@Laconicif @duckduckgo @session Damn straight!
I envision a time soon where companies will get wise and sell fediboxes that let you get on xmpp, matrix, pleroma, peertube with your own instances with a click of a button. At that point on fediverse you aren't the product, you aren't the customer, you are the operator.
I envision a time soon where companies will get wise and sell fediboxes that let you get on xmpp, matrix, pleroma, peertube with your own instances with a click of a button. At that point on fediverse you aren't the product, you aren't the customer, you are the operator.
@SaltWraith @metokurist
The first step is to clean our room. Stop worrying about war, and start worrying about becoming the best us we can become.
Doing small steps, making sure we're doing well for ourselves, making the things we want to have, supporting the things we like, that's how things move slowly forward.
We got to build a big tent, and give people places and things that let them be themselves. A place people can be free, and people will slowly gravitate towards that.
The way you win a culture war against fascists isn't to attack the other side, it's to present a superior option. Just like you looked at the stuffy angry repressed religious right back then and people said "I want to hang out with these guys instead", right now people are looking at the stuffy angry repressed religious left and saying the same thing.
If you're looking at the institutions, stop. Institutions are conservative, not in the "left/right" sense, but in the sense that they're not going to make a change until well after it's clear the paradigm has shifted. They're dominated by the left wing right now because 20 years ago it was clear the left wing had won, so 15 years ago they started getting woke. Thing is, by then culture at a local level was already starting to shift.
The left is still winning, but things that were unthinkable 10 years ago are becoming thinkable for the right. Nobody expected Gen Z to become the first generation in a century to be more conservative than their parents.
Of course, once it does happen that the right starts to look like the victor, expect the fascists to start heading over there, and the whole cycle will start again. It isn't actually about left vs. right, it's about the free vs. the authoritarians, and authoritarians play dirty.
The first step is to clean our room. Stop worrying about war, and start worrying about becoming the best us we can become.
Doing small steps, making sure we're doing well for ourselves, making the things we want to have, supporting the things we like, that's how things move slowly forward.
We got to build a big tent, and give people places and things that let them be themselves. A place people can be free, and people will slowly gravitate towards that.
The way you win a culture war against fascists isn't to attack the other side, it's to present a superior option. Just like you looked at the stuffy angry repressed religious right back then and people said "I want to hang out with these guys instead", right now people are looking at the stuffy angry repressed religious left and saying the same thing.
If you're looking at the institutions, stop. Institutions are conservative, not in the "left/right" sense, but in the sense that they're not going to make a change until well after it's clear the paradigm has shifted. They're dominated by the left wing right now because 20 years ago it was clear the left wing had won, so 15 years ago they started getting woke. Thing is, by then culture at a local level was already starting to shift.
The left is still winning, but things that were unthinkable 10 years ago are becoming thinkable for the right. Nobody expected Gen Z to become the first generation in a century to be more conservative than their parents.
Of course, once it does happen that the right starts to look like the victor, expect the fascists to start heading over there, and the whole cycle will start again. It isn't actually about left vs. right, it's about the free vs. the authoritarians, and authoritarians play dirty.
@alex I like how no matter what the problem in the world, there's only one cause.
Federal debt? Men rape.
Riots in the streets? Men rape.
Global pandemic? Men rape.
Climate change? Men rape.
Women can't find mates? Men rape.
Why are the edges of some coins knobby but the edges of other coins smooth? Men rape.
I've only caught a few posts but they are truly inspiring.
Federal debt? Men rape.
Riots in the streets? Men rape.
Global pandemic? Men rape.
Climate change? Men rape.
Women can't find mates? Men rape.
Why are the edges of some coins knobby but the edges of other coins smooth? Men rape.
I've only caught a few posts but they are truly inspiring.
@SaltWraith @metokurist You're probably just a young one, so time for a history lesson: The right lost the culture war. They didn't lose it in 2020, they lost it in 1996.
At their height, they controlled everything. They controlled the culture, they controlled the government, they controlled the discourse. They were able to cancel their enemies at will and blacklist their enemies.
What happened? The left started selling freedom. They started making the argument "Hey, these nutjobs are going to track you down and fuck you up, we just want everyone to be able to live how they want, don't you want to be with us?"
They were the ones free to make the edgy jokes. They were the ones free to make the interesting art. They were the ones telling the interesting stories. Establishment stories were so caught up in their dogma that they were boring.
Today, the simpsons is establishment as hell, but when it came out it was anti-establishment. In an era when every TV show was about the perfect family, they were showing a dysfunctional family and poking fun at sacred cows.
The strategy for winning hasn't changed, only who the big establishment trying to force everyone to live a certain way has. The left might control everything, but the right is finally learning to sell freedom, and they're going to win that way.
The bigger, the stronger, the more fascistic the left becomes, the more their grasp will slip from the people who drive the culture. People don't want to walk on eggshells. People don't want to feel a boot on their neck, and they won't tolerate it forever.
At their height, they controlled everything. They controlled the culture, they controlled the government, they controlled the discourse. They were able to cancel their enemies at will and blacklist their enemies.
What happened? The left started selling freedom. They started making the argument "Hey, these nutjobs are going to track you down and fuck you up, we just want everyone to be able to live how they want, don't you want to be with us?"
They were the ones free to make the edgy jokes. They were the ones free to make the interesting art. They were the ones telling the interesting stories. Establishment stories were so caught up in their dogma that they were boring.
Today, the simpsons is establishment as hell, but when it came out it was anti-establishment. In an era when every TV show was about the perfect family, they were showing a dysfunctional family and poking fun at sacred cows.
The strategy for winning hasn't changed, only who the big establishment trying to force everyone to live a certain way has. The left might control everything, but the right is finally learning to sell freedom, and they're going to win that way.
The bigger, the stronger, the more fascistic the left becomes, the more their grasp will slip from the people who drive the culture. People don't want to walk on eggshells. People don't want to feel a boot on their neck, and they won't tolerate it forever.
@jeffcliff understanding that it isn't my field, I think that you might be on to something. It's probably reasonably possible to put together a training package for treating specific ailments. You can take people who have proven aptitude in other fields, such as a lot of the chemistry and chemical engineering folks who have been struggling to find work and basically take their existing body of knowledge and transfer it to treating covid.
In general I just think they reacted in very weird ways. We've only known for 600 years how to keep an infectious disease in the country, and we didn't do those things. Instead we went down this completely different completely new route of putting a boot on everyone's neck and spending hundreds of billions of dollars on paychecks for people to stay home.
In general I just think they reacted in very weird ways. We've only known for 600 years how to keep an infectious disease in the country, and we didn't do those things. Instead we went down this completely different completely new route of putting a boot on everyone's neck and spending hundreds of billions of dollars on paychecks for people to stay home.
@jeffcliff I've been saying this almost since the beginning: if instead of funding lockdowns the federal government built a billion dollar medical facility in the top 200 cities in canada, not only would our medical system not be overloaded in the case of overwhelming covid numbers, we would have had an economic boom and probably have become a world superpower in the medical field.
Instead we give everyone a shitty vacation.
Instead we give everyone a shitty vacation.
@metokurist ngl, it should be a given that if I don't know or respect you specifically I don't give a flying fuck what you think, and it doesn't matter what special status you do or do not claim.
"A former airline CEO who refused to allow female staff to take menstrual leave protected by employment law has been fined almost $1,800 (£1,300; 2m won) by a court in South Korea."
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Bahahahahahaha
I'm sure he won't do that again! He spent 7 seconds making that $1800!
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Bahahahahahaha
I'm sure he won't do that again! He spent 7 seconds making that $1800!
@metokurist Not so sure this isn't an internal op by twitter to try to keep people from leaving the platform now that orange man is gone.
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@jeffcliff What makes a man turn neutral ... Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
@metokurist @Slugfuz3 @Wyatt Why would anyone want to market to retarded teenagers? It's retarded adults that have all the mo--oh nevermind.
Apparently Twitter is blocking posts that criticize the indian government's handling of covid.
India did not do a good job on COVID. Even Mr. "Look at me I'm in india" himself, Justin Trudeau, has banned travel to India. He had to self-flagellate for hours to get the foul stench of making a competent decision off his body.
India did not do a good job on COVID. Even Mr. "Look at me I'm in india" himself, Justin Trudeau, has banned travel to India. He had to self-flagellate for hours to get the foul stench of making a competent decision off his body.
@metokurist Holy fucking shit, this has passed the fact check! USA Today did write this!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/21/fact-check-makhia-bryant-holding-knife-while-shot-columbus-police/7321951002/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/21/fact-check-makhia-bryant-holding-knife-while-shot-columbus-police/7321951002/
@gibsjuchegfpIs @Al_Rex "Communism" has never had anything to do with whatever fantasy the long dead architects envisioned. It's always been about wrapping up authoritarian dictatorships in neon wrapping paper.
Communism in fact!
Communism in fact!