• Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    4211 months ago

    The United States willfully and knowingly deceived and betrayed me when I was a child. Its promise of liberty is false when our choice is between bonded servitude and starvation.

    Jews and Muslims exist that recognize the personhood of everyone (despite objections from their respective holy texts) whereas the US federal state and the sate regimes specify those peoples they do not recognize.

    When the United States empire collapses, I will not grieve.

    • @MindSkipperBro12
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      211 months ago

      Say, how did the American Empire deceive and betray you?

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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        510 months ago

        Actually quite a lot of ways. I was taught the American Exceptionalism propaganda package as a credulous kid as with the rest of my peers. But my teachers knew they were prepping my class to be replaceable, disposable laborers and soldiers in American industry in which hard work and loyalty are practically meaningless, and social safety nets from FDR’s New Deal and LBJ’s Great Society were being dismantled. My teachers were obligated by the Los Angeles School District and California Education Department to adhere to these myths as if they were truth. I was taught that the United States and California were run by public-serving governments, even though the two party system was known to be flawed since the late 19th century, and we were watching as the Reagan administration was providing access to lobbyists and soft money, shutting out the constituencies. Even then, the move towards autocracy that would inform the George W. Bush years and set up Trump and the white power movement was moving forward in the eighties, and this wasn’t being covered in intermediate or high-school American Government.

        Then there’s the myth that rule of law exists in the US, that our courts are governed by Blackstone’s Ratio, that law enforcement is about serving the public.

        It was all shit when I was in grade school, and my parents, teachers and ministers knew this and kept us in the dark about it, perpetuating the same lies that Pete Seeger observed in the 1960s.

  • TOR-anon1
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    2211 months ago

    Puppies.

    Cats are better.

  • @[email protected]
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    1011 months ago

    Ah, Zach Star Himself

    Love this guy. Idk how he manages to put out such consistent bangers

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      511 months ago

      Amazing how this guy do serious and informative maths videos and on the side high quality sketches.

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        11 months ago

        I know, I only found his informative videos months after watching his sketches. One of them just popped up in my recommended, and I heard his voice and was like

        “No way this is Zach”

        And then I look at the channel name, and my mind imploded

        • @[email protected]
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          411 months ago

          I’ve been subscribed by his math youtube channel for more than 5 years and he started the sketches on that channel, with jokes about math vs engineering professors/students until he finally decided to move the non serious stuff to an exclusive channel and they were never recommended to me until this one and another with an actual funny non discriminatory trans joke.

  • @notaviking
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    611 months ago

    There is no right way to answer this, either way you are going to offend a certain group. You will be dumb and crucified if you choose any choice even if you mean it as a joke, so clearly my answer is B