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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023
  • JusnJusn@lemmy.worldtoEnough Musk Spam@lemmy.world•Musk proclaims Hollywood is racist against whites.
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    11 months ago

    You think that they did this to give brown children a protagonist to look up to? A company doing something hecking wholesome just to be nice?

    No. They did this because it’s cheaper to just reskin a character and use an existing story, and they figured that they could capture a larger audience without alienating too many white people. I can’t fucking believe that people are still stupid enough to pledge allegiance to companies that change their flag to rainbows for a month. How about we start calling Disney out on their inflammatory laziness instead of defending them because they fake inclusivity in the name of profits.

  • JusnJusn@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Future Lothario
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    1 year ago

    Yeah same here. I doubt that this platform will ever see mainstream adoption if the first thing that people are greeted by are criclejerky posts bashing capitalism and cars. It’s a shame, because I’ve been enjoying the platform a lot - just not the constant slew of ideas being pushed by it’s users.

  • JusnJusn@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Future Lothario
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    1 year ago

    Alright wow you made that comment much longer and more thought out since I replied - appreciated. I still doubt that we will ever achieve that, but I do understand more about why people are up in arms about it. I also still believe that working to achieve that cause would likely fuck over a lot of people that live in cities already, but you are right that that is already happening anyways. Thank you for the reply.

  • JusnJusn@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Future Lothario
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    1 year ago

    Yeah what Texas is doing sounds pretty horrible, I’m not disagreeing with that. You mention a couple of steps that could be taken to partially remedy the problem and begin correcting the course, but from what I’ve seen, the anti-car movement calls for entirely walkable cities, and what you’ve stated is not enough to achieve that.

    The city that I’m living in is probably one of the most extreme examples of urban sprawl that I know of. Making my city walkable and not dependent on cars would be impossible without consolidating the population to a much smaller area.

  • JusnJusn@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Future Lothario
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    1 year ago

    Sure, but if you disagree with the morality of what was done in the past, why would you compromise your morals and hope that it happens again? I’m starting to feel as though my initial impressions of this “anti-car” movement were correct: a bunch of bored people throwing bitch fits and rallying behind a cause that will never get anywhere. I still understand the sentiment behind it, but your comment does nothing to convince me that it’s not a fool’s errand of a cause.