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What's your "favorite" facepalm inducing take that libs regularly trot out?

Mine is when a lib says that a socialist leader is filthy rich because le ebil dictator owns literally everything in the country.

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Peak chud energy by the Trillium devs
  • The project claims to support Ukraine, but still has a README translation in the language of the evil bad country invaders. It doesn't even have a heckin' wholesome keanu chungus Ukranian translation. How odd. thinking-about-it

  • Conservatives and centrists are exhausting to be around
  • Many people believe it, including several people I know. They say it's to cater to kids who think they're cats because they have slippery slope brain and think accepting trans people means we're also starting to consider otherkin types as normal. It's like the old homophobic schtick about how allowing gay marriage will lead to people marrying their dogs.

    As someone else pointed out, the only grain of truth is that classrooms are keeping kitty litter on hand, but it's for if kids get confined to a classroom for an extended period of time due to a mass shooting.

  • "Stalin starved his population!”
  • Regarding your first point, classified CIA documents don't usually get released to the public until decades after they were made. After all, the Soviet Union also didn't exist in 2007 and the quote is using the present tense.

    To your second point, that's a can of worms I'm too tired to go into, but someone else here might take you up on that.

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  • How the fuck is Putin supposed to be a “war criminal”?
  • Anyone, even among hardcore Russia hater libs that say Putin is a war criminal but Netanyahu is not are beyond fucking deluded.

    How many blue MAGA libs (your everyday citizens, not the politicians) hold this view? In my experience, the usual lib line is that Israel is committing a genocide because Netanyahu is running it, but that everything would be just fine if some good wholesome Israeli was in charge instead. They don't even acknowledge that Israel is a settler colony and that that's the root of the issue, let alone the fact that this genocide spans eight decades; they just vibe with great man theory and hope Netanyadomort gets replaced while nothing else fundamentally changes.

  • Fuck Google | Android 15 cracks down on sideloaded apps even harder to protect users
  • Second, these restrictions don’t apply to any third-party app stores for Android that utilize the operating system’s purpose-built API for installing apps. In fact, Android 15’s restrictions on sideloaded apps are merely an expansion of a security change introduced in a previous version, a change that has not materially impacted third-party app stores and can still be manually disabled by the user.

    F-Droid should be unaffected, so this doesn't sound terrible TBH. Still hate Google though.

  • What's the weirdest way a teacher tried to help the class understand a concept in school you encountered?

    In 8th grade my social studies teacher showed The Notebook to the class to help teach us about WWII. The movie had less than 5 minutes of content about the war; the rest was only tangentially related at best because it was set in that time period.

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    storm.front excluded from reccommended instances on join-lemmy-org
    github.com Exclude lemmy.world by Nutomic · Pull Request #358 · LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site

    This one instance already represents 41% of all active Lemmy users which is too much. We should stop sending more users to lemmy.world to avoid further centralization. In practice this may not have...

    Exclude lemmy.world by Nutomic · Pull Request #358 · LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site

    Granted, its to prevent overcentralization of Lemmy and not related to their shit takes, but still !sicko-laser

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    I've found it: the crigiest video game
    landlordgame.com Landlord Real Estate Tycoon - The best free mobile game

    Monopoly game but for the real world. A groundbreaking real estate mobile game that has conquered the business games community. If you want to get to know new mobile games, start with the best. Landlord Real Estate Tycoon is the top game on the market.

    It's a mobile game where you get to larp as a landleech. The blurb alone tells you all you need to know about why this game is cringe:

    > Imagine the world as a giant board game, where you can buy and sell real-life places and earn rent every time someone visits your property. Now it’s possible! Landlord Real Estate Tycoon is an award-winning geolocalisation Monopoly-game, that throughs (sic) you into the reality of big business! Make the best property deals, earn big money, compete with friends, people from you country or even the entire world to ultimately become one of the most powerful parasites magnates on the globe!

    Here's a review from the kind of person who enjoys this tripe:

    > The game is addicting and fun. Love being able to own my own town, and whats around me. I find myself driving to my favorite spots just to own it!! Lol

    !mao-wtf

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    When You Just Want to Find a Nonfiction Book to Read, but Apparently They're All Bad
    yewtu.be When You Just Want to Find a Nonfiction Book to Read, but Apparently They're All Bad

    Just a disclaimer that while I'm sure some of these books have redeeming qualities, this video is just meant to reflect the way I've seen historians online reacting to them. Haven't read them all myself and I'm not a historian, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. (Except when it comes to The M...

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    What even *is* spirituality? How does it work if you don't believe in the supernatural?

    I keep hearing from people in my life that spirituality is an essential part of living a meaningful existence. I hear the phrase "let go and let God" and "everything happens for a reason" used a lot as advice and comfort. However, I'm an atheist and a materialist. I don't know how I could even be spiritual with those beliefs. At the same time, my life is not fulfilling despite the fact that I am not struggling financially. Moreover, I feel paralyzed when I try to get off my privileged ass and do even the bare minimum for socialist organizing because I realize that it goes directly against my labor aristocratic class interests. I feel like knowing that sticking my neck out and contributing to the real movement to change the present state of things is the morally correct thing to do isn't enough to drive me.

    In short, what is spirituality? Is it compatible with materialism? If so, how? And if spirituality is the wrong tree to bark up, how can I drive myself to do what is to be done?

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