Drugs tend to make people really metastasize into whatever ideology gets stuck in their head.
I feel like we sunk ourselves by being the faction of humanity that wants a better future, equality for all, which includes respecting the unique lives of every person and ensuring that we don't needlessly shame or harm people who very well could have been us. We, the side with innate empathy to a fault, the side that champions quiet contemplation and lofty ideals for the descendants we will never meet.
And while we're in the midst of trying to build this better tomorrow, we have the other side of our species, just fucking rampaging through the countryside like savage orcs, not only do they not give a flaming fuck about body shaming, that's the only language they know. So much so that they don't just want every other person to feel shame, they want to be the ones who cause it, they want to take your bodily right away from you, and use your very weaknesses against you.
They learned from you. They peered from the shadows as you nurtured the needy and gave hope to the sick, they learned that if they just cry "Stop! You're being mean!" that you will lower your sword and you will recite your oath that you will not be like them.
And behind the safety of this banner, THEY HAVE TAKEN THAT WHICH WE HAVE SPENT 10,000 YEARS BUILDING.
Fuck that noise, we have to take gloves off and fight them on their land. Which used to be our land. And sorry to anyone out there who has a small penis, stop using attacks on the deserving to justify what other orc have made you think about yourself in the past. Rise up and fight with us, so that your kids won't have to endure the same pain. THEY weaponized all of our vulnerabilities, not just your dick.
"Liberal America" isn't a group of people in the abstract, these are our judges, our lawyers, our civil servants and our accountants and our food drivers. There is great power in that, which is why so many people desperate to hold onto their wealth for so long have worked so hard to make us all think that kind of power isn't as good as money or fame. When it's far, far more powerful.
Someone wrote a book about it once, spawned a few big movements. Might have heard of it.
Maybe it will be midterm votes, maybe it will be marches and protests, maybe it will be full on riots. Do not underestimate what happens when enough people start to worry about their safety, security and where their next meal will come from.
This is actually touching on a real new approach to mental healthcare, which is just accepting that "life is shit" and you're kinda on your own to find meaning in it, or get to the next high-point that makes it worth living.
We have to stop expecting things to be stable, normal and comfortable. We had a good, smooth run, things are going back to normal now.
It's a pretty lame comic trying to ride on having a controversial "punchline."
If it was posted on a larger site like reddit it would probably be on front-page just because of the drama and controversy people would extract from it.
If this was reddit the comments would be 1000+ deep already, and all of it would be contentious.
if it's that bad, I honestly think you shouldn't be online.
Not kidding, you need to take better care of yourself if it's at the point where you're setting filters and still getting stressed seeing political content, you're not helping yourself escaping online.
There have to be some other things you can do, places you can go, activities you can occupy yourself with or people you can hang out with.
Because man... this shit happening right now is big, it's history, it's going to be really, really hard to escape it online because there are millions and millions of people far more involved and worried and trying to communicate their concerns.
It would have been nice if 45% of the eligible voting population didn't already check out last year. It would have been nice if there weren't countless posts by bots on reddit saying "I really hate all this politics" in a concerted, ongoing effort to make people like OP tune out and not care.
I mean, I get that it's hard sometimes to always see what's happening in the world, but you have the option to turn it all off. But expecting to just get the content that appeals to your mood at the moment and lets you avoid responsibility, that's fucking childish.
When you're a child you can avoid the world. You're supposed to be protected from the world. You grow up and BAM now you're part of shit. No, you don't get out of it. No, you don't get to escape whenever you want. Sorry, we didn't sign up for it either but we know what we have to do so we're concerned about events and trying to communicate that concern so that evil doesn't flourish. (Much further.)
It's very naive of people to think that in an authoritarian dictatorship controlled by the world's wealthiest people, that there won't be a LOT of unjust deaths in the coming years.
I will be positively shocked if they don't make a very public example of Mangione. It's going to hurt and that's what they want. They want to kill him in front of us so we feel pain. Then they're going to do it again and again with other people whom we don't want to see die. Remember that. This is what happens.
This is what 45% of eligible voters thought would never happen so they stayed home. Too much trouble. Too hard to figure out the truth (by googling for 30 seconds). Too many excuses to not rock the boat, and now the boat is rocking us all out.
Related: a lot of our current problems have been festering for the last century+ since we didn't finish the job after the civil war. If instead of helping the landowners who incited the rebellion rebuild plantations without slaves and subsidizing their production, if we ignored the financial and diplomatic repercussions and just hung the bastards and took their assets, it would have served a much stronger precedent and then maybe we wouldn't have had organizations like Daughters of the Confederacy re-writing our textbooks for the last hundred fucking years. (My grandmother was one.)
Yah I am getting fucking SICK of all these "owning the right" and "leopards are eating their faces" memes.
THE CONSERVATIVE ORCS ARE CHEERING.
This "engagement culture" has taught us to keep clicking on things that make us feel good, distancing us from the truth and reality.
I swear the left has almost an equally distorted picture of the real world as the right, at least the ones who spend all their days scrolling their curated feeds. We are NOT winning, we are NOT sitting here smug while the conservatives whither into the background, they are fucking in control of the world's wealthiest, most powerful country and they are celebrating every day. The number of worried neolibs out there who lost their 401K's or the like and are booing Republicans at town halls are a minority.
I swear this is why we lost this last election. Too many people checked out, didn't care, figured there was no way people would vote in such an obvious crook... AND YOU NEVER CHECKED WHAT THE OTHER SIDE WAS SEEING AND DOING.
Fucking 55% of eligible voters showed up. And now we're gonna lose it all because too many of you thought yourselves the main characters who didn't need to make a choice.
Yah, I would encourage people trying to dismiss LLMs and the future to actually try out some of the newer models. People are so fucking cooked, ya'll have no idea. We're going to face billions of people plugged into these things, falling in love with them, hanging on their every generated word, using them for literally every possible decision in life.
They're seductive and powerful and can recognize patterns in your behavior specifically that will startle you and make you question what you know. If you're smart, you will understand that this has a lot more to do with how simple our minds are than how magical the AI is, but the vast majority of ignorant people are going to lose themselves and just lean on LLM's a thousand times harder than they lean on their phones and social media right now.
Parents, teach your kids to limit internet time. Please, teach them language and critical thought and not to trust their senses online.
Sigh.
The idea is that the only way to combat AI content is with AI content filters that can recognize plagiarized or copied works.
It's a predictable offered solution to a problem that companies don't want to go away. Of course they're going to suggest more of their product to cure the problem caused by their product. See: The NRA in the US.
The thing is, it's probably right, at this point unless we all just decide to make a new internet that requires verification of some kind, the only way we maintain the corpse of the internet as it is currently is if we start using really beefy software to auto-moderate content on a much larger scale than just making laws that AI content needs to be tagged, and the AI situation is going to get a LOT worse. Humans are going to have a much harder time figuring out what's real in very short order, as if it wasn't already bad enough.
No really, we're in for some shit, the AI wave isn't going away, it's barely getting started.
It's an attempt to normalize the fear/hate of LGBTQ+ people on an international level. As long as the administration continues to constantly press this issue, much like the "mere exposure" advertising effect, it doesn't matter if people believe it nor not, the more times people hear a thing, the more likely they are to adopt that belief or feeling, even to a tiny degree.
That tiny degree, when continually pressed, when continually exposed, over large populations, influences a large number of people.
As long as they have an enemy group they can pin their problems on, they will keep going and keep ramping up the atrocities until we see mass graves. Again. (Seriously, how many times do we have to see mass graves in our nations before we decide that our leadership needs to be thrown down a well.)
If you guys care, please don't just rant on Lemmy or other internet spaces. Go talk to your family members. Talk to your friends. If you don't have friends, GO MAKE FRIENDS. GO MAKE ENEMIES. Our anti-social, paranoid, self-absorbed internet shut-in culture is making all of this tragedy possible.
Guys, you HAVE to push through those terrifying feelings of engaging with strangers. You HAVE to get social again. We don't win this behind keyboards.
Capitalist nations do not care about their people.
They're all capitalist nations.
This is actually great.
I mean, I know this is going to be a cynical take, but I have nothing left but cynicism towards my country.
If the administration starts persecuting white Americans, that's far more likely to rile up middle-class, liberal America than if people with "exotic" names like 'Garcia" get deported. It sucks but it's true, our country is built on a foundation of mildly xenophobic middle-class liberals who don't really care what happens politically until they feel personally threatened, and at this point I really, really want them to feel the danger so there's some chance of recovering this tragic slide back into the fucking dark-ages.
Daily reminder that the USA is literally falling to a dictatorship no different than any of the other dictator-led nations around the world like Chad, Sudan, North Korea, Burma, Iran, Pakistan, Laos and so many others.
What? You can't relate because they're not white? Get it together people, skin color has been a distraction since the dawn of human migration, if you're still compartmentalizing nations and people's by how they look, you're going to all lose all your happy comforts and shiny toys.
I feel practically guilty for having mental issues in the EU.
This is the neat feature of mental health issues, they make you feel bad no matter what!
So don't worry, you can worry without worrying about if what you're worrying about is worth worrying about 😄