You are likely scanning my profile and history because I said something in a tone that made you feel funny or angry. This is called being reactionary. You can overcome it.
Whats your great moral plan of action for the people dying in gaza?
You can say that pro-terrorist sentiment is bad without having all the answers for how to fucking solve the middle-east conflict that’s going on longer than either of us have been alive. This is a bad-faith response because you don’t know how to actually defend the idea and I won’t see another response from you. Go ahead and play to the crowd, maybe you’ll get an updoot.
And also no Hamas is not based.
The state of where we are as a species: you got mixed votes on this. In Lemmy. A place that’s supposed to be an absolute den of progressive values.
You can support hamas at the level of their resistance to colonialism
How about supporting anti-colonialism without supporting murderers on either side. Seriously, you don’t need to latch onto bad people to fight bad people.
I don’t know who needs to read this affirmation out there but here we go, repeat after me:
Good things are good, bad things are bad.
The only reason nobody is picking Stuck in a Different Dimension is because you know you could succeed there if you applied yourself and got more social with the local demi-denizens.
Ya’ll asocial fuckers rather suffer in a bug-god’s body for eternity than try to get good at climbing a social ladder.
I like that the most reasonable response in the post gets two downvotes. Two people in particular were like “NO! I want my bug god!”
This is bullshit that doesn’t deserve to be shared.
It’s washed-up, hateful podcasters and former conservative influencers saying radical nonsense for attention. They’re not in any capacity shaping any policy or public sentiment. I’m sure there are more than a few MAGAs who agree with this sentiment but we have to stop taking shit like this as seriously as we have, we have to start focusing on what’s actually happening, not what washed-out nobody’s are saying should happen, and right now even much of Trump’s base is turning against this entire operation. They don’t want you to know that, they want you to think they’re an immovable object and still have unity, that’s why they’re saying this kind of thing, to keep you from leveraging the fractures in their party.
Shame on MSN for giving it any light of day, shame on OP for trying to get upvotes for sharing it, shame on MSN for being MSN too, but that’s a whole separate conversation.
Heather Cox Richardson is a fantastic political/historical analyst who I listen to on the regular, but this particular prediction seems pretty widespread right now among everyone paying attention.
I think things accelerated when Zohran Mamdani and many other leftist/progressive local political leaders swept the country. It was a confirmation of what the administration feared was coming, a mid-term wipe-out. That alongside the very real possibility that Trump could literally die at any moment, and they don’t have remotely the political capital secured behind JD Vance to keep the flame of kayfabe alive, it’s making them move recklessly and plow through rules and regulations to a degree that will cost them a lot later. After Trump is gone, they’re all going to blame him for all the laws they broke and all the terrors they inflicted, but it won’t stick if they go too far and they already have gone too far, so it’s panic-mode.
The conservative base is, at best, tepid or ambivalent about Vance, at worst they hate his pasty ass. He certainly doesn’t hold anyone’s attention, he represents everything that Trump defied, he talks like a politician and doesn’t ooze with the hate and contempt that makes Trump weirdly human to a lot of people. They try so hard it’s hilarious, like that “I hate turkey” fiasco that fell to crickets and tumbleweeds. I think they thought they would have made more progress in securing a new right-wing leader by now, but events like Charlie Kirk and other high-profile divisions in the party have only eroded things worse for them.
Without that kind of raw political capital that Trump had, in terms of a fervorous, nationalist, dumb-as-fuck band of millions of armed nutcases who will support literally anything their leader says, the current administration and on through house and the judicial branch are royally fucked.
And I’m not sure if you’re saying this is an affliction you suffer from or you’re going to bat for the people who do feel that way, and I don’t care. I’m consistent.
We can do a lot for people as individuals, and if someone came up to me in person and said they were struggling with being around me or anyone else because of my relationship or other things outside of their control, I would work to help them and help them fix that issue, I will not however adjust my behavior when it’s normal, harmless behavior. Fuck that. People need social consequence back, it’s a driving force to make people do the hard things instead of just retreat to their discord group of shut-ins who just feed one each other’s isolation and create a deep well of selfish behavior.
If you’re expecting someone to get cowed into tolerating anti-social behavior just because it’s some performative ideal that others wear like some kind of badge of supreme understanding, you won’t find it here, I am fucking more done than I’ve ever been tolerating people who don’t want to build connection and community.
I don’t care how lonely you feel you shouldn’t react to it in a way that drives others away, nor drives you away from others. Our responsibility to care for other people’s feelings ends where it starts to create social harm. It’s unhealthy for yourself and our society broadly and nurturing and tolerating a segment of our population who have sexual/social insecurity is literally how we’re in a place right now where armed nazis are patrolling the streets.
Once in a while you deeply need someone to tell you to get your shit together. I’m sorry our previous generation didn’t go a good job, but we have a responsibility now to be adults.
There there, it will be okay.
Speaking as a neurodivergent person, this is stupid. This is really stupid.
I am fine with being labeled as “cruel” if it makes you want to work harder to expand your capability to socialize and exercise your brain muscles to put yourself in uncomfortable situations.
If being around healthy couples is triggering to you, that’s massively on you and your responsibility to manage.
This is what a therapist would tell you to do, this is something you can do, and this is something you need to do. Society will not adjust to your unique problems, I am very thoroughly experienced in this hard fact of life. The world will be far, FAR more cruel to you than people on the internet telling you indirectly get your shit together.
Their point is they have sexual hangups.
Phrasing matters.
Nah, sorry… if this bothers you at all, you have hangups. People talk all the time about their plans for their relationships or future, if you can’t deal with that without having sexual imagery planted into your head, that’s a skill issue. Or maybe a deeper issue that actually does need to be addressed, OCD is a branch of anxiety disorder and are often treated similarly. A lot of people live with OCD and the uninvited thoughts and images it can put in your mind without realizing it’s even a condition and just assume they’re “anxious” but get more and more obsessed with certain words, situations or imagery they can’t shut out.
ITT, lots of people with sex hangups and anti-natalist obsessions trying to rationalize being so alone and hung-up that other adults talking about their plans in life makes them feel uncomfortable.
They know they have limited time and are running out of opportunities to do all their fascist nonsense so they’re cramming it all in as fast as possible.
This is all great, it’s a sign that the whole debacle is crumbling. I have no idea what’s going to happen with Greenland, but whatever the outcome it won’t impact the US any worse than what we’re already experiencing.
But we have a day of great celebration ahead of us, and most bets place that day as happening sometime this year.
To yell at delusional leftists who are misrepresenting progressive ideals and actions and roleplaying online instead of going out and making friends and reforming community, the thing we desperately need to combat actual fascism. I hate the circle-jerking and avoidant-personalities being allowed to thrive without pushback. This is bigger than all of us and yet the people with any shred of intelligence are doing everything but what we need to do.
The Democrat party is a container of spoiled milk. We won’t get an alternative because these parties still hold too much power.
But we can pour out the contents of the container. We can rinse it out and start over.
I am obligated every time someone brings up Mussolini to remind everyone that Mussolini was not overthrown and executed by a plucky band of rebels who raided the capital, his removal from power and subsequent arrest was performed by his own government and the king of Italy at the time.
Mussolini was facing growing political and social disapproval and the rioting and insurgency happing throughout italy made the country lose faith in him, as well as the coming storm of allied nations getting closer and closer to Italy prompted his own government to depose him and hand him over to the opposition.
We can still beat this through political means, and kind of need to, otherwise we don’t have an actual army behind us, we don’t have a leader or support from anyone, we don’t have secure coordination nor popular enough public sentiment to have anything close to a rebellion or coup. Yet.
And even if all that did come together, we would need a plan to deal with the fact that even if we solved everything and got rid of every last fascist in power in the USA, we still have to live next to the tens of millions of people who didn’t want this action nor vote for it, people who have a lot of community power, social capital and vast stockpiles of weapons and ammunition.
You want to defeat this, you have to hunker down and get involved in your community. Hold protests, march, yes if enough people are getting together go ahead and demonstrate your willingness to disrupt the system. But the best thing you can do is form social connections and get enough people demanding better local and state representation. We need community back, less sheltered, atomized world-views and more broad-scale opposition.
The problem has far less to do with reliable methods of authentication and far more to do with social attitudes and atomization.
Not nearly enough people on either side of the ideological spectrum are going to use tools to verify a picture or video’s authenticity, because we can do that now relatively easily, and people don’t do it now. I can’t imagine people are going to trust anything that contradicts their own narratives.
For example, the people who most need to use fact-checking websites are now swearing off the use fact-checking and calling places like Snopes scams and left-wing propaganda.
We could do more good broadly for society just by being more socially involved and provide our friends, neighbors and community with better narratives to follow and better crusades to get involved with… and I can give a hint who’s keeping people going at each other’s throats so we don’t focus on the actual source of our society’s decay. They rhyme with “illionaires” and start with an M or a B.
Even if it worked, and it probably won’t because we don’t have blockchain encryption for image/video data, image files would be astronomically larger in size than the relatively small confirmations made for bitcoins, but it may be possible if clever people devoted to it.
The problem though is much bigger than “verifying” an image’s authenticity. 99% of people are not going to go to a website to learn how to do some new thing to verify the authenticity of an image that confirms and validates positions they already hold.
We can usually figure out how real material is still right now, but people don’t do that now, they’re not going to do it if you set up an extra step to check for every image, our age of intellectual politics and good-faith social discourse is over. It’s sad, it sucks, but this is the consequence of an unevolved primate creating advanced information sharing systems. It will be exploited to influence the monkeys every damn time.
It’s wild that this gets pushback here.
The incel adjacent portion of the left is pretty strong and you can find them in droves on Lemmy, it’s amazing how much pushback healthy relationships and sexuality gets on this site, but as long as you chant the same things as other progressives you get a pass for having attitudes that are destructive to society. I’m not sure why we’ve allowed this segment to go unchallenged for as long as we have.
Sexual insecurity is the tool of fascism, it’s not a valid identity to embrace.