minorkeys

@minorkeys@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waymo relies on firefighters and police to bail out stuck robotaxis | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So…pay for a tow truck if your car is misbehaving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woke⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Simple worldviews tend to be happier. Ignorance is bliss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pirate shit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I never stated that. My position is not vibes, as you so conveniently put it. It’s a simple reading of history, a life of watching movement fail to form and people act against their interests for toys and treats, again and again. The only one emotionally invested is you, in the idea that doing the same thing that has failed for decades will somehow work this time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pirate shit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You present me with an interpretation of reality based in your subjective experiences and it doesn’t fit with my own understanding. Why should I simply believe you over others? The stories of your life are just one set amongst many, many others. Why should yours carry so much weight that it tips the scale against recorded history?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pirate shit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And I’m telling you it’s an illusion. It’s a temporary change in behavior by a small number of people who were personally affected, either by their own emotional outrage over a circumstance or because the American Gestapo was shooting civilians in their city where they live. Once the threat is out of sight, they’re eagerness will fade, despite the wisdom you probably preach about vigilance and keeping up the momentum, however right you are. People don’t act because of the wisdom of a distant thing, they act when they are personally affected. Masses of people acting that is necessary for real change only occurs at critical moments when mobs form. I can not give you a single example of masses of people acting when it is wise rather than when it is desperate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it really do be like that⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Says the crybaby ass bitch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hot girls hate fascism❤️‍🔥⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But why would I?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The science fiction and adventure part of the show is absolute garbage. If it has been good, people would be able to have their cookie while being lectured to about what they should believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it really do be like that⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But being an orc is forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it really do be like that⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Internalized self hatred doesn’t make it better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new market for tobacco companies⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Human garbage endangers wildlife.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this is a stupid ass take. The show isn’t enough of what people liked about startrek. That’s not the audiences fault, it’s the showrunner’s fault, who famously didn’t watch startrek, didn’t care about the IP, didn’t care what people liked about to and just wanted to use the IP to promote ideology and worldview. Aka propaganda. Atleast the TNG to Enterprise era gave us enough of what we liked that we could sit through what we didn’t. This latest installment failed to strike that balanced because it intentionally and arrogantly and sadistically, never tried.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that why nobody watched the damn show? Potential for what? Propagandising your prefered worldview?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You have too much faith in your idea of what can and can’t happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The better to steal from you, my dear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it really do be like that⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh look, another message that men are ugly and childish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pirate shit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And why did they get active? Because things got bad enough it affected their life personally, circumstances provoked it, not their wisdom, or foresight, or morals or good ideas. Where were they while things were getting here? Change happens when circumstances provoked it, not when an organizer tries to explain why they should care and act. They aren’t waking up, they’re suffering. As soon as they are soothed, they’ll go right back to being part of problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pirate shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re a union rep and organizer then you should know better. Unions have been dying for 60 years and only came into existence because people were so poorly treated they were willing to fight, and possibly die, as some did, instead of labour. Their bargaining position was also considerably stronger, not having to compete against a world labour market or the viability of moving production to other nations.

  The extremity of the situation provoked action, organizing only facilitated, it didn’t provoke it. You are doing a significant amount of rationalizing on your end. Change isn’t impossible, it happens all the time, but intentional change through group effort is not caused by eager organizers who just believe enough. People en masse must be provoked to action by circumstance.

  There is a habitually lying, child rapist, conman and fraud, whose been granted legally immunity to violate the constitution and all laws, twice elected, and sitting in the White House, supported by the entire GOP and half the nation. People can’t seem to figure out they should act to deal with that. Good ideas and wise choices don’t make people act, desperation, necessity and self-interest do. Circumstances do. That’s why propaganda and distractions work so well, they are the circumstances.

  Nihilism and realism look the same to an optimist. That’s you right now. Rationalizing away observed history to retain your will to act because you can’t face a harsh truth about the disappointment and inefficacy of convincing mass behavior out of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pirate shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You have no actual plan other than a plea to “try”. Funny that you criticize the nihilist’s lack of trying but not the general population’s. Even though both result in the same inaction. Atleast the nihilist usually once cared, unlike the masses who can’t be bothered to ever care. Good luck though. Keep pleading with the wall of indifference, laziness and self-interest that keeps people from ever taking group action.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pirate shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If only the masses had the will to fight their own subjugation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I don’t see a path out. History doesn’t show any path out as far as I can tell. The power of change for the masses is in mass actions. It isn’t coincidence that we are distracted all the time, that we lack strong community, that our attention is grabbed at every moment, that life is too expensive for free time. It’s to prevent mass actions. If not by manufactured distraction then by criminalization or propaganda.

  I watched the masses pay companies to put cameras in their homes, microphones in their pockets and tracker their devices. I watched them put all the details of their lives and their social connections on Facebook and Instagram and Twitter to be surveilled. I watched them click yes on every TOS without reading, agree to give up anonymity and privacy not just for themselves, but for everyone. Now we are watching people tell LLMs their thoughts, feelings, fears and inner most identities. All that information get collated, catalogued and analyzed. A dossier on every citizen. A prediction algorithm for every cohort. The greatest surveillance, social mapping, propaganda and behavior prediction system ever devised by human beings, all in the hands of genuine psychopaths who run the companies and run for office.

  The only times things have gotten better for the masses is when circumstances, technology or calamity, destabilize the existing power structures and allow the oppressed to reclaim the space. That only lasts long enough for the ambitious to reconcentrate power again into the hands of the few. Whatever path you see is one built of faith alone, not evidence of how humans organize ourselves when the destabilizing force dissipates and life returns to a static state. We are living through that reconsolidation of power, watching our communities turned into fascism.

  All because the masses can be bought with toys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The people have never been roused to action simply because of a good idea, or a wise course of action. They are incapable of even identifying a good idea. Any individual that gains traction changing power structures is targetted and sometimes killed for it. We are all in a cage built by the wealthy and anything that’s effective is demonized through propaganda or made illegal and dealt with violence. We are also now on precipice of the greatest surveillance and propaganda system humanity has ever endured and people still don’t notice and stop supporting it. We are at the precipice of autonomous drone technology capable of killing that will be used for violence against the prisoners. All because the general population refuse to see the cage or the technologies that have built it, instead helping build their own system of subjugation. The average person is a threat and a traitor to their own interests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hot girls hate fascism❤️‍🔥⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So brave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hot girls hate fascism❤️‍🔥⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We can talk when you calm down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hot girls hate fascism❤️‍🔥⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Any excuse to show their bodies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We aren’t the ones deciding to go to war and cause a generation of men to have their psychological well-being put through a wood chipper. We don’t produce the propaganda that make men willing. We don’t make poverty rampant so men get desperate enough to enlist.

  It doesn’t matter if we learn, plenty of us already know and it doesn’t change anything. People like Trump, like Putin, like Netanyahoo, don’t care about us or whoever ends up a victim of their ambitions. Putin and Netanyahoo know what their troops do and don’t give a fuck, they might even use it to their advantage.

  The problem isn’t learning from the past, it’s that psychopaths are good at gaining power. They know and simply don’t care. If voters weren’t such ignorant imbeciles, maybe they wouldn’t vote for ppl like Trump, but they are, so here we are. If customers weren’t such ignorant, weak willed cowards incapable of not buying the new toys, we wouldn’t fund the people stealing all the property and making us poorer every generation. We are all victims of the decision-making prowess of the average voter, the average consumer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk to Owe Billions After Jury Finds He Misled Twitter Investors Before Takeover⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a power thing. Avoiding accountability to the rule of law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran does not seek nuclear weapons, president says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, well. Okay then. Why didn’t you just say that? Pack it up boys!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If creatures existed that were simultaneously as trainable and as powerful as pokemon, of course they'd be used to resolve every conflict.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’d be used to provoke conflict.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk to Owe Billions After Jury Finds He Misled Twitter Investors Before Takeover⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s made billions more after and because of it so he doesn’t give a shit about a meaningless, billion dollar fine.