TreadOnMe

joined 4 years ago
[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

BEGONE CHILD! Let the old gays, trans-femmes and occasional cis white guys post in peace!

Sidenote; Also zoomers are literally starting to graduate college rn, so still young but not like, 14 year old teenager young, the real big thing is that we, unlike .world or .trek, are not, for the most part, tech people. And if we are, we are usually tech-pessimists. Creates a huge posting culture difference.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

My favorite thing is them believing that everyone from Russia or China must have hated it there, and while there are some expats that are like that, most of the ones I've met (outside of Indians) really like or miss their country of origin. I'm not saying they are perfect (far from it) but they seem like no more totalitarian hellholes than the U.S.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

You see, I have everything I need, in fact I don't even have to work. Be happy serf, for your lord is prospering and does not care to dwell on unhappy thoughts.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago (10 children)

They say that because we post like zoomers and gen-a (not really we just aren't baffled by their memes).

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago (15 children)

Ah yes, as if anarchism, liberalism, libertarianism or really any other human ideology and methodology centered entirely on egoism don't engender some strange communal cargo cult behavior. It's almost as though they too are full of shit?

It is funny to believe in 'self-determination' when you can't even recognize that all the important decisions have already been made for you. It is rich to pretend to fight against the nihilist when you only believe in yourself. So go egoist, live your life as you please, blissfully unaware that you are just as stuck the very herd of individuality that we all find ourselves in.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

So I read through his links. There isn't a citation to any of these interviews (a necessity for actual academic journalism) to make sure things aren't being taken out of context. The first document even says that "North Korean experts disagree with these things because they view North Korea through the lens of their propaganda." And even then there are only three uncited interviews, one which is obviously an absolutely outrageous lie that breaking the frame of a photo of Kim Jon Il while polishing it is grounds for the execution of an entire family.

For context, the atrocities of the Pinochet regime are backed up by literally hundreds of recorded, cited interviews, some even by guards who participated in the violence admitting their culpability years later (though usually with the excuse that they weren't the ones committing the mass rape, etc.).

This is nothing. This is unsubstantial.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People would absolutely watch this, you just shouldn't over-expose them to Terry Crews like they did with Dwayne Johnson.