I want to believe poster, but it’s a nun and a giant Armenian man slyly fistbumping

I would rather bother them very loudly.

Have there been consequences for the United States’ or Canada’s genocides against Indigenous peoples? Not really.

People can just get away with things unless you make them pay for it.

EDIT case in point, 200 years from now we could be celebrating the jewel of democracy Israel, while “acknowledging its troubled past” but you’re still doing this over the bones of the people your predecessors slaughtered. I’m not even saying it wouldn’t be genuine, like people today in the US and Canada bemoan the actions of previous colonizers. But the fact of what happened remains immutable. The slaughter happened, and the people who committed it accomplished their aims. They got away with it.

Even most of the conservative politicians in the US seemed to take this approach, until he started winning (read also: liberal politicians failed to counter his right-wing populism).

What’s your point with this? That the allies were right to bomb civilians? That we can have a little genocide, as a treat?

how do I boost on lemmy

Doesn’t that make it even more selfless?

Speaking of the 'don, it’s not really my usual thing (I never loved twitter), but I have to say it’s really bumping lately. Seems like lots of great conversations whenever I visit. I think it’s growing on me.

It’s a really popular alternative to substack, for one. That’s mostly how I know about it — many writers of conscience I subscribed to migrated over when ss went rotten.

[+1] :3

Joke so good it made me stop scrolling for the night.

… what do we call the death and pain caused by pursuit of profits?

The term I’ve heard for this is social murder:

… an unnatural death that is believed to occur due to social, political, or economic oppression, instead of direct violence.

Scared CEOs—finally, a guilt-free fetish.

Also it totally undermines all the charm of amateur art.

I actually think gen ai is probably going to be really well suited to emulating abstract or rough art, because we humans are great at impregnating even random visual noise with meaning.

That’s not me saying it’s a good thing about ai. Just one more way it can fucking fool us into thinking we’re looking at something that was authored.

I mean it’s much more popular now than it ever would have been otherwise. I’m going to say that even in a hundred years it’s going to stand above its contemporaries.

The story is just so human.

Oh man I remember the debates around this being really illuminating. Like some people really don’t see how heart can outperform technique

These are great

Not a solution, but this is a great reminder to add descriptions/alt text to your images.

Oh wait I’m remembering the airplane story now. Yeah, I he’s like all the other rich fucks.

It’s terrifying how effectively that particular massacre was covered up. Makes you wonder what else we’re missing.