CTHlurker

joined 5 years ago
[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

I don't understand how people can look at any millitary and decide that it's something worth emulating. I work with two guys in my office who both spent something like 10+ years in the Danish Armed Forces, and neither of them have any good things to say about the way that work is structured there. Most of their stories involve the soldiers getting high/drunk and fighting with each other, which is like the least bad thing you can do as a troop.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

I love it when our SocDems, who are all academics with Master's Degrees, have to cosplay as a worker and have their picture taken with them wearing a hard hat. Such a weird throwback to when the Socdems and Unions actually stood for something rather than just being empty vessels for people who dream of spreadsheets.

Theres also the whole debate around Danmarksdemokraterne (litt. Denmark's Democrats) and their fight over who counts as Danish, since they like to accuse people of being cosmopolitans who don't know what life is like outside of the big cities.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

Hence why the reply from that Ork in Runescape was the best "your mom sucks me good and hard through my jorts"

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

For the sake of my sanity, I really fucking hope that they dont.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (22 children)

They shouldn't have to be public role models though. A teacher shouldn't be held to a different moral standard from any other adult. What the teacher does in their time off is their own business.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

De facto sex-strike / women's strike.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Are the German banks / financial institutions able to wield any real power in comparison to the manufacturing giants? I was under the impression that ever since the whole Greek bailout crisis, the German government has been much less responsive to the rumblings of the financial press compared to the big manufacturing companies, since they employ a lot more people and contribute more to the german economy.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Every other definition of Gen Z seems to be 1992-2015ish. But I will also add that every time one of the fossils in our department begins talking about Gen Z, I argue that since no one can come to any consistent definition of generations, just say "young people" if thats what you're using it to mean. In return, my boss seems to have expanded the definition to "anyone below 40".

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hasn't the situation in Korea been described as a de facto strike anyway? Which is funny coming from a country that mostly doesn't allow striking.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Republicans didn't go as hard on the border in the 1990s and 2000s as they did after Obama took office. I presume the experience of a black man being elected president made a lot of white reactionaries shortcircuit and they settled on the answer to "how did this happen" with "the democrats opened the border and flooded the country with mexicans / OTMs in order to cement their power"

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Isn't Munich (and Bayern in general) the main seat of the German bourgeoisie? I know they like to claim that they are the economic engine of Germany, so it makes sense that fascism would also be quite strong among leaders there. Unlike in the former GDR, where fascism is popular among the masses because liberalism has failed them and the left has been completely destroyed.

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

I think it's the opposite. As soon as they experience any kind of downturn, they retreat into their bigotry and hatred

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