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frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•I pulled my chud brother-in-law for the family Secret Santa. What should I get him?
31·2 months agoDas Kapital in the original German
frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOPto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Any good socialist techno-optimists currently writing?
1·2 months agonon-fiction
frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOPto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is the 'What have the Romans ever done for us' sketch pro-colonial propaganda?
7·3 months agoMost propaganda is like this: you’ve subconsciously absorbed it all your life and it comes out ur mouth. That’s how ideologies get perpetuated usually, rather than by cunning.
frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOPto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ?
8·3 months ago“freedom” is such a vague concept though, mostly used for bullshit rhetoric
If that counts, why don’t Menelik II’s conquests or Genghis Khan?
frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Sincere questions I find myself asking.
14·3 months agoWe should be able to have privacy without labouring at it.
We shouldn’t be excluded from normal society by being private. e.g. I should be able to.hire a plumber without using Meta software.
On the leftist side of Lemmy there is a pervasive theme of calling Europeans (and by extension white people in general) evil and how the only thing they’ve done is make the rest of the world suffer. And while the latter is plainly observable basically everywhere in the world
It was only Britain, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium.
Calling it “the Europeans” is a fair shorthand I suppose, but remember the Greeks and Swedes didn’t sail around the world killing natives for the craic.
frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOPto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ?
11·3 months agoSomeone once tole me only Western hippies believe in alternative medicine
I think 5-7
Tigers (all predators) are weak to non-frontal attacks. Wolves attack in groups. The tiger would kill 2-3 frontally, but suffer damage and blood-loss at its flanks and hindquarters. Then it becomes a matter of finishing the job.
frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Do we have a good solution for public survaillence cams and Facial Recognition yet?
33·3 months agoMay I suggest revolution?
Are there downsides that arent realy known?
That is not known.
Modi is shorter than I’d realised.
Bets on the nationality of the person who made the meme?
frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlto
Memes@lemmy.ml•This was literally the thought I had while watching the trailer...
1·4 months agoWhat thought did you figuratively have?
frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlto
Europe@lemmy.ml•French streamer dies live on air after months of humiliation and abuse
4·4 months agoLooks severely underweight
Nah, just stay Asian
frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlto
Europe@lemmy.ml•EU Accuses Trump of Betraying the West — But Is Brussels the Real Culprit?
2·4 months agoYou can’t “betray the West”, it’s a vague cultural term for countries that fight constantly.













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