Very American.
Count Regal Inkwell
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Leftist with an incorrigible love for fancy aesthetics (mostly Renaissance Italy/Victorian England) that might be incorrectly read as a monarchist because of that.
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To that all I can say is “good luck”. She’s also an immortal goddess.
Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialto World News@lemmy.world•Brazil’s President Lula says Trump was ‘not elected to be emperor of the world,’ as US-Brazil spat escalatesEnglish2·6 days agoBold of you to assume incompetence and not malice
She is royalty and that sounded like an order
Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialto World News@lemmy.world•Brazil's former President Bolsonaro to wear ankle monitorEnglish51·6 days agoThey did
And make no mistake Lula is also a crook, he just so happens to be a crook I’m aligned politically with (reformist leftist rather than neofascist)
But that just further proves the Teflon claim:
He did get locked up.
And now he’s president again.
Idk how it is in the first world
But over here it’s pretty much a known fact that every politician is a Mafioso first and a politician second. When they do get in trouble it’s usually because they messed up enough in the political sphere that the other crooks decide to use the apparatus of law to fuck them over. Because if it were about their crimes they’d ALL be behind bars.
Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialto World News@lemmy.world•Brazil's former President Bolsonaro to wear ankle monitorEnglish411·6 days agoI would say “and THAT is how you do it, America”
But I have no faith in this sticking. Mr. Pockets is made of Teflon.
Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•I've honestly never quite realized up until now how utterly ridiculous it is that people (especially in the US) regularly demand that their food be chauffeured to them.English2·7 days agoI know there isn’t
It’s just that delivery cars aren’t really a thing in my country. It’s all motorbikes all the way.
Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•I've honestly never quite realized up until now how utterly ridiculous it is that people (especially in the US) regularly demand that their food be chauffeured to them.English2·7 days agoWELL for a big grocery delivery – Yeah. That makes sense. A lot of sense.
I was imagining like. A couple take-out boxes on the shotgun seat and someone driving a whole-ass car for those lil’ boxes.
And it sounded like whatever the driver would get from this haul wouldn’t even cover gas. To say nothing of the environmental angle.
Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•I've honestly never quite realized up until now how utterly ridiculous it is that people (especially in the US) regularly demand that their food be chauffeured to them.English151·7 days agoDo Americans really get their shit delivered by car?over here it’s motorcycles 99% of the time (and bicycles the other 1%)
Seems rather… Sluggish and inefficient for delivery drivers to go by car.
Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your harmless/low-stakes conspiracy theory?4·10 days agoRight?
With hindsight, now being more or less the target audience (a 30+ year old disillusioned with life) – A lot of the books they pushed on us (I’m in Brazil, so of course they pushed the Brazilian canon of Literature) were objectively super good?
But y’know
When you’re 15 years old, and have to read a book that is not only very old (thus has a vocabulary you are already struggling with, just because OLD), but is written by grown-ups for grown-ups (ergo, a lot of the fun leans on heightened versions of life experiences adults have all either lived or seen someone live through) – AND you have to do it in a hurry (because you’ve got like 4 other assignments for that week, and the deadline looms) – AND you are expected to not only get into the nitty-gritty of its themes and such, but to do so in a way that your teacher approves of?
Like how can you not hate reading after that? I was lucky I’d been exposed to literature I liked prior to that, so instead of thinking “I hate books”, I just thought “wow all these books suck”.
They didn’t suck. But they just… Were very much not for me?
Like. Senhora, by José de Alencar, is a deeply enjoyable book if you’re a grown up. Two rich people who married for money and hate each other’s guts, playing the perfect husband and wife to society while shooting subtle barbs at each other whenever they get the chance? AND then they end up fond of each other after years of this? Inject that into my 30-year-old historical-romance junkie EYEBALLS please. But at age 15? I hated it.
Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your harmless/low-stakes conspiracy theory?1·10 days agoHumans being gluttonous motherfuckers who will consume stuff until we’re wrecked is indeed older than dirt. Some of the oldest records we HAVE of humanity involve people committing excesses of the sort.
– Having a bunch of organisations driven by profit independently come to the conclusion they can exploit this flaw in human persons to maximise their profits, leading to a systemic vicious circle where we consume more, so they create more artificial needs for us to consume, so we consume more, so (…) – Is, in fact, a product of capitalism.
Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your harmless/low-stakes conspiracy theory?191·10 days agoThat’s just capitalism
You’re describing capitalism
And pretty much everyone knows that’s how it works, the disagreement is that some (very odd) people think this is a good thing.
Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your harmless/low-stakes conspiracy theory?72·11 days agoThe way literature is taught in school is designed deliberately to make people hate reading + studying the subtext and paratext.
By forcing kids to read books that aren’t just old, but were written by 40 year olds for other 40 year olds, and then mandating them write reports about the symbolism of a book they didn’t even want to read in the first place, you ensure that like 80% of people will inherently associate reading and interpreting media with every negative emotion at once.
Meanwhile you look at fandom dorks on every site and you see how invested on themes and subtext they are, and you realise people kinda naturally want to overthink media… Provided they like that media.
But people who can read subtext and understand it are less susceptible to propaganda. So.
Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialto A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.world•🎵 All ye bully rooks with your buskin boots 🎵English2·11 days agoThou art exceptional company. Do not attend church this Sunday.
Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialto Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Definitely Not Stealing (Art by DragonsofWales)4·11 days agoAI bros are a lot like seagulls
They will steal your shit
They will scream at you like it’s your fault that they are stealing
They are generally insufferable
Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What was the last image you saved from the internet?1·13 days agoUnfinished art of my fursona by my artist friend
Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•if you could go back in time, when? What for?9·17 days agoI’m going to 1450 and giving the natives guns before the Spaniards and the Portuguese arrive.
Without them, anglos probably won’t bother either.
Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialto aww@lemmy.world•This is Pinto, he lives in a zoo near Wichita, KSEnglish6·17 days agoSalad 🌿
Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialto Fuck AI@lemmy.world•RFK Jr. Says AI Will Approve New Drugs at FDA 'Very, Very Quickly'4·17 days agoAh yes
The return of the 1900s patent medicine era
Except now they’ll claim it was approved by AI instead of calling it “secret
slur for natives
medicine”
one of the most numerous and arguably the most influential religious group in modern times
is not representative of religious peopleAre you being serious right now?
Though I will happily agree that evangelicals are in fact the worst religious people.