Lol instinctively I read your first sentence then skipped the rest, but my brain said “NO, that’s what they want you to do!” So I made myself come back and read it. Good content

Mm, I think what you’re likely arguing about is super contentious, AND complex. I agree that picking the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil (because it is, it says so right in the phrase!). That isn’t to say you’re necessarily endorsing the second evil, or that youre evil for making the choice. The world is fucked up and complex and no one is perfectly good.

But yeah I think conversations around voting, especially in the US, are really difficult to have because people are extremely opinionated and none of us REALLY know what would happen if we stopped voting altogether, which makes a lot of people anxiously compelled to do it(such as myself)

I wonder of more and more people using cellphones for social media has affected this? I use my cellphone primarily and…I definitely don’t write my finest work, shall we say. The typos are aplenty too since I type furiously. I’m investing in a laptop for this very reason. I miss having more robust writing skills.

I had experience with mastodon several years ago and so when I moved over here from Reddit I was excited to try and find an instance that resonated with me but alas, the only niche ones are like, furry instances, porn instances, and tech instances. Bummed that there haven’t been more that have themes.

This is a rad photo but Daria wore an army jacket!!! Ahhhh

I was gonna say kombucha as well, the experience of drinking it is kinda similar?

Bring it back! Fuck the normies!

My Android phone fucking blows. The one I had prior was great but I lost it. I hate the constant alerts from the apps I can’t delete, I can’t take up close photos anymore without it looking like shit and not focusing, the screen will flip horizontal at random times when it’s got the lock screen option turned on. I don’t want a Google phone, though.

Anyone have opinions on the OnePlus phones?

I don’t think it operated under the assumption that communism is bad. You can’t have a movie about 19th century war/politics without there being politicians demonizing communism, and communists being ambiguous or completely scared at best of openly admitting their affiliations. It’s not realistic for a big Hollywood production to come right out with a big banner that says “CAPITALISM EVIL COMMUNISM GOOD” even if Nolan wanted to.

Tbh a lot of criticisms that I’ve seen online feel like those making them haven’t even seen the film. Or they really lack nuance, idk.

I think that it’s very likely that the other producers or whoever backed the film may have influenced just how prominent the pro communist message could be. Also, at the time you had to be pretty secretive about your affiliations so it felt like part of that was to add to how people might talk about it in potentially mixed company.

In my perspective, the movie didn’t perpetuate the “this is the lesser of two evils” line of thought at all. Yes, that was expressed but with all of the politicians in the room it would be unrealistic for their to be no dialogue of that sort at all. The tone of the scene, to me, felt like it was a poor excuse, and all the while Oppenheimer is convincing himself that that is the only option, like he leaves his guilt behind until after the damage had been done. I didn’t leave feeling like he was a hero, or feeling bad for him. It showed him living with the shitty choices that he made that’s what he deserved for not being true to his original convictions

Makes sense. Jeez it’s insane just how exaggerated and pervasive western propaganda is…like, I’ve done a good amount of research to try and undo my perceptions about the DPRK, but even still I have the thought that “surely there must be something that’s accurate in the media that’s just wildly exaggerated”. But I guess US media does just make up whatever the fuck they want.

Did you visit more rural towns? What were they like? I was checking the sattelite images out on Google earth and it looks like they’re really tiny and spread out. Also did you go to the Waterpark? Lol

Oh I’d love to hear about your experience! I imagine since you had such an extended stay, you didn’t have any kind of chaperone with you?