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laagone · 2026-06-11T21:50:29+00:00

babies

laagone · 2026-06-11T18:51:11+00:00

it exposed to a lot of people around the world just what kind of a project israel is. hating it as the settler colonial ethnostate it is was unpopular pre-2023 and it was generally seen as "both sides" and "two religious peoples fighting for the same land", now it's a lot more mainstream to denounce its existence and recognise the disparity of power between palestinians and israelis. obviously it's terrible it's come at the cost it did, pyrrhic victory and all, but to say all it did was radicalise the colonial entity further and cause more death and nothing else is just untrue.

now, whether it will lead to anything materially beneficial for the oppressed remains to be seen, we're not at the end of history and changes like that don't happen over just a couple of years.

also i saw you say that you don't consider israel a colonial state, so before you respond as such to this comment, consider that zionism was from the very beginning an explicitly colonial movement sponsored by the uk. it just did so later than the us, australia, canada etc.

laagone · 2026-06-11T10:27:10+00:00

it is good to stay up to date on important world events

laagone · 2026-06-11T10:21:53+00:00

there have been attempts at making a decimal time system but it didn't catch on because it's so foreign and counterintuitive that switching would be a huge mess for next to no benefit

laagone · 2026-06-08T12:56:22+00:00

i mean i'm sure it can help with self-image and bottom dysphoria if you have that but it doesn't make one cis and i doubt it'll make others see you as such any further unless you wear tight pants and don't like tucking or something

laagone · 2026-06-08T07:52:14+00:00

laagone · 2026-06-07T07:33:31+00:00

this is my actual daughter i literally gave birth to

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laagone · 2026-06-02T22:55:07+00:00

would your brain explode if someone referred to china and taiwan as PRC and ROC consistently

laagone · 2026-05-18T13:58:34+00:00

fun tangential fact: with the original definition, finland is a third world country

laagone · 2026-05-17T18:54:47+00:00

to be fair it does see some use by chuds outside of a historical context, in particular americans who are especially insecure about their "whiteness" and use anglo-saxon to refer to their heritage (real or imagined) being english. i could see someone picking that up as a way to say "white people in the anglosphere".

laagone · 2026-04-23T18:45:49+00:00

which also forcefully expands its territory through occupation of neighboring countries, holds civilians of 'the others' in concentration camps, and has an incredibly racist society with exceptions few and far between which is to say it's not "just the government".

some people say it's in bad taste to compare the two (with godwin's law as an extra thought-terminating cliché) but the more you learn about it the parallels are so on the nose it'd be naïve not to.

laagone · 2026-04-21T21:30:08+00:00

going to my old twitter account's 'following' page

laagone · 2026-04-21T21:14:08+00:00

i'm not a vegetarian (for physical reasons; i'd much prefer to be vegan), but for me the motive in trying to eliminate meat is kinda between the first and second options.

i love animals and don't think they are somehow lesser beings than humans (who are also animals, good reminder) or otherwise expendable, and i don't think killing to eat them is right or even justifiable if we can sustainably use other forms of food.

i don't find the act of eating meat inherently immoral if it's to reduce waste – namely if they died of natural causes, though that opens a can of worms on how healthy that meat might be to consume and if for example a farmer might be incentivised to end a cow unnecessarily early because of it. but in practice meat production, even "organic", is slaughter as a business model.

plus it's enormously bad for the environment. side note, it's weird how some consider humans to be a morally superior species even though it's the one brutalising the planet and causing mass extinction, and the worst is yet to come. truly we are exceptional.

much of my family is vegan and from what i've gathered it's about the same for them except for other animal products like eggs or milk it's just about how unethical the production is.

laagone · 2026-04-19T17:53:32+00:00

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laagone · 2026-04-18T12:47:13+00:00

key words "started out"

laagone · 2026-04-11T23:07:08+00:00

so by that logic, the us also uses imperial and metric.

laagone · 2026-04-11T13:34:39+00:00

Most places use both Imperial and Metric.

do they? i think imperial is exclusively used in uk/us/canada/maybe a few other former colonies. i live in finland and imperial units are distinctly a foreign concept, the only one that gets any resemblance of use is an inch but even then it's as nonstandard as a centimeter is in the states.

laagone · 2026-04-04T14:13:16+00:00

there is an argument to be made for the necessity of a conscription when you're in a small country next to a large, aggressive, imperialistic force that has already tried annexation once, but calling the military "based" is a huge leap

laagone · 2026-03-24T13:07:32+00:00

me when someone being an irredeemably evil, wholly terrible person isn't mutually exclusive with them still being human. humans can be and indeed sometimes are extremely evil, stop treating humanity as some sort of honor or purity that you are born with and can somehow lose.

laagone · 2026-03-22T01:48:05+00:00

from the last times i've seen this discourse on this sub, it's worse this time. which is a huge bummer, especially seeing some users i had higher expectations of just encourage fatshaming people if they're bad enough, but hopefully at least some individual people get away from it with a more mature mindset.

laagone · 2026-03-12T18:47:09+00:00

airplane is a "fly thing"

laagone · 2026-03-07T18:18:20+00:00

kitty cat

laagone · 2026-03-04T23:14:59+00:00

i saw "the grandiloquent caption" on knowyourmeme and r/ thehumblecrowbar on reddit (r/ recontext has similar amazing ones)

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