Neat. This is great info.

100%, although let’s be real: would it surprise anyone if Starmer responded by apologizing firing his press secretary, claiming he was misrepreaented, and jumping into the war in Iran before announcing the UK’s withdrawal two weeks later after some British troops are killed on an accidental Israeli airstrike?

I don’t think there’s a bottom to his craven incompetence.

Yeah. Slice it and put it on a sandwich with a fried egg. Or chop it when it’s still firm and throw it in a salad. It’s good, but it’s not really for eating like an apple. They added creaminess and texture to savory things.

Agreed. My only gripe is that I didn’t like when he started beating the man during an interrogation. That’s a trope I’d like to generally retire, but especially as it applies to Hal Jordan.

This looks DOPE.

I’m modestly interested in the show, but I’m more interested in the idea that this is how they’re going to roll out their primary Green Lantern.

In any DC cinematic universe, people want to know who the main GL is gonna be, and how it’s going to fit in. I like their take on Hal Jordon, and I like that they’re including him as a seasoned pro who likely won’t headline a movie. It looks like they’re going with my guy, John Stewart! And it looks like they’re going with a version who is new, but also we get to skip over origin stories.

I like all of this. I think Guy Gardner was a cool way to introduce Green Lanterns into the film universe, while also waiting before we introduce a GL who is like, a guy we like. From the little we’ve seen, the character work looks very appealing to me.

See this is what a good clapback looks like

I think this joke is only 40% true, but also still very funny.

I’m glad this meme belongs to the commons because I’m going to make extensive collective use of it.

I posted the meme as a lighthearted joke, but if I can be serious for a moment, the joke isn’t that reading isn’t useful. It’s ridiculing the practice of approaching Marxist texts in a way similar to religious or academic study. It’s also (lovingly) ridiculing mutual aid radicals with an overly simplistic worldview.

Reading is good. Although I recommend people read the things that they’re interested in and that they think would help them in their goals, and not fall into the practice of assigning other people reading or falling into a mentality of chasing after a complete understanding of subjects no one can ever understand to completion.

I don’t get this. Can you explain this?

Surprise twist: I am aware anarchists like reading; I like reading; and I’m not actually an anarchist!

It’s just a fun meme making fun of upright overly intellectual Marxist-Leninists (that part is sincere).

I think you’re taking the meme way too literally.

I’m not advocating for an illiterate revolution. Anarchists are famous for reading and writing a lot of manifestos too.

I do believe that there are a lot of overly intellectual Marxist-Leninists who need to go touch grass and actually practice more mutual aid among working class neighbors, though.

But I’m definitely not anti intellectual. (I’m also not actually an an-com. I just shared the meme because I agree with the broad sentiment).

I could be wrong here, but I suspect the headline is another unfortunate example of Israeli Palestinian erasure.

When they say that this is widely supported across Israelis, they likely mean Israeli Jews.

It’s sad to see from the middle east eye. Obviously Israeli and American media promulgates the myth that to be Israeli means being Jewish. But I would hope that at least Arab media would constantly remind audiences that one in five Israeli citizens are Arabs living without meaningful political agency under a ruthless Apartheid regime.

I suspect they’re less enthusiastic about another ethnonationalist religious imperialist war of aggression. But it’s hard to know what they think, as I rarely see their preferences interrogated or reported on, except perhaps by +972 Magazine.

Can I use this in Lemmy?

I don’t have the time, but someone should make a version of this where China and OP consent but Taiwan is the objector.

Ok thanks. That’s interesting. This is the first I’m hearing of this.

Can someone link to context? I have no idea what op is talking about and I’m too busy to duck duck go it.

This is sad, and bad, but if you can overlook that, it’s kind of hilarious how reckless this is.

Skepticism of EVs 20 years ago made some logical sense. But once the rest of the world is driving in cars that are fast, quiet, and far cheaper to buy, fuel, and maintain and produce no tailpipe emissions – which are terrible for kids – it’s obvious that our technology is obsolete. It’s just crazy that they’re acting as though they can maintain this current status quo, which depends entirely on Americans never discovering how much better Chinese cars are. You can’t really keep that a secret forever.

I think they’re basically counting on a bail out in a few years when the American auto industry crashes.

Yeah. I feel bad being to harsh when some tried to make something, but I thought this was going to be describing what the show would be like if it was written and produced now. Reacting to a 30 year old show as though it we’re made now is not only far less funny, it makes no sense. Yeah: TV production was very different 30 years ago. If it were made now, it wouldn’t be made that way.

This article points out something I think a lot of Americans – particularly younger, educated ones – don’t know about: America has for a long time actually been a place people around the world dream about. That includes dreaming of coming here, either to study and return; to move here permanently; or just to emulate in their own countries.

I think most American millennials were told this, but as they learned that most of what they were told about our country – its fairness, commitment to justice, opportunities – were lies, they assumed the concept of the American dream abroad was another myth.

I think more people – particularly American leftists – should understand that despite so many other failings, the American mythology has some value. Rather than deride it as anither imperialist lie, we should recognize that it has had some truth to it in the past. And we should aspire to actually make it real in a way it has never quite been.