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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think the white is referring to minorities being scapegoated, though. While absolutely some people vote against their best interests, they often don't have the numbers to make change themselves (eg, trans and NB people are maybe 1% of the population but getting severely attacked right now) or the system is constantly trying to screw them over (eg, black people are a sizable chunk of the population, but there's countless efforts to restrict their ability to vote and keep them poor).

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahaha I don't even know what that word was supposed to be and how it ended up as "white". I meant to say "the OP".

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] dx1@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh like minority scapegoats. In that case disregard what I said.