Thanks, I’ll check them both out!

Opeth, although I don’t love their more recent drift away from death metal (dear god it’s been a decade now). I’ve really loved Cattle Decapitation’s newer stuff, too.

Oh and I second the guy declaring that Wu Tang is for the Children

Fuckin magnets

You’re trying to put a lot of words in my mouth. We’re clearly just talking past one another at this point, so have a good one, I guess.

I never said people should be forced to do anything, but if they refuse to do the bare minimum to educate themselves then they have earned my contempt. There is no measurable harm in not being interested in sports; I would argue that the harmful consequences of political apathy are all around us.

I’d love to hear you elaborate on what specifically MLK was ignorant about, shy of his infidelity.

The 19th century books you like aren’t resulting in people getting separated from their families or deported to countries they’ve never lived. They’re also not an immutable piece of your identity; your argument doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

I’ll leave you with this, which brings me back to my original point that being apolitical isn’t a privilege that everyone has. Do you think a black person drinking from a whites only fountain in Mississippi in 1960 was able to just tell the cops “oh no need to arrest me, I’m not political”? Did a Jew residing in Vienna in 1941 have the privilege of saying “oh no need to evict me from my home and shove me into a ghetto, I’m not political”? I could go on. The ignorance and indifference that people have to their privileged status is what drives my contempt.

Good luck finding 5 dentists to attest to that

Ignorance in and of itself isn’t sinful, but willful ignorance is. Any adult in a democracy has a duty to be at a minimum mildly informed and vote and anyone not doing so is abdicating their responsibility to our society. You don’t have to have knowledge of something to indirectly support the conditions that perpetuate it.

There were plenty of Germans that said “we didn’t know” in 1945 despite living very close to concentration camps and having over a decade to witness the persecution of Jews, socialists, gay people, Roma, etc. I don’t find it absurd to ask people to pay attention to what is going on in the world in which they exist and have an opinion. I’m not even asking for them to hit the streets, just to be aware of what is going on rather than burying their head in the sand.

You should really read MLK’s letter from Birmingham jail. Your arguments somewhat mirror his frustration with what he called the “white moderate” who prioritized comfort over justice.

I think that’s a distinction without meaning. Apolitical people support the status quo, and anyone that says “oh you were mean to me so now I support putting children in concentration camps” wasn’t ever going to be an ally in the first place.

Come to think of it, Futayena wouldn’t be a terrible username

In case anyone didn’t know

The Marred-a-Lagos

Ah yeah my mistake. Whatever politics comms they link to in the sidebar is what I meant. I want to say askpolitics? Yup.

!askpolitics@lemmy.world

!AskUSA@discuss.online exists so I say this rule should stay. I feel bad enough about the deluge of US news our non-yank co users deal with as it is.

Esti makes a spicy hummus that’s pretty good.

I buy Esti brand. Their red pepper hummus is actually mixed up and it’s Greek, not Israeli.

Is this why my wife is constantly complaining that her playlists constantly keep playing the same songs over and over?

Ok but who’s on first?

My God? I didn’t vote for you…

Alternatively “what would you do for your team to win the Super Bowl/Stanley Cup/World Series”

When in doubt, just pick the cooler sprite