VerbFlow

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[–] VerbFlow@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Cascadian independence movements, as well as other independence movements in the US.

 

What should we do after Harris/Walz is elected? I was wondering if you had some ideas. Here are mine:

  • Mass strikes in the workplace, demands being taxes for the rich and higher wages
  • Mass strikes in the military, demands being to end support for Israel, take away excessive military bases, shut down Gitmo, drastically reduce the budget, &c
  • Get as many people off the internet as possible
  • Get people arms and arms training so they can defend themselves without police, and heavily reduce police funding
  • Refuse to pay any landlords, lead attacks on real estate offices

Maybe some stuff would be extreme, but I ask you please to separate the wheat from the chaff, along with adding your own material. I may not be that smart, but at least I'm preparing.

(If you want to remember to vote, set yourself a timer like everyone else with memory issues. It should go ding on the day you get your ballot!)

I also feel kinda hazy

[–] VerbFlow@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Made a mistake in par 2. Should be polycrisis is almost entirely.

[–] VerbFlow@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Despite my Anarchist leanings, I still hate Tea-Partiers for their disregard for human life.

[–] VerbFlow@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, that wouldn't just solve the climate crisis, that would also get people to talk to each other, help people exercise, cut down on pollution...

 

I'm not saying that freedom of speech IS a bad idea, or that the government should simply censor ideas that are harmful, but the idea to just silence people for misinformation seems to be gaining traction.

To be clear: I am NOT pointing fingers and accusing any political party (including the D-Party) of being censorious, or accusing censorship and its proponents as malicious, nor saying there is a conspiracy out to promote censorship. It simply seems that, due to a surge in right-wing terror attacks and the Capitol riots, people have become more accepting of censorship, from Popper's "intolerance of tolerance" to laws against homophobia and conspiracy theories, in search of a comfortable, safe state of society.

I also want to ask how censorship would be enforced. How would riots be dealt with? How would the police be handled? How would jails be prevented from overloading?

Also, this question is not directed at Anarchists. Some leftists don't like censorship, and others do, and I want to ask those that do.

If this question is stupid, tell me why. I may end up seeing myself that this question is stupid, and if so, I'll tell you.

[–] VerbFlow@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

Immeasurably great reporting. This was painful to yet, but a blessing to know.

[–] VerbFlow@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago

People have gotten sick and tired of r/pics having loads of political content, and while some candidates are better than others, many people are sick and tired of seeing "orange man bad" yet again. The people who were supposed to be propaganda targets immediately knew this was propaganda and the rampant election posts didn't make Harris more popular. If this plan is enacted, people will see the astroturfing straightaway, and more people will see Trump supporters as bothersome cultists than as freedom fighters. It doesn't help that, if pro-Trump people can brigade the sub, so can anti-Trump people, and the whole debacle will just get shut down.

[–] VerbFlow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

This is just sad. How will this not get people sick and tired of it?

[–] VerbFlow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lemmy is not malfunctioning like Reddit is. It is not reliant on a dogshit mobile app that constantly breaks down; it is not overrun by reposts; it has no excessive advertisements. And there is far less manufactured outrage and misinterpreted socialism on Lemmy. And that's not even getting into the fact that is is an app. Hooooooooly shit, I just hate apps on a smartphone as a maxim. That tiny fucking phone screen makes writing comprehensively, and citing sources, like trying to stack d10s using woolen gloves. It has all sorts of trinkets and rewards for browsing the damn app too (I suppose the admins know they have to goad you in), and any third-party apps trying to solve these problems were left without support. "No better" my fucking ass.

 

I know this sounds pretentious (which is quite ironic), but this is something I've noticed about the internet. You never read about what someone does, only what they say. You hear politicians claim that they'll fix the economy, or celebrities make speeches about what they feel like, or what "message" a fictional movie has being discussed over and over, but none of that matters, because it's all saying and no doing!

[–] VerbFlow@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I blame the attempt to make devices user-friendly. Convenience kills skill.

[–] VerbFlow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, Drumpf is too old for office and can't understand how money works imo. It's not even the Dictatorship On Day One deal. Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte could, at least, solve a great many of their people's problems. Drumpf and Vance aren't even doing that. It's a bit exhausting having almost every U.S. politician cramming into the D-Party, but after this whole fiasco, it'll split up.

[–] VerbFlow@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Like my second, albeit braindead, systems administrator on my shoulder

I think the more important part is that your systems administrator is braindead. I know it's hyperbolic, but you can certainly learn coding (Link 2) and Spanish (Link 2) yourself.

[–] VerbFlow@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I think Generative AI should just be scrapped. Nobody needs hyperrealistic photos and videos, or chatbots, or any of that shit. The main problems of the world are not technological, but legal. Too many laws are enacted for the benefit of robber-barons, and unless they are scrapped, I have no faith in my legal system.

 

This was originally going to be posted on Fuck AI, but it really applies to technology far more generally.

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