I remember the “They hate us for our freedom” line from the bush-era. I was still a kid at the time and I clearly remember asking my parents about it because it seemed like such a weird thing to say.

Of course, as a french kid, this was also the time when I kept seeing Americans on TV pouring wine in the sewers and calling us surrender monkeys because we refused to join the Irak war, so that might have influenced me a bit

And yet Clair Obscur Expedition 33 is both super fun and breathtakingly beautiful

Very true in YouTube’s comment section

“Sir, we fired a single warning shot on the edge of their formation and their whole fleet just sank!”

Our form of capitalism is just what happens when capitalists try to placate the working class by giving them just barely enough breathing room that they stop actually revolting and keep to grumbling. And even that is under attack nowadays, under the pretext that their’s suddenly not enough money to sustain it even though the rich keep getting richer

This, plus I don’t want to be followed around by a salesperson when I’m shopping

Don’t forget he also reinstated slavery throughout the French empire, which had been banned by the Republic he toppled. He also led thousands upon thousands to their death and caused massive loss of life in Europe. He did some good, but his legacy is definitely mixed to say the least

So what’s the issue about that again?

I can’t see any context where those two sentences wouldn’t be awful

France refused asylum to Snowden when the US thew their weight around

Some people do think that the society we exist in is just part of the natural order and that it’s vain to try to change it or even care about it. I had an ex that was like that: whenever I tried talking about politics with her she would just go “What’s the point of talking about it, we can’t change anything anyway”

I just use one of these bad boys

Placing cops in front of a bathroom just because a trans woman said she would go wash her hands there should sound crazy to anyone. It’s sad that it’s apparently just normal now

“Why should we solve the world’s problems for free? The rest of the world should pay us!”

The UD absolutely could, but Microsoft couldn’t without facing massive legal trouble. That is, if the US legal system follows through and actually enforces EU court orders.

Regardless, unless specifically being forced to do so by the US, Microsoft wouldn’t have any reason to leave a billions-dollars market

This is peak Lemmy humor

The Chevalier d’Eon disagrees with your timeline https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevalière_d’%C3%89on

Touché

I don’t know, I might intellectually understand that morals are relative to a culture and that even our concept of universal human rights is an heritage of our colonial past and, on some level, trying to push our own values as the only morality that can exist. On a gut level though, I am entirely unable to consider that LGBT rights, gender equality or non-discrimination aren’t inherently moral.

I don’t think holding these two beliefs is weird, it’s a natural contradiction worth debating and that’s what I would expect from an ethics teacher

I think you can call her the fediverse chick