Spyke
sh.itjust.works

Of all his quotes, I like this one best:

“Akhh-kkkhhhhh, aggkkgghhhh, gllghlllkh!”

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Hard to say, he was leaning left but he was also wearing a red shirt last I saw of him. I guess he made his own path. Instead of going left or right, he went 6 feet down.

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kbin.earth

Hey, I just want to recognize that this guy hasn't said anything racist in months. Good job buddy, keep it up!

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lemmy.ml

We have two summer holidays and one "based on race" because the one "based on race" recognizes the time Union soldiers arrived on the Texan shores and forcibly freed a group of people subjugated based on their race--it just didn't happen to fall on July 4th.

The two holidays recognize two completely different things it doesn't matter when in the damn year it occurred.

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It's only "based on race" because slavery was based on race. It's the end of slavery, not "Black people day."

That's like saying July 4th is "all about the British."

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But it's for Black people, so he thinks he's not allowed to enjoy it. For him, it's like watching your neighbors having a fun pool party, but they didn't invite you, because you're such an asshole all the time.

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lemmy.world

Now we have two summer holidays

And that’s a bad thing?

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Ol' Chuck hasn't had a garbage take on things in almost a year. Keep it up Charlie, you're doing great these days!

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lemmy.world

Why are you still giving space to his views? I definitely don’t agree with his worldview but he hated enough alive, maybe his viewpoint should stop being perpetuated.

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lemmy.world

It's important to remind everyone that he was a piece of shit. Republicans are whitewashing his history.

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Are they though?

At the very least, no one is doing it here. I'd rather have a rebuttal comment if/when a post that tries to do that, rather than seeing these posts

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Holytimesreply
sh.itjust.works

Funfact about dead people. They are fucking dead. The only reason to bring them up is because you agree with them. Full fucking stop no fucking argument.

If they are a piece of shit leave them to rot and forget about them. They are FUCKING DEAD.

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Apply that same principle to people like Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Eichmann. The reason normal people get worried about people in power today is because they were taught about the crimes and twisted ideologies that started WWII and the Holocaust. Burying it and pretending they never existed will give people like that the opportunity to rise again, such as our recently tracheotomised center of attention in this post.

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The only reason to bring them up is because you agree with them.

Hitler shouldn't be taught because you don't agree with him? How is anyone supposed to learn from history if you hide everyone that did anything bad. That's how we got Trump. It was a failure of education.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

amazing nation

Built on and consisting of genocide, slavery, wars, violence, crimes against humanity, corruption, hate, racism.

"Amazing" has a different meaning in my dictionary.

I don't understand why you would share anything this idiot ever said. Negative attention is still attention and he deserves none. He's dead, he can't spread his bullshit anymore. Don't do it for him.

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lemmy.zip

Technically...Juneteenth isn't in the summer...

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DokPsyreply
lemmy.world

Yeah, it's 1-3 days before it and now that's how I'll remember when summer starts

We can't have summer until we remember the injustice of slavery and the freeing of a quarter million slaves in one of the last bastions of that deplorable practice

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Serinusreply
lemmy.world

Oh no, it's still happening. It's how BYD cars are made.

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It's still how most things are made. Stateside, the prison system is the only slavery left but worldwide, there are many examples still going strong. It's nowhere near as prevalent as it was though

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Oh, you're playing with fire trying to be pedantic like this. You're using the astronomical definition which starts on the solstice (some astronomical definitions treat the solstice as the center of the season, but starting at the solstice is the predominant one). Multiple countries use the meteorological definition which includes every day within three months (June, July, August in the Northern Hemisphere). The US has no overarching legal definition, but for example, US maritime law gives a batshit definition of summer as "April 1 to October 31" and winter as all the rest. And culturally in the US, summer tends to start at Memorial Day (e.g. this is when outdoor public pools usually start opening).

There's no "technically" here, or if there is, you're just as right as you are wrong. If anything, given a cultural holiday, it's arguably most "correct" to assess it using the cultural definition.

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Lol not in New England. We had one storm that shut down our schools for a week.

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I needed that explanation like I need a hole in the neck.

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fonix232reply
fedia.io

Some dead, inconsequential dude with really bad takes about pretty much everything.

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You reached the end