pinkdrunkenelephants @ pinkdrunkenelephants @sopuli.xyz

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I had to sit down and accept I am more intelligent than the majority of people by virtue of the fact that I read and paid attention in school, and I had to after watching the political situation in the U.S. deteriorate.

It deteriorated because people refused to learn to read and write correctly, leaving them unable to examine primary sources or fully comprehend what they read in the news, online, everywhere.

It deteriorated because people refused to learn math and science, meaning they can no longer verify factual claims charlatans make to them, or figure out when their bosses are ripping them off, or budget, or make their own stuff.

It deteriorated because people outright rejected the notion of critical thinking and logical debate on principle, preferring instead to force people to submit to their paper-thin view of the world and to accept certain assumptions that lead people to accept authoritarianism in turn.

And it's sad to see. It's sad to watch people so hopelessly fucking stupid and dependent on the system that they'll fight to protect it, and it's even sadder watching them flip the fuck out when you tell them their economic woes are partially their own fault because they refuse to be educated or to use their education.

It's a sad thing to have to accept but it's the truth.

Who said I would? I never did. I did not ever even think it. I support it because I care about my family and future generations. Fighting a revolution is a sacrifice you make for other people and is therefore the highest of moral acts.

The fact that you'd even say that shows how selfish and cowardly you are.

You can't have the old world anymore. Your world requires exploiting the rest of us and you don't have the right to do that. Make your own goddamn Big Macs.

What flavor was the cake though?

CRACK! And now that window shatters.

So you now admit you're helping the ruling class murder us. Well, that's one way to finally be honest.

The rest of the intelligent people climb out the window

Here's the kicker though: while you're helping them trap us inside the room slowly filling with poison gas, remember they never gave you an oxygen tank. They're killing you, too.

And I flip you the bird as I, too, climb out of that window.

Can you hear that? Men with guns are stomping as they rush to the room, only they're not there to stop us and save you. They're there to kill you and pursue us.

False equivalency. Also you're not going to justify or normalize the existence of generative AI. Write your own code and make your own games.

Voting and mod tools, to start.

You hear the mods talking about how there are no efficient moderation tools and hoo boy are they not just whistling Dixie. It's difficult to even ban someone.

Voting is so broken because of federation as to be meaningless, or at least it should be meaningless but to everyone else it isn't. So they walk right into another emotional meat grinder, thinking they're being upvoted or downvoted legitimately without thinking whoever they're talking to could just be voting against them with their alts. Users have about 3 to 5 on average, at least from my count of others I've encountered so far. There's nothing stopping someone from building botnets and rigging votes of important issues, misleading the users and enabling the most horrific shit imaginable. Imagine someone using a botnet to upvote gore or CP on servers they don't like. Lemmy.world already had to deal with a similar attack.

Lemmy as a platform just plain sucks.

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crack crack CRACK!

The rest of us are over here breaking the windows and smashing the vent while you're too busy getting angry at us for disturbing your work to notice you're delusional from lack of oxygen, and about to pass out.

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Yes, actually, it is, and you have to deal with them whether you want to or not. You can't justify your hatred and bloodlust against protesters with the law; the law sides with them.

So yes, protesters on the street have the right of way. That's the price you pay to live in a country that claims to be free. Don't like it, move to Russia with your topsie Putin.

Bail fund. Physically bust open the jails. Attack police and liberate people from arrest. You know, the usual.

I agree with you that white-collar tactics should be a part of the revolutionary's repertoire of government -overthrowing tactics, but honestly, I don't see how it's possible to completely avoid getting physical with those cretins at some point.

Most violence is actually intelligent. They're never mutually exclusive.

You need to be rich to emigrate

Yes it is what right of way means. You can't just run over pedestrians on the street no matter how much they inconvenience you. You especially can't run over protesters.

Get over their presence and get a life that doesn't revolve around your 9 to 5, or you in general.

They have the right of way regardless of whatever they're doing on the road. You don't get to run them over like you're in a Newgrounds game no matter how much you want to.

That means even when protesters are sitting on the road, you have to put up with it. Turn around. Find another route. Park and find another route.

Deal with it.

Pedestrians always have the right of way regardless.

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See, I can be obnoxious to prove a point too.

It doesn't matter if protesters are hanging out in the middle of the road. You have to put up with them regardless. And honestly, the situation is too serious for your inconvenience to be taken into account. Fix the planet, then we'll talk.

Yeah, you're the one with the ability and the will to run them over and kill them and yet somehow, you're the victim being detained. 🙄

Grow the fuck up. You are not a victim. It is not all about you. You are not entitled to 100% guaranteed access to empty roads.

You have to share the road with pedestrians and even protesters whether you like it or not. Protesters are a part of driving and a part of life you have to accept.

Do what you tell everyone else to do: Get over it.

I need to read those books again at some point. The first was off the chain.

No, no, you're being selfish. You can't be assed to sit in traffic for 10 minutes or simply turn around to accommodate for other people's right to protest. That silly thing people fought and died to have. All because you don't want to tolerate being inconvenienced. That is the height of selfishness.

You are selfish. Selfish, selfish, selfish.

Drivig isn't even a right, it's a privilege. Legally it's a privilege. You have no right to drive and never did. They do, however, have a right to protest.

Stop only caring about yourself and invest your mental energy in something other than your shitty 9 to 5.

It doesn't actually matter what they or others think and that's a lesson I as well as other revolutionaries have had to learn the hard way over the years.

Public support has been made impossible to secure with the collapse of the education system and propaganda designed to convince Americans to reject education and learning.

So it'll be up to the few people who managed to resist it to either revolt, or try to escape.

Sell it in another country or online.

We can make plastic out of fucking algae if we wanted. Doctors aren't going to run out of gloves because a bunch of internet autists decided to blow up a coal plant.

I'd be more worried about the people on O2 and life support who need access to electricity. It's why I support forcing power companies to switch to renewables so we can transition humanely. Note that holding shotguns to oil execs' heads to make them sign the paperwork is in no way inhumane :P

You could always hawk it as new on Ebay.