This comes in response to news that I’ve heard of recently. Goes to show if you value your posthumous requests, organize them wisely.

The concept we generally call “dying wishes” are a staple in how we think of society. Just look to the ancient play Antigone for that. However, things don’t always go as planned, especially in the wrong hands. What’s the biggest difference you’ve seen between someone’s “dying wishes” and what actually ended up happening?

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeOPM
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    6 hours ago

    Well of course Neo-Nazis would be expected to call it a salute. They’re known for being so eager or desperate to make their case that they’ll jump at the opportunity to put words in the mouth of a person of power and say they’re on their side for leverage.

    I remember when the Black Panther movies came out, white separatists alarmingly claimed en masse it “proves” white separatism since that school of thought isn’t hierarchal but tries to claim life is better under forced separation, and Black Panther had only two caucasian characters in it who were explorers while everyone else was African. They then claimed Marvel was engaging in this phenomenon we call plausible deniability since a few of the actors are from actual cults with heavy racial undertones (actual cults tend to use their power to worm people into prestigious roles which increases their power, it’s not just a Scientology thing), since the cast as a whole is selected for attractiveness, and since the in-universe mythology is Norse mythology. I mean, yeah, when I explain it that way, that’s definitely what it looks like Marvel is doing, but it’s still just a temptation to think that. Same approach with Musk, who I don’t think highly of for other reasons (mainly the fact he’s not good at what he does and it spills over in some ways, but one other reason being, yeah, some of his ideas sadly breed what we accuse him of, as someone pointed out). I also didn’t think citing a message on something Musk owns as a gesture of emphasis would be seen in an anti-US-politics community as synonymous with supporting Musk.

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      I also didn’t think citing a message on something Musk owns as a gesture of emphasis would be seen in an anti-US-politics community as synonymous with supporting Musk.

      It does not, or it should not. It’s more like that Xitter (wordplay of X + twitter + shitter if you didn’t know) has been kind of the worst part of internet for years now, even before Musk. When shit goes bad on internet it’s either 4chan or twitter.

      So it makes sense that the leftist pro libre gang of Linux users we are would hate anything about that website.

      I was only responding to your initial question (which is funny), who is Xitter link?

      I’m pretty sure that posting the same link by using an alternative Xitter interface (like Nitter was but I don’t know them) would have avoid you any backlash on lemmy.