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[โ€“] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] rottingleaf@lemmy.world -1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The last sentence. You can say all you want in social media to blow off steam, but you'll only make things right in the real world with real power applied. And posting it here you've removed yourself from there.

Social media are not designed to be usable for organizing and combining those crumbs of power we all possess. They are actually designed for the opposite goal - to let everyone receive the dopamin hit from saying what should be done and forgetting it, from dispersing their power as thinly as possible. Look at your (EDIT: the guy I was replying to, didn't realize you're different people) 300+ likes, all worthless.

A self-regulating propaganda device, better than cheap and good brothels everywhere, or cheap alcohol and cheap and legal maryjane. Also alcohol and maryjane reduce one's labor value, while brothels can have an effect opposite to the desirable (there's need for validation in the society, thus in hierarchy, which gets reduced by being sexually content). Social media are better in both regards.