@VivaceMoss
@lemmy.worldFrankly I find you and all of your posts to be fucking annoying whether they're about Muslims, Christians, or whomever else. The fact that you're a power-user of this board in addition to being a mod and you're stickying your own post to defend garbage-tier memes you rip straight from Facebook and reddit circa 2009 just makes me think it isn't worth it to have this board show up in my feed at all.
we spent over a century fighting off savages
So like, you just absolutely hate books then, huh? Facts are just things you can kinda make up on the spot based on a John Wayne movie you vaguely remember watching half of as a kid and not fundamental truths about the world around us.
Very cool, wish I could do the same. Good luck being hateful and mad at everyone who doesn't look like you, I'm sure that's a winning strategy in the long run.
If this meme is an example of conservatism to you, then you genuinely need to learn more about your own nation and consider whether the values you claim to have are worth having.
And I didn't join anything. This dogshit had the gall to show up in the Hot sorting view.
You could at the very least learn some fucking history, dude. Your ancestors didn't move to an undeveloped land. Your ancestors invaded a land that had been carefully cultivated for millennia and forced out the descendants of the people who made that land livable.
Like, whatever, ignorance is why you're a bigot in the first place. I just am constantly surprised by the utter lack of curiosity among conservatives that leads to dumbshit opinions like this.
they'd know that actual legit news doesn't exist on that website anymore
The people getting the majority of their news from Facebook likely considered the memes to be more legitimate than the actual news anyway.
What if my religion says you shouldn't go around fuckin' bears tho?
Then would you give up your bear-fuckin'?
I don't disagree that it feels way different, and honestly I'm still not sure if it's going to be a good thing or a bad thing.
But are the words you and I are writing a lesser form of communication just because we're tapping a screen or typing on a keyboard rather than writing them out by hand?
Granted, it's still not the same thing. These are my words being arranged to my liking, but will we one day look at AI art as an extension of our hand the way that a keyboard is?
Is the world a better place because the commodification of art is monopolized by AI, or will art be better for the fact that it's only practiced for the love of art and more bespoke purposes?
This subject is super complex and philosophical and definitely something I hope I live long enough to see the resolution to, some day.
I imagine a better analogy would be scribes talking about the printing press.
Prior to the invention of the printing press, the endeavor of mass creation of copies of a book could employ dozens of highly trained, highly skilled workers whose recreations were frequently seen as an artistic endeavor as much as a literary one. When the printing press was introduced and didn't carry illustrations in the margins or nice little flourishes on some of the letters, the works were considered "soulless" and "without character"