angstylittlecatboy

The fear of "giving people legitimacy" was valid when it was relatively unknown alternative right thinkers that you had to be paying attention to know their names, and even when Trump had an electoral college victory. But in these days, your Trumps and Rogans have more than double the legitimacy that you even have to give out.

From my perspective, zoomers are most of the people talking about it. We remember the '00s.

When I was a kid (born in 2001,) not having this shit was a point of national pride.

It's popular in the Northeast and I'd assume the PNW as well.

So basically the states that you can actually play ice hockey in

The problem with Lemmy is that the demographic that uses it is too specific: nerdy, atheist, college educated (usually in computers) Gen X and early Millennial left-wing political hobbyists.

Like, there's a reason the one of the only specific media franchises that can sustain an active community here is Star Trek.

Didn't know Creed was Christian (and it seems at least debatable whether they fit the label of "Christian music.") So that hurts my point I guess.

When's the last time a rock band was labeled a "science band", but you can name four or five christian bands without even listening to them?

I feel like a pedant, but I'm sorry, the notion that most Americans can name five Christan bands/artists is bullshit. Maybe most Bible Belters can. Christian music gets the designation of "Christian music" because it is segregated away from everything else, listened to by a large, but still niche demographic who are already very religious, and treated as a joke by everyone else (including most non-Evangelical Christians.)

I can name two, Skillet and Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. The former is just the band I see mentioned to make jokes about Christian music, and the latter I saw on a show about one hit wonders (the hit is about domestic violence and doesn't even have faith based undertones.) If I start making exceptions like "became Christian after the height of their fame" (Kansas and Kanye West) or "stopped being Christian before they became known" (Katy Perry) I can get to five.

And on that note, what would a "science band" be? Like, a band that writes lyrics about new scientific discoveries? Yeah that'd have more in common with Nick Jr. than most music, secular or not. Most music deals with emotions in a way Christian music can but "science music" couldn't. The closest would be philosophy, but there's already a ton of music drawing on philosophy, and nobody segregates it from normal music because it's not music that only appeals to a specific demographic.

Is TikTok just extra popular in failing countries?

I'd absolutely post this online but I wouldn't wear it as a shirt

It's people who run apologia for anything the Chinese government or even Chinese business does.

Meanwhile I remember that TikTok helped Trump' s youth outreach campaign with the message they gave when US access was restored, so they've already signalled they're not on my side.

You know, European leftists integrate themselves into football culture

I know the differences in how European and American sporting is organized factor in here, but seriously I don't think "everything you like is bad actually" is a winning position

I'm tired of Lemmy users acting like they, on average, aren't the people that people make fun of when they make fun of Redditors. Y'all are literally the stereotypical Redditor of ten years ago, which is about the time people first started hating on Redditors.