My favorite part about this is that I often argue that we could do a lot of good if we all just shit posted more online politically. Like figured out some good ass fuck trump shit posts. It would be more effective than any protest. Yet these people are like "no can't do that man people can't organize like that without huge bot armies"
Meanwhile they all get hard ons for moth bean Sheeran. Like fuck, drives me crazy.
Right the people saying they'll punch a Nazi are also people who have run to Lemmy as their sole social media because they don't enjoy being in conflict all the time with other people who disagree with them.
The people that go nazi I have often are usually people who thrive in conflict. It's like a weird attention seeking thrill thing.
I see lots of people on the left type "punch a Nazi" online but then never learn to throw a punch or lift any weights and shit on self defense culture like martial artists or even gun ownership. Punching people is not something you just do. Especially to people with Nazi mentality who probably gone their whole lives feeling anti social and waiting for a leftist to engage them.
Not saying this to discourage but to say go learn to punch Nazis and embrace being a fucking Nazi punching bear of a person
It takes a tremendous amount of energy to run our own OS. That energy needs to come from somewhere. We're driven to convert other living things into that energy. You can't just shrink that down and expect to produce the same results. It's like saying why can't I build a little tiny generator that can power my Bitcoin mining farm. There's things that come with scale and we're kind of in a sweet part I think. Kind of like how earth is in a sweet part of the solar system. Nature sorted us out to be what is needed to do things we do.
Then you're in a bubble. One of the most frustrating things about the right currently is they have a large network that is very good at sharing information. They have a much tighter grip of current events than anyone I've seen on the left. The left are miles behind on any current events. Whenever something is happening, I've been heading over to right wing spaces because as much as I hate it, they tend to know things much faster and in more detail then the left wing spaces.
Just look at Lemmy here. Most information is a post and then 100 comments of talking about how upset we all are and gob smacked. But there is no further insight.
When I go to right wing spaces, it is similar but i do get extra information like background details about who individuals were or what led to an event that isn't in an article. It comes with tons of bullshit but I trust I know ways to verify information enough to spot the bullshit.
Exactly, and something that is entirely missed by the left is that you don't need to "win" the argument. Just have fun. You can make them look silly by showing their absurdity by just joking with their dumb arguments. Jon Stewart is great at this. He doesn't need a whole segment logically destroying every point in a monotone diatribe. He throws up video of a Republican saying one thing and then doing the complete opposite then cuts to him laughing and shrugging. The viewer comes to their own opinion. It's entertaining. That's the game. People online on the left ignore that game.
I would have no problem getting anyone at r/conservative to pull up similar data points and statistics to show immigrants are taking jobs, contributing to crime statistics or any other claim. It's very eerily similar to the emerging opinion on the left when compared to opinions on the right towards immigrants.
Regardless of validity of opinion. What I'm noticing is the role the media has played on shaping opinion and fed it.
But even the terminology suggests you're coming from a lower place. So wouldn't it make sense that the people from the place you're coming from have some responsibility for the state it was in. Like how right now we're seeing a decline in American culture and increase in corruption. It was voted in by Americans. So if Americans were to all of a sudden immigrate to say Canada to get away, wouldn't they fucking hate it if other Americans who voted for Republicans start following them because of the opportunity.
It's the same sentiment towards immigrants that's seen on the right.
The media have been running the exact same headlines. It feels weirdly like the corporate run media have an agenda to show us all the horrors of AI like they will take our jobs, they are going to collapse our society, they are a threat to our children, they contribute to organized crime. Same headlines every time.
I anticipate people here will be bothered by this statement just like if you say immigration isn't really a big problem in r/conservative. The media is insidious. But I really think it's a good opportunity to see how it shapes public opinion.
Andrew Tait?