star wars properties like Andor, which is and was critically acclaimed. The argument just falls apart when you use an objectively not very good show like Acolyte.



  • You are dead on balls. If you ever get any additional experience hydroponically growing… Things… There’s a ton of micronutrients and minerals that a plant needs to fuel taste and smell.

    It’s mostly figured out and you can get a series of minerals and micronutrients chelated into a salt. They dissolve without large particulates in the water to not foul a water pump. Those are either suspended in solution or sold dry. You can even check how much available nutrition there is to a plant by checking the ppm and electrical conductivity of the water.

    Dead on about myco too, in soil or a soil mix, if you aren’t feeding water with properly mixed nutrients, you need both raw amendments (crushed up plants/shells/rocks/guano/insect frass)and myco/bacteria to break everything down and make them available to the plant.

    That’s for things you are growing for consumption, much less complicated if you just want something to be green, or flower with pretty colors.




  • No, they fought, like violently demonstrated, took what was owed.

    If you can lose your Rights cause you failed to vote in a Democrat once, you didn’t actually have them to begin with.

    By all means, vote the lesser of two evils, we’re basically forced into it in America, but don’t let voting fool you.

    You have take what you need from the haves, just like the auto workers union is doing right now.




  • Bruh those groups of votes (if there was a positive vote and not a court battle) came at the end of large, vitriolic, sometimes violent movements. Suffrage, civil rights, gay Rights, these things weren’t pleasantly discussed then voted on and passed. There were bricks thrown through windows and buildings burnt down.

    And then many times they were based on a supreme Court decision that could be overturned, like Jim Crow and Roe v Wade.

    Almost any time civil rights and representation has moved forward, it’s been at the end of a sword. It gets removed the exact opposite way, the slow churn of the political machine being co-opted by bad players. Even when you see a military coup, it was at the end of a movement.

    Voting won’t change shit UNLESS you have fought to get what you want on the ballot or else politicians will ignore you to fundraise, that simple imo.




  • It’s funny cause yeah, John Wayne Gacy was a clown, and if you ask something or someone to describe him in one word, you might get clown with no other context.

    When you see Gacy described in books, movies, videos, etc. they usually list both clown and serial killer in the title and show a picture of him as a clown.

    How many words do I need to ask for before I get murderer added to Christopher Columbus, or genocide with Ghengis Khan. Like the opinion on Christopher Columbus only really changed starting in 2005ish, before that they were singing kids songs about that sociopath since the 40’s. That’s a lot of history of “explorer”.

    Like one word removes context no matter what, who would they be a yard stick used in any sense?


  • AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    6 months ago

    Native Americans had the term skin walker to denote animals in human form or vice versa.

    There’s the obvious explanation we accept, with almost no evidence that it was referring to witchcraft or shamanism. Maybe a rogue god.

    But what if it’s a way to dehuminize someone to make them easier to out-group. A person from another tribe, a person who’s committed a grievous sin, like murder.

    Is it describing a mythical creature, or the soullessness of the expression of a murderer. Or “rheumy eyes” of the sick. Something you need to desperately escape to keep your group whole.



  • Bringing race or intersectionality into a class debate with the intention of poisoning the well, IS propaganda from the ruling classes. The wealthy elite may look like the monopoly guy in many peoples heads, and that guy is real, don’t get me wrong (especially in the West), and he represents a huge amount of the wealth and power.

    But the class struggle exists in parallel, class exists inside race, Indians are suffering under a class system that is being forced on them by other Indians.

    If you don’t acknowledge that the oligarchy exists to exploit, you will never address the injustices inside a homogenous culture. If you don’t acknowledge that class alone is plenty of reason to dehuminize, you are not engaging with reality.

    That all exists on the race and gender side too. We’re all in this together.