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  • lath@lemmy.worldtoUnpopular Opinion@lemmy.worldTourism is bad.
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    15 hours ago

    You’ve posted in the right place.

    “Hey, we don’t have an industry in our town, so how can we get people to stay and provide jobs? Hmm. If only we could attract other people to spend money here in some way…”

    Or

    “The locals treat locals like shit, let’s blame tourists!”

    Or

    “We don’t want your kind around here! Go back to your own country!”

    Or

    “Can’t do shit about the actual polluters, let’s bully some random people instead!”

    … You got your shit backwards. Tourists exist because they’re needed or wanted. And the arguments you use are in the same vein as the current US administration. Kick out all the unpleasant elements and make x country great. No clue what happens to the people actually living there until the country becomes great though.






  • You’re right, both sides aren’t the same. One side has devolved into foregoing what we like to think of as humanity because they have a boner for hate and the other makes excuses on why degrading themselves to the same level isn’t the same.

    It’s a play on words. I’ll skip the nuances and get right down to the core, “they started murdering people, so I’m murdering them back”. But here’s the thing, killing is still killing, even in self-defense. No matter how many justifications, running away from this concept only serves to bring you ever closer to the mentality of the other side.

    The very simplified “both sides” is alluding to the idea that both are very much willing to give up empathy, ethics and law if it means getting rid of the opposite side. The selective application of these three concepts is what bridges you together in a way that makes an outside observer say “so similar, they might as well be the same” a.k.a. “both sides”.

    No exception to empathy, no exception to ethics, no exception to law, no matter how saintly and no matter how evil.











  • I don’t think that swear words and swearing are part of some regional culture, I think they’re part of culture at a universal level. Or even multiversal if you’re into that…

    And they are normalized, have been from the start. It’s the attempt at excluding them that’s been struggling on and off.

    Hell, I still remember old ladies frightening children with priests cutting off their tongues for swearing, which is all kinds of fucked up in itself. But that was “normal” for them at the time.

    I’d think that kind of behaviour would mess up communication styles more than someone using a vulgarity as an exclamation point.




  • You also need a third, unbiased source, then cross-reference the information gathered from all sides and build a reasonable conclusion.

    But if that’s too much work, then join the side that benefits you. After all…

    "The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.

    ~ Genghis Khan"

    ~ random internet person

    Or the abridged version:

    “To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.”

    ~ Conan the Barbarian, as copy-pasted from random website