teeter totter taco
(midwest.social)
slothrop "Can't, pants are full"
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime looked to the United States racial policies and legal models as inspiration, particularly in the crafting of the Nuremberg Laws. Hitler himself praised the United States in his manifesto Mein Kampf for its racist immigration and nationality policies, and Nazi lawyers explicitly referenced American race law as a precedent for their own legislation. So, yeah, historically the United States is different from what Hollywood shows (the shock, I know).
For context:
- https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172422/hitlers-american-model
- https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/question/what-were-some-similarities-between-racism-in-nazi-germany-and-in-the-united-states-1920s-1940s
Not to be that guy but that's literally closing in on almost 100 years ago.
The US might still have race issues but the US is definitely the most racially conscious country you could probably live in at the same time. Most countries don't have such a variety of cultures mixed together.
Just kind of an odd thing for you to throw out in the context of this picture. What about this post makes you think "ah yes, racism!"
the most racially conscious country
Just like the politicians who always think about protecting the minors?
Just look at Japan. It's been 100 years since they joined the wrong side of WWII, in part for racist reasons. Today, as a culture and generally speaking, not only are they horribly racist, they don't even acknowledge it as a problem. Even among Asians, they consider themselves the most superior Asian (read: whitest) race. Look at how they treat Koreans or Chinese throughout history.
China continues to try to purge Uyghurs. In fact, anti-indigenous racism seems to be an unfortunately global concept. Rwanda committed one of the worst genocides in history, purging a culture so similar to their own that it defies reason, and could only happen through decades of re-enforcement. A majority of European countries are so culturally isolated from each other than they barely understand what racism is.
A country that understands where the racism exists can take the first steps to fight against it. Most countries aren't even that far.
And yet, countries like the US and Canada are huge melting pots that understand what racism is, and has fought for centuries to push it back. Has the US solved racism? Fuck no! But, the topic is constantly in the foreground, always talked about, and one of the primary drivers of politics.
Are you telling me global north now works together with the global north?
The other joke here is that Trump being a fat fuck weighs the same as the other 3
Yeah, but none of them aren't fat.
I’d say Kim and Donny are really fat they other 2 are overweight
Putin doesn't seem fat, just stocky, like Russian men generally. None of them are anywhere close to as obese as Trump.
like Russian men generally
Wat
*grossly obese
Is it shameful to be fat or something?
Being fat? No.
Being a fat fuck? Yes.
What's the issue with being a "fat fuck"?
It's a heavy (pun?) bias on the "being a fuck" part. The fat part is simply observational
It becomes hurtful toward fat people when made part of the insult. It's played like "dumb fuck" or "gay fuck", putting an adjective in front of an insult makes that adjective part of the insult.
::: spoiler Image Description Tumblr post by fluoresensitive: Small penises aren't bad, balding isn't bad, being short isn't bad, being fat isn't bad. Physical traits are not signs of morality, and the sooner people stop mocking people for their bodies (yes, even when they're bad) the better.
User uxji responds with a drawing of a stick-person labeled "You" holding a gun labeled in red "Bodyshaming" firing to the right at a stick-person labeled "Guy u don't like but will not care" who is deflecting the shot to the left which hits a third stick-person labeled "Person you care about with the same trait who now knows you think they're ugly"
User cretaceousundead responds: Like another tumblr post said "when you make fun of a bad person for their appearance, somewhere there's a good person with a similar appearance who hears you and feels terrible" :::
I get what this picture is saying, but I'd like to point out this is an issue that was never a problem outside of celebrity before the turn of the millennium. I say if used in defence with private issues, use whatever works if the collateral damage is only imagined people, just don't make hating a part of your identity.
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I mean, I'll conclude with "sure I get your point and I agree to a point".
But at the same time I fully understand that I'll stick to my; I don't mind people being fat or stupid or an ass, my issue will reside in when people know they have this objectively bad thing about themselves and refuse to do anything to fix it.
If you're overweight and just accept that you're overweight and do nothing, that's not a good thing.
If you're overweight and are working on it, good on you partner.
I will always judge the first group, because everyone should have the self realization to try to be a better person. I say this with full observation of the irony.
Yes
No it actually isn't. Every body is valid.
Shame can be valid.
Shaming someone for how they look isn't.
Ok grandma. Sorry
Rude and not a woman
For the most part sure.
It never is, not just "for the most part"
I don’t think that China and USA are big friends. Xi Jinping is the pure winner out of the whole geopolitical mess and keeps on damaging the US economy beautifully.
Putin is Putin and he made himself unpopular everywhere. He will never leave his bunkers again.
And Kimmy is just a 50 IQ potato who is happy to be talking to someone so famous such as Trump and probably always asks for a signature on a postcard.
Rich people in each of those countries are closer allies to each other than their own citizens.
Now drop a big rock on the other side and launch those fuckers into space, chickity-ciao! 🚀🌞
It‘s funny because historically America has always been the good guy, and Trump is the only anomaly. This is clear by the fact that the US is currently not involved in any proxy or trade war with any of the evil dictators on the other side.
Very sharp analysis by the cartoonist, they really must have a strong grip on reality.
It‘s funny because historically America has always been the good guy, and Trump is the only anomaly.
That is not what the cartoon implies though. You are just forcing your own tankie strawmen on it. It is purely about a geopolitical context, where the US indeed traditionally has been the opponent of the other regimes, but no longer are.
Geopolitical opponents says nothing about values or "good guys", because believe it or not, you can actually oppose both sides in a geopolitical conflict. I know that is a difficult concept for your zero sum "all enemies of the US are my friends" tankie mindset.
There is no evidence that Trump is substantially less confrontative with Russia and China than any other president in the last 30 years (my comment directly references this), so in that sense he is “balancing” geopolitics by keeping the world on the constant brink of WW3 “as any good president should”.
My problem with this “comic” is two fold. One, it implies that Trump is an anomaly in an otherwise continuous moral America. Two, it presents a world that is in a constant state of conflict between imperialists powers (What did a tankie just call Russia imperialist?!?) as a desirable state.
But yes, it’s me that is talking to straw men.
They have supported Israel for a long time though. I guess it had to wait for the genocide to become more blatant for them not to be seen as the good guys?
Well if Genocide happens under a Dem it's different /s
Nope, dem here. Fuck Biden for doing nothing.
Thankfully I don't see it as much on here as much as it used to be around the peak of the election, where I'd see (self proclaimed) liberals ignoring the reality and instead argue that his hands were tied or that he's totally working tirelessly for a ceasefire or that it was irrelevant to winning the race. I still see establishment Dems holding this view, especially during the controversy of the DNC refusing to release the autopsy
Guess what, that bunch on the left side fits together quite well, but you aren't allowed to say that on lemmy.ml, are you?
Indeed I would be rightfully sent to the gulag.
You're allowed to talk bullshit, but we're going to make fun of you for being wrong about it.
That's the thing. Doesn't matter how, when bringing up any of the nasty things any of those up there, unless it is the US, have done or are in the midst of doing right now, the response is pretty much like on my comment up there. Doesn't matter how well supported the comment is or not.
That's the thing. The comments are never well supported. China hasn't dropped a bomb in 50 years and in the same time has lifted 800,000,000 people out of poverty. To put them in the same ballgame doesn't make sense because they're not even playing the same sport lol.
I dont remember those other guys being friends with epstein
Melania = Putin's proxy
Liberals just group anyone who doesn't subscribe to their specific ideology into the same category. It's wild how oversimplistic and childish that perspective is.
Tankies just group anyone who doesn't subscribe to their specific ideology into the same category. It's wild how oversimplistic and childish that perspective is.
The classic, "I know you are but what am I?" but the problem is that the comic is the thing that actually does it.
Wow. Deep.
Not as deep as the comic tho. Really insightful stuff there.
