I also don’t like the idea of Milhouse having two spaghetti meals in one day
I heard he sleeps in a racecar bed.
Say what you will about Kirk, but he made some great points in his debating
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ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Do you?
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
*slept
RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Racecar coffin sounds dope though.
gbzm@piefed.social 13 hours ago
I don't know about this Milhouse business, but he did have some very salient point: that time he gushed blood uncontrollably from bis neck and died has raised serious doubt in my previously staunch anti-gun disposition. Now I have to manually remind myself that most gun violence victims are unfortunately not Charlie Kirk.
Mac@mander.xyz 12 hours ago
Say what you will about Kirk, but the shit that he spewed was really for the betterment of humanity.
djehuti@programming.dev 9 hours ago
Excuse me while I vomit
Mac@mander.xyz 1 hour ago
I’m talking about the blood from his neck. Apparently not a singlr person got my joke. lmao
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
My silver lining about Kirk: before he got shot, I didn’t even know he existed. After he got shot, I read up on him and his statements. The amount of bullshit he spewed and the amount of people who believed or liked him helped me understand the US better. And to realise that culturally, the US is so diverging from Europe that we should no longer treat it as our offshoot, but an entirely different (and increasingly alien) culture.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Oh, yeah, this type of insane bullshittery could never happen in Europe. Except that it already has and continues to. You’re parroting the same, lame “it can’t happen here” crap many of my American friends were in 2016.
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
But of course it’s happening here, but at least where I’m sitting, there is an overwhelming rejection of this “bullshittery”. Here in Ireland we have small fringe nationalistic parties, which so far only faced outright ridicule, even though recently I heard about outright hostility (a group of such nutcases was beaten up and stripped to their underwear). We are facing political and financial pressures from the US, and so far we dispatched with them fairly easily. And even though our government’s incompetence invites the more radical groups, I’m fully convinced that it won’t happen here, unless we’re directly invaded.
CHOPSTEEQ@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
Calling the US culture “alien” is an easy cop out way to say it’s not our fault. But the truth is, it’s authentic human shit. It’s uniquely fucked up comparatively but it’s still a result of millennia of human civilization. We’re all partially responsible.
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
By “alien”, I didn’t mean any negative connotations. I meant that I don’t understand it. Ugandan or Japanese cultures, for example, are alien to me, because I don’t understand their nuances and can’t be bothered to learn them. The US, with its proud European “descendants” (so many people claim to be European even though they are the third generation to never set foot in Europe), used to be at least understandable, but it’s shifting towards something where I no longer understand how people think or what motives drive them.
mmcintyre@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It’s European culture, too. Idk a whole lot about any of the countries in Europe, but I do know Chega came from nowhere in Portugal to become the #2 party in something like 5 years and England Brexited itself out of the EU, both of them with this same nonsense. And those ain’t the only European countries it’s happening in. It’s everywhere.
Although I don’t know how much is culture and how much is cash. Billionaires are funding all kinds of heinous shit across the planet.
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
The US used to export its culture, and people were eating it up. But I actually see an uptick in appreciation of local culture in Europe. As you said, there is lots of external financing to push American culture across the world, but I think that this is just a reaction to people not consuming as much of it as before. I see that here in Ireland as well. So far, we’ve rejected most of it (especially the American religious nutcases who tried to influence our abortion referendum), but it’s a constant struggle.