• lennybird@lemmy.world
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      29 days ago

      Don’t even need to have much knowledge or intelligence; just empathy will usually get you out of the cult. Lacking both is a particularly dangerous combo; though so is intelligence and a lack of empathy. That’s how you get the psychopathic grifters at the top I guess.

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        I keep trying to find the standup that talks about America raising ignorant stupid people. Or was it proud ignorant people. Either way, I think it was Jim Jefferies but can’t find it.

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        A lot of con voters are just kinda dumb. Most people of any population never do any kind of self reflection or critical thinking, so for these people the fact that their parents would never support a dem is pretty much the entire basis for how they vote. A lot of them are plenty empathetic in their daily lives but they just never think about what their vote means.

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    29 days ago

    They don’t know or choose to forget that Irish, Italian, Polish, etc. immigrants were considered “not white” and “not American” too.

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    29 days ago

    Anyone notice July 4th celebrations were way more subdued than usual? Even in my predominantly red area.

    30% tariffs hitting hard.

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      29 days ago

      Oh please! Virtually impossible to tell where food actually originates from! You think the the first time of someone putting roast meat on bread was in hamburg?

      But irrespective of what I just said, pizza is hungarian! Lángos is a lot lot lot older than italian pizza :>

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      Apple pie comes from England, but it evolved from foods made by the Dutch, but they took/evolved it from the Ottomans who took apples from Kazakhstan.

      But modern Apple pie is an English invention, it just has a lot of influences from other sources (which is the same for pretty much every food).

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        It most definitely is not an English invention. Basically all European cuisines has some form of apple pie. Pies, both sweet and savoury, was the main method of cooking food in the middle ages.