Are they? I see ones like
Small government
This is sarcastic, but it’s as much of a joke as Stephen Colbert - it’s touching on something pretty real. Not sure what’s wrong with pointing out hypocrisy.
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Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Every fucking top comment in this thread are all jokes.
We’re officially reddit, there isn’t any more intelligent discourse here about important topics, it’s all just fucking memes and jokes and ‘lol the world is fucked’
Every one of you disgusts me, you are 75% of the reason they KEEP getting away with this shit.
Because they know ALL you will EVER do is meme and joke.
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
oatscoop@midwest.social 2 months ago
How dare people cope with something horrible by making jokes. Everyone knows it’s impossible to make those jokes while simultaneously being horrified by and pushing back against the thing they’re joking about.
recapitated@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thank you for stopping the massive expansion of surveillance in Texas.
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Your sarcasm is not appreciated, I am willing to do what is needed to be done but the only ideas we have in this thread is jokes.
recapitated@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I appreciate your position. I don’t think you’re going to start a cultural revolution on any comment section. If you’re looking for a place to make real change, you need to network with local communities.
The the best you’ll get for “town square” value from internet forums is the expression of sentiment. People are angry, like you are, and they are using humor to literally reframe the narrative to point out the state’s fallacy.
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Where the fuck are they supposed to start then? The internet is our current social method, and places like lemmy the subversive coffee shops where people whisper about putting rags in vodka bottles.
Look a bunch of rancid enthostatists used the internet to organize fucking armed and trained militias that are operating RIGHT NOW, and most of them organized on the web and dark web.
I’m tired of being fractured and ineffectual shitposters all wasting energy telling everyone how terrible every decision they’ve ever made is. It’s DESIGNED to keep us from organizing.
Reddit used to be ideas, I literally watched it in realtime turn to shitposts.
Lemmy is going that same way at a ridiculously rapid pace, LARGELY in fact due to the shitposting and constant thought terminating cliches thrown out as some kind of profound knowledge.
recapitated@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Let me reframe my previous comment:
If you don’t want to network in person locally, you will need to find a forum whose sole purpose is activism and direct action.
It will not be brought to you, and you will not be recruited. You have to actively go seek it out.
The forum you’re on now is called “technology”. Similar ones, like “news” or literally any other topic that doesn’t solely focus on mobilizing activists will not get you what you’re asking for here.
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fucking useless bougie navelgazer, I ban you from my internet forever.