• YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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    “It’s okay to erase the native population of the land we’ve invaded and it’s also okay to import others as chattel so they work the land for us… but if you suck ONE dick, you’re the devil!”

    The American moral compass was always broken, and most Americans don’t even notice it. 🤷

  • Blaster M@lemmy.world
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    What is this youtube conspiracy nonsense and why does it have almost 2 million views as of 6 years ago??

  • Naich@lemmings.world
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    I find the idea that you can turn straight people homosexual really weird. To me it’s obvious that it’s not a choice or something you can change - it’s who you are. I wonder why they can’t see that?

    Rhetorical question, btw.

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      I wonder why they can’t see that?

      My guess is that everyone who thinks being gay is a choice regularly feels homosexual attraction, that they have to choose to repress. They think that’s normal, they feel that way therefore everyone else must too.

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      I don’t think Garfield or anyone is going to change an adult’s well-established sexual orientation, but the idea that children growing up in a society that normalizes homosexual attraction will be more likely to develop inclinations that otherwise would have been suppressed seems reasonable to me. It’s supported both by the prevalence of what we would call bisexuality in certain cultures and by my own personal experience - I distinctly recall being young and trying to decide whether an attractive character in a picture was a flat-chested woman (and therefore OK) or a long-haired man (and therefore not OK). I had internalized social expectations before I even knew what the differences between men and women were and so from that point my sexuality developed to be strictly heterosexual, but I think that I might have become bisexual if those social expectations had not been taught to me before that formative time.

  • Xanthobilly@lemmy.world
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    Morons. The internet has united morons that in past generations would have been ridiculed back into manual labor. Now? Influencers.

  • s@piefed.world
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    Playing Dungeons and Dragons will make your kid worship Satan.

    Being lefthanded will send you to Hell.

    Eating a hamburger on certain Fridays will damn you forever.

    Asbestos, fossil fuels, and smoking cigarettes are great and everyone should enjoy them.

    That type of discourse isn’t new, but it is tiring.

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      And when it’s actively embraced by the entire executive branch of the federal government, like how the hell did we get here?

  • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
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    Last year I found a streaming app that had the 1980s Garfield cartoon running, and I ended up getting back into that for a while.

    I found it to be a fascinating glimpse into those times. Like all of the pop culture references were obviously quite dated, but 40 years later and a lot of them still stand on their own. The comedy style was a snapshot of the zeitgeist from the era, surely not novel at the time, but a reflection of the time. It’s interesting to see how much of that comedy style has carried forward and even evolved over the decades. Sarcasm, featured heavily. Self-deprecation. Almost surreal absurdity. Did Garfield shape the comedy world as much as the comedy world shaped it?

    Oh yeah, and I definitely turned out gay. But I guarantee you it wasn’t the 10/10 hotties that John Arbuckle was pulling or anything related to Garfield himself. It was entirely Nermal. Grew up living my entire life thinking Nermal was a girl, only to realize that in my recent re-watch that Nermal’s pronouns are he/him. These woke ass shows have been woking kids up since the dawn of time.

  • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
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    I was straight but the garfield in this meme… I am gay now.

    I am looking forward to the christian efforts to save our souls by finding the counter-piece to garfield.