YappyMonotheist

I mean, of course. “Everyone’s doing immoral stuff so let’s just allow it, legalize it even” is the take of a person who’s either simply uncaring, extremely lazy/helpless or benefiting in some way from it. Those are not characteristics of anyone respectable, right?

You can lend money, just don’t make profit out of it. I lend money all the time to friends and have never asked for anything in return except for the amount I gave, and even then it’s better to let go of that. But ofc in the absence of moral ideology and values, people won’t know right from wrong, won’t police themselves and society will slowly degenerate. Only in a dysfunctional group do you have to enforce basic things all the time and for everyone instead of just a minority of antisocial misfits/mentally ill individuals (and, personally, I just refuse to capitulate to immorality just because it exists, that’s for lesser men).

The rest of the world doesn’t have the bombs, and even if they did, the people of the rest of the world aren’t genocidal maniacs so it’s hard to put an end to Western imperialism.

Careful not to drown!

You can’t be moral and prosocial without also being anti-West (anti imperialism, moral relativism and “might makes right” as your only real value, not anti sauerkraut and the Mona Lisa, evidently). And that doesn’t mean pro anything else besides what being anti-West rejects. For the Africa part… there just aren’t that many African people here, I’m assuming, for those posts to be big. Same with Latin American posts. Also, China affects the rest of the world and is a “big player” so it makes sense they’d be talked about often.

Welcome btw! And where in Africa are you from?

Ps: also you’ve been here for a day and all you’ve done is comment acceptable Western narratives… Are you lying on the internet, mister?!

Money’s okay as long as usury is illegal.

Ehhhh, idk, I’m not formally part of any fandom, I just yap about it online when the opportunity arises, but I’d probably say Dune? And this is not very controversial amongst book readers (most of the current fandom came from Denis’ movies) but the recent movies both left many important book passages/scenes out (the dinner party, for example) and also unnecessarily and to the movies’ detriment changed some characters in very fundamental ways. And I’m not even talking about sex/gender cause sometimes that doesn’t change much of the narrative, but other stuff like Chani being just a sassy New Yorker instead of an extremely mature 15 yo with big responsibilities in her tribe, or the superficial “religious schism” subplot in the second movie, which is certainly relatable/acceptable to the average Western 20 something but is incompatible with Fremen society as Herbert wrote it.

Instead, Denis made a very pretty movie with long, silent shots… but Dune is anything but silent, it’s heavy in dialogue and internal monologues like Legend of the Galactic Heroes. A bit of a disappointment but, hey, the first movie pushed me to get a COVID vaccine shot quickly so I guess something good came out of it? 😅

That’s not a question but yes, he’s kind of silly… he does have a crayon (?) stuck in his brain though so, all in all, he’s doing alright, lol.

Just to feel the room’s temperature, but I always speak my mind regardless (it’s Lemmy, if you’re not honest here where are you honest?). Unless I’m missing something, the post stands by itself (or not) regardless of votes.

It’s like Marseille without the sun and friendly Southern vibes, that’s what it reminds me of, especially the Midi area. I recall walking nearby and there’s like a tunnel where the tram goes by, and people had set up tents and impromptu “restaurants” in it. What a mess. But my brother and his lady just went to Bruges and they said it was beautiful so it’s not like the whole of Belgium is as ugly. 🙏

They just have to say that and all the chuds will be like “see, it’s not the US! Israel is not a Western colonial project managed by the current hegemon!”.

IME, Brussels is truly awful. Grey, ugly, depressing and decaying.

Idea? It’s a fantasy social experiment that would benefit everyone but will never take place, Western civilization as it has been since the days of Rome requires everyone else’s exploitation.

Archetypal showerthought. 👌

Man, some things don’t change… Western Europeans anywhere outside of Europe have historically been a cause for strife, conflict and suffering. They should be contained in their continent, we can even all move out of Europe as long as you stay over there, being wolves to your fellow Europeans instead of everyone else. Maybe that would finally give them the push to become moral and prosocial. Meh.

“Free will doesn’t exist” is, quoting The Thick of It, a position of one “disconnected to the point of autism”. It’s what happens when you get lost in words trying to understand the universe. It’s also a position very convenient for anyone trying to avoid accountability. Unsurprisingly, it is very popular in the West. 🙃🤣

I can tell you what you need to hear and you’ll get mad initially but you’ll eventually follow if you’re wise. 😅

Words haven’t meant anything in earnest in the West since at least the days of Orwell but this is just ridiculous. The fuck.

Player’s “Baby Come Back” and John Lennon’s “Woman” come to mind. Also, Juan Gabriel’s “Amor Eterno” (Eternal Love), an ode to dead moms and the love we have for them despite their absence.

“Iranian traitors want to sell the country out to Western powers as usual but some are still refusing.”

There ya go.