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  • No, no it’s not.

    Look at Europe, we don’t have (any of) the problems in the US. Violence begets violence, you’ll just end up in civil war, which at this point I think is a realistic possibility for the US.

    Let’s be REAL clear: in war there are only losers, in civil war, everyone gets fucked and destroyed, everyone suffers until one decides to surrender. Ask Yugoslavia how well a civil war ends.

    Taking a step back, vigilantism is also not the solution. I get it, it feels good to finally see “them” suffer, but it solves nothing. Just like the violence back a few years ago didn’t solve anything, murdering CEOs won’t solve anything either.

    What will work? Mass strikes, civil disobedience. Gandhi had a point, and his non violence kicked the Brits out, something that seemed impossible.

    What you need, as step one, is better communication. The Republican party currently spreads lie after lie through Fox News, that crap must be removed first, again, through peaceful means.

    What you really need is


  • Well, no.

    I am from the generation after the boomers but I grew up right before the Internet exploded onto the world and i can tell you that you would never see that sort of information unless you were looking for it. I know people love to shit on boomers, hence boomers being an insult word these days, but many simply couldn’t know better.

    Hell, I didn’t know and believe me, I was (and still am) the kind of person that loves to read new things STEM. I had subscriptions on scientific magazines and I do remember reading articles about it being anything, scientists already knew about car tired being a problem, but it didn’t go beyond some reports. The general population didn’t know and pretending that they could have and should have known is simply disingenuous.

    If you were alive at that time then you too know that it wasn’t that easy.





  • Phoenixz@lemmy.catomovies@lemm.eeDisney's Snow White | Official Trailer
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    You get too hung up on the LITERAL NAME.

    It’s like buying a red Ferrari and you get a white Volkswagen beetle, and then the car dealer telling you that it’s a car, you’re getting too hung up on a name.

    And that ignores the part that all this is just virtue signalling on the part of Disney. Who cares that the story is shit, who cares that the acting, the CGI, that it’s all horrible? The main actress… IS BLACK! YOU MUST LOVE THIS NOW GIVE US YOUR MONEY!

    I don’t mind watching a good movie about one armed black transexual women kicking some ass, as long as the story is good and realistic, as long as the acting is good, as long as the end product actually looks like someone gave a damn.

    THIS product shows that nobody gave a damn, then they put in an actress who very much does not match the description, knowing the backlash that would follow which they figured, bad talk about this is still talking about this, yay. The actress herself didn’t help her case when she started bitching about the previous movie and how she would show us… Then the seven dwarfs became… Seven growth unstunted beings? I don’t even know how to describe it, but now dwarfs are out too, even though afaik, they are mythical dwarfs but whatever, BUT LETS NOT GET STUCK ON WORDS, RIGHT?

    If we go like that then I have a bridge to sell to you. You give me a million dollars and I will give you my worn out 20 year old washing machine with a note that mentions something somehow about not getting hung up on words…

    I just want a good movie. This is not a good movie and it’s just trying really hard to fool people into thinking it’s good, using very very low and cheap tricks… And it worked on you.



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    I don’t care about her color but can we then just change the name? The entire point was that her skin was white.

    Also, if skin color was the only thing then only a few racists would balk. This movie, however, is just a shit show. So yeah, you’ll have a lotmor ooeope complaining, including about her skin color which is just dumb



  • On two occasions I’ve actually punched a car in a drive by. Once when I was crossing a zebra and a car just drove by with zero fuck given. I saw the car, jumped back and kicked the door, leaving a good mark. Driver got scared thinking he or she hit me and took off immediately.

    The other time I was on a bike, going downhill straight on a crossing where I had the right of way. A big van makes a left turn right in front of me. I went full in the brakes, lifting y rear wheel up, and managed not to crash into him, but close enough to be able to punch the rear door with my fist. This one too took off immediately.

    Fuck these assholes