straightjorkin
@straightjorkin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do the Brits keep talking about this car. 19 hours ago:
Why is the nsfw?
- Comment on Why is there so much separation in the USA between people who identify as "black" or "white" compared to other regions like South America? 2 days ago:
In 1865, the U.S. ratified the 13th amendment that reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Essentially ending slavery as we know it.
And since then, the wealthy have been attempting to do everything they can to bring it back.
It started with the black codes and Jim Crow, doing a facsimile of slavery and violence. This merged into segregation, and then on to red linning and unequal judicial practices. In the civil war, the south got poor white men to enlist by convincing them that freed black men would take their jobs, and we see this continued rhetoric today.
As a result, black people have been grouped together by way of literally preventing them from being in white areas, and for the last 70 years, relying on how difficult it really is to move up and out of any area. You know the best way of passing down wealth? Real estate, which black people have been pointedly pushed away from by redlining and segregation. Ultimately, black Americans have developed their own parallel culture, one that white people have historically shrieked away from. So we end up with two very different groups that see each other as different.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 days ago:
I do think it’s a Russia thing. Putin getting America to alienate all of its closest allies, so that it’s only Russia left to aid.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 2 days ago:
I’m also kind of new, and if you’re doling out advice, I’ve got a quesiton: If I were interested in potentially modding someday, what kind of things should I learn/read up on to handle that kind of responsibility? I want to help build communities so I can selfishly enjoy them, but im feeling too new so far.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 2 days ago:
Got banned for saying Nazis shouldn’t be alive. Welcome to lemmy, I’m personally approaching it with the philosophy of “communities need activity to thrive”
- Comment on Reddit's servers every two months [Day 91] 3 days ago:
Greg Sestero (mark from this photo) tours around doing showings of it at local theaters. He’s got some pretty good jokes.
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 1 week ago:
The fatal flaw of the internet is that you can find people who are into similar obscure stuff that you’re into, but that also means the nazis can also find each other
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 1 week ago:
- Comment on Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip 2 weeks ago:
So much of modern tech is just misusing words they heard from sci-fi stuff that was already misusing words they heard in physics class.
- Comment on Tumblr to join fediverse 3 weeks ago:
I will applaud tumblr for having a good block button. But it doesn’t solve the porn bot problem.
- Comment on Tumblr to join fediverse 3 weeks ago:
Maybe if they did something about their porn bot problem I’d be happier to see this
- Comment on Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ 4 weeks ago:
Bill gates has at least been anti-elon in the last few weeks. Don’t get me wrong he’s still a billionaire exploiting the system, but I don’t know if Microsoft is going to bend
- Comment on They're coming 4 weeks ago:
Be the change you want to see in the world
- Comment on Reddit temporarily bans r/WhitePeopleTwitter after Elon Musk claimed it had ‘broken the law’ 4 weeks ago:
The guy certainly doesn’t mind cp on his site
- Comment on Reddit temporarily bans r/WhitePeopleTwitter after Elon Musk claimed it had ‘broken the law’ 4 weeks ago:
I mean, the phrase was made because they’re pussies who can’t handle criticism of their speech. In this use the “not able to crtisize” is literally having your ability to speak shut down.
- Comment on Reddit temporarily bans r/WhitePeopleTwitter after Elon Musk claimed it had ‘broken the law’ 4 weeks ago:
He needs to climb into a bunker and follow his leader
