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Countries and regular citizens are basically replicating Fedipact with the boycot US movement (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 1 month ago by recursive_recursion to c/showerthoughts

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Israel and the USA are a lot closer than we think... (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 1 month ago by HungLikeAHoers2010 to c/showerthoughts

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Both strayed far off from the ideals they originally strived for. Israel went from a refuge for Jews after the Holocaust to Jews committing genocide against another group of people. The USA went from fighting against kings and authoritarianism to fully embracing it.

Both believe in colonialism and forceful removal of existing populations.

Both exploited a terrible tragedy to increase violence against those they believed to be responsible: Israel with 10/7 and the USA with 9/11.

Both lack true separation of church and state; Israel is dominated by Zionists and the USA by Christian evangelicals.

Both kill children in schools; Israel with drone strikes and the USA with school shootings.

Both are obsessed with "national security" and fear of outside influence.

Any others I might've forgotten?

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Did John Cena successfully parlay a meme into a successful movie career? (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 9 months ago by PeriodicallyPedantic to c/showerthoughts

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I had never really heard of him outside of wrestling until the memes, and since then his movie career has actually been on a pretty impressive trajectory.

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An unlikely silver lining if AI companies get their way is that some unlicensed fan works may receive greater legal standing (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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The 2010 cover of Wavin' Flag and the quarantine cover of Imagine feel really similar (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 year ago by CanadianCabbage to c/showerthoughts

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Both popped up with a slew of celebrities. Felt pretty soulless then disappeared. As far as I know Wavin' Flag did raise one million dollars Haiti though.

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There's lots of rightful effort to help with suicidal ideation, but nowhere near the same amount for murder ideation. (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 2 years ago by FarceMultiplier to c/showerthoughts

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We often share news with each other, but never a single "new" (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 2 years ago by nihilist_hippie to c/showerthoughts

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It just occurred to me that we always refer to news in the plural sense. Even if we're just telling somebody one thing that happened, it's always "news". Makes me wonder if, in the past, there was ever a convention of referring to news in the singular sense.

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AI Martin (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 2 years ago by OttoVonNoob to c/showerthoughts

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If we put the complete works of George RR Martin into an AI. I wonder if the AI could make a more generally satisfactory ending to GOTs TV?

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The Winter Olympics should technically be called the Low-Friction Olympics. (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 2 years ago by mack7400 to c/showerthoughts

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Except maybe the shooty part of the biathlon, I guess.

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Instead of a health tax on sugar, why not remove sugar subsidies? (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 2 years ago by LightCyan to c/showerthoughts

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It seems weird that some areas of the US have considered a health tax on sugary drinks and other items containing a lot of sugar, corn syrup, etc. Why not instead remove subsidies on those raw materials instead? Otherwise people's tax dollars are being used twice on the same product