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Cake day: November 6th, 2023

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  • Yes.

    Japan doesn’t tend to teach its children about the atrocities that Japan committed in the past century.

    China is in a similar boat.

    Depending on the province, school board, and even teacher, Canada doesn’t always do a good job of teaching its children about the residential schools and related atrocities committed against the indigenous peoples of the land.

    So yeah. I think it’s possible that people old enough to work and be looking for jobs (which can be as young as 14 where I live) are ignorant to the atrocities their countries committed.

    The USA is actually surprisingly halfway decent at teaching kids about the atrocities committed against Black people, from my perspective. There is still a long way to go, but at least kids grow up knowing that many Americans owned slaves and that it’s wrong to own slaves. Some regions less-so than others, but still, lol










  • imo, you read that with a positive interpretation.

    If they were saying that, they should’ve said that their kids “never experienced it” or “never participated in it” or “didn’t live through it”.

    But instead, they said their kids “don’t know what apartheid is”.

    If they misspoke, fine. But I don’t know with certainty that they meant what you said. I think they might’ve meant what they said.




  • I’ve got white children, they’re at the bottom of the hiring list here. So, there is no future for them. And the sad thing is they don’t even know what apartheid is.

    If your children are old enough to work, and they don’t even know about your country’s most pressing issue that only ended like 30 years ago, then no wonder they’re at the bottom of the hiring list.

    They’re ignorant fucks! Lol


  • You said it was “the reason”.

    You probably would’ve said it was “the reason” if we had a Conservative government, too.

    Before Carney, if you’d told me “the reason” that people voted Conservative is because they were tired of Trudeau, I’d believe you. Or told me “the reason” was because they were upset about pandemic restrictions imposed by the provincial governments, along with the economic fallout of the pandemic… I’d believe you.

    It was all over the news. Everyone was talking about it. A whole bunch of losers got into trucks and drove to the capital to complain to the wrong people on multiple levels.

    When you claim that “the reason” was an issue that I’ve never heard anybody complain about with regards to their voting intentions, it sounds like you’re just coming in with your mind made up and trying to find anything to justify the conclusion you’ve already arrived at.

    It was 3 seats of 172 or something like that. That’s why the Liberals aren’t a majority government.

    So if this an issue in 3 ridings that flipped from Liberal (to…which party has been anti-Israel?), then sure. Though it probably wouldn’t be “the reason”, since we could probably find 3 or more other ridings that flipped to Liberal from whichever other party.

    It seems like you’re living in confirmation bias and seeing the rest of the world through that lens.


  • otptoNintendo@lemmy.worldIs it June 5th yet?
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    5 days ago

    That wasn’t directed to you, just in general. Sorry about that! Haha

    Yeah, I can definitely see Twilight Princess being a system seller! Plus the Wii had a completely new playstyle, and was basically a GC with the controller ports and memory card slots. If you didn’t have a GC, it made sense to get a Wii.

    It was also a lot cheaper than an S2 IIRC…



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    6 days ago

    Yeah, exactly. The post is about the launch date, but I guess I still should’ve clarified that I don’t get the excitement for the Switch 2 on its launch date in particular.

    Yeah, new Nintendo console. But new consoles haven’t really been particularly exciting for a while imo – they aren’t really doing anything new. The Switch did new stuff (the first “hybrid” console/mobile device), and the Steam Deck made PC gaming (and the Steam library) handheld.

    But since then and aside from that? I really don’t understand what’s to be excited about a new console launch at such a high price point, especially when they’re setting a new standard (high) price for games. I’m not seeing anything new that hasn’t been done before.

    …and the downvotes are not changing my mind, lol…that suggests to me that it’s just fanboyism. And that’s great for those who are excited. To me, it seems like successful brand marketing with little substance behind it.