GarbageShoot [he/him]

As it is it appears you’re assuming whatever actions the someone in power in America takes is “American Liberalism”, I’m not sure that’s something I agree with.

The poles of American ideology are theocracy/Christofascism and liberalism. Virtually all of what the state does that isn’t theocratic is liberal.

The Nazis did multiple genocides by almost any definition, though obviously they could never aspire to the body count of America or Britain.

Don’t be a useful idiot of the State Department

Some form of vote. And this isn’t an argument on which system is better or not, just a definition of democracy compared to other forms of government.

People do vote in China. You know that, right? Xi is not elected directly by popular vote but is essentially voted on by politicians who were voted in, something closer to a parliamentary style organization rather than the US system. If Xi was unpopular, the people could vote out the people supporting him in favor of challengers who support someone else for President.

It’s a bunch of Ledditor liberals saying that. Lemmygrad can be a little sectarian, but otherwise it is perfectly fine.

Eye rolling is definitely a culturally-specific thing with the anglosphere, but the emoji is literally called “eye-roll” and does read visually as being that to someone familiar with the gesture.

The added nuance here is that eye-rolling is an expression of derision and not just sarcasm, while culturally /s is used for being facetious (think friendly sarcasm) as well as actual sarcasm.

Eye-rolling is commonly associated with sarcasm (and other forms of derision, but in the context sarcasm makes the most sense)

I’m sincerely wondering if some of the emoji hate is people with ASD or something similar not getting common facial expression associations beyond things like smile = happy

The eye rolling is a sarcasm indicator, the monocle indicates curiosity.

To me, using default face emoji gives off the same kind of vibe as still having the setting that adds “Sent from my iPhone” to the footers of your emails enabled. Or driving around a car you’ve purchased with the car dealership branding badges and license plate covers on it. Or using a laptop with all the factory stickers still on it. It signals a kind of “this is fine” lack of care or concern by allowing your own expression to be polluted by pre-canned expressions from a corporation.

Counterpoint: “self-expression” through more consumerist markers is no less bullshit. I don’t care about your lifestyle brand and I would, if anything, respect someone more for not paying extra to try to give the affect of being a special little guy when all they are doing is displaying a different flavor of corporate bullshit messaging.

Express yourself in word and deed, not shit you bought.

Shut up, informal writing often takes the structure of speech, which is prone to longer sentences with more ambiguous divides. I generally write properly and, as someone who does, you are being hysterical and snide.

Sarcasm vs curiosity

As far as I can tell, it’s because Hexbear likes using them

Is that true? I don’t do anything but I’d see about this if it kept my lungs from turning into beef jerky

There was a fucker on here like a week or two ago saying Hamas probably bombed the hospital because they did the festival attack, and they were completely confident that it was the simplest explanation even with the IDF lying about their supposed video evidence.

Vote for whatever communist third party is available as far as the federal level goes.

It’s wild how people use anticapitalist arguments to attack opponents of neoliberalism

It’s funny how when the US does something wrong, it’s never a reflection on its essential character, and yet the fucking Four Pests Campaign or whatever is a fundamental reflection of the ideology of Chinese Communism.

“Totalitarian” is a buzzword with a hazy definition at best. Go ahead and substantiate it.

But my point is that using such a buzzword with no further explanation is a somewhat comical display of how propagandized you are for how thought-terminating your use of the word is.

What do you mean?

“The Holocaust” usually refers specifically to the killing of Jews and not the broader genocide, though this varies. It is also worth noting that about 1 million Jews were killed on the eastern front and are correctly counted as part of the 6 million, but overall if anything you are probably lowballing non-Jewish victims.

I think part of the reason for Jews being a focus of the discussion is that they were the face of the vilification and the Nazis went to incredible lengths to capture or kill every Jewish person they possibly could in the territory they controlled, both in relatively stabley-held civil society and recently taken-over military conquests, which is pretty unusual compared to other genocides. Jews were also far and away one of the most brutally killed and persecuted on a per capita basis compared to other groups (though I think Romani were in a similar boat there but Europe just hates them).