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Lemmy might, MIGHT have a small bias towards the left
  • We organise.

    Ummm, brigading people on your team who point out how what you're doing isn't working is really the most pathetic example of political "organizing" I've ever seen.

    But do keep going. I'm sure it feels great to you.

  • Lemmy might, MIGHT have a small bias towards the left
  • Eh, it's a lot like reddit.

    Two thirds of the rabid ones here are keyboard socialists. They type a good game, know all the stock phrases, but when it comes to actually doing shit, well, touching grass is scary.

    They stay inside and rant and rave about how things SHOULD be while we are out there actually making the incremental changes to try to bring it about.

    Then they post and pat themselves on the back for saying we're not doing enough.

    It's very clear that this is every bit the senseless, thoughtless, reactionary, pathetic echo chamber that t_d was, just with red flags instead of red hats.

    Thank you all for helping me to realize that so quickly.

  • What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?
  • The ACA was always meant to be step one.

    It was never the fix. It was the groundwork to start getting to the fix.

    Politics is the art of the possible, and there's no fucking way this country votes to go single-payer government run in one step.

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  • I wonder every single day if it makes sense to leave the platforms in protest, or stay in the belly of the beast and raise awareness from within.

    Staying there is called "engagement" and it's exactly what the platforms want. They thrive on your attention, report that as engagement metrics, and turn that into money. "Raising awareness" feeds the beast.

    Nobody is surprised when shitty people running companies do shitty things. They stay until it meets a certain threshold of shitty, or they go to a competitor.

    Drive engagement at the competitor instead of railing against the toxic site from within. People will move toward something better more readily than they'll move away from something bad but comfortable.

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