You could pick any day in the last 200 years and say that [US President] was trying to [do something to foreign nation]. It means nothing

You mean Watergate-gate?

I wonder if blind people read ado as just ado? What?

Terms like Foid and Maxxing come directly from incel communities.

It’s shitty but also interesting how these places outreach themselves in terms of spreading language, there was a Behind The Bastards episode on it recently I think

For New Zealand, I like Hundertwasser’s Koru Flag

In Wales and Ireland the native languages were deliberately subjugated, and are only recently being deliberately re-prioritised. It’s a sore point among both populaces

So to compare the amount of speakers pre and post language erasure isn’t that helpful I don’t think

Did HTTYD ever stop? I think they just did a live action version

People say this a lot but it’s just not true

His great grandson Kermit Roosevelt III is alive today, and writes law novels

They’re all like that imo. The mysteries aren’t very good from a modern perspective.

They’re worth reading - if you’re into it - for the setting, the 19th Century prose and the historical creation of the Sherlock archetype

But nah. I read them all when I was a teenager and liked them well enough, then reread last year and was pretty unimpressed with them

There’s some better ones - I’m fond of the hound of the baskervilles, and some of the short story ones are good like the red headed league

But some real dumb stuff too. Like when footprints suggest a child but Holmes knows it’s actually an African Pygmy fella.

I got my last 10 bucks on you! No, don’t look at me! Run! No, don’t come over here…

Why should the lemmy.world instance of comicstrips be censored when you can make a new instance like “safestripsforgoodboysandgirls” instead of fucking over the larger community?

If most people here are in favour of it, then that’s why.

And then you can leave and make a new instance with your preferred amount of bigotry

If I step into your group of friends one evening and start an unprompted 4 hour lecture on 17th Century Agriculture, would it be censorship if you asked me to leave?

Small communities are allowed to curate themselves. It’s not censorship without that power dynamic, and on some level you yourself must understand this since your go-to comparison was ‘billion dollar fossil fuel advocates’

Because a comics sub on Lemmy is not the government or a church or any other powerful organisation that has any reach beyond itself

It’s a small community of people who are allowed to decide not to welcome bigotry

I think a different comic could put out something similar with just a few changes and make the point that you’re getting at

This one though, hard disagree. Like, the way the second woman is a ridiculous over masculine troll makes it seem that the butt of the joke isn’t the company using these objectifying policies but instead the woman herself, no longer an object of attraction for the man

If women are attractive, they’re trying to exploit you. And if they’re not seductive, they’re monstrous and masculine.

Rather than being a critique of the manufacture of non-intrinsic characteristics, the comic instead mocks those characteristics

And you’re maybe right in that I’m biased to read it that way because of the artist, but at the same time knowing how the artist normally portrays gender and sexual politics makes this the obvious reading and hos audience knows this

stop being so dramatic

disgusting law enforcement shill

🙄🙄

Don’t speed, don’t normalise speeding. Acab yes, but not because of speeding tickets lol

Speeding cars kill like, so many people. Am I also a disgusting law enforcement shill now?

Often things like that are so they don’t have to explain it in multiple languages for international markets. Same booklet for everyone!

A voting test would just become voter suppression and electoral tampering. Even if it was implemented in good faith (doubt), it would still be full of implicit biases from whoever made it

And even if you kept it about really basic civil questions, that would disenfranchise people who had terrible educations or childhood situations - a demographic with a big overlap with poverty and race etc