this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2025
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

It's no secret that Apartheid Leon is trying to make everything back to the way it was in South Africa when he was a kid.

I'm sure he already has a very nostalgic flag picked out when the name changes to The United States of X.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

At this rate, this community's gonna be named People.

[–] [email protected] 144 points 2 months ago (26 children)

IDK How to tell you this, but fascist racists own everything and are planning to kill a whole bunch of people soon. I really think people are under estimating the severity of the vision these people have for the world.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The weirdest thing here to me is that people call twitter an app. Not a site/community/whatever.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It's actually got nothing to do with race, it's because of a lack of proper capitalisation and punctuation.. right? It surely isn't racism?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Why do people even get offended by cracker lmaooo. That's such a whack front.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I have used it sarcastically on news@world and got it mod deleted.

I guess it’s white fragility masked as fairness/equity.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They should already be offended by someone using 'fuck'

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Being able to disregard being called "cracker" is itself a form of white privilege. As a white guy, I don't have to care if some black person expresses hatred against me because I have power that they do not (e.g. they're not likely to act on their hatred because if the police are called they're likely to take my side, etc.). The implied threat is not credible.

In contrast, black people do not have the freedom to ignore white people calling them the n-word, because historically that has been accompanied by a real risk of attack. The likelihood may have waned over the years, but that implied threat remains credible. (That goes double for the fact that, as casual/mainstream use of the word has fallen out of favor, those still willing to use it are all the more extreme/violent-tempered.)

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As another lifelong beneficiary of white privilege, thank you for pointing this out. I never considered this perspective.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Same with Alpha Snowflakes who get triggered by words like cis.

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[–] [email protected] 212 points 2 months ago (2 children)

A guy from South Africa made his app anti-black? Shocking.

[–] [email protected] 117 points 2 months ago

The white guy who is only rich because of black oppression in South Africa, in fact.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Bro really wants to steal Truth Social's userbase for more money. He found out that the left is a lot harder to scam.

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[–] [email protected] 285 points 2 months ago (4 children)

every day it gets more incredible to me that people are so fucking addicted to fake validation and fake likes from fake friends that they still use fucking twitter

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The dumbass kid at work "I just use it for the art profiles I follow." Not worth it kid, not worth it at all.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He does a ton of digital art, so I generally believe him on that. He's also pretty asexual so I don't think he's looking at porn. He'd be more likely to be looking at Fortnite skins.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Twitter is a weird platform for that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, naughtymachinima is a better platform for watching Fortnite skins

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Exactly my thoughts

[–] [email protected] 157 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Yeah! I like my fake validation and fake likes from anonymous friends over here on lemmy. Fake friends are overrated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

*cries in fake friend*

[–] [email protected] 93 points 2 months ago (2 children)

the secret is i don't think anyone on lemmy is my friend. i find everyone here frustrating and annoying! the system works!

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)

Damn,... Ruffalo looks young in this picture... then I realize, he was and we all got fucking old. This was 13 years ago!!!!!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Respect the rules! We all pretend 2005 was 4 years ago and 2014 was last year.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Bullshit! 1995 was 4 years ago. 2004 was last year.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There's a pretty big difference between drinking mild poisons at a Nazi bar and a local bar. Zoomed out, sure, drinking alcohol at all can be considered pretty dubious, but the difference between the two scenarios remains.

edit: replace what autocorrect put as "consistent" to "considered"

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