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Lebanon, Kuwait Poised to Ban ‘Barbie’ for Promoting Homosexuality
variety.com Lebanon, Kuwait Poised to Ban ‘Barbie’ for Promoting Homosexuality

Lebanon, once thought of as among the most liberal parts of the Middle East, is poised to ban global hit movie “Barbie.” More conservative Kuwait said Wednesday that it had gone ahead with a ban du…

Lebanon, Kuwait Poised to Ban ‘Barbie’ for Promoting Homosexuality

Different country, different culture. Anyhow, the movie is actually somewhat superficial, I understand.

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Capitalism is nothing but a giant pyramid scheme.
  • Capitalism is a scheme where finite raw materials are being extracted and where finite nature is being destroyed - both on the planetary scale; once we reach the end, it will be the end.

  • Worldcoin's official launch triggers swift privacy scrutiny in Europe | TechCrunch
    techcrunch.com Worldcoin's official launch triggers swift privacy scrutiny in Europe | TechCrunch

    Worldcoin, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's bid to sew up the market for verifying humanness only started its official global rollout this week but it's already landed on the radar of European data protection authorities.

    Worldcoin's official launch triggers swift privacy scrutiny in Europe | TechCrunch

    Sam Altman's shady business, the other one ehm

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    Is Lemmy a liberal echo chamber?
  • I meant liberalism as progressivism and leftism, not economic liberalism nor libertarianism. What I mind is that herd behaviour of many fellows who downvote stuff even if it's a plausible idea, and vice versa.

  • Is Lemmy a liberal echo chamber?
  • I totally agree. We can have whatever political direction that we choose, nevertheless in practice it seems the majority of Lemmy is liberal & progressive & leftist. There is obviously nothing wrong with that. What is wrong is downvoting & upvoting along these political lines and disregarding how well is each idea formulated. It does happen too often in my opinion.

  • Porn sites must have government health warning in Texas from September 1st
  • Exploited in the sense that the current state of the world gives them little other choice than to resort to pron. Like before there were slaves, then peasants, now there are job contracts, but the person most likely deserves to have some better work than that.

  • Is Lemmy a liberal echo chamber?
  • Well, I know that part about the FOSS spirit and dissatisfaction with big corporations controlling the internet. Anyhow, I've seen here many occasions of what I would call a tactical voting where well formulated and polite comments get downvoted.

  • Is Lemmy a liberal echo chamber?

    You know, where dissenters get downvoted.

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