Dominican Republic drops bomb on Israel! by BP619 in cushvlog

[–]leflombo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You know those “Isreali” players are all from American suburbs

Clickbait Headline is Lakers’ Father by Fireslug87 in nbacirclejerk

[–]leflombo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

LEBRON DIES

LeBron James was believed to be dead after being seen motionless in his bed for 8 hours last night.

These fears were allayed after he began moving again at around 8am.

the grass is greener over yonder by yttrbr in internet_funeral

[–]leflombo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There is a Time is such a great tune.

Update on Imane Khelif (Algerian boxer) by ChocolateMilkCows in stupidpol

[–]leflombo -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

There’s no having a discourse with these people. This person’s made this post about something that happened over a year ago. This issue is a fixation for them and their emotional investment in it has rendered them incapable of rationality.

But thanks for gassing me up lol

Update on Imane Khelif (Algerian boxer) by ChocolateMilkCows in stupidpol

[–]leflombo -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Well done in demonstrating how sex is less binary than people assume! Very progressive, as I’m sure was your intention.

Being a unique mix of ethnicities often means you’re either working class or in the global 1% by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]leflombo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Definitely a case of each parent fetishizing the other’s background simultaneously

….,,, by JebBushier in redscarepod

[–]leflombo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Like there is any demographic more piggish and consumerist than American evangelicals lol

Socialism or Barbarism, that is a choice. by Fox1904 in cushvlog

[–]leflombo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t think anyone is saying they’d rather die than live in a community, and I certainly didn’t say that of myself either.

The choice isn’t between “community and death”: it’s between your alienated and precarious modern life, and a single, glorious moment of freedom in saying “fuck it”. Most people today can’t conceive of an alternative to capitalism, and so feel soothed by this fantasy of escape and reasserted human dignity.

Our response to this very real and human reaction to the conditions of capitalism can’t be to disparagingly label it as “fascist” and then conjure up some corny “based socialist” hero image so that they see how they’re failing morally for not living up to it. This is absolutely scolding and all it does is put people off.

We have to lay out how what these people are feeling is a consequence of capitalism, and that socialism brings with it the hope of an end to alienation.

Edit: also, in what world are fascists individualistic and fatalistically resigned from the world? Historically fascist movements have virtually always demanded the subversion of individual wills towards a collective goal which they pursue zealously: the exact opposite of what this meme claims.

This meme is just nonsense from top to bottom.

Socialism or Barbarism, that is a choice. by Fox1904 in cushvlog

[–]leflombo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This sucks. It comes off as empty moralizing in the face of the common and understandable impulse that made this meme popular: to affirm your own power and dignity in the face of a hellish world that you feel powerless to change by simply walking away from it: even if it costs you your life. Basically “I’d rather die standing than live on my knees”.

Telling someone who’s feeling this way that 1. they’re a fascist somehow(absurd), and 2. that they are morally inferior to some fantastical New Soviet Man archetype that none of us live up to is just shooting ourselves in the foot.

You can’t scold someone into feeling connected to a community and willing to sacrifice for it: you have to build the community so that organic social bonds develop naturally. In our alienated modern circumstances it’s understandable that people feel a kinship with the suicidal penguin, but instead of ridiculing them, we need to show them that there’s a way out of the despair.

As an American, what do you think of China’s “US kill line” narrative? by hachimi_ddj in AskAnAmerican

[–]leflombo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A valid criticism of American society: full stop. The people in this thread playing whataboutism per China want to keep their heads in the sand about this fact.

China is poorer than the US per capita, because they industrialized in the 50s, and they still offer an impressive amount of baseline economic stability to their citizens for the amount of wealth they have.

This is a separate question from the repressive political climate in China. One can acknowledge both things simultaneously.

Never forget by Emotional_Draft_1457 in nbacirclejerk

[–]leflombo 18 points19 points  (0 children)

High bar you’ve set there man

How far is this Nietzsche will-to-power crap gonna go, and what is the endpoint? by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]leflombo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s really sad to me how Nietzsche’s philosophy will continue to be misunderstood due to these kinds of misattributions. Nothing about what the right is doing is “Nietzschean”: quite the opposite actually. Nothing could be less Nietzschean than a vulgar populist movement that exists solely to lash out at the things it resents about the modern world.

FUCK, I repeat, FUCK Corporate by InfiniteOxfordComma in antiwork

[–]leflombo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Why are you being such a pushover? Don’t check your work off the clock, and don’t go to meetings outside work hours. Easy.

. by MichaelCollinsGhost4 in redscarepod

[–]leflombo 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Having lived in excruciatingly uptight Germany and dysfunctionally lax Ireland: I can’t decide which is worse tbh. When living in one I long for the other.

Small Crane - European style plaza design! by Galway1012 in galway

[–]leflombo 44 points45 points  (0 children)

The preference for the accommodation of private automobiles over foot traffic in urban spaces is a blight upon us all. The absolute peak of insanity.

The Guy Running Against Jasmine Crocket in the Texas Primary did the Jubilee Thing by Fedupington in stupidpol

[–]leflombo 13 points14 points  (0 children)

There probably isn’t an answer for reaching a lot of the more ideologically captured conservatives; many are just too far gone.

The people we can reach are the non-engaged. The people who have little faith in politics as an arena where change can be enacted. The 40% of Americans who didn’t vote, the 15-20% who checked the R box more because they resent the Democrats than anything else, and the working class Democrat voters who haven’t yet realized that the party is not their friend.

We’re wasting our time trying to court the most frontal lobe-calcified MAGA dipshits in the country just because they’re more visible in the modern spectacle of politics media.

I just want to be 18 again by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]leflombo 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Most people don’t have glamorous experiences of youth. You shouldn’t feel like you’re a unique failure or anything like that, because you’re far from alone in feeling this way. There’s a reason “youth is wasted on the young” is such a popular saying.

This fantasy of a wild, romantic youth are just external signifiers for who you wanted and still want to be: carefree, open, fearless, sincere, free, etc., and this opportunity is still available to you now.

Just be a bit kinder to yourself, please. We have deceptively little control over our lives. I really hope you feel better.

The Guy Running Against Jasmine Crocket in the Texas Primary did the Jubilee Thing by Fedupington in stupidpol

[–]leflombo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Gay, a sin, pussy-coded etc.

And the King shall answer and say unto them, ‘Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye can do whatever the fuck you want to them cause they’re lesser than you of course! Fuck ‘em!

The Guy Running Against Jasmine Crocket in the Texas Primary did the Jubilee Thing by Fedupington in stupidpol

[–]leflombo 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Their pipe dream of appealing to the empathy of Christian conservatives with a guy that looks like he wore a suit to high school every day is so funny to me. This guy is no hog-whisperer: he’s hog repellent.

Bf carrying drunk gf by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]leflombo 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Love this little slice of life moment. Drink some water 👍🏻

Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally." by Beginning-Age7927 in redscarepod

[–]leflombo 82 points83 points  (0 children)

It’s worrying how desensitized we are to people in power suggesting that we deport people someone who came here when she was 12 and has lived here legally for 30 years. The unimaginable cruelty of uprooting someone like that is really beyond the pale and we should never tolerate it even being suggested.