[–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Amazing that the young ones will have to teach their parents morality but actually I'm not that suprised. I feel many of us will be looking back at the direction boomers and their parents took the world post WW2 and shake our heads.

The first time I took a deep dive into the Israeli-Palestinian 'conflict' was in 2012 and it took all of half an hour to come to the conclusion that Netanyahu has a bloodlust reminiscent of Hitler. It felt shitty to realize that Western propaganda had me believing a lie my entire life (granted I was in my early 20s). But that feeling was soon overcome with an even worse feeling of unease as you realize how many people just accept this genocide as the status quo.

I'm so glad Gen Z is seeing through all this. It was much easier to pull the wool over peoples eyes (in a way) in the pre social media age because news was always curated for us. There's a lot of bullshit out there on the internet don't get me wrong.

But it's hard to argue with pictures of dead children (even though some folk still try).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    That's because you and I were force fed Western propaganda from a young age. Indigineous people have an actually sustainable way of living. The Western world has set humanity on a path to extinction, with a bet that technology will somehow save us at the last second.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Wouldn't be offended necessarily. He's Muslim and South Asian (parents are Gujurati and Punjabi) so it's easy to think that. We need to offer grace to people outside of our ingroup. They're going to know less and that's ok. Just like I don't know if O'Keefe is Irish, Scottish or Potato.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    Transgenderism has a long precolonial history in India. Westerners have been heavily propagandized into thinking they are the origin story of progressivism (mostly colonial propoganda to justify genocide) when the truth is history is much less linear and much more complex than they are made to think it is.

    I'm not suprised that the propoganda exists. But I am in awe when the worldview it promotes is still held by many today. Perhaps the consequence of having a wholly inadequate education system.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Same story. One year ago. That and stopping drinking are some of the best choices I've made in a long time.

    I still use reddit occasionally for its smallest communities where I know I'm still interacting with humans. I assume the top posts are all bot posts with bots flaming bots in the comments. Everyone's time is worth more than that.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Cerrainly not war on this scale.

    WW1 was trenches and mustard gas.

    Now world leaders can nuke an Arby's an easy as they can order Arby's on Doordash.

    That's gotta create an underlying sense of "well, we have it, why not use it?"

    The recent Israel-Iran conflict is a perfect example of this. The initial attack accomplished nothing (set their nuclear program back by what, months?) and the response was equally meaningless.

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