• betelgeuse [comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    People basing their entire view of history on magazine adverts from the 50s like they're in some kind of post-apocalypse story, piecing together what the world that ended. They could just look stuff up because the world hasn't actually ended, but that's a cuck way of looking at things apparently.

    • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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      5 months ago

      It's just so dumb on so many levels.

      One: uncritically accepting advertising as fact, despite exaggeration and puffery being standard practice

      Two: flying was an outright luxury during that time. Only rich people and new "middle class" Americans were doing it, so airlines catered to that crowd. That's radically different from air travel today where most people have flown at least once in the past few years, and nearly half have flown once in the last year. If you're tailoring a service to 85% of the population instead of ~30% or less, it's clearly going to be different.

      Three: if you want your fancy boy meals and two by two seating, you're welcome to buy a first class ticket for thousands of dollars. An approximation of this kind of service is available in first class today - these dipshits either don't realize that because they're completely unobservant and incurious, or, they're just looking for an excuse to hate women and minorities and think that SURELY they'd be able to afford it if we reintroduced segregation or something. Just downwardly economically mobile white guys blaming the proles they're forced to join instead of the bosses.

      God I hate these people.

      • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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        5 months ago

        uncritically accepting advertising as fact, despite exaggeration and puffery being standard practice

        In Communist North Korea, the impoverished masses are easily fooled by the ruling class' propaganda, which is laden with exaggeration and puffery depicting an idealized life wherein people readily consent to their own exploitation

  • player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    I haven't traveled outside the US very much but when I was in China, I took a 2 hour domestic flight on Shenzhen Airlines and they served hot meals both ways for free with 2 or 3 choices of meal. I was impressed, I've never received that kind of service except on long international flights.

    This was the hot teriyaki chicken, rice, and vegetables with a box containing a roll, banana, pickled vegetables, and candy.

    *removed externally hosted image*

    • Xx_Aru_xX [she/her]
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      5 months ago

      I had to go to divided by zero to see the image, what the fuck is that site design

      Show

      • DengistDonnieDarko [none/use name]
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        5 months ago

        We removed in-line images from different instances on the first day of federation, after someone/people started spamming CSAM and gore in our threads.

      • Aquilae [he/him, they/them]
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        5 months ago

        I like it. Very anarchist colors.

        You can change it to mostly usual colors though by changing the theme in settings to anything other than the default (ironically)

      • player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        5 months ago

        Sorry, I thought it would be embedded inline because I just used the Sync for Lemmy app to upload it but I guess it just hosts it on my home instance.

        • fox [comrade/them]
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          5 months ago

          Hexbear automatically removes externally hosted images because trolls and wreckers would try to post gore and CSAM

    • oregoncom [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      I flew on Sichuan Airlines on my birthday and they gave me a handwritten birthday card.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      The Chinese equivalent of "how are you" is "have you eaten yet?" I think there's a lot more emphasis on having a proper hot meal than in many other places.

      You can even see that attitude reflected in government COVID supplies. In Japan the delivered supplies for people in quarantine were almost all instant processed foods. In China, lockdown supplies had tons of fresh vegetables and meats. Ironically, that made food deliveries more expensive and difficult but there was never any talk of replacing fresh food with processed food.

  • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    Once again antisemitism is the fool's version of materialism. Could it be the never ending quest to extract evey iota of profit possible led to free meals being replaced with complimentary crackers? Or was it as this dumbass thinks and the secret Jewish cabal is taking away meals to further the great replacement or some other bigoted bullshit

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      5 months ago

      This doesn't even resemble materialism.

      This isn't "jewish bankers control the world and everyone is enslaved by them", this is "jewish space lasers control people's minds".

      Pure magical thinking.

  • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]
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    5 months ago

    and what is that Delta cookie thing, is that a giant cookie or is it a bread loaf or is it actually small but close to the camera and

    • kleeon [he/him, he/him]
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      5 months ago

      looks like these are just regular cookies

      Show

      edit: sorry, it's not a cookie, it's a "goyblock"

        • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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          5 months ago

          I was going to comment, the delta cookies are quite good if you have a bit of coffee.

          • Scew1 [none/use name]
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            4 months ago

            if you have a bit of coffee.

            That's some crazy talk right there. I already had to sacrifice my wife and two children to afford to bring a bag with me. They'd probably want you to sign a contract for the next three generations of your family to be indentured servants to afford that cup of coffee...

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    The real reason airlines used to be like that is that there used to be stringent regulations on how many seats could be on a plane. That meant that there was a pretty consistent floor on how much airlines could lower prices and still turn a profit. Therefore, they competed on providing the best services and we're able to do that because there was leftover space to fucking cook a roast in the kitchen.

    Deregulation prompted a race to the bottom for both prices and services because airlines could turn economy class into sardine cans and still make more money.

    The Jews didn't do this, it was fucking Reagan.

    • whoops
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      5 months ago

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  • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    The perspective makes it look like a fking giant cracker like the size of a serving tray

    • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]
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      5 months ago

      Antisemites tend to use "goy" in derogatory fashion to indicate something being of Jewish origin. Got a lot of play back when 4chan nazis posted "happy merchant" memes all day.

      I hate so much that I know this shit

      • RedCat@lemmygrad.ml
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        5 months ago

        I feel like an Idiot now but wow that makes a lot of gaming YouTubers I liked just a few seconds ago into 4chan Nazis

        • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]
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          5 months ago

          IIIRC famed shitposter SsethTzeentach has used the happy merchant memes and "goy" memes a lot, which is weird coming from a guy who's an Ashkenazi Jew? But it's surprisingly widespread, yeah.

          • RNAi [he/him]
            hexagon
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            5 months ago

            He's extremely 4chan through and through and obviously has shit taste in games

            • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]
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              5 months ago

              My man is extremely 4chan but I have to disagree about taste. On a freeze-gamer youtube where every second channel is some nintendobrained retro gaming reseller guy, I can respect a man who is willing to talk about Heroes of Might n Magic III, or Dungeon Siege II, or Impressions Games city builders. Shit that's not the usual platformers-shooters-jrpgs.

              • RNAi [he/him]
                hexagon
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                5 months ago

                There's a shitton of other youtubers doing exactly that and he recommended fucking Outward, garbage game

              • NoYouLogOff [he/him]
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                5 months ago

                "I wish for other people to know about "The Matchless Kungfu"

                Monkey's paw curls

              • GinAndJuche
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                5 months ago

                The man sucks, but if he recommends a game it’s going to be good.

                • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]
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                  5 months ago

                  Also the video will give me severe whiplash when I stop laughing at an actual funny joke because he followed it up with a hardcore racist one!

                  • GinAndJuche
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                    5 months ago

                    He’s done a lot less of that (monetization or actually growing, who can tell), but yeah. A genuinely guilty subscribe simply because the recs are good and when he’s not being a channer he can be funny.

                    • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]
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                      5 months ago

                      He has impeccable comedic timing, when he's not using it for racism or homophobia

                      Also he's a fucking PHD level (though iirc never actually got his PHD) biologist which is fucking weird to think of

          • RedCat@lemmygrad.ml
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            5 months ago

            Which also makes all of his friends 4chan brained buffoons and this unfortunately includes Mandaloregaming. Which is a shame since I really liked Mandaloregaming.

            • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]
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              5 months ago

              Oh hell, Mandalore's one I like. I knew he was kind of buddies with Sseth, but please do ruin Mandalore for me if you can.

          • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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            5 months ago

            Well, more accurately goy is singular and goyim is plural, just like you have one seraph and many seraphim. This is the masculine inflectional pattern. The feminine equivalent to the -im suffix is -ot, one aliyah and many aliyot.

        • LesbianLiberty [she/her]
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          5 months ago

          Jewish term for gentiles, it's an extremely antisemitic dogwhistle when used like this; imagine Rothschild and all the other racist nonsense.

          • Water Bowl Slime@lemmygrad.ml
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            5 months ago

            Yeah and as far as dog whistles go, this one sucks because there's no benign interpretation. Thank you musk for moderating your platform

            • LesbianLiberty [she/her]
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              5 months ago

              I get that it's a joke but Zionism feeds off of stoking real antisemitism; let's not forget what antisemitism really is and represents lest a wave of it takes over in reaction to the Zionist genocide.

        • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]
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          5 months ago

          Dunno, haven't seriously checked in on fourchannel dot org in like six years. I guess it's a safe bet /pol/ is still doing it.

      • M68040 [they/them]
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        5 months ago

        Depending on context, overtness, and precisely who’s speaking, “goy” can be invoked in a mockery of how the poster thinks a “Jewish overlord” might talk about nonbelievers. (See also: liberal sprinklings of “oy vey” and other assumed stock phrases)

    • Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      "Goy" is short for "Goyim", and is a word primarily used by Jewish people to refer to non-Jews.

      Anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists often self-identity as Goyim to highlight their position as an underclass. In this case, the implication is that Jews feed Goys tasteless nutrition bars while, presumably, the Jewish passengers in first-class still get opulent kosher meals.

  • ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    Remember the good old days of flight when Howard Hughes himself would give you a complementary piss directly from his milk bottle collection?