• themoken@startrek.website
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    9 days ago

    Piracy if you absolutely must.

    It always blows my mind how much of a heel JKR is. All billionaires are bastards, but you have to be among the worst people on earth to use your billions to be a high profile bigot.

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      8 days ago

      And then you’ll talk to less tech-savvy people about it, and they’ll FOMO themselves into getting HBO.

      Congratulations, you’re doing marketing for JK!

      There’s no reason to engage with anything Harry Potter anymore. There’s plenty of less problematic fantasy stories.

  • Ilandar@lemmy.today
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    8 days ago

    I’m so glad I have Americans around to lecture me daily on the morality of pop culture whilst they simultaneously accelerate extinction-level events and start new wars that fuck the cost of living for the rest of us.

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      8 days ago

      You think those that are lecturing about the idiot raging against trans and others are the same ones that are running the country into the ground?

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        8 days ago

        Considering it’s a democratic nation, yes they’re all responsible. Trump is not some flash-in-the-pan anomaly, he is a direct result of a long-term history and culture that all Americans have been participants in.

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          8 days ago

          I, and everyone I know, have voted against him 3 times. We are a Republic, not a democracy.

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            8 days ago

            As I said, this is not just about recent history. All adult Americans are culpable for letting their country get to this stage in the first place, not that you’d ever know that from the way they behave online. Still the same massive exceptionalism ego whenever they’re confronted with criticism based on reality. Still the same blame games, the same victim mentality. No accountability in sight.

            • a4ng3l@lemmy.world
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              Yeah but with that extreme narrative we are all culprit by association with our ancestors. Like because I’m Belgian I am guilty of fucking over a whole continent ? Dude in Iran have it coming because at some point Persia was a bit into forcible borders expansion? And Germans… all of them are in the bag as well? That’s some extremely simplistic view on a very complex world.

              As much as the situation in the states is infuriating we must not generalise and antagonise the good guys over there. We kindof need them to keep steering the situation for a better turn.

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                How very American of you to use some condescending, throwaway one-liner to exit the conversation and make yourself feel better, rather than respond thoughtfully or even just move on quietly. You may not have voted for your president, but your behaviour is very reminiscent of him. Keep telling yourselves you’re winners and belittling anyone who dares to suggest otherwise.

                • titanicx@lemmy.zip
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                  8 days ago

                  And how very uneducated and frankly argumentative in the least impressive way, while saying so many things you feel are smart, yet actually don’t make any sense whatever. Yes I use an exit, because you are a wall of idiot and throwing myself against you is a losing battle, no matter what facts are, because these don’t matter to someone like you. I gave up on arguing with idiots like you years ago on Reddit. I’m not starting it here.

          • Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world
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            8 days ago

            You and everyone you know plus 90 million who DGAF.

            Try to actually hear this: we, the rest of the world, are tired of your shit. Get it together.

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              They appear to have it together unless you’re suggesting they’re obligated to ineffectually martyr themselves for an apathetic population who won’t help them. No need to antagonize the minority of good Americans.

              Everyone sucks off Luigi but at the end of the day, everyone there will let the system mulch him.

              You act tough. As a spectator, egging people on but staying out of the line of fire yourself. Armchair Rambo. But if it’s your actual life on the line? Hmm, doubt you’d do what you preach if you were in their shoes.

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                They appear to have it together unless you’re suggesting they’re obligated to ineffectually martyr themselves for an apathetic population who won’t help them.

                This is what Americans have bragged about for years, though. The greatest and most free country in the world that could never possibly fall to a dictatorship because the people were armed and would rise up in rebellion. They loved to talk about their violent civil war past, as if some of that bravado still existed inside them. They loved to denigrate the citizens of more authoritarian states: “Why don’t they just fight back? Are they stupid or cowards?”.

                Yes, if the rest of the world takes Americans at their word then we do expect them to die for the mythology of their country. It’s what they repeatedly said they’d do right up until the actual moment came, then they went quiet and either sulked or pretended they were fine with the house burning down.

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                  You are quite a bigot arent you? You talked to a few americans and now painting a picture over 350 million people.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      you think this view is unique to the US?

      something tells me there are intelligent and decent people in every country. and it is a worldwide franchise, hardly unique to the US.

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        No one cares more about virtue signalling relatively inconsequential culture war issues and less about controlling what their country actually does on a global stage than Americans. Truly the most sedated, ignorant and empathy-deficient population of our times.

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            I guess you haven’t worked this out yet but I don’t care about the thoughts of Americans. I care about how their obsession with those thoughts impacts their actions in the world.