

The ministers and eunuchs and queen and knights and bishops and aristocracy and clergy are all bad unlike the king who is good.
mfw you still use Windows in 2023 2024
The ministers and eunuchs and queen and knights and bishops and aristocracy and clergy are all bad unlike the king who is good.
Loser shit:
https://xcancel.com/QudsNen/status/1856249160623693844
A pro-Israel rally in Washington was expected to draw 40,000 people, but only about 200 attended, according to media reports.
Ohhhh, they meant “celebrity gossip” instead of normal gossip. They should just call it celebrity_gossip or something. The name would be less confusing.
Honestly, the main reason why I don’t like /c/gossip is because the gossipers and the gossipee have to be socially connected. The information passed on between the two gossipers is also supposed to be relatively unknown.
If I’m talking shit about our shitty boss with a fellow coworker, that’s gossip.
If I’m talking shit about a professor with a fellow classmate who has never met the professor before, that counts as gossip if the classmate has a good chance of taking a course taught by the professor.
If I’m talking shit about Elon Musk with a fellow shitposter, that’s just talking shit about a random (famous) person. That isn’t gossip.
To me, /c/gossip sounds more like a drama comm for current struggle sessions or infighting between lemmy instances. So, the entire 4(?) day struggle session or the 1000+ brigadeTM of some random lemm.ee post would fit right in. “Spill the tea, sis” doesn’t apply to famous people because they’re, well, famous.
Why are we still talking about paleocons as if they’re a thing? Paleocons haven’t been a thing in decades. They pretty much slid into political irrelevance by the time of Reagan. The closest thing to a paleocon in 2024 is Ron Paul, which goes to show how much of an anachronism paleocons are when Ron Paul himself is a just a standard libertarian with anti-abortion characteristics. Edit: It turns out Pat Buchanan is still alive, so I guess paleocons technically still exist.
Ultimately, the origins of the West lie in the Carolingian empire. A lot of justification for the Crusades is almost identical to modern Western imperialism. The crusades had to happen because the savage Mohammedans do not respect pilgrims just like invasions had to happen because the savage Muslims do not respect women. The crusader states were just the medieval version of the mandates where a bunch of Western Europeans rampaged through the Levant as if they owned the fucking place. There’s also typical Western hypocrisy where the nascent West styled itself as Christendom even though Christendom never was applied to the Orthodox East, culminating in the sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade.
I suspect the inability to politically unify Europe also played a role since a lot of the tribalism that exists in European society is a consequence of this. You’re not going to have a European polity like the Song dynasty that focused less on the military and focused more on the economy and culture as part of regional hegemony. This focus less on the military, intentionally done to not repeat the mistakes of the Tang dynasty like the An Lushan rebellion, was how they eventually got rolled by the Mongols. But because European history is just the warring states period except if it lasted for more than 1500 years, its history is nothing more than state and statelets constantly warring with one another. Europe has never been at peace because there’s always at least one statelet that had beef with another statelet. It also doesn’t help that those European states had weak central governments too. So, it’s not just statelet vs statelet, but statelet who can barely control their rampaging feudal warlords vs statelet who also can barely control their rampaging feudal warlords. It’s somewhat unusual that Western Europe didn’t have eunuchs while the Byzantines and Chinese dynasties did. It’s because while the Byzantines and Chinese dynasties had strong central authorities which necessitated an imperial bureaucracy staffed by eunuchs, you don’t need an army of eunuchs to administer the Duchy of Burgundy or the Duchy of Benevento.
All this paint a picture of Western Europe being the land of warlordism. Outside of inheritance, you basically can only acquire land through direct conquest or service to your feudal liege. Or in other words, either by being a feudal warlord or service to a feudal warlord. At a certain point, it just becomes part of European culture. This is why Zheng He showered gifts to the local while Christopher Columbus immediately started butchering and enslaving the first Indigenous person he saw. One was acting as an emissary of a prosperous empire while the other was some rampaging bandit who borderline grifted a pair of warlords whose kingdom was facing financial collapse after spending decades warring against the remnants of Muslim rule. Columbus’s so-called discovery of the Americas of course snowballed from there with the genocide of the Indigenous and the slave trade and so on.
tl;dr The savage occidental knows nothing of peace and must be rescued from barbarism by their civilized superiors.
Meanwhile in Reddit island:
https://xcancel.com/taiwanplusnews/status/1855895614510497807
A beverage shop in Taichung is under fire after their plastic drink covers were found to feature political propaganda from China.
Pretty much all the megas were completely insulated from the drama.
The majority of USians don’t fucking vote, and the proportion of nonvoters only goes up for minorities. Only around 1% of Indigenous people humiliated themselves by participating in a sham election and sham election of a settler colony in the process of genociding them at that. The 99% of Indigenous people either can’t vote or don’t want to vote. And the 1.5M is almost certainly an undercount, which means the percentage of voters is even lower.
This is something this website has repeatedly failed to internalize and capitalize on. Most USians, even white people who this settler colony specifically caters towards, think voting ain’t shit. So, when you see people, especial POC, go blah blah blah about some stupid candidate, you could pretty much discount them as a complete freak or a paid operative. Nobody normal cares about US presidential candidates like this, especially not after the election is fucking over.
I think the admins genuinely don’t know who did it and perhaps will never know.
That mod had the nerve to post it in selfcrit where the entire post was her justifying her actions. It wasn’t even a nonapology. She might as well could’ve titled her post “why I was completely justified and you misanthropic losers ain’t shit,” which would at least be honestly titled.
Beyond embarrassing for all of us for her to rant about “privileged first-worlders” only for MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian to pop up and say, “uh, I’m from the West Bank.”
Yes, they’re just new communities being formed. It’s an organic development.
The only bad thing I see is what happens if the megas completely “absorb” their target demographic leaving general Hexbear without that demographic. What if the trans mega is so successful every trans user here just use the mega? This isn’t a good example since we have a critical mass of trans people, but I could see the process happening with the disabled and em_poc megas.
Yet another way to sever the connection between the US and the global left to have the color red be associated with conservatism. Just like how the US celebrates fake Labor Day instead of May 1.
I don’t see Beluga’s permanent ban being rescinded into a temporary ban in the public modlog. And regardless of Beluga’s DM harassment, it’s still fucked up for the admins to say Beluga had an alt that wished aaaaaaadjsf was murdered, meaning that a public apology ought to be given. Let the record accurately and truthfully show that Beluga wasn’t behind these alts.
I am simply going off the modlog, which is public record. I am not privy towards any private chat or screenshot or DM and frankly, I don’t want to be. And as of now, I don’t see Beluga being unbanned or given an apology since the public modlog as of now still says that Beluga is banned and that “Beluga/Melina/dsplayer/etc was behind the alts and is not allowed back.”
If it wasn’t actually Melina, then Beluga needs to be unbanned then. Melina/Beluga needs to be exonerated and given a public apology. Let the record accurately and truthfully show that Beluga wasn’t behind these alts.
I will strikethrough the third part of my post, and say that it’s in dispute.
Baizuo is a thing patsocs love to wave around. It’s what prompted the Chinese dude to more or less call him a baiyou. Hinkle went on the usual patsoc rant about the baizuo only for the Chinese dude to say, “Yeah, that’s nice. Anyways, do you know what a baiyou is?”
They basically spend 3x the amount Trump did just so Trump can tweet this:
https://xcancel.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1855404088734945765
I am very surprised that the Democrats, who fought a hard and valiant fight in the 2020 Presidential Election, raising a record amount of money, didn’t have lots of $’s left over. Now they are being squeezed by vendors and others. Whatever we can do to help them during this difficult period, I would strongly recommend we, as a Party and for the sake of desperately needed UNITY, do. We have a lot of money left over in that our biggest asset in the campaign was “Earned Media,” and that doesn’t cost very much. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
I never remember the console gen numbers unless you’re talking about the bit numbers like 16bit or 32bit.
I really disliked how he wormed his way into interviewing someone from Ansarallah. At least some Chinese intellectual knew what’s up when he called him a 白右.
People who thought that were the feudal equivalent of useless libs who constantly get politically outmaneuvered.