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TiredTiger

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  • It can absolutely feel pointless in the moment, and you're right that it may not be worth further engaging with that person, but these arguments and discussions may eventually stick with someone such that when something finally does shake them free of that axiomatic belief, they'll remember what you said before. I know I've experienced that in my own life.

    It's hard to know how to effectively reach "the masses" (as opposed to individuals). There's a real need to teach people how to think critically and how to self-reflect, but I don't know how to instill a desire for that in people who aren't already inclined in that direction.

  • Very normal country

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  • Have you? It's a poor anti-communist allegory, so I don't know where you're pulling anything anti-hitler or anti-nazi from it. Snowball is Trotsky, for example. It's not subtle.

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  • I think you've hit the crux of the issue here - memes are never going to reach people the way IRL organizing can. It's not that we're writing off people who can't engage with theory on their own, it's that we have to go meet them where they are.

    In the context of this specific meme, I don't think we're discussing the disaffected members of the working class, but those who describe themselves as liberals - those who fetishize law, read The New York Times unironically, and worship Obama. Those liberals tend to be more educated and are definitely capable of engaging with theory; they choose not to because it threatens their entire conception of the world and their place in it. They present themselves as caring about social issues less out of a concern for their fellow human beings and more out of a self-concept that they are "good people" - they are idealistic through and through, though they may or may not be religious. Their ego is caught up in being an "upstanding citizen" or having some sort of moral fortitude that may belie what they actually believe about the people around them. This is why when they are pushed about the contradiction (the "scratched liberal"), they will lash out and reveal the true face underneath - one of self-interest and a desire to be better than other people, which will dovetail quite easily with fascism the moment fascism is seen to be socially acceptable.

    Some smaller number who self-describe as liberal may just need a push in the right direction and are merely suffering from the miseducation prevalent in the west, but these are generally not the ones cheering for the US Democratic Party or arguing about the "rule of law" online.

  • How many of you started using this site after being banned or shadowbanned from reddit

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  • I was never banned; I deleted my account as I was frustrated with the increasing surveillance. Someone had mentioned Lemmy in one of the degoogling or privacy subs and I decided to check it out. It reminded me a lot of how the internet used to be before it was filled with bots, so I stuck around.

  • "Democratic" socialism

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  • "Democratic" socialism

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  • Yes! Plus a longer video on Drew's side channel featuring a discussion with the same guest - they were discussing a particular indigenous group that has resisted conversion efforts for centuries.

  • "Democratic" socialism

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  • You have way more patience than I do, and I applaud that. I'm going to be charitable and assume this .worlder didn't bother reading the article beyond the excerpt, because it's way more upsetting if they did.

    I had just watched a video on YouTube yesterday about how the CIA used missionaries and commodities to try to control indigenous peoples, and I was reminded of that when I read the article this morning. The world doesn't have to be this way, and it's beyond sad that so many people seem to think it can't be any better than it is.

  • Good FOSS Podcast apps?

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  • This is the one. You can add podcasts through RSS feeds. No accounts, no subscriptions, no nonsense.

  • US says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’

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  • This is a problem I think we need to start considering collectively. If the internet as we know it can no longer be relied upon for communication (at least not for anything of importance), how do we effectively organize? I don't have an answer, but I think we will have to come up with alternatives before the cage locks around us.

  • There's a narrative that everyone now is stressed/busy/anxious – do you find this relatable?

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  • Averages are not very useful for making sweeping generalizations. An average of hours worked is going to include people working 80 hours per week to make ends meet as well as people working under 40 who are unable to get healthcare benefits. In the US, the number going down would reflect increasing underemployment, not prosperity, as we have no safety nets and virtually no one is working sub-40 hours and getting full-time pay.

    As for time spent watching television, it's a passive form of escapism that it more accessible to people under stress. The worst times in my life have been when I would do nothing but watch television to distract myself after work - because I had no social connections and no money to spend on hobbies or going out.

    Those here not currently feeling financial pressure are not paying attention to the rise of fascism if they're reporting being completely unstressed. I am lucky enough to be well-situated financially, but I can feel the walls closing in and I don't really know what I'm supposed to do to prepare for what's coming. (It's easy to say "organize," but I am not as able-bodied as I used to be and I don't have the time or energy to commit to an org.) I try to agitate with the people around me, but it more often than not feels like I'm tilting at windmills.

    Tl;dr - yeah, I'm pretty stressed.

  • After Trump bans pronouns, what part of speech will be next?

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  • "Darmok" - season 5, episode 2.

  • Israeli Claims About an Iran ‘Threat’ Were Always a Lie. Now We Have Proof

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  • I swear someone wrote the plans for the operation 20 years ago and they just never bothered to update them.

  • Driver facing camera in cars

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  • Would love it if they were making a sedan or a subcompact. Not everyone needs or wants a truck.

  • double standard liberals

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  • Agreed about the DSA. When the time comes, some small number may splinter off, but I expect the bulk of them to be fighting against us, not with us.

  • The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust

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  • Much obliged - I'll be adding this to my reading list so I don't get caught without citations again.

  • US says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’

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  • They have a lot on their github, but I have no idea if it's current: https://github.com/orgs/gl-inet/repositories

    If my ISP tries banning my router, I'll be finding a new ISP. Of course, that's not going to help if they all fall in line.

  • The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust

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  • I've read his newsletter and that was enough.

    There's going to be a great need to properly educate the working class in the west before there's much hope of socialism gaining any traction. They keep people just educated enough to innoculate them against critical thinking. I forget the exact statistics, but a depressing number of people have not read a single book in their entire adult lives.

  • The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust

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  • There was an old episode of TrueAnon about the links between Epstein (and the CIA) to MIT that went over some of this stuff. I'm sure there's probably a book or article about it somewhere, but I don't have any better citation at the moment.

  • US says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’

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  • I hear you about the panopticon - I figured getting a Gl.iNet router is some protection, as I know what's running on it and I can keep all my network traffic behind a VPN with a killswitch. Of course, they could try to make those illegal down the road. Who knows.

    GL.iNet's devices come with their own fork of OpenWRT pre-installed. The UI is easy to navigate and it does everything I need it to, so I haven't felt any need to install OpenWRT proper, but if you want to, I believe you can easily find instructions to do so online.

  • Bringing hand sanitizer to the class war

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  • And that's why hand sanitizer is no replacement for masking, but given that the vast majority refuses to mask, I'll stick with using both.