Why does it feel that the evil sides globally are winning. Even evil people are winning. Why?
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We need more violent good guys
Everytime we talk about violence being the only way to create change, limp-dick liberals bitch about how peaceful protests are the only way.
Liberalism helped build this hell, and it’s determined to maintain it.
Leftist need to get guns. Now.
Liberals have good intentions at times, but they are ultimately toothless because they are pussies. I just have to roll my eyes at the people who you tell you to contact your representatives, but has never spent a minute at the range.
Do you know how you get people to listen to you? Let them know that you and people with similar views know how to operate a rifle.
Some good that’s done us. Country taken over by an unelected foreigner and nothing done. No shots fired, no defense of the constitution, no military honor, all those years of patriot bullshit and fugly flag and camo clothing for nothing.
Or you could just come up with a coherent argument to persuade them, rather than intimidating them with implied force. You’re not as tough as you think you are, shooter.
It’s not about being tough, it’s about saying, “no I will not be raped”. Apparently that’s something you struggle with.
So the republicans were right all this time? Wow
The idea of being armed as a deterrent to authority is historically true. You don’t even need to use violence, just being capable of it is enough.
Republicans worshipping cops while encouraging mentally ill teenagers to own 15 guns is not, however.
Republicans also utterly fail to realize corporate power and government power are the same thing.
You don’t even need to use violence, just being capable of it is enough.
This right here. Reminds me of a quote:
“Being incapable of violence doesn’t make you a pacifist, it makes you harmless.”
Choosing to be civil, and being capable enough to deter would-be oppressors, are not mutually exclusive values.
Republicans also utterly fail to realize corporate power and government power are the same thing.
This one ALWAYS bothered me. I don’t understand it! They freak out about income taxes and regulations and wax nostalgic about fantasy-1776 and scream about “freedom”, but their daily lives are more shaped and worsened by their hierarchy of petty bosses, who they’ll simp for and hold them blameless at every turn, even while grumbling about how their job is getting worse and then turning around and bragging about their “work ethic” and how little they slept this week.
It’s gotta be stressful holding so many mind-tearing contradictions together. It’s an entire ideology of corporate sock puppeteering.
I don’t understand the deterrent thing. The US dominates the globe militarily and the corporations responsible for the anthropocene extinction enjoy property rights enforced by that military. How is being armed going to stop them from continuing?
The US military hasn’t done shit but lose to irregular combatants for decades.
Yeah. When they invade and occupy countries for decades, they kill hundreds of thousands of people and eventually go home. So the plan then is for everyone to form irregular militias and engage in decades of guerilla warfare?
No, they weren’t… because they never made any effort to stop authoritarianism, and now are begging for it. The GOP will be coming for their guns.
The Second Amendment wasn’t always a party dividing issue, it was a solemnly held responsibility of American culture. Being a helpless subject to violence from others is a violation of personal liberty.
It became yet another convenient “two party issue” once neoliberalism’s effects on the human psyche manifested into shootings, and the GOP and NRA decided to make “gun culture” into an obsessive “loud toys for boys” fetish. This might have been around the time Gingrich was pushing to radicalize the Republicans to be as comically, ridiculously opposite of the Democrats as far as possible, doesn’t matter why, only that they were loudly opposed and won at all costs. That man is an absolute monster clearly going for a top score for when he finally makes it to Hell.
The other side of the aisle decided to go the complete opposite direction to create more “brand contrast”, so they decided to fear-monger and miseducate about firearms as much as possible so their most dedicated voter base became smug, hoplophobic disarmament absolutists, and pushed for wild ban bills and government registration lists and all sorts of other nonsense everybody knew wouldn’t pass…but it differentiated them from “Those other guys.”
(Seen starkly in the meaningless term “assault weapon”, or that many people believe you can just walk into any gun store and buy a fully automatic weapon, and CNN’s now-infamous “This gun is fully-semi-automatic” clip.)
This was convenient for the parties because it was yet another hot button “single issue voter” issue, which helped capture voters who wouldn’t even think about voting for the other party depending on how they now felt about guns. (See also: healthcare, unions, abortion, LGBT rights…)
It was great fun for those playing the game of politics (read: Not the vast overwhelming majority of us.), but as usual, it’s warped into an artificially polarized tribalism that’s wreaked chaos on general society.
So now we have a disproportionate amount of potential violence on the side of the big red bullies who are now so deeply entrenched in gun fetishization, prepping based on conspiracy theories, and toxic individualism…
And the official stance of liberals is “Um…a harsh reprimand and honest discussion about our feelings?”
Still, there are leftists who quietly take their responsibility seriously, (see: Socialist Rifle Association), but can we be organized enough to make an autocrat and his violence-obsessed pawns think twice? That leaves room for worry.
I would encourage people to at least have basic training in how to defend themselves, because things are both wildly unpredictable and repeating very dark history at the exact same time…
Yeah it’s all the same authoritarian ideology just with different versions of their daddy.
Oh, so where the abolitionist wrong to shoot up slavers?
LUIGI
We need more reasonable people who don’t believe in delusional nonsense like “bad guys” and “violent good guys”.
That only works if the other side decides to not use violence
More milquetoast pussy-aased doormatterie
Unpopular opinion, but in the west particularly, folk have mistaken writing on the internet for action.
Tweeting resistance rather than performing it.
A lapse into inaction framed as radical rest and self care.
Online they are fierce warriors of justice, offline they go to work in Starbucks, use their apple devices to talk to their families and enjoy the treadmill of streaming services.
And this isn’t to blame them. This is the point of consumerist capitalism. To trap you in a gilded cage.
People are scared and angry and want action without thinking about the long-term gains only the short term. Creating fear is fascism 101 and how many rise to power
The common version of the phrase…
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,”
The actual version of the phrase…
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
A favourite of mine on that theme is from Boondock Saints (1999)
Now we must all fear evil men.
But there is another kind of evil.
Which we must fear. Most.
And that is the indifference of good men.I still love that movie IDC what anyone says lol
I should re-watch this again. That a good movie.
Watch* the documentary on it instead.
Overnight. Peak 2000’s fashion and the director is over the top unlikable.
Don’t. I did and it ruined it…
You’re not my mom! 😭
What the fuck were you gonna do, laugh the last three to death, Funny-Man?
Yeah I remember this just being ok. It had that 90s Tarantino-ish style, some decent scenes but overall not super memorable.
I think it’s fine if you’re okay with the call from God part of it
Class solidarity among the rich. Rich people want willing servants. They want people to fear disobeying them.
One aspect is that mass media is overall owned by those people and is propaganda. If you don’t have ways of seeing what’s happening on the ground, you miss a lot of the good news. Even your twitter/bs/mastodon feeds won’t give you the full story, you have to (where possible) get involved in a real community organization.
We are losing the class war.
The rebels in Myanmar are winning.
There’s a new miracle drug for addictions.
That’s all I can think of.
thank you david
I found half a skittle in my belly button
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It was faded. May have been an m and m, flavour was hard to tell
Because Evil is winning globally.
Neuroscience says that the scared brain has a lower IQ, which is good for giving in to survival instincts in an acute threat situation, but really bad to make any longterm decisions. Populists try to scare us for this very reason. Scared people are easier to manipulate. It’s working, and it’s fucking scary how effective it is. But I am not scared in the way that lowers my critical reflection. So I hope someone brings out the guillotines before more poor people (our people) die.
Because evil is loud and self-important, and people doing good have learned to be mycelial, underground, quietly building the new world in the shell of the old.
Evil also tends to be wealthy. And wealthy people suck up all the oxygen in whatever room their in.
I really like this, and I think this is exactly what Jesus meant with the oft-misunderstood “The meek shall inherit the Earth.”
There’s so much loud roaring nonsense going on, but we’re quietly just building our own layer of alternative society to exist on, for people, hoping it can stand on its own when the power hungry institutions collapse in on themselves under the weight of their own backbiting, infighting, and greedful self-sabotage.
It’s kinda like Lemmy or Mastodon or Linux as a tech example, or mutual aid, intentional communties, and unions. We’re here quietly trying to do what good we can, and when the power goes out, our light will be seen all the brighter.
Evil has always been there. People have a tendency to turn a blind eye when it isn’t directed at them. Recently it’s very much been directed at Europe and North America. It brings the problems of the world into sharp focus.
Capitalism is dying because of unchecked greed and people are turning to socialism. The wealthy choose fascism. Until we have class unity. Once we bring out the guillotines, They will retreat to spending the rest of their lives in the bunkers they have built with their stolen wealth.
people are turning to socialism
Feels like they’re turning more to fascism
I also feel like there is always a constant portion of people who worship power and think they can squeeze a decent life out of siding with the powerful. So if there ever is any war, it definitely won’t be a clear cut class war. And the billionaires will do everything in their power to make sure the war happens within the classes first.
I think they worship opulence rather than power honestly. While it’s true that wealth and power are basically the same thing, many people you bump into in America don’t understand or believe that is the case.
i don’t think it’s so simple as they worship power. i think there’s a very strong inbuilt desire to belong to an “in-group” when you feel insecure and vulnerable
and if unchecked neoliberal capitalism has done anything over the last half century, it’s made average americans feel insecure. financially and emotionally
so sort of the same reason there’s race-based prison gangs is the same reason fascism tends to flare up when the system is going through severe stress. just like when your immune system is weak and the herpes virus manages to break out. we always have fascism possible yet most of the time the immune system is strong enough.
2008 + covid + ukraine + more have left us vulnerable
Fair enough, I agree it is common to go for more authoritative figures during times of stress. Which also creates incentive for authoritative figures to keep the stress factors going. But I think there is also some innate desire in humans to worship powerful figures.
“Once we bring out the guillotines”
Depends where you live.
I hear the hardcore revolutionary libs in the US have found a much more powerful way to defeat fascism… buy nothing for 1 day.The US has a really serious problem on their hands which is that their trade war won’t achieve anything. The US doesn’t make anything, it famously doesn’t make anything, the only reason that they trade with Canada is because Canada is close. Even then it’s mostly just food stuffs which Canada can make themselves.
But they have virtually nothing to offer internationally hence the trade deficit, that trump is so upset about, in the first place
I want to agree with you but there are plenty of American products I simply cannot purchase here in Norway. Often there isn’t even an equivalent. I’m not saying what they make is good, but there are things made in USA. Walking in to a Norwegian grocery store the first 20 times had me like, ok but where is like the MAIN, BIG grocery store?
Really?
When Canadians were going on about boycotting American things there was a question on here, or Reddit I can’t remember which, that was asking other people from other countries if they would do the same.
I remember thinking I can’t think of a single American product that’s even available for purchase for me to boycott. Other than quite possibly Jack Daniels but I already don’t buy that anyway.
I cannot think of any food items, clothing, tech products, or materials that originate in the USA that I would normally buy even semi-regularly.
A surplus of food is grown in the US. When you buy anything processed, it’s extremely hard to tell where all the ingredients came from. “Product of Mexico” could’ve been made with x from portugal, y from california.
Also there’s a good chance some of your gas comes from the states too, as they have been an exporter for a decade thanks to fracking.
Thats what concerns me the most. When the US realizes we dont NEED to trade with them, will they try to take our resources with force instead? This is why we need to build strong international relationships built around the US and their dwindling influence.
If anyone in the Trump administration had a brain they would already realize that they have nothing to offer internationally. It’s not exactly a secret.
Trump thinks that if he puts a tariff on imports from, say China, suddenly a bunch of factories will open up in America outputting the same cheap tat that China used to produce. But of course it doesn’t work like that. Attempting to take resources by force won’t help matters because America’s problem is not actually a lack of resources. It’s a lack of infrastructure and a talent pool so shallow that the ground is barely wet.
We’ve seen this with the chip factories that TSMC is trying to set up.
This is not the goal. Their only goal is wealth and power, just like Putin.
The Christian/Corporate Fascist Theocracies method to achieve wealth and power is to bankrupt the government, privatise all public services and land, remove the threat of democracy, and plunge the people back into feudalism… all while lining their pockets, exactly like the Russian oligarchs did post-USSR.
They do not give two shits about bringing jobs back to America or any of the other virtues they vacuously signal. They’re the kind of people who outsourced everything to China begin with.
But they have virtually nothing to offer internationally hence the trade deficit, that trump is so upset about, in the first place
I don’t think it’s fair to say that America makes nothing. A big part of that trade deficit (certainly with Canada) is down to the relative size of the consumer markets - America has a population of over 330 million people to Canada’s 40 million so of course America will be a net importer of Canadian goods.
Doesn’t explain Europe though. European market in the American market are almost identical in terms of population size.
And who you going to put on the guillotines? You own! People are getting so blind with anger
Speak for yourself
Well. Lots of people drank the kool aid. As long as some people getting a feeling of Power (like shitting on minorities), they will take the blow from the ruling class.
The last time that shit worked started WWII.
But yeah. What will we do about it. There are days where I think we will make it through. But other days I just feel weak and powerless and think we’re doomed.
Fuck greed, eat the rich.
Hate drives engagement and can have multiple intersections with opposing view points. Take our algorithmic methods of serving content and you get silos of positivity with oceans of hate in between that fuel metrics of user engagement and view time. Drive your share price by those metrics and run the economy on those share prices. Viola hate becomes the new most important resource to generate and those who can spread it most effectively or direct that hate become those with the most power. If we want to break that grasp on power we need to break the cycle of engagement being tied to hate, find a way to drive engagement through positive action and understanding. I talk like I know how to do that but in reality that’s one of the most difficult problems humanity has in general. Like greed is terrible but if you could figure out how to make positivity and mutual understanding more profitable than spewing hate and divisiveness you could channel those at the tops greed into positive feedback loops. Once you have more understanding, and equity in individuals understanding each other we can them finally work as a collective to start eliminating things like bigotry, poverty, etc.
