Pretty common around the world IME

Israel kills far more Palestinian gays than Palestine does

Jaysus

I like the parallel to the “wake up, sheeple, do your own research” crowd.

Or “take the red pill”

Any time someone says something like that, they invariably mean “start believing what I believe”

The man stopped and asked, “My friend, what are you? Are you a celestial being or a god?”

“No,” said the Buddha.

“Well, then are you some kind of magician or wizard?”

Again the Buddha answered, “No.”

“Are you a man?”

“No.”

“Well, my friend, then what are you?”

The Buddha replied, “I am woke.”

Was the wedding fun? Anything funny happen?

If that counts, why don’t Menelik II’s conquests or Genghis Khan?

We should be able to have privacy without labouring at it.

We shouldn’t be excluded from normal society by being private. e.g. I should be able to.hire a plumber without using Meta software.

Because you don’t live in Western bubble

I don’t really understand either of your questions. Is there something you are trying to ask?

On the leftist side of Lemmy there is a pervasive theme of calling Europeans (and by extension white people in general) evil and how the only thing they’ve done is make the rest of the world suffer. And while the latter is plainly observable basically everywhere in the world

It was only Britain, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium.

Calling it “the Europeans” is a fair shorthand I suppose, but remember the Greeks and Swedes didn’t sail around the world killing natives for the craic.

The Haya in Tanzania were making steel 2000-2300 years ago

I have one for this!

I once asked someone “In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?”

I thought she’d say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF)

She said George Washington!

Someone once tole me only Western hippies believe in alternative medicine

Yes, every mac madra does this

Ppssshww, no way could a human win a fight with a tiger!

No, u’r wrong 😜

Different format of discussion.

Social media: people trying to win binary points 👍👎

Wikipedia, scientific discussion, or a deliberative assembly: slow process towards writing a statement of a position, with lots of study along the way

People are trying to ‘win the argument’ for personal satisfaction. They’re not trying to self-correct or seek the truth.

I think I’ve only blocked a handful of people over a decade

I’m the opposite; I have hundreds of people blocked, mostly because they are bores.

Maybe Siberian tigers are extinct in the range of the wolf?