We are more the same than we are different, and there’s a lot of value in where we do differ.

Without permission? “I don’t know what I’m doing, you do it” sounds a lot like permission.

https://youtu.be/wmBlQllspVQ

Rotshit, botshit, dirty old twot

But can you make love with it?

Slap an Edelbrock carb on there, done and done.

If you agree with me that patriotism has been misused for the most horrific atrocities ever committed by humankind, …

One, I don’t recall agreeing with that.

Two, if I see you wearing a green shirt, and you say you’re wearing a yellow shirt, that doesn’t invalidate the concept of “green”.

Of course nationalists are going to drape themselves with the term “patriot”. You’re right that one should observe attentively when someone uses that word. My notions of nationalism vs patriotism align with @NateNate60@lemmy.world. Just because someone uses a term in a way I disagree with doesn’t make the concept that that term represents to me invalid.

“I am the shit” vs “I’ve seen some shit”

I’m down for it.

He gets me.

Also: fucking patchouli

It is worth noting that:

• The top income tax bracket in 2025 is 37%, for income earned over $751,600 (~$69,000 in 1960, married filing jointly).

• In 1960, >$20,000 and <$24,000 was 38% (married filing jointly). (~$219,000 to ~$263,000 in 2025 dollars). The top tax bracket then was 91%, with all sorts of steps between 38% and 91%.

That’s only because money is already irrelevant to him.

Snuff is cancer dust.

Pop an H on it

I’m sure you’re right for a lot of people. Considering the audience here, who I expect to be more capable of doing more complex things on the basis of “they’re here”, I hope my advice is more productive than it would be to, say, the local rural Facebook moms group.

It’s a bit of a self-sustaining cycle. Media depends on engagement, social media even more so. Hate engagement is capable of increasing engagement, and it’s easier to create content that elicits hate engagement. Throw Internet Rando participation on top of that.

No, you should not quit social media. The beauty of it is that content that traditional media would never take a chance on which you would like to consume actually exists. What you should do is be mindful of what kind of content you choose to consume, and recognizing when content has an undesirable agenda beneath its surface. Content is not normally created for no purpose. Always ask “Why was this created? How does the creator intend for me to react to this? Is that an appropriate reaction?”

Just letting the content pour into your brain without consciously filtering it is a bad idea, and that’s got nothing to do with social vs traditional media at all.

If.

And here we are talking about it.