When I was a kid (born in 2001,) not having this shit was a point of national pride.

Didn’t know Creed was Christian (and it seems at least debatable whether they fit the label of “Christian music.”) So that hurts my point I guess.

When’s the last time a rock band was labeled a “science band”, but you can name four or five christian bands without even listening to them?

I feel like a pedant, but I’m sorry, the notion that most Americans can name five Christan bands/artists is bullshit. Maybe most Bible Belters can. Christian music gets the designation of “Christian music” because it is segregated away from everything else, listened to by a large, but still niche demographic who are already very religious, and treated as a joke by everyone else (including most non-Evangelical Christians.)

I can name two, Skillet and Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. The former is just the band I see mentioned to make jokes about Christian music, and the latter I saw on a show about one hit wonders (the hit is about domestic violence and doesn’t even have faith based undertones.) If I start making exceptions like “became Christian after the height of their fame” (Kansas and Kanye West) or “stopped being Christian before they became known” (Katy Perry) I can get to five.

And on that note, what would a “science band” be? Like, a band that writes lyrics about new scientific discoveries? Yeah that’d have more in common with Nick Jr. than most music, secular or not. Most music deals with emotions in a way Christian music can but “science music” couldn’t. The closest would be philosophy, but there’s already a ton of music drawing on philosophy, and nobody segregates it from normal music because it’s not music that only appeals to a specific demographic.

I’d absolutely post this online but I wouldn’t wear it as a shirt

It’s people who run apologia for anything the Chinese government or even Chinese business does.

Meanwhile I remember that TikTok helped Trump’ s youth outreach campaign with the message they gave when US access was restored, so they’ve already signalled they’re not on my side.

You know, European leftists integrate themselves into football culture

I know the differences in how European and American sporting is organized factor in here, but seriously I don’t think “everything you like is bad actually” is a winning position

I’m tired of Lemmy users acting like they, on average, aren’t the people that people make fun of when they make fun of Redditors.

For some reason Millennials decided that engaging them back was bad because it legitimatized them or something.

I like SMW better myself (actually not a single franchise entry on that list is my favorite in the series) but it doesn’t have the kind of unanimous praise SMB3 does.

I’m going to take this as “games that I never see anyone question their quality.” (I don’t even like all these games myself)

• Sonic 3 & Knuckles

• Kirby Planet Robobot

• Doom 2016

• Street Fighter III: Third Strike

• Pac-Man

• Balatro

• Steins;Gate

• The House in Fata Morgana

• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

• Gran Turismo 4

• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

• Mega Man X

• Mega Man X4

• Super Mario Bros. 3

• Hollow Knight

• Bloodborne

• Elden Ring

• Balder’s Gate 3

That wasn’t even true? More evidence that the panic about porn addiction is a psyop.

I believe it. I very much do remember that, for the first day, you could hardly find someone who thought Floyd’s killing was just. Then the “but he had a past record” and “he OD’d” (???) talking points started coming up.

The “Us” in “Us Magazine” isn’t all caps

NeXTSTEP (and therefore, modern macOS) is a BSD.

Apple didn’t invent the word “app,” but I do think they pushed it because it was adjacent to the company’s name.

Who has ever called a batch file an app

They should never have been trying to court his “most ardent” supporters to begin with. It’s the swing voters and non voters they need. (And the centrist agenda isn’t the way to do it.)

My use of that phrase was inspired by it’s use in the Vtuber community, a community that is normally extremely hostile to discussing politics (this is one of the things I like about it, but because I already spend a lot of time on politics, not because I’m running from it entirely) after it was affected by tarrifs. So yeah you’re right about that.

A definition of a word that your audience doesn’t understand is pointless. Language is defined from bottom up, not top down.

You’d better be nonwhite to be typing that second paragraph, because I’m not white either.

Telling me “everything is political” when my identity is politicized unfairly sounds more like an excuse for it than defending POC. You sound like you’re making an excuse for culture warriors who bitch and moan whenever a non-white character shows up. LGBT people in my experience tend to correctly insist that their identities are not political. That makes more sense, it correctly puts the onus on the right wing assholes that politicized it.

“Everything is political” is a terrible way to convey that you should care about politics. It conflates the broadest dictionary definition of “politics” with the narrow, collaquial one, and it overwhelms the layman.

How about “take an interest in politics, or it’ll take an interest in you?” It centers the interests of the individual you’re conversing with, and doesn’t leave the implication that politics should be the only thing they care about (contrarily, it posits caring about other things is why you should care about politics.) I see this phrase repeated within the Vtuber community, which is normally a very politics-resistant space, in light of tarrifs driving up merch prices.