zoom_zip
zoom_zip wrote
Reply to What's your ultimate music playlist? by CircleA
how do you mean “ultimate” ?
zoom_zip wrote
Reply to Ghostbusters: Afterlife - Official Trailer (2021) by ziq
gonna be honest that looks shit
zoom_zip OP wrote
Reply to comment by Vulgar_Soda in bbq by zoom_zip
Is zoom_zip secretly a masochist?
secretly? no.
masochist? yes.
zoom_zip OP wrote
Reply to comment by CameronNemo in bbq by zoom_zip
“sure, hitler was a bad person, but we shouldn’t erase his art because it is a memory that we can learn from. if you destroy his paintings, that is erasure and that makes you the real nazi.”
zoom_zip OP wrote
“it’s just how they were raised”
“they grew up thinking they were superior and they didn’t know any better”
“what about the good things they did though”
“yeah okay, maybe they used slaves and that’s bad; but a lot of good came out of it (for us) so swings and roundabouts really”
“oh sure in retrospect we know it was wrong, with our modern schools and the benefit of hindsight”
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zoom_zip wrote
Reply to How can we move discourses toward opening space for conflict which is not abusive? by celebratedrecluse
apologise profusely for everything you say, accentuate that you aren’t attacking the person but the stance, repeatedly mention that you’re just being the devil’s advocate, use lots of emojis, sandwich the criticism between praise and compliments.
more seriously, do you have an example of what inspired you to ask this? i’m guessing you saw something that caused you to make this post. it would be interesting to see how you thought it was handled badly
zoom_zip wrote
Reply to Where do you get your news? by BadEmpanada
i’m in albion so your mileage may vary
- raddle all
- bbc news (centrist tory mouthpiece, read with hatred)
- guardian (news is okay, opinion pieces are trash)
- byline times (opinion pieces, not well fact checked)
- https://unicornriot.ninja/
- reuters or ap (only check this sometimes)
i only rarely check it but if you want some state bias news: south china morning post
zoom_zip wrote
Reply to The Pine Phone: would you trust it? by AnarchoDoom
only a cursory glance but
looks like it runs off SD. you can buy your own separate SD card and install your own OS to basically remove any of their default software installations or any hidden shit they’ve put on the SD card.
you can crack it open and check that the kill switches are physically doing what they claim to do
100% trust it? idk
but it’s already more open than most phones you’d get your hands on
zoom_zip wrote (edited )
Reply to I was at this kava bar downtown and they kicked out a homeless woman for asking for water by groovygardener42069
i don’t want to make you feel bad about what happened. i’m not posting this to be confrontational or say you handled it wrong, because i understand why you didn’t speak up, and i think if i go back a ways i would have been in the same place. but it just reminded me of this article i read recently about how silence is complicity.
so i’m posting this in the interest of discussion because i think that it’s obvious the reasons people don’t speak up are things like:
- don’t care and agree with the stance (capitalist scum)
- fear of “making a scene”
- fear that the hate will be diverted onto yourself and you will also become a target of… [abuse/violence/whatever].
- other things
you can say that you aren’t going to shame them into not being shitty, but i’m curious what the stance is where you wouldn’t have stayed silent. if they were being racist? if they were being physically violent? would you (or others) have spoken up then?
if we can say that silence is complicity to bystanders in the realms of violence and racial abuse, do people agree that it applies here?
anyway. i feel like this post is framed as if i am blaming you, and i want to be clear that the bar are the really shitty people in this situation. i’m just interested in raising this for the conversation.
zoom_zip wrote
Reply to comment by Sails in Friday Freetalk - Friday means Attack! by Kinshavo
fuck that’s horrifying
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zoom_zip wrote
Reply to comment by powerball9 in ‘It’s just ice-cream’: settlers’ chilly response to Ben & Jerry’s boycott by ziq
NICOTINE VALIUM VICODEN MARIJUANA ECSTACY AND ALCOHOL
C_C_C_C_C_COCAINE
zoom_zip wrote
Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, declared the ice-cream-maker’s decision “a new type of terrorism”
thanks isaac, i needed a laugh today
zoom_zip wrote
moments before ordering the dog to get back
cops think their authority is so strong they can bark orders at animals and be obeyed
also what is it with cops and being so fucking scared of dogs they just start firing guns wildly
zoom_zip wrote
Reply to comment by moonlune in Lot of people confusing patriarchy for sexual orientation here today by bloodrose
ugh…
i have some personal questions about this but i don’t really want to post too personal stuff publicly. would any regular poster be willing to have a dm conversation to help me out with some confusion?
zoom_zip wrote (edited )
when people are using the term “straight” here, are they talking about people who are attracted to people of the opposite sex? or something else? some greater idea about a “straight identity”. it’s not clear.
zoom_zip wrote
Reply to What do you look for in a partner? by nbdy
i could answer but the last time i posted about bdsm it didn’t go down well
zoom_zip wrote
Reply to What's your ultimate music playlist? by CircleA
okay this made me think
i used to really enjoy playlisting but i haven't had the time lately
i haven't even had the time or urge to keep up with new music. the last thing i really listened to and enjoyed was i think the g_d's pee album.
so 4 hours ago when i posted my other comment i went and started listening and digging through all old albums and shit to put a playlist together, just throwing in stuff that i like to create my "ultimate playlist" for right now. if i just wanted to throw on a playlist right now and know that it was full of good stuff, then this is it.
it's organised roughly from least favourite to favourite. but that's not a perfect process.
don't listen to any of it because you'll hate it