I never thought about it until now, but isn’t this classic visualisation of Atlas carrying the world kind of wrong? He held up the sky and not the entire earth, right?
Huh. TIL that in the classical depictions, he’s holding up celestial spheres
I’m genuinely scared they are gonna force engineers to go out an pick fruit in the field… Engineers like me… Cuz they haven’t replaced a fair number of those jobs with machines yet… What happens when all the jobs are taken by machines and we have our economy which is barter and trade, while the 1% have their economy that’s destroying every bit of the natural world in order to fuel their prepackaged products…
Rock 'n roll was created by the progeny of slaves. Jazz, too. Still, the point holds. “Not white, not considered Americans.”
Oh, and hip-hop. How could I forget that?
Slaves were forced to immigrate.
I wouldn’t call that immigration. I’d call that kidnapping.
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Hey some of that was created by oppressed black and LGBT+ folks.
Absolutely. “Legends” such as Madonna, who owes basically her entire career to standing on the shoulders of true giants, whose names are relegated to mainstream obscurity. Her whole oeuvre was just the store brand of music that actually came from somewhere and was about something. A less messy, politically bland repackaging, free from inconvenient politics and identities. Elvis for a new generation.
Fuck yeah! Cultural exchange rocks!
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
They say that’s the main difference between the US and yogurt. If you leave yogurt alone for a few hundred years it will develop its own culture
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
- Oscar Wilde
this is always a good joke but like many jokes needs nuance! the US actually has thousands of very rich cultures—most of them are just too non-white/POC/queer/non-christofascist to “count”
(“count” is in quotes because of course they count to everyone who isn’t a white nationalist)
but like many jokes it needs nuance
No it doesn’t. It’s just a joke. You want to add nuance because youre taking it personally. Everyone understands the hyperbole …
Imagine if every racial joke in a comedy skit added an “akshuallly” for nuance; it’s no different for the US.
If you leave yogurt alone for a few hundred years
Not the MOST exciting hobby, but ok 🤷
You forgot the genocide of the natives and the erasure of pre-european history.
Also the endless exploitation of refugees, etal. that is not worth celebrating.
America’s immigration policy, while beneficial to itself, usually places a huge cost on the places these people come from. Attracting the most intelligent, and driven people from other countries means those left behind must work harder and with fewer resources. Usually these countries have to expend additional resources just to retain what skilled individuals they do have.
While this is happening, we’re going to these places and building factories. Because everything is always on a downward slope, labor is cheap and available. We don’t have to pay them minimum wage because they’re not American. Sometimes nationals do come back to their countries, to run these factories and make it big back home with American money.
I watched Startalk today and Niel deGrasse Tyson said 1/3 of the USA’s Nobel Prize winners are immigrants.
If you accept Trump’s word and classify offspring of immigrants as immigrants, then 1/1 of the USA’s Nobel Prize winners are immigrants.
If you do that noone is left coz apparently native Americans are not Americans to them.
Nobody loves Niel as much as he does.
Hah, well, you’re not wrong. I enjoy his podcast/show, they talk about some pretty neat stuff.
That was a quote from Big bang theory. Still not wrong Haha 😉
A show that definitely didn’t age well. And I used to religiously watch it.
Give me your tired, your poor…
I love this allegoric meme. According to the myth, Atlas, a Titan, was condemned to stand at the western edge of the earth and hold up the sky on his shoulders. Thus, he was Atlas Telamon, “enduring Atlas”. He was probably an immigrant too.
Day took ma job!
