Ottoman Turkish, although the geographical terms and country names wouldn’t have differed much.

• Musical theme: Kahlil Gibran wrote eloquent essay on music, though good luck finding it.

• Outside your comfort zone: Capitalism as Civilisation by Ntina Tzouvala, a theoretical work which examines how western legal scholars categorized non-western polities based on a racist standard of civilisation and justified colonising them.

• Book from a different cultural background: the Cairo Trilogy by the Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, a chronicle of a wealthy family witnessing the instability of the 1930s in British-occupied Egypt.

Piano. It would make sense that the songs I can play perfectly are the ones I composed. Otherwise, I enjoyed covering Tempelhof by Yann Tiersen.

OK, I will think about it. Thanks.

I never bothered with the social aspect of book platforms, so I use an offline tracker. Do you recommend me creating one?

It’s all of lemmy actually, not just here.

The irony is that the Americans are slaves to their electoral system. Liberal democracies are one big, pathetic myth where they make the masses believe that they are the ones in control of the polity and just like they elected someone into a position power they can dismiss them in later elections.

The discourse that has been happening shows quite a different reality: Americans are treating the elections as if there is no alternative. Even if there indeed was no alternative, they don’t bargain with the ones in power, they don’t use their vote as a bargaining chip for political change. They are ready to vote unconditionally because they accept their candidate as is.

You don’t see democrat voters pressuring the Biden administration to put an end to the genocide in Palestine. They feel uneasy towards what’s happening but ultimately they consider themselves to be powerless. Western democracy and constitutionalism have politically alienated the people.

That but also whitewashing billionaires.

Throwback to when they announced releasing a simple phone. Fun times.

The existence of lemmy.world which you’re part of, proves that lemmy tolerates right-wing instances if you ask me.

Make use of the decentralized nature of lemmy, the devs won’t knock at your door for creating or posting on right-wing instances.

“I can fix radicalize them.”

I am intrigued to know what is the original message.

I see myself blowing up a pipeline.