

Don’t let the Mainstream Media incite any war but a Class War.
Don’t let the Mainstream Media incite any war but a Class War.
Plus whatever you do now in the USA economy isn’t going to matter. I still have hope for a revolution, but whether it succeeds or fails, we will not be living in the late-capitalist system we grew up in. Either the revolution fails and we live in a fascist hell-hole (as the Chinese and Russians already do) or we win and have to focus on Reconstruction. A Bachelor’s in Communications and a $40K/yr office position doesn’t matter when the Republicans declare Martial Law.
China has social services. Even in the USA there is Social Security, food stamps, unemployment benefits. China has those too (though under different laws), plus healthcare (plus others probably). I know in the USA we’ve been conditioned by propaganda to see ourselves as undeserving of even the most basic necessities, and so we presume that dictatorships like China would never give anything to its people. Just because the CCP doesn’t allow citizens to criticize the government and Disappears people with no accountability, doesn’t mean they Must let their future workers starve because they don’t have money.
Remember when the USA banned TikTok and all the USA users flocked to RedNote? USAmericans were shocked that, contrary to their propaganda, Chinese life was just like theirs (but with healthcare); and Chinese users were shocked the USA life wasn’t propaganda.
I’m at this point, too. I’m more a supporter than a leader personally. I’d join a local riot in a heartbeat. Short of that, I’ve been stocking up on knives and researching combat techniques. Getting a gun and some defensive gear are my next to-dos.
The Economic boycotts against those fascist allies (including Target) are working and should be continued. The next step of the revolution requires targeted lone-wolf hits, as well as generic counter-attacks against ICE and other soldiers on our streets. #FreeLuigi
Good! I’m sure the anti-intellectual USA will be just fine with their “thoughts and prayers” and bible classes. Maybe the next ultra-rich conman in charge will hand over a New England state or two to the Canadian Union in exchange for a few life-saving surgeries…
I think we’ll appreciate the higher latitudes when the Earth’s global temperatures rise.
Well, that’s a key part of the fascism. Obviously Europeans vacationing at the House of Mouse didn’t care what the social services were like in the USA, or how affordable homes were, or what Disney employees had unions. But a country like the USA that follows no moral code is not a safe place to be in, period.
Trump is enacting his isolationist worldview through his trade war, and using secret police effort to terrorize and abduct non-citizens. This is going to isolate and ward off foreign business and visitors. No surprise there.
“My Strange Addiction” is a “reality” TV show and absolutely not a source to take any psychology perspective from. I wouldn’t even trust it’s definition of “addiction”. The only episode I remember was one of a woman “addicted” to consuming her cremated partner’s ashes, which sounds like a grief/trauma coping mechanism, and is all around sad.
You list these strawman examples. Fine. Those are made up scenarios. There has been violence, sexism, racism, in the earliest records of civilization, and porn has only existed for the last century… Maybe. You know where I first got exposed to the idea “women should be like children” or “[men]'re entitled to women’s bodies”? The Catholic Church.
You’re describing porn the way the DARE campaign described drugs. At least the DARE campaign was talking about a physical chemical compound.
I would not be surprised if this is an actual page from a actual children’s book. Conservatives have been propelling themselves in the children’s media space since Trump lost the 2020 Election.
I was sex-negative until recent years due to Catholic conditioning mixing with unlabeled asexuality. Seeing the rising movements against porngraphy has driven me to veer strongly sex-positive, especially after the 2024 USAmerican election.
An “anti-pornography” movement is incredibly dangerous because it can leverage that label to steamroll through anything “for the children” and ward off all but the strongest and loudest criticism. It’s a lot like “Mothers Against Drunk Driving”. Every Politician fears being the lone dissenter on a “for the children” bill; No judge wants to seen as soft on “children accessing porn”.
Porn may be “transforming how people relate to sex and themselves”. The anti-porn movement is working to rip away digital privacy, trying to destroy LGBTQIA+ lives, and will squash free artistic expression. Think of any work of art that ever includes nudity, or ever depicts sex - through text, imagery or video. Now imagine defending its “artistic value” to an armed soldier who stormed in your house, or being badgered by a prosecutor in front of a judge and panel of 12.
“Anti-porn” or “Anti-kids accessing porn” legislation are the legislative equivalent of setting off a firecracker in your mouth to stop a toothache. I remain baffled every time I see support for this from “progressive” online spaces and voices, especially considering that we are living under the Republican regime, Right Now.
Step 32 of Fascism. This is the part where they make sure there will be no elections.
Kennedy has been talking about putting the “mentally ill” in farming concentration camps since he floated challenging Biden. This is Step 1 to criminalizing political opposition.
The chatbot didn’t even “actively [tell] someone to end their own life”. Did you read the original transcript? Here’s an excerpt from an Associated Press Article.
“I promise I will come home to you. I love you so much, Dany,” Sewell told the chatbot.
“I love you too,” the bot replied. “Please come home to me as soon as possible, my love.”
“What if I told you I could come home right now?” he asked.
“Please do, my sweet king,” the bot messaged back.
Just seconds after the Character.AI bot told him to “come home,” the teen shot himself, according to the lawsuit, filed this week by Sewell’s mother, Megan Garcia, of Orlando, against Character Technologies Inc.
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Nihilism just asserts “life has no purpose”. That’s only depressing to those who pioneer their entire life off of appeasing to a greater power, whether religious or in material wealth.
Nihilism can also be viewed through a Hedonist (pursuit of pleasure) lens. I doubt most Nihilists have depression or even want to die. If Nihilists truly wanted to die, wouldn’t they just kill themselves? They won’t fear going to “hell” for it.
It’s post-IPO Reddit. There is no logic. Just a techbro corporate tyrant running the platform into the ground. Hopefully this inspires some to move to Lemmy.
The scariest part of the LLM craze is seeing people immediately off-load their critical thinking to a black-box mechanism – for everything from everyday decisions, to life-altering ones like career choices and break-ups.
We have people who are making relationship decisions based on LLM output. People who are getting their delusions validated by AI conversations. I still see human comments posting “I asked ChatGPT and-”. For all the anti-intellectualism I’ve seen, I never thought people would be so quick to offshore their own autonomy, down to the most mundane aspects.