Not sure about the “shameful” part, but here’s some Beggin’
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this is a performance where the humans get paid and get to go home afterward, and not like a slave trade situation, right?
I mean, the song was first published in circa 1780 so…maybe? 🤷
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Crime against humanity: Why has a court found Belgium guilty of kidnapping?English4·9 months agoUnbeknownst to most people, though, Belgium was ABSOLUTELY one of the worst.
The Behind the Bastards episode on Leopold II was one of their best ever!
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Missouri lawmaker proposes bounty system to report migrants2·9 months agoAt least once more, it seems
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Missouri lawmaker proposes bounty system to report migrants5·9 months agoWho’s going to report the Governor’s mansion this time? Who’s pasting the entire script of Bee Movie into the comment field?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Missouri lawmaker proposes bounty system to report migrants5·9 months agoSounds like a good idea until you consider the fact that you’d be subjecting a bunch of people already working ridiculous hours at a crappy job for below a living wage to a lot of harassment.
And that’s if you DON’T get someone deported. Which is highly unlikely, since the fast food industry is probably the second-largest employer of undocumented immigrants after agriculture…
So maybe DON’T do that.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Police Raid Pro-Palestine Students’ Home in FBI-Led Graffiti Investigation241·9 months agoBreaking their door in alone is going to cost more to fix than a couple of truths spray painted on a building.
That’s on TOP of traumatizing them, taking away their future by denying them an education and further complicating their employment prospects by giving them an arrest record.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Police Raid Pro-Palestine Students’ Home in FBI-Led Graffiti Investigation22·9 months agoThe jackbooted thugs of fascism are already here, paving the way for the Trump regime and defending the Netanyahu regime from every attempt at accountability 🤬
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump team agrees to DoJ background checks for nominees22·9 months agodeleted by creator
That wonderful time of year where your true love gives you WAY too many birds.
The latter is me 365 of the year. I blame being born during that time period 😛
Why not? 🤷
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Trump tells Trudeau Canada should become 51st state if it doesn't like tariffs: report3·9 months agoAren’t most of the middling to good lakes increasingly polluted to the point where they’re not suitable for drinking water, though?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldto Uplifting News@lemmy.world•Nectar-loving Ethiopian wolves may be the first carnivore pollinatorsEnglish55·9 months agoThey’re also assholes that the world is better off without. (Anti)social wasps, that is. Solitary wasps are cool.
I was in a mumblecore folk band called Midwest Ball Gag. We were incomprehensible, filthy, and folksy.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•This map will hopefully clear up any further confusion.15·9 months agoHere’s another
Wow. That might be the worst fucking take of 2024!