shawn1122
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- Comment on What if reincarnation is real, but you were probably plankton in your last life, so you don’t remember anything anyway? 1 day ago:
Sounds like Advaita Vedanta from Hindusim which itself led to Brahminism’s concept of oneness or the Brahman.
Always fascinating to see Eastern spirituality’s influence on philosophy.
- Comment on Yum 1 day ago:
Syphilis?
- Comment on I don't think so 6 days ago:
Is white a unifying culture in anyway? Wouldn’t calling it European make more sense?
- Comment on The bourgeoisie could technically unintentionally end capitalism... 1 week ago:
Can you expand on this thought using a hypothetical supply chain? Land and resources would still hold monetary value even if the value of human labor has been vanquished.
- Comment on Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for? 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure racism never existed in America, especially not in the Boomer era. They are a well known for being an open minded and accepting generation.
- Comment on Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for? 1 week ago:
I mean, that’s just smart, wearing Western formalwear to convince white Westerners that you’re human.
I think the point does stand that this advice needs to be considered in the racially privileged or disenfranchised context Boomers lived in.
- Comment on Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for? 1 week ago:
This is truth. Immigrant and minority boomers/Gen X didn’t have it this easy. They were dodging racists like landmines and racist hiring practices were way less frowned upon back then.
- Comment on Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for? 1 week ago:
You’re getting down votes but I remember very specifically a trope on Reddit more than 15 years ago was that as a dude you could dress up in a suit and show up with a clipboard and infiltrate any professional environment. I think it’s a throw back to the movie Catch me if you can. I never saw it myself but it certainly captured some imaginations.
Anyways, I remember thinking maybe if you’re a middle class or better off white dude this could work and some people went as far as to actually share that sentiment and they were received as positively as you are right now.
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 1 week ago:
It wasn’t open to interpretation.
And yet, 2000 years later, here we are.
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 1 week ago:
If they identified as Christian but never read the book or rarely go to church, what connection do they have to the religion and why do you feel they wished to impart it on you?
- Comment on See ya. 1 week ago:
I haven’t read the book but how did it criticize the colonizer mindset? A cursory look makes it seem like a justification of paternalistic authority, so propaganda for kids to blindly listen to their parents haha.
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 2 weeks ago:
Somehow I’m not surprised that the music genre attributable to poor rural white folk I’d heavy on boot licking, especially considering how many voted for Trump.
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 2 weeks ago:
It is individual but its also cultural. Many in Europe and Canada look at the work life balance in the US and see it as toxic, for example.
I was shocked to find out many women don’t get more than 3 months maternity leave (FMLA) in the US and it may be unpaid. That’s a dystopian work life balance compares to many other high income countries.
- Comment on TRUMP 2 weeks ago:
As a PoC we kinda just go with the flow. Got a few scattered family members that support him for his regressive values but its very fee and far between. For white people j can only imagine, entire families must have had a schism put through them.
- Comment on wish 2 weeks ago:
Spain and then America both exploited the Philippines for centuries. Spain made indentured servants of the local population and turned their economy into a cash crop resource extraction machine for Spanish wealth.
America took over around 1900 and continued that legacy, extracting sugar, coconut and hemp while stalling land reform laws for locals.
It makes sense to move to the nation where the fruits of your and your ancestors labor has been stolen to.
- Comment on wish 2 weeks ago:
This sounds like a consequence of coming from money. Some rich parents are slave drivers and others are just happy producing trust fund babies. Wealth makes being a good parent more challenging.
That being said, most kids want to vet away from their parents and establish themselves at that age.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Before 1950: Colonizer. Cool, badass, likely about to commit crimes against humanity.
After 1950: Expat.
People like this never see themselves as immigrants. They believe immigrants extract value while they bring value to anywhere they may grace with their presence.
- Comment on 'No one can find him': Trump drops from public view again after 'slurring' military speech 3 weeks ago:
I think the broader point is that if he were to kick the bucket it would be a major oppurunity to divide his movement. Celebrating his death would just galvanize and unify them more. With a little discipline the seeds of doubt could be sown so that the nation is headed on the right path.
Even if MAGA was divided into two factions it would lose substantial power. If he were to pass away, the people and media would need to unify and slam on the Epstein files hard, since that seems to be the most divisive issue in the group and he would not be alive to block it. If posthumously the truth comes out about his misdeeds, MAGA would be divided and lost.
This is an opportunity that cannot be looked over. If and when his advanced age gets to him, the temperature needs to be increased and pressure needs to be put on his syncophants (some of whom wanted it releases previously) to make them public.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 3 weeks ago:
Science is powerful but, as you’ve stated, balance is most critical. It was one of the most impactful biologists of the modern era that wrote “the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races” based on his theory of natural selection.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely agree. The “internet” was not a harmful worldview reinforcing machine back when we were told not to cite GeoCities in our book reports.
Asking people to betray their dopamine is a monumental task. It’s like any other addiction.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 3 weeks ago:
I know quite a few MAGA doctors so I can assure you that a medical degree is not protective.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 3 weeks ago:
To your point, I’ve met quite a few STEM educated people who fall for this type of information due to lack of historical and political literacy.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 3 weeks ago:
I’ve seen a lot of the counter balance to this which is STEM folk not having respect for the humanities, rendering them empathetically underdeveloped.
- Comment on Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds 3 weeks ago:
No, there is no question of Monsanto’s greed here. This what capitalism does, it prioritizes greed over sustainability.
Rather than requiring farmers to dump saved seeds and purchase new patented seeds each year, they could use a licensing system which a fair royalty on crop yields so that farmers do not have to take om the massive administrative burden of ensuring Monsanto seeds/crops don’t mix with non Monsanto ones (because if they don’t they’ll get sued into oblivion).
This is the company that said Round Up was “safer than table salt” and “practically nontoxic” to mammals, birds and fish. The International Agency for Research on Cancer recognizes Round Up as a probable human carcinogen.
Monsanto also supplied the US with Agent Orange during the Vietnam war which, as we all know, caused countless cases of cancer among US war veterans and the people of Vietnam. (For a crusade against communism that the US ultimately lost by the way)
Fuck Monsanto.
- Comment on Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds 3 weeks ago:
Never thought I’d see Monsanto shilling on Lemmy.
- Comment on Italy poll finds 15% see attacks on Jewish people as 'justifiable' 3 weeks ago:
What’s the context? Is it a Palestinian civilian fighting for their life against an Israeli sodier who happens to be Jewish? I don’t find the moral calculus in that situation to be complicated.
Random attacks on Jewish people, or any other group? No. Not okay.
- Comment on Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains. 3 weeks ago:
It helps that he starts as a normal guy / kid, not ridiculously rich or an alien. And that he’s not overpowered.
- Comment on Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains. 3 weeks ago:
Marvel has been following a formula since Avengers Infinity War, arguably before that.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 4 weeks ago:
The old testament is essentially Judaism which is an ethnic religion. There is no marketing needed because it is a religion for a specific group of people from a theoretical single lineage. There is no need for God to be accepting or patient since the goal appears to be unify and keep people under control during times of great strife.
Christianity is a universal religion ie. it tries to create new followers. If you’re a religion that is trying to spread grow your following, you need to have a message of openness and acceptance.
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 4 weeks ago: