Lemmy recreating the free market haha

I’ll be honest I haven’t delved too deep into his music but his cover of Bulls on Parade goes hard

Denzel Curry maybe?

So your claim that they are still funded and influenced by the British government is completely unsubstantiated got it.

They are my primary news source. I think they are extremely trustworthy and overall pretty unbiased. I sense a sort of contempt towards Donald Trump that bleeds through even in their very dry reporting style. I appreciate how non-sensationalized their stories are.

Do you have any evidence they continue to be funded and directed by the British government? They were literally partnered with TASS until 2022…

Yeah I saw that post and combing through it there is nobody corroborating the screenshot. They wouldn’t just give that promotion to one singular user without any kind of announcement, and searching for “double karma non-political content” only returns that post as a result. 95% chance this is fake.

Don’t think so

There’s no way there’s an entire spoon of plastic in my brain. I know that one study came to that conclusion but that study was wrong. Cmon people that’s insane.

If I’m in an elevator alone with a woman or something I will usually just give a friendly nod and adopt a very relaxed posture, like leaning against the wall. The youtuber Contrapoints talked about this exact scenario in one of her videos (a black man whistling in the elevator so she wouldn’t feel scared) and it made me more aware of it.

Are you talking about Furiosa the spinoff movie or Furiosa in Mad Max? I have never heard a single complaint about Furiosa in Mad Max

Titanic literally the box office champ for a decade with a female lead (close to 50-50 to be fair). Terminator 2 as well, and Mad Max Fury road, 2 of the greatest action movies of all time (you can fight me but, name aside, that story is all about Furiosa). Those movies work because the female leads are just good. The selling point isn’t that they have women in them, the selling point is they are really really good movies.

Edit: and Kill Bill, where a lot of critics call The Bride (the lead of the movie) the greatest movie character of all time.

The article says it won’t affect existing free subreddits. It’s also worth pointing out that Reddit Lounge (a subreddit exclusive to Reddit premium members) has been a thing for a long time. So really, this probably isn’t that big of a deal, Reddits most profitable asset is its huge user base and I don’t think they’re dumb enough to torpedo it. Then again, look at what happened to tumblr, you never know…

You would say there is overwhelming evidence that Musk is a Nazi? I’d like to see it.

No don’t you get what I’m saying? Let’s say my acquaintance Jim is a Nazi. I, mistakenly, think he is not a Nazi. Someone calls Jim a Nazi and I say, “no, Jim’s cool, he’s not like that”. That would make me WRONG. It would not make me a NAZI. People get fooled all the time, a fact everyone in this thread seems to be forgetting, and that fallibility applies just as much to Musk’s accusers as his defenders.

I do think he wasn’t zeig heiling. So do most people in the real world who aren’t hooked in to leftist social media 24/7.

Anyways you’re missing the point. The point is that OPs brother thinks Musk didn’t do it. So are you really going to cut someone out of you life for having the majority opinion that someone isnt a Nazi and therefore is defensible?

“You cannot be a good person until you actively work for the liberation of people, instead of voting against their rights.”

“OK what if you think fetuses are people”

“But they arent”

“But I think they are, so I think I am morally righteous”

“But they aren’t and therefore you are a bad person”

Just using abortion as an example… I am strongly pro-choice myself but I dont think people are bad just because they are pro-life. Misguided? Sure, but thats hugely different than being evil. There is a ton of space in society for good people to have different political views. The notion that everyone who disagrees with you politically is a bad person is childish.

So according to you his brother is wrong. He made a mistake in interpereting a hand gesture. You would cut him out of your family for that?

As far as the Musk thing goes: I won’t even get into whether or not Musk was really trying to do a Nazi salute. Personally, I don’t think he was, Musk denies it, plenty of Jewish people and Jewish advocacy groups also say they don’t think it was intentional. But the important thing is, your brother doesn’t think it was intentional. So, at worst, he has committed the crime of being naive, and there’s a very good chance that he’s right and you’re wrong. If he said, yes Musk did a Nazi salute on purpose and then defended that, that would be way over the line. But honestly he sounds like a pretty run of the mill libertarian/conservative. And I will die on the hill that the vast majority of libertarians and conservatives are good people, even if I disagree with them politically.

Yeah I guess you’re right. Both sides have been pretty…apocalyptic lately.

The reason I singled out leftists is that over the last couple decades, in the ideological struggle between socialists and capitalists… the capitalists pretty much won. There are are still some holdouts around the world but in general leftists are left on the outside looking in as the capitalist-led world grows more prosperous (and lots of bad things too, I’m not trying to play it off as capitalist good socialist bad). But in their position, all leftists can really do is criticize the status quo. And, again, there are plenty of valid criticisms to make, but because they are removed from power leftists can’t do very much “look at the good things socialism is doing,” it’s 99% “look at all the bad things capitalism is doing”. At least in the US/Western Europe.

The right-wing can at least say things like “the economy is doing well” and “technology is advancing due to [Company]'s breakthrough” in between fear-mongering about immigration.