Get ratio'd shill.
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Virtual Casino. More addictive than IRL ones. Insidiously pushed on kids. Predatory. As Fuck.
Haha more like lemmy.libs amirite?
Yeah, having been settled in awhile on lemmy before watching that April '23 reddit "exodus" over spez shutting down blackouts...the influx of allocishetmonoabled white dudes, who felt entitled to tell us we werern't welcome, was...well it'd be funny if it weren't such an embodiment of why UHC can get away with a 7,000,000:1 ratio as long as they did. Even when theyre "sticking it" to the CEO's, they're still played like a fiddle.
So fuck em. Refuse to allow them to move the overton window of the discussion rightward. Dont stand for having your take policed, and don't self-censor to appease that stubborn demographic. Make them come to us.
Ima be real w u, as a woman, in this economy, rent's fucking expensive so if someone from c/femcelmemes wants to set me up like this, set me up with an ethernet line and it's a deal.
One major idea from feminsm is your gender shouldnt matter. Yeah no shit, locking up anyone agaisnt their consent is fucked up. Take a joke snowflake 🙄 /hj
Gender's a scam. Stop making up a guy to be indignant about. You only care when you have a status quo to defend and like it or not, men benefitn from their percieved status where women have to work so much harder to be taken seriously.
Thats exactly why Ill reply with this, and refuse to engage in any debate or what abouts. Yku dont have to worry about policing your thoughts and having others police them the way women do. Do not have time to allow you to ratchet the overton window rightward gg ez 🤷♀️
Tl;dr at end
Barbarism We are (indeed) no more evovled or "civilized" than australiopithicus or cro-magnons, nor the marauding vikings.
Tribalism Im sick of the cop-out using this word too.
So yeah, signal boost to Andrewism (a channel name which is roughly about rejecting isms/be your own ism; this one helps articulate where I'm coming from about why tribalism gets a bad rep.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0_w87J9Dj0
We in the modern age operate under the dangerous misconception regarding our heritage. If one should ask the average citizen whether or not they believe humans are more evolved than our ancient ancestors they will more often than not express the belief that we are indeed far, far superior.
Surely we are more sophisticated and more capable of reason than the hunter gatherers of 13,000 BC. More civilized than the marauding Vikings of 1,000 years ago. We imagine these peoples as ignorant, primitive, barbaric. “wE aRe nOt tHoSe pEoPlEs.”
In fact Homo sapiens--modern humans--share an inherited gene pool with the earliest hominids like australopithecus who lived 2.5 million years ago. We possess no significant physiological differences than Cro-Magnon or the Neanderthals. Nor does evidence suggest our tendencies toward the barbaric have lessened over time.
On the contrary, present day humans are capable of the same self destructive behavior, the same crimes against humanity, the same violent power struggles as our ancestors. We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millennia. If any thing our problem solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology and our ubiquitous modern conveniences.
And yet, despite our predisposition toward fear-driven hostility, toward what we anachronistically term 'primitive' behavior another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our makeup. We are capable--as our ancestors were--of incredible, breathtaking acts of kindness.
Every hour of every day a man risks his life at a moment's notice to save another. Forget for a moment the belligerent, benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of cost-free cake.
I speak of pure acts of selflessness. The mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle. The person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on an upper story. The man who can barely swim who dives into a lake to rescue a drowning stranger.
Such actions, such moments, such unconscious selfless decisions define what it is to be human. Daniel Ash
Tl;dr: The root cause analysis into the violence, inequity and needless sufferung results in the recognition of Class War: That ruling elites in this modern NeoColonial Imperialist Era have shaped Fear Propaganda Campaigns to divide the working class (modern day: anyone not a C-level Executive Officer) into atomization. A wonderful example is the Prohibition in the USA exacerbating and profit / acquisition of political capital by dividing the not-so-white americans from the white-white americans. Preceeded by anti-chinese propaganda by proxy of conflation with opiate usage and anti-black (dock workers of 1910's), and followed by the cannabis prohibition.
All of these have economic roots, as do things we call "natural" such as the nuclear (imperial) family, and the conflation and dyaditic flattening of gender such that working class Men alone were afforded a wage, to then take a wife to subjugate and make up the economic difference with unpaid domestic labor; an arrangement which is far from universal or pre-ordained.
Root causes are not easily tl:dr'd
There is a better way. Dont ever let them make you forget. Dont forget that:
- That the 2020 lockdowns showed us we dont need Business As Usual, the society kept turning while the planet briefly healed
- That Child poverty dropped at the fastest rate it ever dropped
- That until last year, more people could just have health care, right, if the government decides to just do that.
- That evictions can just be stopped. That if we -- you know, if the government just rules it, like your landlord can't evict you.
- That the George Floyd Uprising had Cheeto Mussolino hiding in a bunker, while the people were fighting the police in the streets and winning.
- That Covid is now endemic because these administrations, 45 and 46 and their counterparts across the empire, buried their heads in the sand and declared it "over" when it was not
https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/vicky-forget
Dont fall for the bread ans circuses. The relevative comfort and spell that it will put you under. Memory is fragile, it's written-to- by feeling emotions. So feel this. Allowing them to let you get checked out entirely is like sleepwalking off a cliff.
Dont let the doomerism get to you. Focus on what you can change. Refuse to forget. Rest is resistance is a good book. Sending all my good vibes 💜
IF that's true:
Doesnt matter if you do; your anecdotal life experience does not make for a better world for people who use.
What's more, im not given to policing my own emotions, nor allowing you to judge my emotions, as if we should be robots. Humans are emotional and biased, acting otherwise doesnt make you the very enlightened voice of logic and reason you seem to think it does -- Thst's just basic manipulative behavior.
With all do buddy...
Enjoy the block 😇
Wah youtube
In response to a link to a creator who has litterally dedicated a video to grapple with the dynamic that we as audiences need to consume information with care
Idk what to tell ya. A lot of people enjoy learning in this format. You do know a person can read in addition to watching a video, dont be silly ✨️
Prefiguration must go past some vision of mass adoption, abandon the model of society which capitalism has rendered, and land us on something much more equitable. It is lazy, irresponsible...literally erasing entire cultures (the nazi shit), to rely on mass adoption wherein only the privileged have children. Not to mention entirely unrealistic, with the lot of them not interested in the first place.
Allowing the existing class dynamics to persist, along with the greater empire and global system of explotation, can end only as all empires do, in ruin.
So I've abandoned the simpler "oh just adopt" and i can see that's triggered a commenter or too 🤷♀️
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/6039327