• sqgl@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      It isn’t just the online ones and it makes me reluctant to even call myself left anymore. I rather describe myself as caring for others besides myself. Not catchy, I know.

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      2 months ago

      Agreed, that comment wasn’t “distilled” enough to be correct.

      But yeah, imagine being online all day… No one but the freaks stare at their phone and computer all day, right Pug?

      Which doesn’t say anything about our society or the things it lacks, no, it’s just those jerks and losers who are terminally online that are the problem.

      Internet? I don’t even have a connection y0… I’m pure offline baby!

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        But yeah, imagine being online all day… No one but the freaks stare at their phone and computer all day, right Pug?

        If you forget to touch grass every once in a while, you can get caught in an information bubble. It’s no different from fundamentalists who never leave their church’s social circle.

        Which doesn’t say anything about our society or the things it lacks, no, it’s just those jerks and losers who are terminally online that are the problem.

        If someone is so terminally online that they’re decrying Zohran Mamdani as being insufficiently left for critical support on the grounds of ‘acknowledging Hamas performed war crimes on Oct 7’, they desperately need to touch grass.

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          There’s not really enough political theory to address informational autocracy rn.

          I like turtles, and attitude changes. I love corn! 🌽

          …but we don’t own the algorithms.

          We are what we focus on, but online whose deciding that?.. What about in an informational autocracy? Is it our own attention and where we lavish it, what we say to get it? Or is that always an A vs B choice, dished out by a billionaire’s robot.

          We are what we focus on to some degree. Perhaps more so on Lemmy.

          Look to what you love, hope the positives out shine the negatives. Do the most important things at the most important times. Don’t burn out.

          I’m glad Zohran won, perhaps the rest is in the past already. It’d be nice if the progressive dems are given a shot, but we’re all facing autocracy together.

          Even the highlighted radical anti-capitalist purist we’re focusing on today (our attention is here). How to coat correctives in sugar 101.

          I don’t envy Aesop, fables aren’t easy to write.