You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them

[plasticexistence@lemmy.world]

That's because there are a lot of marginlized folks here - gay, trans, autistic, linux users

I feel seen

[rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de]

Except you won't, because you are already coping on Lemmy

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

I'm talking about a guy who made no impact on a single company much less an industry and then went to prison, throwing away all of his rich boy ivy league education.

[alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

You are missing the point.

Those days might be numbered, but these places are the last bastion.

They will invade private homes, businesses and offices with impunity first.

Churches in particular have a long history of being relatively safe in (civil) war.

Not immune, just relatively.

[dasus@lemmy.world]

I'm talking about a guy

[labbbb2@thelemmy.club]

Violence is bad. And it won't help anyway, unless it only makes things worse and society even more divided, leading the country into cycles of endless dictatorship.

The only way to get rid of illegitimate leaders is for at least 50%+ of the entire country to get together and protest all the way to Washington.

There is another way - if it's in your power, don't obey the regime in any way.

That's the whole point of dictators - they come in when some economic crisis starts and/or the people are fragmented.

By the way, dictators thanks to the fact that people are divided, and continue to rule. And also political apathy and social conservatism are only to the advantage of dictators, so they should have been regarded as evil from the beginning

[conartistpanda@lemmy.world]

And boredom is a crime.

[corkyskog@sh.itjust.works]

I mean 54% read at or below a 6th grade level, so that makes sense. Almost a fifth to a half of adult Americans are functionally illiterate depending on how you define it.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

Since you're refusing to back up your stance I take that to mean you've resigned from the argument and that you agree with me.

[dasus@lemmy.world]

Back up my stance of "you're talking about it" when you begin your comment "I'm talking about it"?

I really don't see a reason to "back that up" any further. You did all for me.

[skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works]

Also in that field, but… I think you have to acknowledge that being, usually, in your example 1) at work and 2) on a computer, make people that much less interested in giving a shit. Compare to various systems people use in their free time, and you probably see that people are pretty good at attending to the things they think matter.

Capitalism, or, at the very very least, unfettered capitalism, are the real problem, not people writ large.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

I see you have the memory of the goldfish so I'll recap the discussion for you.

• User above stated we need more luigis

• I brought up the fact that Luigi 1 accomplished nothing

• You retort that we are talking about it

So either your response was completely pointless and off topic or you meant it as evidence that Luigi 1 accomplished something. What did he accomplish? How does talking about it change anything for anyone?

[killingtimeitself@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

literally just don't doomscroll, go read my recent post over in eudaimonia.

You literally just don't have to do it lmao.

[killingtimeitself@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Apathy is the greatest tool of the oppressor.

apathy is the tool of the strong in the times of the weak.

[enkers@sh.itjust.works]

Remember, there were plenty of rounds of moderator purges on reddit, especially when subs would lock down in protest. Any mod with ethics and a backbone would've been shown the door. So I think it's fair to say a lot of the moderation problems were at least in part caused by the admins.

At least on Lemmy, different instances have different ethoses, so communities can be more in line with the instance they're on, and there isn't this need for absolute centralised conformity.

[dasus@lemmy.world]

I brought up the fact that Luigi

Still talking about it.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

Man we get it, you don't have an argument. You don't need to keep reminding us. It's hard, we understand, not everyone can display mental competence on every subject.

[yarharsuperstar@lemmy.world]

I don't know, i was thinking about it and it seems like they would love it if we would just unplug like that, because then we couldn't reach the majority of people because they're only using those platforms. I fucking hate psyop bullshit for making me have to question every single fucking thought like that.

[semi_hemi_demigod@lemmy.world]

Ignoring all the times that violence did in fact help won’t help.

[dasus@lemmy.world]

Are you talking about Luigi and what he did?