I know this isn’t supposed to be a change-my-mind but I don’t think that’s correct.

All humans are more likely to move near to others they identify with. The same thing happens with progressives or conservatives moving to different cities, so i don’t think it can be exlusive to just two social classes of recent immigrants.

Yeah it’s really noticable as an australian too. The bottom is allowed to fall out in ways that feel scandalous. So many things are just shabby. So many systems are just bafflingly, solvably dysfunctional.

I’m not trying to defend any of this person’s arguments, but “art is imperialist” weirdly has something to it.

Empires love art. I mean i do too, don’t get me wrong. But brutal imperialist regimes are tied to a lot of artistic flourishings. It’s mentioned in The Dawn of Everything as a really common historical pattern which hasn’t had much good scholarly work.

The musician and political scientist John Maus also talks about how music always reflects elite power structures - under capitalism music is a commodity, earlier it was to glorify god and the church, etc.

I think you can’t study history without realising that there is some kind of connection between imperialism and art.

“You can never please
Ever-y-body In This World!” The Shaggs

I’ve described western australia as basically texas but drunker.

My dad always called the us “the land of bilk and money”.

a planned 1.6% increase in the minimum wage would be brought forward from January to December

Making a planned increase happen a month earlier is so much worse than the headline implies.

The increase fell well short of the demands of unions, which have called for fresh protests in the coming days

Well duh.

This is actually a problem at my work, that gen z do not know how to cook at much higher levels than others.

I work in residential mental health, so we have some cooking to do. The overwhelming majority of gen z co workers seriously struggle with anything more than heating up. It affects how we divy up job duties and caused issues when we tried to save money by doing more cooking in house.

Since the supreme court pretended that presidential immunity is constitutional and we can’t prosecute trump for his open criminality, rendering him to iran is what justice demands. Probably the only people he’s hurt more than americans.

He wanted a public execution, after all.

According to headlines, scientists spend most of their time baffled.

According to the articles, scientists spend most of their time advancing easily understandable theories that neatly explain their observations.

Wait is this real? That tag line is hilarious!

Yeah, as @Tikiporch@lemmy.world said, the meaning is clear.

It’s such a fun word and i think it’s such a neat concept, but it’s annoying to use in a title cause it’s quite a rare word. But i find that once there’s a name for it, it’s way easier to notice it, so i like to mention it.

Where i live we pronounce couch st and schuyler st as cooch and skyler, and the police dept is the police bureau. Not knowing these things is used as a shibboleth that marks visiters.

Are those dog whistles? I think of dog whistles as conveying a specific message to those in the know.

The examples you gave seem more like shibboleths - something that can be used to identify or rule out being part of an identity group.

Calling taiwan “taiwan” instead of china marks the speaker as not from the PRC, but it doesn’t send a specific message the way that republicans would say “welfare cheats” when they meant “black people”, trusting their base understands.

It’s just rich people lying to themselves to justify doing whatever they wanted to do anyway and pretend it’s somehow in humanity’s long term interests. It’s not, and nothing the rich do ever is.

like the felon

You’re gonna need to be waaaay more specific than just a felon who used illegal tactics to get power. That’s an entire social class here in the US.

He does not think that. He’s just saying it to give their lunatic base an explanation that prevents them from realizing the obvious truth that no one in the US wants a christian theocracy.

Wow. Your post is so reasonable, strongly in favour of rioting, correctly identifying it as better than voting, just allowing for voting. And still banned.

I’ve blocked a lot of PTB comms because of all the trolly libs calling anyone left of Schumer a tankie then whining about being banned from leftist spaces, but this is a bonkers ban. And from .world as well, not even a leftist instance. 🤷

To save folks a click:

Brace yourself for an apparently super edgy hot take:

Rioting > voting

rioting & voting > just rioting

just voting > nothing at all

Discouraging voting or rioting = supporting the status quo.

This was my first thought too.

“Have your cake and eat it too” doesn’t really make sense. Cake is not rare or expensive enough that simply possessing it feels good. If you have cake, all you want is to eat it.

The italian version, “you want a full barrel and drunk wife” illustrates the same situation much more clearly.

When i was in grade 1 we had to write letters to santa, so i raised my hand and said, “I’m jewish so i know santa’s not real, do i still have to do this?” I did, and the teacher assured everyone that santa is real. I was confused and disappointed.

Moving to the US the general level of fear is soooo noticable.

Someone warned me not to hold my bus money in my hand, like the sight of $2 was gonna get me stabbed in Portland 😆