• dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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    Dyed hair… ankh… fashion conscious business attire…

    I for one welcome our new Goth representation in government. We need more of this.

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    What kind of absolute fucking loser forges their entire identity around not liking other people’s fashion choices?

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      i like saying that history doesn’t repeat, it rhymes…

      but bloody hell, this is literally the exact same thing we get every single generation

      “those young people, completely indecent, just look at the way they dress! their hair! the music they listen to! this technology they use! what will become of them. When i was young i was perfectly obedient and listened to my elders.” you could attritbute that sentence to any era of human history and you’ll be correct, literally all the way back to the beginning of written history this rings true

      Socrates complained about how the youths depend on paper and books too much. And since then little has changed but the exact thing the olds complain about

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    Psych: “Ok so you’re here because *checks notes* digestive on twitter didn’t like the outfit you wore at the Youth parliament.”

    Girl: “Yes.”

    Psych: “Well that’s not an illness so…”

    Charlie Simp: “STOP RIGHT THERE, I SENT HER HERE SO YOU CAN FIX HER!”

    Psych: “Fix her?”

    Charlie Simp: “MAKE HER NORMAL!!!”

    Psych: “Normal how.”

    Simp: “Make her look and act like how I demand people do! You know, long hair, normal make up, normal fashion…”

    Psych: “So remove all individuality from her?”

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      I’m summarising, but I bet it went along the lines of

      • “be nice to people”
      • “everyone deserves to live and enjoy some modern comforts”
      • “maybe we shouldn’t destroy the planet we live on”

      You know… Real sick shit

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    Internal monologue: “I’m scared of them because they are cooler than me, and maybe even smarter.”

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    I lived in Wales for a year a few years back. Actually colored hair was way more common over there when I was there. Even in older adults.

    Had teachers with pink hair in their 60s.

    Tattoos also more common. I recall one of the professors lookee like a Goth girl. She also gave me mediocre grades on everything I submitted to her. 😅

    Septum piercing. Always wore black. And long jet black hair. She also told us how to pirate research papers and textbooks on day one. In a power point.

    Idk. The culture there was just more chill about alternative style. At least while I was there.

    I was in Swansea.

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      maybe it’s Wales, maybe it’s just academia. smart people are usually capable of figuring out that self expression no matter how eccentric is harmless and simply brings colour to the world

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        Surely. But I’m still in academia. My most recent university was in Chicago. People there are more clean cut. Few alternative looking grad students but not professors. Professors all look like standard teacher types. Clean cut.

        Only knew of one other grad student with a visible tattoo on her wrist.

        I had a face piercing (Monroe). She has a side nose ring. Can’t think of anyone else with either.

        Maybe it’s just that culture at that university. Swansea was just really different to me.

        Also something funny about Wales.

        So here (,until the last few years) Starbucks was pretty popular, wouldn’t you say,?

        Like the hip young people. The career go getters. The hipsters. All hanging around starbucks. But not in Wales.

        Costa coffee was their hip coffee chain. Starbucks was like. … idk how to phrase this without sounding shallow. But I’ll try.

        Rough people hung out at Starbucks.

        Like. People who looked like drug addicts. Always outside chain smoking. Rough people. The 2 am Denny’s crowd. You know.

        Starbucks was so disliked, that small Starbucks , like the one inside a university building and one at a museum I visited, tried to hide their brand so people wouldn’t know it was starbucks until you got your cup. No apron logo. No racks with cups. No logos on anything anywhere. Except the to-go cups.

        I’m 100% serious.

        Local people always said that Starbucks coffee was shite.

        I remember taking a video of the goings on to send it to a friend to show how much they tried to hide they were a star bucks. Cause this was like peak star bucks popularity time (2017-2018).

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    If you replace “woke” with “human rights”, you understand what these people are talking about.

    These people hate basic human right.

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        Literally these people think freedom of expression equals with buying Levis jeans and Adidas shoes, because they heard they were hard to come by in the Soviet Bloc.

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        Free speech is just one humen right they hate. They also hate based on gender, color of the skin, being poor, religion and even basic decency

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    I would guess that it’s more because there are three people in the shot and they are all young women, and two of those young women look slightly different than the OP wants them to look (one has dyed hair and one has a scarf).