Omegamint

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

My experience of french Canadians is that they were generally incredibly reactionary, actually.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Was Musk the insufferable guy people just keep around cause he's always got the bag?

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

18/f/cali looking for big daddy USSR to show me a good time

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I kind of laugh whenever I see tourists, feels like it must be a massive disappointment. Gonna hate the Olympics being here

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The last time I watched alien was on dissos and it was so unfathomably good I've always been afraid to go back and watch it again because I'm sure I'm going to be a little disappointed.

Also Rebel One is mid

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Just look at many DSA chapters lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This reads like it's a thinly veiled ad.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

This was basically the titular quote from Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath", which largely is about the plight of tenant farmers during the dust bowl and great depression.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I think that Japanese history puts it ahead. Beyond what they did in Asia outside their country, they also oppressed Japanese natives, such as the Ainu. Moreover afaik they are even more resistant to owning their own atrocities

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It's a book that I personally learned to appreciate more over the years, and would also recommend to anyone

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How Orwellian, in the exact same way that Orwell was a worm and a snitch

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

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