You can take the lib out of Reddit, but you can't take the Reddit out of the lib. Look after yourself, you gotta pick your battles to maintain your own sanity with these people.
University of Washington sociology professor Alexes Harris said it was a vicious cycle. “If I could create a perfect system to maintain inequality, create inequality and sustain it over time, this is the system. The process perfectly labels, stigmatizes, financially burdens and imposes further legal consequences to poor people.”
No kidding jfc this is capitalist innovation to the extreme. I wish all the people who care about gulags held the US to the same standards.
I get what you mean, sometimes words don't make sense to me either. According to etymonline the word secure comes from Latin securus. se- meaning "free from" and cura meaning "care." It originally meant "without care or fear, quiet, easy" or "careless, reckless, overconfident."
So I guess we can understand "insecure" as meaning "fearful, disquiet, uneasy." Or maybe "cares too much, underconfident."
Oh, yeah I feel you. Those sites are insecurity generators because people only post when they're at their best. They can foster creepy parasocial relationships too.
I'm a bit confused, you like Mastodon for being more community focused than Facebook and Twitter but deleted it anyway? Or are you saying you deleted those two for Mastodon?
Either way, good on you for looking after yourself! Takes gumption to unplug yourself from this stuff. Ignore the dislikes, they're from people with weaker will
On the whole, westerners aren't nearly as anti-monarchy as they say they are. Remember when Queen Elizabeth died? Tons of people that weren't even British were crying tears for her. I don't get it either
If Americans held themselves to the same standards by which they judge other countries, then they'd have couped themselves several hundred times by now.
I don't get what the author was trying to convey with this. I mean, if you're gonna get things wrong usually it's to serve an agenda but it isn't clear to me why they put proletariat instead of bourgeoisie there.
It's funny how much the scale for the Y axis on the homeownership chart has to change for the differences in China to be noticable