swampwitch

u/swampwitch@lemmy.world
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If you're talking about just flipping left/right back, that's not a big ask and not particularly hard to do.

I just assumed the current use of left/right was Americanised or something, considering how much of the English-speaking internet is American.

I'm fine admitting ignorance and I'm more than willing to learn and course-correct, but I'm not sure why you're being petulant with me. If I was genuinely unwilling to learn anything and bullheaded, I imagine this type of conversation would just make me stubborn to change.

However, that's just my experience when discussing something with people of a differing opinion. I generally find a calm and unemotional approach to be more beneficial for exploring ideas and perhaps changing views, especially so with conservatives, who consider progressives to be emotionally driven.

Probably just a spread of misinformation in that particular circle. The idea was that the meanings were literally inverted.

It could have possibly come from an older time in politics, or maybe started out malicious and just lost its edge.

I tend to be quite trusting, and I tend to refer to political views more as progressive/conservative rather than left/right, so I never really questioned where the idea came from.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/cat · 4 pts · 191d

Julien: Big boy, Idiot, Trouble, Greedy

Tia: Baby girl, Gremlin, Munchkin, Menace

I hated Brexit when it happened and I hate it still. I knew exactly what would happen to the UK the moment it was brought to my attention, and couldn't believe it even managed to pass.

I forgot how easy it is to rile up people for a cause they're ignorant on by simply lying to their faces. It's much easier to shout along with some fucking twat screaming about how "immigrants are bad!" than it is to sit down and actually read anything established economists are publishing about the matter.

It was a complete waste of time the moment the notion was even brought up, and the regret was inevitable.

My mother is Asian and my father is British. My father had a pen pal that was a friend of my mother's, and my mother also decided to write to him. I believe they wrote for about two years before deciding that if they want a relationship, they'll have to get married. So my mother moved to Britain and they were married within the month.

Before the internet (and Facebook) became more accessible, my mother would write to her family often and occasionally call, which was expensive.

on Why do we choose this life? · c/cat · 7 pts · 1y

When our new kitten decided her favourite scratching post was the doorframe outside the bathroom, we went ahead and bought one of those hanging scratching mats to nail over it.

Saved the doorframe, and have a happy kitten.