stereofony

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[–] stereofony@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] stereofony@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did we learn NOTHING from Minority Report????

[–] stereofony@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

You jest but there's literally a hipster coffee shop in SF that famously sells a $10 toast...as of 2014 when I first heard about it from my roommate who worked there so it's probably $15 by now.

[–] stereofony@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For the record, I'm Taiwanese and American and think it's cool you're learning Mandarin and have an appreciation for Chinese people! I similarly disapprove of the CCP for obvious reasons.

However, your statement about the US is complete whitewashing – and I don't blame you; it's what we were falsely taught to believe. The US has a notorious legacy of destabilizing foreign governments to suit its own agenda (sometimes then installing sockpuppet US-friendly leaders or just leaving the country in chaos). And then this is all done in the very nicely PR-rebranded effort of "democracy" while US imperialism is well-known and well-documented throughout its history.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change

And it's not just history; it's still ongoing. Look at the sockpuppet US-backed South Korean government and public utilities, or the ongoing US-facilitated destruction of the Middle East that started decades ago. Or its weird Zionist segment that continues to blindly support Israel despite Israel committing apartheid against Palestinians, following the US playbook.

[–] stereofony@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

There's an old Margaret Cho joke about how if Jesus were to return today, he'd be screaming, "THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT!"

[–] stereofony@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Buffalo Exchange?

[–] stereofony@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Speak for yourself. As a trans person, I stopped using Instagram entirely because it got to a point where every top level comment, regardless of the subject matter, was a transphobic one (even ones not even REMOTELY related to LGBTQ+ issues).

It was never like this before the recent GOP push in anti-queer rhetoric. It's the worst it's been in my life, tbh. Worse than when my peers used to casually call things "gay" as an insult. Because this time, the rhetoric is genocidal.