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allywilson

@ allywilson @lemmy.ml

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2d ago

Apparently, neither US party can
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allywilson @lemmy.ml 2d ago
I think they are now nominated by the HoC, so it's an indirect election, but not undemocratic.

2d ago

Apparently, neither US party can

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allywilson @lemmy.ml 2d ago

ever hear of a little thing called the House of Lords?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords_(Hereditary_Peers)_Act_2026

They lost their hereditary status yesterday 🥳

5d ago

‘We will not survive’: Toyota, Honda and Ford CEOs issue chilling warning about China — and it could hit your portfolio

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allywilson @lemmy.ml 5d ago

Renault seem to offer quite a few these days that are fairly small.

1w ago

'Why does he keep speaking English to me?' Chinese woman scolds AirAsia crew for not speaking Mandarin

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allywilson @lemmy.ml 1w ago

...Pretty sure it was offered 20 years ago in Scotland, a friend's son was doing it.

1w ago

Not once in my 40-odd years of life have I used a WYSIWYG editor that, once committed/submitted/saved, actually gave me what I saw

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allywilson @lemmy.ml 1w ago

I've just realised I haven't used anything like that in 20 years. Macromedia Dreamweaver, those were the days!

1w ago

'Why does he keep speaking English to me?' Chinese woman scolds AirAsia crew for not speaking Mandarin

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allywilson @lemmy.ml 1w ago

Rise of the Mandarin-elite?

1w ago

Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat seeking his 13th term in Congress, dies at age 80

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allywilson @lemmy.ml 1w ago

I'm fairly ignorant of the US, so I read this as:

Republican David Scott, a Georgia Democrat...

and was slightly confused.

2w ago

When are you?

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allywilson @lemmy.ml 2w ago

Then

3w ago

How common is it for people in your social circle of relative/friends to own their homes? (What country btw?)

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allywilson @lemmy.ml 3w ago

UK here, I was definitely the last person renting in my circle, bought a house mid to late 30s. Feels like everyone else bought 10 years before.

4w ago

Do office going men still wear suits in the US?

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allywilson @lemmy.ml 4w ago

Blue jeans, blue blazer and brown shoes is the norm nowadays.

4w ago

holy moley

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allywilson @lemmy.ml 4w ago

Hear me out...

How do we know it wasn't a peaceful person leaving a hand written note begging for no more datacentres, when their nemesis, Dr Datacentre, drove past and started shooting at him?

4w ago

If you count incarceration, same as it ever was.

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allywilson @lemmy.ml 4w ago

Fair point, well made.

4w ago

If you count incarceration, same as it ever was.

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allywilson @lemmy.ml 4w ago

You get that there is a pattern of shitty historical revisionists that bring up “Muslim slavery” to minimize US slavery? Which you just did?

Sorry, you're going to have to clarify this for me. 1) Which revisionists? 2) Why is "muslim slavery" different to "slavery"? What did I do?

Islam is not a world view, what? It's a religion that has a long history (that a large part includes slavery).

Europe, as implied by the very first post, was a large part of the North American slave trade. However, the UK effectively ended the African slave trade, the first I believe, long before the US did, which is why I mentioned it.

4w ago

If you count incarceration, same as it ever was.

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allywilson @lemmy.ml 4w ago

My understanding segregation in the US was actually about white people keeping their kids away from integrated schools (which is a nuance, it wasn't black school vs white school - and a lot of it was in the south). Slavery is NOT a colour based system. Don't get me wrong, it clearly ended up being one based on the the US outcome, but we are talking about Human slavery, it's been happening our entire civilisation, not just the 250 years or so of US existance.

4w ago

If you count incarceration, same as it ever was.

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allywilson @lemmy.ml 4w ago

The impact, diminished the impact of it.

What does this mean?

it wasn’t all “Western powers kidnap countless innocent people and move them around the world so they can work and die as the inhuman beasts the Western man think they are”. They’re completely different things, and this attitude is at the core of the American soul, because it’s at the core of the Anglo Saxon soul, because it’s at the core of the Western soul (hence the resurgence of Nazi-adjecent movements and politicians in Europe nowadays, it can’t be just shaken off/waited out, they need an entire ideological change) and it’s the reason why Americans are so happy to bomb/okay with bombing innocents around the world.

I'm sorry, but i think you and i disagree on what a slave is. A human being that is bought and sold. i don't know how else to word it. It is not Anglo-Saxon, Nazi or any other people or political type.

Slavery is not a Western idea. Look up Korea and it's world record breaking length of slavery. Or how slaves in Africa were supplied by West Africans.

This is not a Western Idea. Please stop working it as such. In-fact, fuck it, stop calling it Western. It's just people. Horrible people, from a long time ago. Taking advantage, the same as other people were.

4w ago

If you count incarceration, same as it ever was.

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allywilson @lemmy.ml 4w ago

Apologies, but I don't understand what the colour of skin has in relation to this post?

4w ago

If you count incarceration, same as it ever was.

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allywilson @lemmy.ml 4w ago

I agree, I shouldn't have taken a worldview (Brazil, Europe or Islam) when the post was clearly about the US.

4w ago

If you count incarceration, same as it ever was.

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allywilson @lemmy.ml 4w ago

Yes, to a degree.

I think people hyper-focus on topics and don't understand reasons or consequences.

"OMG, my ancestor was affected by X - I HATE EVERYONE DESCENDED FROM Y AND THEY MUST PAY THE PRICE" it's a weird "what-about-me-ism" that seems to occur a lot. Modern people are not their ancestors, why should they "pay" for what their forebears did? At what point does it become Ugg should pay to Ogg did with his club 50,000 years ago?

4w ago

If you count incarceration, same as it ever was.

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allywilson @lemmy.ml 4w ago

No. I have pointed out that there is a period of time that the post was about that focused on a particular time for a particular nation, and so ignored the WHOLE of human history that allowed slavery. Including today. Also, if I "diminished...American white supremacist attitude" that's a good thing, right? They should be diminished.

4w ago

If you count incarceration, same as it ever was.

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allywilson @lemmy.ml 4w ago

This isn't a response to what I said being "unclear". Let's not deviate from the topic.