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  • ... Do you actually not see the irony in posting this in a thread about being banned from a community called Manufacturing Consent for noting a mistake?

    That's kind of amazing, thank you.

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  • Read what you are responding to but carefully.

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  • Oh absolutely, like I said, I really don't care, I just found the irony hilarious.

    Edit: though great point about the notes, happily discovered piefed has that feature too! Much appreciated!

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  • Cheers?

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  • The what?

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  • Did you mean to respond to another comment or did you completely miss the point?

    Edit: to put it more politely... The entire above point is that rhe evil of Israel's war does not change whether murdering and kidnapping civilians is wrong.

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  • Kidnapping civilians is unequivocally bad regardless of whether we think the kidnapper is on the right side of history.

    Being unable to acknowledge the wrongs committed by those whom we support is pretty damn horrifying in my book. To see the same willfully ignorant "america/trump/the church can do no wrong" attitude but on the Left breaks my heart.

  • Horror Recommendations?

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  • A bit late to the party but I have a handful that might work.

    For spooky and eerie vibes, Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. (Turned into a movie that really doesn't capture the feeling.) Just a great sense of creepy dread throughout. I read it alone in a large house in the dark and loved feeling the hair on the back of my neck rise.

    Real life horror, The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston. About Ebola, freaking terrifying gross and real.

    And if you're looking for classics, he's a bad person but a solid gothic writer, HP Lovecraft. Not all the stories work but a lot are pretty good at evoking dread. Almost any of his collections of short stories works!

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  • I really should keep an eye out for those comms and just avoid. At least any of the vaguely political ones!

    (Just Manufacturing Consent feels like a trap designed for me as Chomsky's thoughts on this are super relevant and interesting so, like a fool, I fell into the trap.)

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  • .ml is a strange little place.

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  • Like “Oh I was just a few dozen deaths short of having sympathy for Israel”

    This is really well put and cracked me up.

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  • To each their own! I just wanted an analogy where I was pretty sure they would want to take the other side.

    (It just seems wild to me that geneva's arguing that the kidnapped people shouldn't count in the totals.)

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  • Reality, my arch nemesis!

  • What currently ongoing series, if they maintain their current quality level - have a chance to be all time greats?

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  • Oh absolutely. I mean, some of their episodes from 20 years ago already feel like timeless classics. Just looked over the season 9 lineup, which somehow was 20 years ago. You've got Randy fighting Bat Dad in the Losing Edge, the Death of Eric Cartman, and Die Hippie Die. And, while the episode may not have been as great, the end of Willzyx absolutely slays me.

  • What currently ongoing series, if they maintain their current quality level - have a chance to be all time greats?

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  • I totally get being too offended to enjoy it but I don't think it's particularly accurate to claim it only has a narrow audience, it is literally one of the most valuable franchises on television in part because it targets a large swathe in the middle. (Despite what the internet would have us believe, I think there is a large group of folks in the middle who can laugh at the craziness on both the Left and Right.)

    I'm reminded of my mom's stance on rap and hip hop, which is essentially, it might be really good and a valid form of art but there's just too much vulgarity and misogyny for her to ever enjoy it, which is fair.

    But, comedy is subjective. When I look back at the last few years, the specials over the last half decade, I come to quite the opposite conclusion, there are great episodes with an occasional dud but a hit ratio higher than most shows currently on air and a "oooh, that's an interesting take" miles beyond anything else.

  • What's a small thing that made you happy today?

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  • I organize a few co-ed soccer teams. My Tuesday team all said whether they would or wouldn't play without me having to nag anyone, which is always nice.

    At work, a project I've been leading for what feels like an eternity just crossed the second last hump and most of my efforts towards it are done (for now until something explodes.)

    Apparently the fediverse enjoyed a silly meme I made, which is always nice as I like to try to contribute to this place.

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  • Unpopular opinion here I imagine but I'll stand by South Park.

    Have they said a lot with which I vehemently disagree? Absolutely! But I think there's little to no value in only watching or reading things with which you agree.

    And their perspective, while different than mine, seems to have helped them nail things in a much better and often more interesting/sophisticated way than anyone else. Or before others really get it.

    And goddamn, they've had me howling with laughter more than a few times each season. Thinking on their highlights over a damn near 30 year run and despite marginal dips in quality, I'm in.

    Edit: An example of one trend/issue etc they nailed way before anyone else (as far as I know) was PC Principal. Using frat bros to represent social justice culture was absolutely brilliant and I didn't even realize how accurate it seemed to others until I talked with a Conservative friend about it (to anyone outside of the progressive bubble, the early 2010s felt like a bunch of elites/rich kids using the plight of others to finally be the bullies, albeit online.) And I think that pretty accurately predicted the blue collar/non college grad backlash to all of it, which is the tide that trump rolled in on.

  • Are you doing your part?

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  • You could listen to the teacher in the beginning. Or notice the constant jingoistic propaganda. Or watch any voice of reason be shouted down.

    To each their own but especially these days, it's important to notice that the road to authoritarianism isn't a wild swerve from thr status quo but a slow, gradual drift.

    Personally, I quite enjoy a movie that respects its audience enough to not have to have the bad guys murder babies for a reasonable viewer to catch on to the what's going on.

    It was fine as a adumb tits n ass action movie when I was 12, realized "hey, this is an actual movie" in my 20s. And that's fine, if it is somehow too subtle for people, well, so is authoritarianism.

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  • You might try piefed? It's a fediverse platform so still links/syncs etc with lemmy and everywhere else but the UI is nice and I think it does a lot of the stuff you mention (except for the ama style stuff.) I followed PugJesus here (and am using Piefed right now) and exported all my feeds etc so the switch was relatively painless.

    Feel free to reach out if you have any questions etc. I probably won't be able to help but uhhh, I'll commiserate?