Bongo_Stryker

joined 2 years ago
[–] Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yes, and at the same time I am troubled by a company sponsoring a drag show, or slapping a rainbow sticker on a product and no-one really benefits except the corporation. When we see a queer person, a disabled person, a southeast Asian person used in advertising, that's usually not representation, its exploitation.

So.i mean I agree with you but also I think there's something more fundamental. I don't have any solution besides revolution.

[–] Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Do people want a show? Or has a protest become co-opted by capitalism and the forces of status quo into a spectacle of entertainment that's largely empty of any political or lasting benefit to queer people?

That's a rhetorical question because yes, yes to that second one I'm pretty sure.

[–] Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How the hell did it become normalized that a human rights protest have corporate sponsors? It makes no damn sense.

[–] Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

So close to the real thing that it wasn't funny or entertaining to me, just another instance of me being annoyed by Jordan Peterson even when it wasn't actually him.

[–] Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I see. Thanks for clarification. I assumed we were talking about snorting lines of powdered fruit. When it comes to putting blueberries into my butthole, I'd say I could manage half a pint, maybe more.

[–] Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is true but less interesting to me because I once had a job in a bakery making blueberry muffins. I had 50 lb bags of frozen blueberries that upon opening, would emit large clouds of blueberry aroma. Day after day, thousands of pounds of blueberries, so much blueberry vapor. I grew to hate the smell. I begged to be put on some other kind of muffin, but nope, I was the youngest and therefore lowest status in the bakery. So I'm not really a fan of blueberries.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[–] Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm trying to imagine what a bump of rass would be like. i just... hmm.

[–] Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Be real man, you put a lot of effort into this community in the beginning, and then you just kinda... dissapeared. 'The lazy fuck they gave it to" indeed. Where were you?

[–] Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But if you have some kind of plan for how I could reform the entire industry by quitting my job at the bottom rung of a middling insurance company, I'll gladly do it.

Translation: Someone else has to be responsible for fixing everything before I will take any responsibility for my participation in the obviously corrupt and exploitive system.

[–] Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Granda estas "tall"? Mi pensis ĝi estas "big" kaj alta=tall. Sed alta eble estas "high"? Mi eastas kommencanto kaj ĉe tio estas malfacila.

[–] Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

That worst candidate didn't win by a landslide either time, so I don't think it's fair to say America will never vote for a woman. Lots of Americans did vote for a woman. According to CNN: "More Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than any other losing presidential candidate in US history."

People forget that aside from the email bullshit, it was widely reported that Clinton received something like 26 million dollars for speaking engagements, behind closed doors to bankers and American robber barons. Some parts of her speeches were leaked, but she never released any transcripts. I think that fueled voter apathy and "both sides the same" feeling for a lot of people, including two-income families struggling to make ends meet.

You think if a man had done the same, no-one except Bernie Sanders would care?

As for the second strong capable woman, I voted for her, despite her seeming support for the ongoing genocide. I'm not convinced that election was legit.

 

"...there came a point, a few weeks ago, when I realized, the government isn’t going to end the war, isn’t bringing the hostages back, and isn’t helping the evacuees.”

" Increasingly, Netanyahu’s many opponents are questioning his handling of the war. Others are questioning the prime minister’s motives, suggesting his political interest lies in the continuation of the fighting, which inevitably delays his political demise. Netanyahu is currently under trial on various charges of corruption."

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