Aw, it’s even in colors

Lemmy is addictive even with no algorithm or dodgy corporate ethics for example.

Could you elaborate on what you mean by this?

damn liberal russian affiliated outlets!

This seems like a sarcastic post one of us would make.

Are you seriously proposing that these Western sources are Russian-affiliated just because they disagree with the current narrative? Believe it or not, not everyone that disagrees with you is a foreign agent, and some people that agree with you are US government and allied agents.

while the Brits and Yanks kinda helped.

You forgot to mention the reason they did this was largely to intervene against the communists

For reference, the number on the left is from 2017, when some of the millenials would still have been only 20. I would imagine that number is higher now.

That’s fair, but I don’t know enough to answer, so I’ll keep quiet as Mao advised

a weird parasocial relationship a lot of people have with him where everything wrong he does is just an oopsie

This is interesting, as there are plenty of other celebrities who have a sort of “cult of personality” like this. I could be misinformed but Donald Trump and Oprah Winfrey come to mind. I wonder what kind of phenomenon causes this and if there is any psychological research behind that.

gaming, like every media has always been political

Good point! The way technology itself is designed can even be political. I’d highly recommend reading Langdon Winner’s essay Do Artifacts Have Politics? about this.

I can’t tell if you’re being genuine or not, but there is a difference between using a swear word ever and being a hateful bigot and using slurs against marginalized groups

Yeah, probably not a great idea to uncritically parrot RETVRN memes here

Yes.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2022/the-collection-of-slavery-compensation-1835-43

paid slave owners £20 million as compensation for the loss of their “property”

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2022/the-collection-of-slavery-compensation-1835-43

paid slave owners £20 million as compensation for the loss of their “property”