t has honestly gotten to the point where I literally shove my arm pit in friends and families faces asking if I smell bad, they all say I don’t smell like b.o. at all, one friend even said I smelled too clean like a lush store.
Gaslight and trash boyfriend aside, this made me chuckle because of the imagery and I can imagine myself doing the same thing, quite aggressively even.
Sorry for being topic adjacent, but.... Is this the point of this community/magazine? To recycle old reddit content? Because I subscribed with the assumption that it would be about the best posts here in the fediverse, new content.
i dont really have a problem with that, i mean on reddit we had posts from every other platform like 4Chan, Twitter & co too
Difference here is that reddit is the source and will be for the first few weeks the main one because it has content
Exactly! People need to put Reddit to bed over here. Let’s make it about here. Morn yes, but come up with new stuff. Or at least copy the model but make it fedi specific.
The point of this community is to be the fediverse version of BestOfRedditorUpdates. If you want to contribute content from the Fediverse you are free to do so, but until that point I’m content to read content from wherever it’s gathered.
If you don’t want to read it, nobody is forcing you to be here.
We arent gonna get more peolple if there isnt any content to retain people with. If you want fediverse updates, then please post some. Right now, there arent any instances that generate updates in the first place. So this is whats gonna happen until we get more instances made that generate stories.
Probably for now tbh - as Lemmy gets more posts/content, I imagine it will swing over to best Lemmy updates. There’s a few communities/magazines re-created over here but not a ton of content to share just yet!
That’s such a weird thing. I guess the equivalent would be if a company in Europe would want to run a WWII-theme party.
On one hand, it’s dumb in the cultural/sensitivity sense, on the other hand it would be cool if we could leave the past be. Nobody seems to have an issue with throwing a party with the theme of Napoleonic era, or the Victorian era, or WWI, or the French revolution or whatnot.
I wonder what’s needed for these things to also pass into history as “so yep, that’s what happened. Anyway check out these sick uniforms”.
The thing is the other events still don’t hold the sense of evil the Confederacy holds. The CSA was an evil cause with the goal of perpetuating chattel slavery and white supremacy.
Im not sure Europe could have an equivalent unless it was celebrating colonial abusiveness somehow? Maybe the Belgians could do a Congo themed party celebrating their crimes there? Short of doing a Nazi Party themed event I don’t believe Europe has anything comparable.
The difference between Napoleonic, victorian, etc. eras vs. slavery and/or WW2 is that we have a subsection of the population that has been very clear that they see themselves as the spiritual successors to the slaveholders AND the Nazis, and that given a chance they will try to re-enact those policies.
People can have fun with historical periods that don't have direct current events tie-ins, but when normal people are confronted with weird fascist dog whistles, it gets very uncomfortable very quickly.
We also have literal pirates in the seas, and that doesn’t stop us from playing pirates. We have wars, and that isn’t stopping us from playing soldiers.
We shouldn’t let a bunch of morons spoil everything.
And yet those who call for the actual re-enactment of those filthy activities are (rightfully) shunned and mocked by the same people around them.
A thing is a child playing pirate or soldier, another thing is an adult partaking a themed party showing up dressed as a literal slave owner. If you cannot tell the difference between these two situations I’d advise you to show up dressed as Hitler at the next jewish-themed party you might be invited to. Maybe you’ll learn a valuable lesson.
Screenshots unfortunately aren’t super accessible for screen readers :(
It was suggested to me in another thread to use something like Pastebin to share large amounts of text, but when I tried, it wasn’t formatted :( I’m also looking at possibly using Github pages, which will apply the correct formatting, but I’m thinking users are unlikely to click thru to 3rd party webpages anyway
i remember when this got posted. it was nice. life is so hard and so difficult sometimes, it’s nice to see when humans can reach each other and show that level of love.
mayhaps, but i think that this is something that all sexualities have
i mean i ate the snacks of my partner and i am ace…
(that was super sweet stuff that someone gifted him and he does not like super sweet stuff)
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