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[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gotta love conditional support for vulnerable minorities

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's all about lording their power over us, there is not a single cishet liberal who has any amount of actual respect for us or any other marginalized group. It's a white savior complex all the way down and if we do not show them eternal gratitude for their empty plattitudes, they get mad and reliably reveal their chauvinism and their boundless, inhuman cruelty. It's that way every single time i dare to correct them when they say something transphobic, too. They cannot handle it when their faux progressive facade is revealed for what it is.

Death to AmeriKKKa.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Hear, hear.

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Liberal allyship, not even once.

[–] Targuinia@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'll bet I'm older than you

considering this is a thing exclusively a high schooler would say I fucking doubt it

[–] machiabelly@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Tons of older people say shit like this. Nothing they can do or say to impress or convince people. So they have to think of something to give them and their ideas relevance. Ideally something fixed that society likes. Of course they can't just learn and grow and change like everyone else. that'd be hard anti-italian-discrimination

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What they think it means

"im wiser than you"

what it really means

"I've inhaled more lead than you"

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I've worked some old paints and pewter figurines. Let this creaky Millennial at him.

[–] Judge_Jury@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

My money's on a man whose emotional growth stopped around high school. They get really into seniority in lieu of growth

[–] axont@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i'm beginning to realize a main aspect of the boomer mentality, which is divorced from actual age or generation, is an unwillingness to acknowledge that someone younger than you may be more informed. it's so silly. there are teenagers who are way smarter than me and that's just how the world is.

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

an unwillingness to acknowledge that someone younger than you may be more informed.

this is baffling to me because the curriculum gets updated over time so younger people ought to be better informed about matters they've been educated on than people who learned about it 20+ years ago.

[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

well thought out point

"IM OLD YOUR YOUNG"

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

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[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The first poster didn't say anything about being queer, either . . . the old person was triggered by a the-more-you-know rainbow and had no choice but to abandon solidarity.

[–] Quaxamilliom@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

This was the most mind blowing part of that whole interaction lmao

[–] axont@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

listen here, you gay. i'll have you know I'm a Queer Ally, I always get the rainbow cupcake at Panera Bread and I have a gay bumper sticker on my Tesla. Do you really want to lose all that support?

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

i have a gay bumper sticker on my tesla

Preemptively condemning people to a fire isn't a good look.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

I bet I'm older than you. And I bet you don't respect me never having learned anything new since I was a teenager.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 23 points 1 year ago

Oh no not the flag oh fuck guys what are we gonna do noooooooooooooooooo

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

The Palestinians in Gaza most specifically have been given an almost 2 decade chance

Translation: the victims in the refugee state (as not everyone in Gaza are from Gaza; many are refugees from other places in Palestine) imprisoned in their own country have been given 2 decades to learn to live with horrific oppression.

Imma be real with you guys; if I ever hear about any of these people having their homes invaded and the people who invade their homes treat them in a horrific manner, I will absolutely say the home invaders have a right to defend themselves and that they (the people in question) should've learned to coexist; I feel no sympathy for these people I swear to God

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I fly this rainbow flag to let the LGBTQ+ community know that they're safe and I support them (until a single person disagrees with me and they're incidentally gay, then I'd rather you died).

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

This person has terminal reddit brain. Only comments about either pro-ukraine or pro-israeli content, insufferable smuglord replies, blames civilians for being bombed. Pretty much used r/politics exclusively before the invasion took place

[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

/r/israelcrimes is a growing subreddit

[–] CrimsonSage@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's incredible how anti Semitic Israel supporters are without seeming to realize it. Conflating jews with Israelis was originally ba literal nazi dog whistle, and they have just adopted it whole heartedly.

[–] footfaults@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

This was a conscious decision that Zionists made back in the aughts

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Ending active military occupation in favour of open air prison, blockade and periodic bommbings is the height of 'living peacefully'.

[–] RonPaulyShore@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Most of their countries ris are unstable theocracies that hve nothing to do with freedom and human values.

really makes you think.

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