Lemmywinks

But we’ve got the Magna Carta, and therefore have no need for a constitution! Surely there are no rights needed in a modern country that weren’t covered in an 800-year old document… /s

I mean, I guess they are oval shaped, but it’s a rectangular profile, whereas clippers are an actual cylinder. I’d also forgotten that the gas in bic lighters isn’t even refillable, which is another big mark against them.

I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before, as it’s one of my favourite games, but you may well enjoy Oxygen Not Included :)

Kerbal Space Program

A goose loose aboot the hoose?

My main issue with bic lighters is the fact that you can’t easily change the flint like you can with a clipper, or even a swan, lighter. The rectangle shape is also less sturdy than the circular lighters, and more likely to break if you use them to open beer bottles.

What? I grew up atheist, but that sounds absolutely mental to me. Protestantism is an off-shoot of Catholicism, so if Catholics aren’t Christian then surely neither was Martin Luther?

The Vatican claims to have more gold in its vaults than has ever officially been mined out of the earth, and considering how much they stole from the Aztecs, it’s possible they aren’t even lying.

I have a toggleable ‘Show bots’ option in Settings>Account Preferences. I’m using Boost for Lemmy, but maybe other clients have a similar option?

They aren’t talking about it being made to by other movies, they’re saying the movie continues to make money for a long time after it’s first week. To give a famous example: in the 90s the Kevin Costner movie Waterworld was declared to be a massive financial flop based on its first week(s) performance in US cinemas, but once you account for worldwide figures and VHS sales it was actually one of the most profitable movies of the decade.

This is called existentialism.

Oh no, some strangers on the Internet have downvoted me, how ever will I cope?

Only one person responded in a meaningful way to anything I said, and even then my point about Russia being a capitalist hellhole was not disputed in any way, which was the only point I was actually really making. Getting dogpiled by a bunch of butthurt fanboys because I ‘insulted’ daddy Putin doesn’t bother me even a tiny little bit.

It was an option, but the fact there’s an article about it suggests he got caught, and I imagine the consequences will be worse than having to attend a work party.

Other options (with consequences of varying severities) include: jumping out of a window; never quiting the job until you die so they can’t throw you any parties; not showing up for the last day of work; telling your colleagues you don’t want a leaving party.

Fyi, playing dumb after getting owned is a quintessential liberal move.

Owned? Oh, I get it, you’re a literal child.

Your friend referenced emojis I’ve never even heard of as thought that somehow rebutted any of my points, which is not how you do discourse. If you want people to take your ideas seriously you need to demonstrate an understanding of those ideas, not resort to school-yard insults.

You seem to believe that communists are forbidden from supporting non-communist things. (I’m not sure demagogue was the right word choice for this. Maybe dogmatist or cultist fits better)

No, but vocally supporting the polar opposite of communism is a strange position for communists to take. (You are correct that demogogue nonsensical word to use, and you used it several times. It’s hard to take someone seriously when they clearly don’t know what point they are even trying to make).

Not only that, you demand communists to stop supporting all non-communist things. Both of these things show your complete maleducation regarding communism.

When did I do that? I’ve been a socialist for decades, it just annoys me when little kids cosplaying as soviets act like they’re the only ones that understand communism, while demonstrating they don’t even know the definitions of the words they are using.

What does that even mean?

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Since when is the WSJ European?

Yes, he uses nationalism to manipulate the masses, but that doesn’t mean he himself believes (and the fact that you bundle white supremacy with nationalism only supports my point that nationalism is a xenophobic ideology).

Is there a particular work of Fanon’s that you would recommend?

Trump isn’t a nationalist though. He is deliberately gutting the United States. The lense of ‘nation vs nation’ is constantly promoted to us through capitalist mass media because seeing the world in this way prevents us from effectively fighting for our own interests. Divide and conquer, it is one of the oldest tricks in the book.