Elitism and exclusion are how we got to the mess we find ourselves in.

And that’s why I would not let Lemmy users run society. The userbase here is people who like the idea of left-populism, but hate the population.

It’s popular in the Northeast and I’d assume the PNW as well.

So basically the states that you can actually play ice hockey in

Didn’t know Creed was Christian (and it seems at least debatable whether they fit the label of “Christian music.”) So that hurts my point I guess.

When’s the last time a rock band was labeled a “science band”, but you can name four or five christian bands without even listening to them?

I feel like a pedant, but I’m sorry, the notion that most Americans can name five Christan bands/artists is bullshit. Maybe most Bible Belters can. Christian music gets the designation of “Christian music” because it is segregated away from everything else, listened to by a large, but still niche demographic who are already very religious, and treated as a joke by everyone else (including most non-Evangelical Christians.)

I can name two, Skillet and Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. The former is just the band I see mentioned to make jokes about Christian music, and the latter I saw on a show about one hit wonders (the hit is about domestic violence and doesn’t even have faith based undertones.) If I start making exceptions like “became Christian after the height of their fame” (Kansas and Kanye West) or “stopped being Christian before they became known” (Katy Perry) I can get to five.

And on that note, what would a “science band” be? Like, a band that writes lyrics about new scientific discoveries? Yeah that’d have more in common with Nick Jr. than most music, secular or not. Most music deals with emotions in a way Christian music can but “science music” couldn’t. The closest would be philosophy, but there’s already a ton of music drawing on philosophy, and nobody segregates it from normal music because it’s not music that only appeals to a specific demographic.

It’s people who run apologia for anything the Chinese government or even Chinese business does.

Meanwhile I remember that TikTok helped Trump’ s youth outreach campaign with the message they gave when US access was restored, so they’ve already signalled they’re not on my side.

You know, European leftists integrate themselves into football culture

I know the differences in how European and American sporting is organized factor in here, but seriously I don’t think “everything you like is bad actually” is a winning position

Political ideology: depends greatly on how big a role the internet played in raising Bernie Sanders’ profile. I think it did a lot, so I’d probably be less left but still too left to vote Republican.

Religion: Without Internet I’m probably a nominal Christian like my mom. As in, identifies as Christian but it doesn’t affect my life like, at all.

Overall worldview: It’s probably in the same ballpark, but not as developed. I don’t think I’ve ever done a total 180 on my values, but the application of those values has changed a lot.

My dad’s advice was that the cops are a gang.

some European right wingers already believe this

That wasn’t even true? More evidence that the panic about porn addiction is a psyop.

NeXTSTEP (and therefore, modern macOS) is a BSD.