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Mutive t1_je577qk wrote

Me too. I really loathe going out to a bar with friends and having like, tap water (or a sprite - I can't drink caffeine at night if I want to sleep which rules out a ton of beverages) while everyone else is having something fancy. While I love going to a nearby bar and sipping on a mocktail while listening to live music. It's nice having alcohol free options. (And I say this as someone who also enjoys options with alcohol. I think it's great having both!)

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Alaskabear-235 t1_je4rnkj wrote

Pretty easy to prove my point. Every talking point any major news outlet swings to the left except for fox who also does the same at times. I don’t need to provide any articles from some journalist that’s being paid by George Soros under the table. It’s “obvious”, just take your blinders off and look. If you want a source, www.weforum.org, world economic forum’s website. You can poke fun at me all you want but it’s scary. These are not good people. Everything Klaus Shwab wants he gets. I’ll prove it, if I’m right we will be moving to a cashless society within the next few years and if not I will admit that I am wrong. Of course you and I probably won’t be communicating by then. It’s not about politics, it’s about power and surveillance over us. If the voting process still works I’m voting for the corrupt politician that stands farthest from the government digital coin.

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Last-Relationship166 t1_je4g71c wrote

Cheap and facile...because it involves a stereotype....Uh huh....as cheap and facile as assuming that someone who laughs at this post thinks all Irish are drunks?...what reductionist thinking. It's cheap and puerile if you ask me. It saves someone the "hard work" of considering context. You should read Brave New World sometime. I never thought the citizenry would pursue such a society until recently.

I happen to feel that humor is the best lense through which to present stereotypes, because it acknowledges their absurdity.
Would you find Blazing Saddles cheap and facile because it incorporated stereotypes about black people? That movie was written by Richard Pryor. He understood the power of humor.

Also, Ulysses is rife with humor about all sorts of things..including stereotypes. How can you assert it's an intelligent work? Shouldn't you be advocating for its censorship or, if nothing else, condemning it, here?

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