Graduating from “leftist” Reddit, I’m afraid.

Gonna glaze the 'grad specifically - on the whole it’s done wonders for my revolutionary optimism and mental health, which in turn has lead to me actually doing some organizing irl.

Finding places full of people who actually know their shit and aren’t swept up into the lies of neoliberalism and capitalism is a major step up from feeling utterly alone and helpless in the imperial core surrounded by people who at times feel utterly alien and unreachable.

Basically just using this space to say thanks for existing, as well as thanks to such incredibly consistent and well-informed posters like yogthos, cfgaussian, cowbee, rainpizza and others for their constant analysis and discussions that have definitely patched up a lot of holes in my own understandings of leftist history and thought.

I barely use social media at all besides lemmy and the level of smarmy belligerence you’ve used throughout this thread makes me wanna download signal out of spite.

Maybe take a day off mang.

I have always appreciated their personal analysis as opposed to the rote application of other youtube scp channels. The difference between ideas and “ideas”.

If you don’t mind unsettling/horror/sci fi stuff, I recommend Exploring Series on YouTube. I find their voice just that right level of interesting enough to listen to the actual info if I want to, but calm enough to fall asleep to as well.

They have a few Lovecraft book readings as well, but I usually just binge the SCP Foundation recordings, haha.

I suppose all of these headlines are Russian propaganda too?

Can’t wait for the other person to never respond again lol.

Keep up the good work comrade.

I am curious what you would say if your brain didn’t immediately perform a kneejerking backflip because of one word. What’s the point of even engaging if that’s all it takes, yknow?

Edit - forgot again. Lol. Really gotta get around to making that .ml account…

Or just… y’know… any age and paying attention…

Predictable.

You cared enough to litter this comment section with childish one word posts. Don’t you think your time and energy are better placed elsewhere?

I agree mostly, but I think there is something to be said about the detachedness of it all though. Having you and your entire livelihood and ability to sustain your family/empire utterly insulated from the destruction your decisions cause, and in this day and age, even informationally insulated by simply either staying in bubbles or literally paying others to confront the criticism or negative effects you’d be hearing about.

When you willfully destroy any frame of reference that portrays what you’re doing as evil and destructive, or when the system you’re apart of is designed to facilitate that sort of mindset… I realize you mentioned similar points in your comment but I couldn’t help coming from a different direction.

I think that level of pure power and wealth does breed a type of ignorant sociopathy akin to a very young child picking the wings off of a butterfly, on a societal level (a simplification of course).

All this to say that while we don’t live in a fantasy land where money and power are cursed artifacts, I think it’s not helpful to cover for the effects such tools can have when a human being acquires both in nigh-untouchable quantities.

Edit: Not trying to cover for the horrible decisions these people make, and it’s true some people can just be cruel - just trying to float that they were and are human beings born into these systems just like everyone else.

Edit2: Goddamn it I typed all this out just to realize it’s a .world account and therefore they can’t see this. Neat. 😅

But it is an explanation. People use mbfc as a way to simply wrap themselves in a blanket, to excuse or feel ok about ignoring anything that feels “icky”, rather than actually taking the time to read through multiple sides and sources to sift through the biased language most media platforms use, whether it’s left right center up down or what-have-you.

It’s basically a time-saving ignorance shield for the vast majority of people who don’t really care to put the work in. Subtlety and nuance is lost in convenience.

Ah, lemmings, got it.

Drowning the truth in an ocean of misinformation seems to work much, much better than censorship at fracturing reality.

For those following this thread, note that the above .world commenter literally cannot see my comment because .world decided certain instances needed to be silenced.

Funny how that works.

I think they’re experiencing a significant gravitas shortfall.

Politics?? In MY language conversation? Well, I never…

C’mon now.

Ah… right. Sometimes I forget how lemmy works.

Tell me you’ve never tried to look into actual communist history without telling me you’ve never tried to look into actual communist history…

So, basically, this person is happy to blind themselves to other viewpoints to avoid viewpoints they disagree with/people they claim are blind to other viewpoints.

… what an enlightened individual!

Does it really add decency??? One of my favourite shows, Arrested Development, uses bleeps over swear words as pure comedy; the black bars are similar to me, they draw attention to the oddity rather than just call it what it is.

Nudity in general is fuckin silly, people should know about their bodies, everyone knows what a naked human looks like from looking at themselves, censoring non-pornographic nudity is stupid and only serves to intrigue and create mystique where it should simply inform and demystify.