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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 most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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I can eat sushi, pizza, samosas, kebab (kabobs, döner or shawarmas depending on your frame of reference), gyoza/pot stickers/tortellone/pasteczki (or whatever), noodles/ramen/spaghetti, knödeln/kroppkakor and so on and so on. Leaving lots of cultures unsaid.

I can enjoy music, cringy cultural movies (animated and not), fun cirque sessions (even without animals being endangered), go to festivals for various cultures, enjoin then in our cultures of scouting, mountaineering, hiking and share my love of enjoying nature.

I can drive electric cars, communicate on Internet forums, keep in touch with new friends as well as loved ones across the world.

I would be in a much poorer world without you all.

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[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Besides all of that valid stuff, immigration is the only reason the US doesn't have slowing/declining population numbers like many developed countries now have.

[–] CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

The irony is most Americans are descendants of immigrants.

"You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God."

What a godless country.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Looking back at the history of England. We have had wave after wave of immigrants/invaders. Each wave brought a period of tension. That period was followed by a period of innovation.

The new people, with new views means old ideas are re-evaluated. New skill, flavours and modes of thought became part of our culture.

Even our language improved. Part of English's power is the level of nuance with word choice. A loft of that comes from melding multiple root languages in.

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[–] Echofox@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Immigrants make a country great. One of the reasons why I'm happy about the increased immigration in the USA, and why I'm sad about the decreased immigration in Canada.

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 211 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Our blessed homeland vs. their barbarous wastes

How dare you not pledge your undying allegiance to the spot of dirt that you were born on!??!?!?

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What's it called when you live on the right side and agree with the labels?

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 53 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah, the original, unironic meaning, now largely extinct through misuse.

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[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

dont let the fascist whoresons read this, they will frame you mentally deranged and a danger to their homogeneous society

[–] CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Theirs is not a homogeneous society. They are demented and fragmented.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fuck their homogenous society, its total lack of art, its dog shit food, and its boring everything. Plus its queerphobia and intellectual stasis. Stillness is death. They have guns; they can get that for themselves any time they like.

Plus I'm kind of autistic. People already look too much the same. If they stopped being different colors and sizes with different types of hair i would not be able to go outside.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Some for me. So many cultures, languages and cuisines mixing. But in my case even im an immigrant but the plot twist is im european. Overheard someone talking about how bad immigrants are and they proceeded to say "but youre one of the good ones". Only context you need to hear is im white.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"Unser Jud' ist eh gut."

That's a sentence that was often used in Nazi Germany/Nazi Austria. It means "Our Jew is good anyway, [but the others are evil]". It basically means that you keep believing the propaganda, even if the people you know don't fit to the propaganda at all.

Nowadays this sentence is used to satirize the statement you posted.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

"He's one of the good ones," is how people have always explained liking a minority that they know, while still being prejudiced against the rest of their race.

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[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 70 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Agreed 100%. Unfortunately the people who need to read this are not on Lemmy.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

I've seen a few anti-immigrant comments pop up around here that have been upvoted and they've made me pretty sad.

This thread makes my immigrant ass happy though so thank y'all.

[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

No, I'm pretty racist and needed to read this. /s

[–] Bunbury@feddit.nl 10 points 2 days ago

Well, by the look of this comment section there’s at least one who really needed to hear the message, but seemingly didn’t take it to heart.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 61 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Reminds me of this for some reason

Watson Heston's Two Ways To Go from 1896 depicting a literal road representing the freethought road vs the orthodox route

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That is pretty on the nose, but still an interesting perspective.

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I dunno, the left path looks far easier because it's far less uphill

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I immigrated to the US when I was too young to make that decision myself. Now I'm immigrating to another country. I literally don't know what it's like to not be an immigrant, and I'm tired of receiving nothing but hate for it. At least my new city is more welcoming.

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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 39 points 2 days ago (10 children)

The world would be a lot poorer without the music genres that spawned from the USA and UK, too. And most of those were only possible because people from Africa were (forcefully) brought to the USA.

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[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (16 children)

The problem is when immigrants from countries with lower labour standards and poorer conditions are effectively used as "scabs", to suppress wage growth and unionization. And I fear the capitalists who benefit from this are pushing the "you just hate immigrants" narrative to protect it.

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[–] Kurious84@eviltoast.org 13 points 2 days ago (5 children)

It didn't take long before they started deporting anyone and everyone. By no means just violent criminals. Horse shit.

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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Some of those who burn crosses
Are the same that love kebab bosses

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Fun fact for you: All döner is kebab, but not all kebab is döner. Because döner is just a type of kebab (grilled meat on a stick). Which also means that shawarma's status as kebab is questionable, as it's ~~usually~~ sometimes roasted or pan fried, as far as I know.

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You can have culinary trends without migrants. Like sushi, the best sushi IMO is still the authentic sushi. Its neat I can get it in my vicinity though.

Street food fusion is a whole other level though. With that you couldn't be more right. Craving late night street snacks now

[–] bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 23 points 2 days ago (7 children)

great point, and many countries would be literally poorer as well.

even undocumented immigrants pay about $100 billion in taxes to the US each year.

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