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It's the dunk tank.

This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.

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[–] TripleZ@lemmygrad.ml 82 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you've invited a lib into your apartment, it's entirely on you. Don't be surprised if they start colonizing your apartment and call it "Aid" or "Democracy" or something.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's like inviting a vampire into your home and then being surprised when it tries to drink your blood.

If you don't invite a lib in, they're bound by arcane laws of civility to stay out.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The scorpion wouldn't sting me while on my back, then we'd both die.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The scorpion complained about wearing a mask during the pandemic. The scorpion fears not its own demise.

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[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 69 points 4 months ago

i-think-that You should just respect the customs of whoever's house it is

[–] Thallo@hexbear.net 67 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I can't tell people not to I touch things in my apartment? Fucking what?

Don't these people worship property and ownership?

[–] machiabelly@hexbear.net 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Only as a convenient vehicle for dominating their surroundings. The moment it conflicts with what they want they snap.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

You already know the person who wrote this article wants to keep their shoes on in the apartment.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

"Please don't touch my emotional support ball of radium and asbestos"

"Fuck you, I'm the guest, I do whatever I want"

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[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 63 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This is the stupidest take on hospitality I've ever seen. This person needs to be beaten over the head with a copy of Derrida's "On Hospitality" until they become unconscious or learn something, whichever happens first.

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's the Derrida book I think about the most. Unironically a great read

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It has informed so much of what I do, working with food and conviviality. I come back to it every now and then, and it's still fresh.

It is a source for one of my favorite ethical essays, too.

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Have you read Levinas? Derrida's later stuff takes a lot of inspiration from his ideas about ethics and justice

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[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 59 points 4 months ago (4 children)

As a cracker, when I enter someone's house I immediately go to their couch and begin rubbing my dirty shoes into it while yelling "fuck your couch!"

[–] Hexphoenix@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago

Finally! I'm not alone! We experimental homunculi gotta stick together and stand up for our rights to be filthy piggies

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Do some crackers actually wear their outside shoes in bed? I see it in movies sometimes and it's such an absurd annoying detail.

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[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

Cocaine is one hell of a drug

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[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 55 points 4 months ago

the white libs also extremely quick to refuse to put on a fucking mask because their god emperor ended covid surprised-pika

[–] shath@hexbear.net 55 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"hosting is letting people do whatever the fuck they want actually"

fuck off, you can wait outside

[–] yewler@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I would like to shit on your floor and it's your duty as host to allow me that honor.

[–] shath@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

please shit on the corner to be polite

[–] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 4 months ago

"In the corner, but at least a foot from any walls. Also preferably on tile or perhaps vinyl flooring not the carpet"

Me, explaining to my dog how to properly shit or puke in my house. Now expanded for feral liberals

[–] yewler@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You dare try to tell me where to shit in your house? What a tankie

[–] shath@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

you will poop in the alotted poop zones stalin-gun-1 stalin-gun-2

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[–] Zrc@hexbear.net 50 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Please don't ask people to not shit on your floor when entering your apartment. It's rude.

When you invite people into your home, you need to let go. You can't be like, "You can't piss there" and "You have to stop shitting everywhere" and "If you jerk off in my living room, you are in trouble." Hosting is letting your guests enjoy themselves.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago

Please don't lick the doorknobs, that's just for my DnD group

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 4 months ago

Hosting is letting you guests enjoy themselves

I will simply not be friends with anyone whose idea of comfort is shoes on in the house. Freakish behaviour.

[–] dkr567@hexbear.net 37 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Why do they not want to take off their shoes when they're someones' place? I don't understand the weird hills these jackass white libs want to die on.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

porky-happy: "You see, workers should have no rights because here in the west, we have a huge culture of respecting people's property!"

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[–] Yor@hexbear.net 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

you're either taking off your shoes at the door or leaving my apartment, so take your pick

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

Even I don't walk in my home in my shoes, ain't no way a visitor is either.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago

Wtf I support castle laws now (but only against white libs who refuse to take off their shoes).

[–] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The solution to this is to just not let anyone in your home, like I do.

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[–] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

People of colonial complexion apparently have a different definition of what is "rude". In any Latin American country I know, for example, "rude" is doing whatever you want in other people's homes. What to expect from a culture that normalizes staying in bed with shoes on. And if you're supposed to act like you're at home wherever you are, why leave your house?

[–] huf@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

it's the individualization of the mindset of colonialism. so at least they're being consistent here.

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[–] T34_69@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You're not invited anyway, Becky!

[–] Lenins_Cat_Reincarnated@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love to make people feel comfortable in my home and I feel like taking off shoes helps with that because it makes a visit much more personal and homely for the guest. Shoes off is so much more comfortable, I don’t understand why anyone would want to keep their shoes on in someones home.

I live in a place where it’s abnormal to remove your shoes as guest but no one has ever complained.

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[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

hosting is letting your guests enjoy themselves

I will shit on your carpet, and you will let me do it. It's how I find enjoyment, after all.

[–] Gorb@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago

Take your damn shoes off gunpoint

[–] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

Paulie sopranos sauna scene vibes.

Can’t think why else she’d have such issue with taking off her shoes. She must have fucked up feet (or be wearing a wire!)

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I'm sure this Romilly Newman is 26 years old just like Wikipedia says, but if this article is anything to go off of, then she

Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. ^2^ With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles’ feet.

^3^ Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? ^4^ Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”

^5^ When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened. ^6^ Then some young men came forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.

^7^ About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. ^8^ Peter asked her, “Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?”

“Yes,” she said, “that is the price.”

^9^ Peter said to her, “How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”

^10^ At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband. ^11^ Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.

[–] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

MF just casually killing a couple that happens to have a ton of money and saying "they just dropped dead, swear!" 😂

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[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died.

Stealing this for the next time I'm DMing and a PC gets annoying.

[–] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Going into someones house with shoes on would very much be considered so rude where I live.

I mean in winter shoes are covered in snow, in spring and autumn they are often wet. Or just otherwise dirty. Why would anyone do that to someones home?

My work puts me in peoples homes and the first thing I do is take off my shoes, because of course I do.

I used to have a AmeriKKKan partner for a while and the dude lived his life with shoes on. Like put them on getting out of bed. Even had them on lying down often. Seemed so uncomfy to me, but I suppose if the insides of houses are treated the same as the outside, you would want shoes on because the floor must be dirty all the time.

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[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

If your idea of a good time is dragging your nasty shoes all over my floor then you can wait outside, simple as

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

You come to my house uninvited and tell me how to arrange my furniture? skeleton death blast

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But I have stinky feet and holy socks. kitty-birthday-sad

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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Don't keep your filthy ass shoes on in someone else's apartment. It's rude.

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