How weird is it that the left doesn’t make these connections and press it when we see people like Zuckerberg standing with Republicans while Republicans push for the laws.
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Tetsuo@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
Perhaps it would have been smarter to prevent these predatory behaviors from social networks in the first place. Because it is probably constitutionally more sound to ban some behaviors rather than outright ban social networks altogether.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The left uses critical thinking. They need to actually engage with information and verify it before choosing to adopt it. This takes time.
The right are scared children and adopt whatever their TV parent or religious politician tells them out of fear. This takes zero time.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I doubt this “critical thinking” statement more and more everyday.
I think we’re exactly the same. Both sides believe they are critical thinkers. Difference is the right for whatever reason has more Victories. If we were actually critical thinkers, we’d figure out why and adapt. Instead, we seem to be losing faster and faster because we are not learning anything. We’re just doing the same shit every day and failing.
Critically thinking involves being critical of ourselves. That’s something I think we actually don’t do.
EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No offense, but have you considered that Democrats aren’t left?
Because compared to the rest of the world and political spectrum, they are not “left.”
So you are absolutley correct that:
we’re exactly the same. Both sides believe they are critical thinkers.
Both the GOP and DEMS have the same corporate blindspots. Both think they’re critical thinkers, but will defend their party as the “correct” one rather than admit that the system has completely failed to keep money away from influencing every outcome.
We have a congress and senate stacked with millionaires doing the bidding of the billionaires that pay for their campaigns instead of the people that vote for them.
The only difference between the GOP and the DNC, is that the DNC wants a slow decent into a corporate dystopia instead of a fast one that kills people unnecessarily.
Actual “left” policies requires the following discourse that is impossible for the DNC to have honestly:
- reducing the military budget
- reducing corporate welfare
- workers rights & Union rights
- increasing taxes on the wealthy
All of these things have become “too socialist” for a DEM to even bring up, and you’ll justify that as them “aiming for moderates” instead of thinking critically about how every facet of our society is now corporate controlled and the reason actual “left” socialist policy isn’t talked about is simply because Facebook, Google, and X own the spaces those conversations happen. Instead of actual discourse, and cooperating on collective measures, corporations make sure the algorithms they control make America to afraid and angry to not think critically about the failure of their society to move forward in two decades despite the massive wealth concentrating at the top of it.
DEMS love having a bad guy to point to. So do the GOP. Yet that finger is always pointed at the other party instead of the Billionaires that have used their unspent “Trickle Down” Reagonomic tax breaks to make society worse instead of better, because problems like unaffordable Healthcare are incredibly more profitable than a publically funded one.
Yet I’ll bet you want to blame the GOP for that too. Not Senator Lieberman, an Independent, who got rid of the public option in Obamacare by simply threatening a filibuster that the Dems immediately capitulated to despite already having enough votes without him.
If you want to think critically, you’re going to have to start by not pointing fingers at the GOP when the DEMS consistently capitulate on our most beneficial legislation to favor their coporate donors.
Actual critical thinking is almost impossible in America, as it requires accepting that the system we live in doesn’t work, and insisting on using it the way we’re “supposed to” has lead to massive wealth disparity and the loss of freedoms to corporate interests.
It’s certainly not hard to see when the greatest threat to United Health and costly health insurance in the last 15 years has come from an assassin instead of our elected officials.
atmorous@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
More people need to coorinate and work together on the left. That’s the missing link
The right has group chats, and online communities for all kinds of stuff that I’m surprised the left hasn’t built much of yet
Wrrzag@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I mean, the left has communities, but as soon a s they begin organising .worlders call them tankies.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Exactly, and it’s not like there needs to be a weekly stand up for progressive leftist.
We just need to be aware we’re sleeping at the wheel and that needs to stop
njordomir@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Right. This shouldn’t be about restricting children; but rather, this should be about restricting corporation’s bad behaviors. It’s also not just children that are impacted. Mining online dopamine-junkies for data by placing money extractors right on their weak spots is unethical, like selling someone crack, or phone scamming the elderly.