• MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Feminism isn’t just about women.
    Toxic masculinity isn’t caused just by men.
    Black Lives Matter isn’t just about black lives.
    “Believe women” isn’t about blindly believing what women say. “Christian charity” is the least charitable thing in the world.
    “Defund the police” and “abolish the police” aren’t about eliminating police forces and letting crime run rampant.
    AI is anything but intelligent.
    “Global Warming” sounds tame for what’s actually happening: “climate disruption” and “climate catastrophe”. A bunch of countries with “communist” or “democratic” in their names are anything but.

    Words are stupid. Slogans are lazy. People lie.

    Which is why I like the lyrics of ‘Enjoy the Silence’ so much.

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      1 month ago

      Every single line item in your comment became ammunition for foreign agents to get into our culture over the last 20 years and just escalate the FUCK out of both sides of each idea there.

      It was directly from the KGB handbook written over 50 years ago, that if you infiltrate a nation’s culture and just amplify the most radical takes of both sides of every issue, it will create so much chaos and completely destabilize a culture so that people tune out and stop trusting each other or any news story they read. This has the effect of making the population just default to whatever state media they see and stop caring about social issues entirely. It’s been shocking seeing how effectively it’s played out in the US.

      I watched it happen, I was on the frontlines, managing a few social sites and moderating a huge subreddit about relationships. It was a creeping infection at first, but eventually it was like Helm’s Deep, but instead of orcs outside, it was astroturfers, crybullies, sea lions, and the entire goddamn ZOO of bad-actors and subversive chuds. For every horrible, shit-mouthed incel ranting about how women need to be put in cages, there was also some delusional, insane “feminist” screaming about how all men are rapists and men should never be left alone with children.

      I gave up the fight, reddit banned me for being an involved human, but it continues to this day, getting worse by the day.