cubedsteaks @ cubedsteaks @lemmy.today

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How do we fix the insecurities of alt right white supremacists who spend their free time getting off on antagonizing people for the sake of upsetting someone?

Some of them even want someone to try and fix them so they can use that for their own personal entertainment.

Something I learned about the Rwandan genocides in 1994 is that comparing humans to insects is one of the first steps of genocidal ideology.

I'm not sure what you're talking about in regards to what I was saying?

Some people do things like this under the idea that you should keep your enemies close. Like you should always know your enemy and in order to do that, you have to be right there, listening to what the enemy is saying.

i meant that the person i know is not qanon

Part of this is bad phrasing because you are unaware of the movement but no one knows who Qanon is.

What people are talking about in this thread are people who follow the movement, and not who Qanon is. Of course your friend isn't Qanon. That would be absurd.

But how do you know they aren't posting on 4chan and following the movement? Is that what you are trying to say, that they don't follow that sort of thing because you think its a movement that solely rooted in American politics?

i don’t think we have those kind of people here in asia

qanon is a 4chan/8chan thing that is part of www - that includes people posting from Asian countries. There are definitely Asians on there. There were definitely Asians who went along with that movement.

I'm Asian too. Has nothing to do with the qanon movement.

Wow… Maher on Rogan.

Can we pause and talk about how Maher is wearing a fucking Family Guy Star Wars shirt.

I immediately assume that once someone brings up Joe Rogan they are easily susceptible to authoritarian propaganda and should be avoided.

What if they're just talking about his previous acting career?

I use a ceramic pan mostly and try to stay away from nonstick and teflon because that can scratch over time and get into food.

I also have an issue with rinsing out dishes. I'm worried there is still going to be soap so I just rinse things over and over.

Yeah, when I think of left wing politics, I think of like abortion rights, social issues.. that sort of thing.

I think I finally realize why the news and politics communities are so popular here.

Yeah, I mean, I went to pride anyway and I'm bisexual so of course I support LGBTQ+ because I'm part of the group.

But I don't get treated like I'm part of the group. I just had a trans girl the other day who felt the need to explain to me, what a bisexual is. Like she's fucking explaining my identity to me and talking down to me and you're right, they don't see the hypocrisy because you know if someone explained her identity to her, she'd filp out and other people would be outraged. But being bisexual is seen as "whatever" so its okay to condescend to that group.

So I don’t think that’s really the same left-wing extremism that I was originally talking about. There are left-wing communities like Linux, Open Source Software, Unionization, and Communism. Whereas if you aren’t 100% you might as well be -100%. If you have a slight disagreement on how the system should be ideally then you are the absolute enemy. Zero middle ground

I don't understand how that is left wing? Like what does Linux have to do with left wing politics?

Everyone complains about ads but I seem to be the only one who thinks real TV with its easily skippable commercials is the least bad option

I completely agree and I've had lemmy users go completely unhinged at me for enjoying ad's. It's unreal.

This is also the root of why leftists hate bazinga solutions for climate change

I'm genuinely asking... but is this for real?

I should add: What are "bazinga solutions"?

also the new “stereos” on motorcycles that are essentially just PA systems

God I was walking to the store on Saturday and some douche was driving around blasting one of the SHITTIEST red hot chili pepper songs ever and he fucking circled the block a couple times so me and everyone walking down the sidewalks had to endure this fucking god awful song at full fucking volume.

Fucking inconsiderate as hell.

I’m pretty terrified of whats to come.

I see a lot of people say stuff like this and I feel like I'm just waiting around for the collapse yet it keeps not happening.

It kinda reminds me of growing up religious and people being very sure the world was gonna end any minute now and of course it never did.

I was briefly dating a guy who worked at a school being the IT guy and he just fixed network connections for the kids ipad's all day. And he said all the classes and work were done on ipads.

Sorry I buy the scented ones cause I have a cat...

The left wing extremism is part of why I don't have a lot of in real life friends anymore where I live. I've had to either distance myself from people or just stop talking to them at all because they don't think I'm good enough or something.

Like earlier this year I joined a meet up group in my area and I guess I made the mistake of asking about pride events because somehow that conversation turned into someone saying "you're a fucking idiot if you don't question your gender" and other fantastic concepts like "if you're cis you're dumb"

Nope. I live in the pacific northwest of the US and there's something here called the "Freeze" and some people refer to it as the "ice out" but it's a term for how people in this region don't really like making new friends. A lot of people here are very against talking to strangers.