BrooklynMan

So, instead of cutting executive pay for the failures of the network, they’re cutting actors pay, the ones who actually make the money for the network. Makes total sense.

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RIP, you silly, silly man 😢

lemmy.world has had massive issues and a bunch of downtime for the last several days, and that might have something to do with it.

because it was always done by force from below

European (especially British) decolonization of Africa was mostly the result of 1) the Atlantic Charter negotiated between FDR and Churchill after WWII when FDR told Churchill to stop that shit, and 2) because Europe’s devastated economy couldn’t afford to maintain their colonies abroad anymore anyway.

I wouldn’t say that Europe did any of this voluntarily, however. they were certainly forced by circumstance, highly pressured by the United States who threatened to withhold fund for post-war relief and rebuilding, and, obviously, mounting unrest in the colonies themselves.

Personally, i lost interest about halfway through, but I think most people will find it pretty entertaining.

However... that fact that the right is losing their shit over it makes me adore it!

i read through it, too. it's pretty textbook sealiong, and I don't see how you don't see that. as for transparency, that's what the modlog is for.

if your stance is to punish the victim, I'll know to see clear of this community myself. since fostering a toxic atmosphere is your goal, this isn't a community I want to be a part of

Makes us more docile doesn’t it?

you can tell by all of the labor strikes!

"but if my workers aren't miserable, exhausted and in constant pain, I can't call myself a good capitalist! they must be broken!"

-- the American business owner

What you’re wanting...

it always amuses me when random strangers on the internet believe that they can read my mind and know what I want.

i said "theory" because that's what I meant, and it has more that the one definition you gave.

curious as to why you left all the trolly comments and removed the comments from the person being trolled?

edit: they clearly are seasoning:

Sealioning refers to the disingenuous action by a commenter of making an ostensible effort to engage in sincere and serious civil debate, usually by asking persistent questions of the other commenter. These questions are phrased in a way that may come off as an effort to learn and engage with the subject at hand, but are really intended to erode the goodwill of the person to whom they are replying, to get them to appear impatient or to lash out, and therefore come off as unreasonable.

as a mod, if you’re looking to foster communities for open discussion rather than a place that will become toxic, punishing people for being targets of trolls while leaving trolls alone isn’t the way to go.

what was even worse is that they never gave any characters any motivation for anything they were doing, not even the aliens. why was anyone doing, literally anything? why should we care about them? why should we keep watching the show?

everything about the show was maddeningly frustrating, and even though nobody seems to know what the hell they're going or where they're going, they all seem to be trying to do something or go somewhere and still manage to fail spectacularly, which is even MORE FRUSTRATING. and, to add on to that, everyone keeps making the most stupid, selfish, cliched mistakes. it's exhausting.

and the kids... the damned kids... every time a kid comes on screen, you just know that they're going to fuck something up and get someone killed or almost get the group caught or both. because they're just so dumb, selfish, or both. with the mom, son, and daughter group, you have the daughter who was born with dog shit for brains and refuses to listen to even the most simple instruction and the back-stabbing fucker of a son. that mom should have just left the both of them with her cheating bastard of a husband. those shitty kids will just get her killed or human trafficked or worse.

then there's the kids in the bus. by episode 4, I was seriously hoping they'd go all Lord of the Flies and bash each others' heads in with rocks over the last bag of Takis so we could be done with that storyline.

good eye! thanks!

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