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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tell me you don't know what the nazies did in Eastern Europe without telling me you don't what the nazies did in Eastern Europe. Or how the Irish were considered in the USA, or the italians...

[–] zout@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

Or the Irish in the Uk, or whoever in whichever country. For me, my family (wife and kids) come first, then my neighbourhood, my village, my minucipality, my country and so on. It's the same for everyone, which is fine as long as you acknowledge it and act accordingly.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Twist, it is a completely novel race, no one looks normal anymore

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd like for everyone to have green skin and antennae

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I was thinking less alien, more realistic.

Maybe everyone is now a vaguely human looking Dusky Leaf Monkey.

Imagine the skin color patterns, being extra hairy, and looking somewhere between cute and uncanny valley.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No we'd come up with something else. We need to gene edit everyone to edit out the tribalism gene and replace it with a "we're all in this together" gene.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Greed everywhere is the real problem. The rich are just successful in their greed.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Humans never evolved past tribes.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Lol wot. You think we wouldn't get all caste system in this piece son?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 2 days ago

Race is just one tool the parasite class uses...

There is gender and ethnicity and religion...

Possibilities are endless!

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Race isn't really important to anyone but americans? There is racism everywhere, obviously, but race itself isn't important.

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Kind of depends on how you define "race" (it's pretty much scientifically meaningless, so define it however the hell you like)

But we have several currently ongoing attempts at genocide happening around the world, that to me tells me that a hell of a lot of people out there care a whole lot about race.

American racism is particularly odd to me due to how broadly we categorize race, trying to lump people into a black/white/Hispanic/Asian/etc. category based on not much more than skin color. And we're also unusuallly open about the fact that racism is a thing here. A lot of the world kind of keeps it more on the down-low.

But if you go with narrower definitions of race, you'll see the same kind of things happening around the world as in America. I've seen people from the UK talk about Polish immigrants in much the same way people here talk about Mexicans, and that's not even going into the cluster fuck of how much of Europe treats Romani people. A whole lot of people in Asian countries have issues with other people from other Asian countries, or even different ethnic groups within their own countries (like Uyghurs in china.) Parts of Africa are patchworks of different ethnic groups that are often at each other's throats, and of course South Africa is still a long way from having its shit fully sorted out. A lot of white Australians have pretty significant biases against Aboriginal people.

I could go on.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Nah. I've read online Europeans bashing every other sort of European, and they're mostly white. Often in jest, often in "Fuck the Gypsies!" Or the Greeks, or the Muslims, or what have you.

The US is quickly closing on on 50% white, 50% everyone else. Meanwhile, in Europe. So yeah, maybe we talk race too much, or use it as a shorthand too casually, but that doesn't automatically mean hate or exclusion. We just have big groups of races, ethnicities, whatever.

Not going to hear about America's racism when Europe is solid white. In other words, why would they complain about black people, or any other major ethnicity, when they don't have any?

As to other countries, I gather Japan is as racist as human culture gets. Australians are racist with the aborigines. Africans are racist against other African tribal groups. China is destroying the Uyghurs. I know jack about South America, but I got most of the rest of us in there! Not parroting the meme, but Canadians seem pretty nice. Oh, we go insane on each other in Antarctica. :)

Any of that make sense? Feels a bit rambly.

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago
[–] Crampi@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago
[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

See also: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin.

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