Americans react so violently to the concept of socialism that you’d almost think they don’t know there are countries out there where it works.
moriahari said: Its almost like the average american has been fed propaganda to make them think any other form of economy/government is the devil and anyone who supports them are evil people trying to cause the downfall of america
Jeez, and I thought I was being blunt.
To be fair, propaganda is pretty much a constant in all modern cultures.
Of course I think America is weird for still finding things like gay marriage and the existence of climate change or evolution worthy of argument: I’ve been raised to accept those things as normal and true and think I’m in the right for doing so. Even knowing that, I still can’t bring myself to really see and accept the faults in those viewpoints.
Us Dutchies are raised to be as forward-thinking and analytical as possible. Personally, I do think that’s the way to go, but then again, of course I do. Once you realize the gravity of propaganda, forming coherent arguments without bias is near-impossible.
The people who own a the most major news media tell people that socialism is the same as communism. They tell people that gay marriage will make the government force to men to get married. These are what we call republicans.they are saveges who only feel greed. THey are the people who lower taxes for the rich and raise them for those who can’t afford them. They are the ones who refuse to let minimum wage be a livable wage. they are the ones who cherry pick the bible. THey are the ones who know they will be dead by teh time any major environmental change happens so the don’t care. Republicans are the cause of most of our problems.
a harry potter au where potions is taught by gordon ramsay
neville: *messes up his potion*
gordon ramsay: *holds neville between two slices of bread* what are you
neville: an idiot sandwich
Ahahahhaha! But you know, I imagine he’d do that more to someone like Fudge, or a seventh year goofing around. He’d be consoling to a weepy first or second year, like, “Hey, look, you just need to reduce the heat and then put in the powdered dragon scales– we’ll start again. Watch.”
Then some seventh year student just mucks up their potion– “You’ve used so much bat wing, Granger is starting a coalition to protect them!”
“There is so much lavender in this cauldron that Brown is starting to look nervous”
for real though, internet english is STAGGERINGLY multi-modal. the problem with communicating via writing is that you lose certain dimensions of spoken conversation, like intonation, facial expression, body language, pauses and fillers etc, but there’s been so many linguistic innovations to maintain richness in communication, like
emojis/emoticons
use of capslock and purposefully creating/not fixing typos to convey excitement, or likewise not capitalizing anything
use of punctuation (or lack thereof) to indicate /emphasis/ or ~irony~ or apathy
reaction images and memes
use of familiar songs in tumblr text posts or vines etc
variational spellings like you/u or true/tru
bolding, italics, strikethrough, font size, line breaks, etc
(using parentheses to whisper)
tags as commentary, also the body of commonly used/commonly mocked hashtags
like i could go ON and ON about the things that internet language users have created to get around the difficulties of non-verbal communication, like ??? what other dialects can do all that and change that much in 30 years????
