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[–] relay@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago

I was thinking about doing a campaign where you can do whight genocide against a race of undead slavers that kill and turn people into zombie slaves to run their economy.

[–] relay@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The reprise to feed the machine is "give and take" which is explicitally a revolution in response to the of the society in "feed the machine".

[–] relay@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 8 months ago

The Frankoiban mullahs are abusing people based on their fashion choice again. It sounds like this country yearns for freedom!

[–] relay@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 8 months ago

How can an "evil" civilization work exactly? If the civilization is completely at odds with citizens' well being it is trivial to have outside powers influence the people. They could be evil in the sense of plundering outside of the empire like the USA.

It is an "evil" empire that has marks that change based on what is the interest of the empire? It is in the best interest of any civilization to meet the needs of its citizens. To neglect the needs of the citizenry creates inefficiencies to the ability of the empire do do its actions. Thus reforming the empire to be socialist is in the greatest interest of the empire.

Maybe this mark is detecting how evil each individuals actions are? If evil is determined deontologically (actions are evil independent of context), you can burglarize rich people and torture them to death to move your morality down to make up for the fact that you are using the funds to build a revolution for the greater good. If enforcers of the law come to visit your group the members have an opportunity to lower their morality even more if they can survive the fight. All of the bodies can be butchered to lower morality even further. Your people can lie and sell the human muscle tissue as pork to lower morality in other ways.

[–] relay@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Good luck dealing with that addiction.

[–] relay@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Bags of chips have kind of always been mostly air.

[–] relay@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In that wierd place do they think that Russia is the head of Jeudeo-Bolshevism? Are these people Neonazis or Democrats?

[–] relay@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 8 months ago

There are 3 kinds of people. People that don't want 100% free speech without consequence, the other kind of person lies about wanting 100% free speech. The third sensible kind wants speech regulated to some degree but not too much.

In both bourgeoisie and socialist democracies it is good to give people a means to vent their frustrations and hopefully reform or respond to the concerns of the people. Opposing the masses of people with concerns that are legitimately hurting the people is an act of hubris that is not good for the stability of the government. I think it is reasonable to regulate/call out misinformation or campaigns wholly based on misinformation. Ideally, media companies must vet out to not report misinformation because it undermines the ability of the people to assess real threats to their democracy.

To the extent of the country is in fact a democracy representing the people, it is of great priority that the people not be lead astray with false information easily. For this reason, Bourgeoisie democracies often tell falsehoods. Bourgeoisie institutions in general spin narratives to divert the problems capitalism causes onto false scapegoats to keep the Bourgeoisie corporations in power. Socialist institutions that represent the will of the people and accountable to those people have no incentive to spin false narratives in the media. Problems can exist, then they are addressed eventually.

[–] relay@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago

These are shitty AI images.

[–] relay@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 8 months ago

I never understood how anyone can talk about "human nature" in a vacuum. People behave based on their material surroundings. Its human nature to have a certain portion of the population be serial killers, but most societies punish that kind of behavior. People raised in relative poverty are more likely to do crime. People that are racialized have difficulty getting better jobs, and thus many of them are in poverty. "Human nature" is an abdication of reason.

 

My question is related to this video.

I'm a first worlder living in the imperial core.

I've developed some internal theory to do some praxis for the movement, but I find it so hard to move forward due to intrusive thoughts on how complacent my useless coworkers are. They are the productive part of the company and joke about unionizing because they are noticing their increased exploitation, but they won't do it. They also make fun of trans people and blame racial minorities for their criminalization in the "personal responsibility" kind of manner. Any means of trying to reason with them goes in one ear and out the other. I loathe being around them, but I have difficulty getting around thought spirals and ruminations around them. I've given up hope of doing anything meaningful with these losers than help each other collect a paycheck. I have no means of getting them fired, don't want to give out too much info. I stick around because I can collect a paycheck with minimal oversight.

I'm disturbed by so many people's use of the phrase "it is what it is" around the rot of the social services of this country that is clearly going against their own interest. It seems nonsensical to me that so many people laugh and are complacent in the destruction around them because they are temporarily isolated from it.

I want to do some praxis but I'm just too enraged and depressed being surrounded by these people that love their bigotry but would hate to do anything to liberate themselves. How would you suggest containing my rage filled ruminations appropriately so that I can perform my praxis?

 

I do admit that I think how social media works is to presume anything you hear on facebook or shitter as false unless proven otherwise.

Does anyone here think they have a good heuristic to determine if anything on a social media website is true? Can we progress dialectically towards the truth with social media or does the system motivate liars to double down on falsehoods? If it were possible for us to own social media can social media be made to encourage truth telling and punish liars?

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