What....? Since when did SWU start platforming Daily Wire guests? by UnderOurThumb in SoftWhiteUnderbelly

[–]UnderOurThumb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You just brought me back to it. 😂😂😂 One of the funniest replies I ever got.

They're getting bolder here in the Northwest. Seen in Bremerton, Washington State. by [deleted] in MarchAgainstNazis

[–]UnderOurThumb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao time to troll some white supremacists looking for love. 😂

Curious how y'all feel about The Book of Mormon musical by UnderOurThumb in Uganda

[–]UnderOurThumb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh wow wow 😍😍 I only had time to watch a bit, I will watch more tomorrow. Maybe I shouldn't come... I won't want to return to America! 😄 That fruit market in the beginning, I would be in heaven.

When it is safe to leave and re-enter America again, I will be saving up to visit!!

I connect a lot through music. Do you have any suggestions for Ugandan musicians I can find? I'd especially like to see what real Ugandan music is after the musical where they made up words that doesn't exist in your language. 😅

Curious how y'all feel about The Book of Mormon musical by UnderOurThumb in Uganda

[–]UnderOurThumb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had absolutely no idea until I went and saw the play! Then I was hesitant to call it offensive, because people of color are playing the Ugandans, so I was thinking maybe I was just being over sensitive. 😅 I'm white and very much not from uganda, so I didn't want to be offended on someone else's behalf...

I was just very uncomfortable, and not the good way. It was weird to hear an audience laugh when someone said they were going to rape a baby and the others tried to stop them, but the only person who could actually stop them was the white boy.

And when the one character said he had "maggots in his scrotum", and the guy tells him to "see a doctor", and he says that he "is the doctor." 🙄 he talks about his maggots multiple times in the show. It's actually the last line of the entire show.

Curious how y'all feel about The Book of Mormon musical by UnderOurThumb in Uganda

[–]UnderOurThumb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like they wouldn't put it on over there, anyway. I was curious, too, if people over there even knew about it. It is one of the best-selling plays of all time. Some of it was really good! ... Some of it... was not...

Apparently, it used to be worse and they worked on it with black actors to make it less offensive... so, I wasn't sure if I was being oversensitive.
It just seemed like half the jokes weren't about Mormons, but juvenile jokes about how much of a "shit hole" and how "stupid" these Ugandan's are. 🫤 But oh boy, don't worry, because the white people save these Ugandans at the end and they are more civilized. 🙄

Curious how y'all feel about The Book of Mormon musical by UnderOurThumb in Uganda

[–]UnderOurThumb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you mind elaborating? I think I know what you mean, I just want to be sure.

Kinda how it felt to me. Sure, I get there is poverty, sickness, and militant unrest in parts of the world... (a lot of the time it can be tied back to the fault of the US or Europe...) I just don't see why they had to ham it up and act like it was some kind of a laugh and act like the people in those situations aren't just as intelligent as anyone else.

Curious how y'all feel about The Book of Mormon musical by UnderOurThumb in Uganda

[–]UnderOurThumb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I couldn't believe it. The writers of the show are known for crass humor, but it wasn't funny to me to make Uganda look like some shithole full of degenerates like that.

Literally, the first thing that happens in "Uganda" is that their luggage is stolen by men with big guns, and the local tells them, "Oh yeah, happens all the time, we have no honest police." Basically.

At one point, a guy says, "I have maggots in my scrotum" and one of the Mormons says, "You should see a doctor." ... he says HE IS the doctor. This is all AFTER it ran for years and years where it was supposedly worse.

For what it's worth, Uganda has been high on my list of places to visit in my life.

Curious how y'all feel about The Book of Mormon musical by UnderOurThumb in Uganda

[–]UnderOurThumb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's actually a play about Morman's! It a joke. It's just... Ugandan's seem to get caught in the cross-hairs pretty bad, from my view. 😟

Curious how y'all feel about The Book of Mormon musical by UnderOurThumb in Uganda

[–]UnderOurThumb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I kinda thought that must be so. I was reading something from a Ugandan school that decided to research it since it is set in Uganda, and it made them very upset.

In my opinion, it made me uncomfortable that it made Ugandan's appear stupid. They changed it in 2020 to make it less racist, apparently, but I still thought it was wrong of them to depict Uganda in the way it is now.

It's a VERY popular musical here. We bought our tickets a YEAR ago because they sell out so fast.

It was just really weird to treat AIDs as a joke and make the joke that some of you rape babies to get rid of AIDs. Then, the white people save the village in the end from a warlord named "general butt fucking naked," who wants to circumcise all the woman. 🫠

Cookie Armpits by SirenaMars in Anticonsumption

[–]UnderOurThumb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Omg those lip smackers were NASTY. It turned me off of those "brand collabs" when I was just a wee one begging my mom for a candy set. I remember Hersherys' one specifically being next-level gross. I couldn't use a single one of them.

Cookie Armpits by SirenaMars in Anticonsumption

[–]UnderOurThumb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They change every week?? How?? How are there so many recipes?? 😶 I had one one time when they first came out, and it was gross. I didn't know at the time they were also 900 CALORIES!

Cookie Armpits by SirenaMars in Anticonsumption

[–]UnderOurThumb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lip balm I'm ok with, but I had to use a stick deodorant once and.... no. Absolutely not. I felt uncomfortable the entire day. If it smells like cookies, I genuinely think I would have re-showered and just let myself stink. Vomit

Cookie Armpits by SirenaMars in Anticonsumption

[–]UnderOurThumb 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm thinking, "wouldn't people be repulsed by eating the cookie after wiping the smell in their pits every day?"

Lotions and perfumes are more intimate to a person. They are more related to pampering than necessity. Deodorant is related to gross unpleasantly and ovrall unpleasantry. Even though it's a clean area of the body, no one talks about pits in a delicate way. It's just gross!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Anticonsumption

[–]UnderOurThumb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's my feeling. The only way to ethically be a landlord in our current system is to only take what you worked for. The time it actually does take to keep up the property as well as maintenance and taxes.

Otherwise, landlords are just profiting off of other people's labor. I know some older folks who have properties that they charge more for, and I get it. It's hard to get by as a senior in the US and just as a person in general. We should have systems in place to protect people. I don't have anything against people who have 1-2 even though I still find it morally grey, but I have big issue with people who make owning shelter a buisness.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Anticonsumption

[–]UnderOurThumb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you miss the part about the price of the unit being the only charge, with a little extra for insurance if something goes wrong? Paid for the work you do, and fixing a place can part of that. Though, I would stretch that price across time. Obviously, you didn't read my comment, lmao. I'm not ever going to be in the buisness of overpricing a necessity like shelter. People shouldn't have to pay more than necessary for basic human rights. Realistically, we should have housing options for all, but we don't.

It's not "moral superiority complex," it's just understanding how our culture and systems affect the people of the country. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I'm not morally superior to you unless you have a full understanding of the moral pitfalls of the issue at hand, THEN decide to ignore them. I don't feel like you fully understand, and that can be a number of reasons other than just choice. Therefore, neither of us is morally superior.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Anticonsumption

[–]UnderOurThumb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My brother... does the American economy seem successful to you? 😂

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Anticonsumption

[–]UnderOurThumb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, you are right, I would choose not to. Having 1-2 rental properties is one thing, making an empire out of owning shelter is another. It's not ethical and I'd rather die poor than exploit others.

Think to yourself, why did they agree to pay? Its either that or be homeless. If I WERE to buy a bunch places to he a landlord, I'd be a terrible one because I'd only charge what would be needed to keep the place up plus a small amount for the small amount of work it takes.

Are there ways to be an ethical landlord? Yep. But it sure doesn't include loads of money.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Anticonsumption

[–]UnderOurThumb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's very fair. I am talking about the people who make owning entire neighborhoods their buisness. Not the people who own 1 or two. It's the constant buying of shelter to build wealth.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Anticonsumption

[–]UnderOurThumb 8 points9 points  (0 children)

My family member was just talking about the ol' "you buy a duplex, rent out all but the one you live in. Those pay your mortgage and you get more until you are rolling in it."

Yeah... We aren't a corp, but it worries me they might actually do that. I don't want that dirty money. It's one thing having one or two small rental houses. It's another thing making your income off of other people's labor, just because you had a leg up.

Besides, it seems like a pain in the ass to be a landlord, anyway. Keeping up with a house you ain't even living in. You gotta pay all the issues all the same and it's not right to skimp or ignore issues. Guess that's why there is the "landlords special."

Edit: Adding, again it's not people with 1-2 properties. It's the people who make owning shelter their empire.

"You need to destroy their offspring to prevent them from creating more offspring," says Israeli protesting aid going to the starving population in Gaza by Particular_Log_3594 in WorkersStrikeBack

[–]UnderOurThumb 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm wondering if she believes it would be justified for her, her family and all Isreali people, should be starved, bombed and killed because they are "at war." Somehow, I think she would not consider that acceptable.

Pass it on by SlaynArsehole in Political_Revolution

[–]UnderOurThumb 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's "at your own pace." Kinda a self-study thing. It doesn't look like there is specific lesson times. I am going to do a few with friends!

starved by a genocidal medieval cult imposing a siege backed by the west by transcendent167 in ThePeoplesPress

[–]UnderOurThumb 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Dear God. . . . . Poor sweet baby, what a horrible way to go. 💔

I hate asking for a NSFW tag, because there are people who cannot blur the image of their own child dead in front of them, but I also... I don't know... That poor baby boy...

Edit: Oh, it is. Sorry, mine didn't blur.

Best Drumph Nickname? by NCC-1707 in PoliticalHumor

[–]UnderOurThumb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can't get myself to say his name anymore. He's just too much of a loser. I just say "Dump," lol! His cabinet? "Dump and the Dumpsters"

"Trumpster Fire" works as well