DahGangalang

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[–] DahGangalang 84 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Because I recently rediscovered this, sharing here:

All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.

--Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

[–] DahGangalang 78 points 3 months ago (5 children)

“In Hungary we have some examples of extreme right bands becoming mainstream because they’re on the top 40 chart. I mean, what’s more normal than being on the top 40?”

But which songs/bands? Are you saying its like a whole studio/record company pushing this?

“I have a stepson who sometimes sends videos and then I go down the rabbit hole to see who created them and it turns out it’s a far-right influencer.”

But which creators/influencers do we need to be on watch for?

“They’ve also started their own food delivery,” she said. “It’s just wild that you can be ordering food from the far right and not know.”

Do you mean the whole service is far-right? Can I get the names of services to avoid?

This article feels like it lacks substance. It seems to be saying "There's bad guys out there. I'm not going to tell you who or where, but they're there. Just trust me bro". (In all fairness, they do point to tradwife influencers, but I assumed that was known).

That's not to say that they haven't actually found sources of right wing influence in each of these areas, but I was really hoping they'd bring the receipts on it.

I don't suppose anyone here can point to examples of what they're talking about with any of these? (Again, I'm aware of the tradwife stuff, so I'm good skipping that point).

[–] DahGangalang 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I thought I was nuts will my like 100-110 (I can hardly even believe I let me own mod count creep up that high)

[–] DahGangalang 5 points 3 months ago

Damn, I was hoping we could include an S so OP has to include multiple per friend.

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Older AI image generation be like

[–] DahGangalang 3 points 3 months ago

What kills me is that if SNL made this joke now, none of my friends would get it since they avoid the news like the plague. I'm kinda impressed that most of the audience would have gotten this joke.

[–] DahGangalang 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm unfamiliar with which companies (aside from Oracle) are owned by the Ellison.

Can I get you to enumerate some of the big ones?

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