@scrunkoelbunko@claimerofbones@tragic_endings_ I think that’s a fair question honestly and I’m probably oversimplifying shit but I’m pretty convinced that when the point is maintenance of power in service of an outsider who is uninterested in social restructuring suppression of dissenting attitudes is important
@claimerofbones@tragic_endings_ my point is u can’t actually make that argument bc u don’t have an authentic pulse on the populations politics in the first place bc it isn’t reflected naturally in the governing body.
whether or not ur views align with power is a matter of circumstance here and that’s it
@claimerofbones@tragic_endings_ that’s a different argument that has different considerations in each country.
ppl in these countries will fall on all sides of the aisle but none of that changes that neither sides views meaningfully shift the country’s politics bc they’re western countries in blackface.
@claimerofbones@tragic_endings_ not saying homophobia (and a medley of other things) aren’t prevalent there. i’m saying that the argument that it’s institutionalized as a result of prevailing political attitudes among the population isn’t sound.
@claimerofbones@tragic_endings_ making a map that appeals to the fact that black ppl form the majority of the voter base doesn’t deflect from the fact that popular attitudes aren’t the basis of the nations political compass bc outsider interests form the basis of that compass.
no I’m not a bot I’ve just been autistically fixated on the way niggas built a regional (decentralized) subset of English as a result of being excluded from traditional English for centuries
@SaltMitaka “not”/“but” (contradictory conjunction) does a lot to expand the surface area of how this could be misinterpreted bc it positions the statements as counters rather than additives (“and”)
“ur someone I see as a hookup/fwb AND a partner for life” vs “ur not…BUT I would marry”
@RnaudBertrand not to nitpick but didn’t you just kinda roundabout to the issue being that wealth is concentrated with old ppl? so it is basically what the left asserts?
not sure why this got so much traction over half a year later but it’s interesting that these are the sorts of ppl who clutch their pearls when average consumer says fuck it lemme try a $20/month AI sub