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Skibidibackrooms?

I think. I’m probably too old to understand what gen alpha will consider childhood nostalgia.

Well friend, it’s a good thing you don’t use a Mac, then.

Even Gentoo? 👉☺️👈

Credit where credit is due, at least scientologists are the better educated of the bunch. Fuck them both, though.

While I’m not the biggest fan of the South Park creators’ political views, I’m more inclined to say that people using South Park to double down on their bigotry is more of a reflection of themselves than the show.

South Park has undoubtedly made some very fucked-up and politically charged episodes in its 20-something year run. For better or worse, it’s their bread and butter to intentionally piss people off by parodying various groups, current events, and American society as a whole. I don’t really get the impression that the show is malicious, though. More so that they’re immaturely edgy and willing to push the boundaries of what is considered acceptable discourse.

I’m not going to claim that the episodes mentioned here were without negative consequences to already-marginalized groups (or even any good), but my opinion is that if someone is going to cherry-pick an episode out of a show known for coming up with absurd and over-the-top shit, they were going to look for something to reaffirm their bigoted perspective regardless of whether it came from South Park or some other exaggerated media like Alex Jones. The problem isn’t so much that there exists fiction that bigots can point at to demonstrate their views, as much as its that they held those views in the first place.

Not the original commenter, but my guess is because—supposedly—they inspired “kick a ginger day.” (Wikipedia) They also pissed off a lot of religious folk by making fun of the absurd beliefs held by various mainstream religions, but I imagine the only people who would take offense to that would be members of said religions who take themselves a bit too seriously.

On the other hand…

• They damaged The Church of Scientology’s credibility and demonstrated that it’s possible to make fun of that cult without life-ruining retaliation.
• They openly disregarded bomb threats against their creators and the studio to take a stand against groups using threats of violence as a way to silence others.
• They called out the phenomenon of corporations bowing foreign government censorship in exchange for market access.
• Recently, they used a montage sequence to parody how utterly fucked the American healthcare system is.

A lot of their episodes are comedic criticisms of the corrupt institutions in the United States, and they do a good job demonstrating the consequences to people who would otherwise be politically apathetic. But then again, a bunch of people took the wrong messages away and ended up being inspired by Eric Cartman.

It’s a mixed bag, but in my opinion, the show has probably done more good than harm.

I need to try with my user agent set to a Chromebook. Maybe I’ll even get a discount.

Then drag and I are in agreement :)

I saw drag clarification that drag comment was just about milk and not politics or economics. Myself and others had a different interpretation, which is where things were misunderstood.

Understandable. I hope drag has a good day and glass of ethical milk.

If drag does not support China, drag is probably not a tankie. If drag calls drag communist and consider Russia and North Korea communist-led countries, drag is wrong, however. A charitable description of those countries would be “socialist” by Marx’s definition.

So, Drag thinks countries that act as though their neighbors are part of a greater whole ruled by them as the motherland, and have political structures where the governing body consists of a small cohort (and not the proletariat) are communist?

That’s imperialism, buddy.

Let me know when: 1) China stops trying to exert absolute control over Tibet, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; 2) North Korea accepts that their ownership ends where their globally-recognized territory ends; 3) Russia stops invading neighboring countries; and 4) All three of them abolish the ruling class and give the power to the people.

The constant cheerleading of brutally-repressive regimes that don’t have any values in common with actual socialists or communists just because they oppose the US and its allies.

This is my main issue with tankies. Yeah, late-stage capitalism sucks and exploits the layman to enrich the rich further—I take no issue with that. It’s the knob-slobbering of Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong Un that makes no sense. Modern-day Russia, China, and North Korea have about as much in common with communism as oat milk has with milk: nothing but the name.

In late-stage capitalism, they are.

Echo chambers suck, I’m sorry. It’s assbackwards when people dismiss real, lived experiences that don’t align with what they optimistically imagine those experiences would be like.

And the polluters in question are less ambiguously defined to be any company manufacturing or selling devices with lithium batteries with a capacity over 10000 MAh, of course.

Something can be objectively correct yet still presented in an opinionated manner.

Oh, don’t worry. The guy who answered vmlinuz beat me to the joke in general :)

There’s always BSD, Hurd, Darwin… or NT 🤮

The kernel. I can take or leave most things, but I’m not going back to the days of writing directly into memory-mapped registers.