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Gotta love idiots that cross the road while the rest of us are waiting for the traffic lights to turn red.

No point gambling your life to save an extra 8 seconds. One day they won’t be so lucky. But some people are just stupid.

So true fam, good thing we’ve got the best, most free democracy here in England 👏♥️

Why does everybody insist on calling enemy occupiers, “settlers”?

When Russian civilians move in to annexed Ukrainian lands they’re not called settlers. Settler suggests peaceful civilians moving somewhere they’re allowed to inhabit, to start a new life.

They’re invaders. Occupiers. Thieves.

Settlers my arse.

They killed the man himself, Dow Jones!

(Thanks for the informative response! It made my brain go off on a bit of a tangent haha)

I always thought that term was weird, African American.

Like, are they African, or American, they can’t be both. If we’re trying to say “American but of African genetic descent”, that can (maybe) include white Africans who have lived there many generations, not to mention the more truly native people in African nations like Egypt or Morocco, who, to put it crudely, may not always be considered ‘black’ enough or from the appropriate cultural group to be called African American.

And, if we’re using the term, why aren’t most white people in the USA called European Americans?

It seems a weird and very specific label applied to people of a very particular skin colour and heritage, to avoid using the word black, even though that’s not, on its own, a racist term. It’s just a descriptive visual trait, like tall, thin, white, muscly, gaunt, etc.

I think it says more about the person saying it, when they feel like calling a person black is, in a vacuum, being racist, you know?

Like, coming up with a weird special term that doesn’t really stay logically consistent just to dance around the fact that you’re uncomfortable with someone else’s skin colour is weird, you know?

Anyway, I’m not from there, so there are probably big gaps in my knowledge on the subject, it’s just always seemed really odd to me as an outsider looking in, haha.

…Especially when some Americans come over here and start calling local black people “African American”. Dawg you in Europe! You’re calling a French black dude American 😂

Judging people based on the video games they enjoy? Ok.

You think he can afford that?!

They’ll have to do massive genocide and slaughter millions and millions of people across Europe for them to be remembered in such a manner.

They may indeed end up doing just that, and they may even “win”, but we have nukes in Europe and if we’re going down we’re taking them with us, that’s for sure.

I’ve got her book by my bed, such a good read :-)

They’re waiting for you, @PlasticPope@lemm.ee

The Fuhrer shot himself, if I recall. Not that I wouldn’t go back in time to shoot him again.

or have they

Yes, it’s called a tram. It’s how I get to the shops, city centre, etc.

Why am I not seeing a picture? On my end this is just a text post where a guy said oooh yeah and nothing else 😅

Happy Bonfire Night everybody! 🔥🎆

Hope you’ve got your Guy Fawkes effigies ready to go, I like to stuff mine with newspaper :-D

What is it with people trying to make the entirety of October into Halloween?

It’s one single night, it’s not a season. Is this the Americans trying to push it on us to increase our capitalist consumption or something? I see it a LOT these past few years.

What’s next, turning Easter into a month long extravaganza?

Except it’s mostly Americans, and their politics mostly has nothing to do with me. Such is life I suppose.

Don’t forget that your employer doesn’t give you your legally mandated annual leave, it’s one of your basic rights, like sick pay (applies to the UK, and hopefully a lot of other places).

<3

That’s not a bad thing, we all come to new things not understanding them at first, especially topics that we don’t get a good grasp on until we’re into adulthood and no longer have a structured education system to guide us. Subjects like politics, economics, sociology etc.

We all come to these daunting subjects with various levels of knowledge and ability, all we can do is try to dip our toes in to a subject that feels important to understand, get reading, watching videos, whatever works best for you, and go from there :-)

I’ve not looked at the news yet, Lemmy was my first stop. I’m thinking… earthquake in the Kremlin?

There’s a lot of really nice architecture there, it’d be a shame for it to be lost in rubble.

That, or we got disqualified from the Euros final xD