• dryfter@lemm.ee
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    25 days ago

    Left, right, center, up, down……I don’t give a shit — we all need more Mr. Rogers and learn how to love and not hate each other and our differences

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      25 days ago

      You introduced the anything about wanting Joe Rogan back. The meme says we don’t want our own Joe Rogan

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    26 days ago

    fred rogers is the main reason why i didn’t turn out a hateful, racist asshole like the so-called ‘role models’ i had in my family.

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    26 days ago

    Joe Rogan has always sucked. He was a horrible actor, and even worse comedian.

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    23 days ago

    If Mr Rogers would ever return to earth, the US would crucify him right next to Jesus

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    24 days ago

    When he died Fox News went on to call him an extremely evil man who wanted to breed a generation of narcissists, saying that self-esteem must be earned and not something people just have.

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      I don’t think Fred would be capable of that.

      He’d be telling anyone who would listen that mistakes are just a part of learning, even as our tortured Earth starts making the very air we all breathe make the last humans lungs burn.

      That’s why I certainly praise Fred, but could never subscribe to him. He had an unshakable conviction in the intrinsic decency of people. I’ve come to have conviction that the opposite is more often true.

      Honestly, I’m glad he’s not here to see this.

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      24 days ago

      I remember growing up watching PBS and actually thinking the world I would grow up in would surely be better than the world before, especially with so many people watching people like Mr Rogers and Sesame Street and the slew of educational programs like NOVA.

      I realize now that I was a shut-in nerd without involved parents and PBS was one of the only channels I could tune in on my little black-and-white television set.

      Nobody else watched this stuff. If they did, they didn’t internalize it, and if they did, they took all the wrong lessons from it. (“I AM special just the way I am, that means I deserve to have anything I want! yaaah white power!”)