PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @ PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S @lemmy.sdf.org

**Anarchist**, autistic, engineer, and Certified Professional Life-Regrette

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I didn't say anything about political statements, I mentioned violent statements.

Politics is already violence. For example, even though no gunshots are going to be fired, millions of vulnerable US-Americans are about to lose their state medical insurance. What is this if not social murder?

Politics is systematic social violence, but it is structured in such a way that the systemic aspects are abstracted away from all individuals.

anyone who can't express the latter without the former should, generally, expect to be censured (and censored).

I reject this notion. For example, I support stopping the IDF from committing the genocide of Palestine. Do I support stopping them peacefully? Of course it would be fantastic if we could peacefully get them to stop what they're doing, but...this would have to happen immediately, since every moment of every day the IDF is continuously destroying Palestinians. Said differently: we could only afford to work at the pace of liberal democracy if that pace was immediate.

This should not be even remotely controversial!

Like be serious for a minute: would you have a problem if Jews living under Nazi regimes and their allies said "Death to the Wehrmacht"? Well with 80 years of hindsight of course you would now not have a problem with that. But since it's happening now in Palestine and on a smaller scale than the Nazi Holocaust, you're having problems with coarse violent opposition rhetoric because you haven't successfully learned to apply the lessons of the Holocaust to current events!

Check !mothmemes@lemmy.world for year-round moths and lämps

You have exhibited subsets of the working class, only some of which are obsessed with bullying. But even if for charitability's sake we assume that all those subsets are hypothetically obsessed with bullying...you have not presented (1) a set of subsets that covers the entire working class, or (2) a mode of causality to suggest why this is a feature of the working class systemically, i.e. a reason why such a covering exists.

Chanting "death, death to the IDF" is violent and inappropriate at a music festival. "Fuck the IDF" would've been fine though.

No it's not. Mass music festivals are perfectly acceptable places to make political statements. This has been done for generations now, i.e. Rage Against the Machine.

And when we say "Death, death to the IDF", we are accurately talking about the IDF like the monsters they are. For a scathing rebuke of respectability politics, I defer to this essay:

I am so fucking mad, sad, angry, and enraged at the actions of the elite and the hateful reality they’ve structured; that the only honest way to express my emotions is to wave a giant neon hatecock in the face of these hypocritical lying shitmongers. I don’t care if they hear me – they would never care, even if I was “respectable.” But they can’t fucking ignore me. They can’t fucking look away. They can only shake their head and claim, ever more shrilly as our world spirals deeper into shit, that “You’ll never convince a moderate with that language!” Fuck you. I don’t want to convince moderates. I want to fucking change shit. I want to inspire people, to get them angry. And if that offends you, if my anger, my emotions, my rage at getting fucked over, over and over and over again, bothers you? Take a step back, and think about what you truly value. Is it the messenger? Or the message?

Lol. This is a past time of *individuals in every class, equally.

It is not, in fact, a pastime of every class equally. Considering that the capitalist class makes their entire living from controlling and intimidating workers into doing actual work for them, the capitalist class systemically and explicitly spends their whole lives bullying others and being so rich that bullying people is all they ever have to worry about. Obviously we have working class individuals who suck too, but bullying others is not a systemic feature of the working class.

I'm hoping for a solarpunk anarchist future

No lol. Even attempting to be a dictator would go against my core principles. We don't have to agree on everything or even a lot, but "dictators are bad actually" is one of them.

Exactly, that's what a neoliberal echo chamber like Rddit does. It reinforces neoliberal monoculture. So it's not shocking that, when I leave that neoliberal echo chamber, the world seems a lot less neoliberal.

IMO Lemmy has revealed that people around the world are more left-leaning and class conscious than I thought back when I was on Rddit.

All the content is on the extremist-side, enforces attitudes perfect to embolden class wars ...

Yes, unironically and openly, I support and advocate for class war against the capitalist class. The capitalist class wages their class war against the working class every single day in every single facet of modern existence. It's well past time we start fighting back as an exercise of our own individual and collective self-defense. Class consciousness should never have been controversial, and it is only controversial because it encourages people to challenge capitalism.

... and young people (no doubt the majority of people here) aren't worldly enough to know the difference.

You don't need any political knowledge to know my positions. I am literally an anarchist, and I have said so loudly and often. Like me, most of these "extremists" are open socialists and communists and will readily tell you their views and ideologies (many of whom I emphatically disagree with from their left, but I somehow suspect you would consider me just as "extreme", namely for challenging the utility and inevitability of capitalism).

Where's the trove of knowledge? The awesome positive hobbies? If it's around, it's all drown out by the manipulative noise.

Yes, it is a shame that capitalism drowns out all our hobbies, all our positive experiences, everything so completely that we need to waste so much bandwidth drowning out the manipulative noise peddled by capitalists on almost every other platform.

It's full of AI-generated political memes and comments.

I don't recommend completely blocking yourself off from politics forever, but if you really need to take a temporary break like everyone deserves, I recommend making an alt account with all political communities and posters blocked. But keep in mind...you might be done with politics, but politics is never done with you. In particular, capitalism is never gonna ask your permission to use and abuse you.

And really, this is a special case of the fact that you need to curate your own feed. Some other social networks do this for you in ways that compromise your privacy and, frankly, brainwash people into accepting the neoliberal monoculture.

As is good ole 'Murican tradition, blowing shit up nothing of value to capitalists 😈😈😈

How about US-American? Since there were other countries with the term "United States" in their name, and Mexico is officially the United Mexican States.

Like I'm American but I would be literally thrilled for America to be relegated to the dustbin of history.

I wish all Americans capitalists, the US government, and their vassal States to stop making everything about America.

2025 – 60 = 1965

America and Texas were good back then? For who?

Don't worry, this video will tell you everything you need to know.

Good, let them fight. I support 🤡 on 🤡 violence

Nightmare Chuck-E-Cheese rotation 😆

What did it change?

It made it de jure illegal to be homeless, and de facto more illegal to be homeless.

Exactly as intended. Because in fucking capitalist Democrat "utopia", there "are" "no" homeless people. But there has to be a permanent underclass and their lives have to be hell or there will be no one left to melt for biomass.

This is why I say "fuck the Dems!" and "don't let them get their way!". They're monsters too. They're just monsters that feed off decorum.

Evidence?

Music production. It would have taken years after finishing recording school to even begin to break even, let alone make minimum wage, let alone make a living wage. All the entry-level gigs were one-time unpaid things.

I haven't fully given up on music production forever because I'm too fucking stubborn, but I'm not making it my full-time job.