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  • This is a great question to ask in a .ml community as I think they will be able to contextualize this a bit better for you, and I would be interested in what they say too. Cause I agree, I think identity politics (which I think is what you're getting at here) is used especially by the ruling class as a way to look nominally progressive (or anti-progressive) and make people feel like they have a real choice in politics, but is ultimately damaging both to its own goals and to the overall political consciousness, in the ways you noted, by divorcing them from the material realities that create and perpetuate these divisions for all people in society. I think that in either direction, they are pushed as a means to distract from the root causes of those issues (which is all the better for a ruling class that benefits from this social order), which if addressed would be a much more equitable way of dealing with them and far more difficult for criticism to take hold.

    I think people would see that we have far more in common than not if we weren't constantly pitted against each other to compete for resources that are only made scarce for the sake of profit and austerity.

    CRT though, in actuality, is precisely what you are talking about. It is a school of thought that analyzes racial inequalities in the context of history and critiqueing the ways that they are perpetuated in our society. It became a buzzword because conservative media made it into one totally divorced from its original context.

  • Man there was a video a while back about how echo chambers are actually probably not a huge factor in polarization in and of themselves, but that people are actually polarized when they encounter opinions in ways that drive them away from those opinions. Wish I could find it, it was really compelling and I can't do the topic justice.

  • CeraVe always burns my skin and makes it all scaly and flaky by the next day, which is weird cause I don't have a history of sensitive skin but I also have not yet ruled out that other products could be causing this sensitivity.

    Had a good experience with Curél Ultra Healing lotion* however and when my skin is real sensitive, Vanicream always does the trick in moisturizing while giving my skin a chance to heal. Can vouch for the Vanicream cleanser as well.

    *upon further research this is apparently a hand and body lotion lol but it's non-greasy, non-comedogenic, with their ceramide complex and it works!! so w/e. The 1oz tube I got from dollar tree does not say where you are meant to use it and genuinely looks like a facial lotion 😆

  • Well it's not about incentive but because people deserve to be paid for their labor more than the publisher deserves to make profit. If we're talking about the evils of financial incentives then we really should be looking at the publishers, not the people doing work for them.

  • not a tankie

    ...cool? So glad you have an opinion about the 1956 Hungarian revolution and whether the Soviets sending in tanks to crush it was a reasonable reaction... not sure how that qualifies your opinion though.

  • Nah there's definitely different universes/timelines in star trek. The series just have the one main timeline they follow.

    The final season of Lower Decks was also a huge step into multiverse theory. So perhaps there is more to come.

  • I mean he wrote it after his experience in the British Ministry of Information during WWII. That reality arguably already existed when he wrote it and he just put it into terms that made the contradictions obvious and stole a plot to make it into a full length novel about how communism is bad and scary.

    1984 is supposedly a cautionary tale about what would happen if the Communists won, and yet it was based on Orwell's own, actual, Capitalist country and his job serving it. It's really no wonder how we got here, they're just expanding the same tactics and rhetoric into new territory.

  • It’s why Soviet WW2 veterans who had served on the Western front were sent to the GULAG.

    This American defector seems to have gotten by a lot better than he would have if he'd stayed loyal to America. Says he spent a few days in a cell but I don't recall mention of any gulag.

  • Yes. Mostly because it's difficult to view the full content without logging in, and I refuse to do that on principle. Screenshots and mirrors are fine, I just don't think we should be generating traffic to that site.