blarghly
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- Comment on How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works 22 hours ago:
The actual answer: fuck the research and talk to them like a normal person. People can tell when you are trying to manipulate them.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 22 hours ago:
Simple. What do young men care about? Getting laid and getting paid. Promise them that, and you’ll get their votes.
You’ll need to use coded language, of course. But using coded language is politicians’ whole job.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 22 hours ago:
- Erect such high standards of moral purity that you cannot possibly win elections.
- Lose elections.
- Complain about how those in power never make anything better.
- Maintain your sense of moral superiority, since if you never have power, you can never fuck up.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 22 hours ago:
Because the definition of counterculture is “against the mainstream”.
The liberal viewpoint has been the mainstream for probably 50 years now.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 22 hours ago:
Liberal politicians do it because it’s been pushed by the left. It’s how they keep leftists voting more centrally. They take left wing ideas, then water them down enough to appeal for centrist voters. Centrists find common sense ideas appealing, while those on the left get a dog whistle.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 22 hours ago:
You’re making an excellent point here. I’ll bring it up at the next Council of Men that we should stop oppressing women. Good thing we figured that out - top notch work!
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 22 hours ago:
Ok.
Have fun losing.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 22 hours ago:
I don’t think you understand how politics works in a democracy.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 3 days ago:
I like my coworkers. They’re cool. I just went to acro yoga with one, and go bouldering with another. We show up, talk shit, and get the job done - sometimes it’s a good time. Sometimes we get our asses kicked. But that builds camradrie, too.
I will say, this is blue collar stuff. When I worked as a software dev, I definitely didn’t care about spending much time with my coworkers.
- Comment on Basically 1 week ago:
I have to say, this is a very weird take and you should really consider that you might be mistaken.
Pre-1850, most governments were autocratic in some way or another. Many of these governments lasted for hundreds or thousands of years, only toppled when another, larger autocratic government conquered them. This was true in China, Africa, the Middle East, Mexico, and Europe. Post 1850, democracy began to spread much more rapidly. These days, autocrats at least try to pretend to be elected. And meanwhile, the personal freedom and standard of living for the average person have increased dramatically since that time.
In general, the sort of revolution you are talking about where the people storm the palace gates seem to have become less common because: first of all, you are imagining them as more common than they actually were in the past. In the past, most people were slaves or semi-slaves (surfs, peasants) who lived pretty miserable lives and mostly coped via Jesus and drinking. Second of all, because for the most part people don’t want to storm the palace gates anymore because their lives are pretty good. Sure, Elon has billions while you are living paycheck to paycheck - but you still have a roof over your head, food to eat, and circuses to watch on TV. The risk of losing that and going to jail or dying is not worth the slim potential reward of having a better government in some way. Storming the palace gates and overthrowing the government is a bad thing, because it implies that the government was doing such a bad job that the people became so agitated that they tried such a desperate tactic in the first place.
I think they now really do require some sort of defection from the ruling classes
This has literally always been the case. The idea that a disorganized mob of peasants can storm the palace gates, depose the monarch, and create a utopian, egalitarian government from scratch is a fantasy - just like dragons, fairies, and anyone on Lemmy ever getting laid. A king derives his power from the accumulated power of his court, and each member of the court derives power from the power of their subordinates. As long as the court stays loyal to the king, mobs of people will be largely impotent. If the mob ever did manage to storm the gates and destroy the king, the very next day the court would appoint the king’s heir and send the military out to murder every person in the mob. Mobs succeed when the court is tired of the king’s bullshit and conveniently “forgets” to lock the palace gates.
- Comment on Basically 1 week ago:
Before that they had archers and keep walls. And after that there have been many successful protests and revolutions which created freer democracies (with varying degrees of success).
- Comment on Alternatively 1 week ago:
Yeah, those people are ridiculous. Unthinking hedonists are the worst. That’s why I only hang out with thinking hedonists. We do thorough research on the drugs we use to understand the potential downsides, risks, and benefits, and we carefully consider who to allow into our orgies based not only on looks, but also on how likely they are to have stis or cause drama. Reasonably considered hedonism is a much better way to live your life.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 1 week ago:
Companies hype themselves to increase stock price. Trying to drive social change via the masses could easily backfire. If a company wants to change the tax code, they usually just hire lobbyists and donate to political campaigns, and you never hear about it.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 1 week ago:
Often companies post jobs “to be fair”, but have already decided on an internal hire. The word is 80% of hirings never appear on job boards.
- Comment on ...📉 1 week ago:
That was informative. Thank you!
- Comment on ...📉 1 week ago:
Does DXY have inflation included in its calculation?
- Comment on ...📉 1 week ago:
… With good capitalization, spelling, and punctuation?
- Comment on His last pickup rolled over. 1 week ago:
The snokle isn’t for water. It’s for dust.
- Comment on I'm still not sure how to do this actually oh wait maybe... nope. 1 week ago:
This is the correct answer. The sides of the bag are held together by a static charge. Wetting your fingers allows you to dissipate the charge, so the sides come apart.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 1 week ago:
You’re traumatized and overthinking it. They are not that smart. A good thing is happening. Enjoy it.
- Comment on So it begins... 2 weeks ago:
Post it again for the tankies in the back!
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 2 weeks ago:
You’ve clearly never tried to use Wikipedia to help with your math homework
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 2 weeks ago:
Where the fuck are you finding these jobs? I’ve signed contracts for blue collar work, white collar work, and even summer camp jobs I worked in high school.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 2 weeks ago:
Really? I’ve signed a contract for every job I’ve ever worked at that spelled out the terms of my employment. It’s not like a company hires you with a firm handshake.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 2 weeks ago:
What evidence do you have that it is unnatural? How can you tell the difference between brigading and simply lots of vegans showing up by chance? If we assume 2 out of 5 Lemmy users are vegans or think we should eat less meat to save the planet, and almost all lemmy users simply scroll the front page, then this seems like a completely expected phenomenon
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 2 weeks ago:
It definitely does not require coordination.
You are on Lemmy, which attracts leftists. Hence all the communism memes. Leftists heavily overlap with vegans. Hence, there are a disproportionate amount of vegans on Lemmy, ready and willing to spread anti-meat talking points at any given moment. This is all quite straightforward.
- Comment on You mean it gets worse? 2 weeks ago:
Right, but most of these factors can be significantly mitigated as we age, making them non-issues.
Being more free of responsibility can be achieved via life choices in career and family. Choose a career with flexibility, and prioritize flexibility when finding new jobs or negotiating promotions. Don’t have kids if you don’t want them or aren’t ready for them.
Physical health generally declines with age, but good diet, exercise, and sleep habits keep nearly all these effects at bay. Many people can become more youthful with age simply because they are in such poor health as children.
Making and keeping friends as an adult is not that hard. While it doesn’t “just happen” like it did in school, you tend to make friends with people who you actually have things in common with. Like, for example, people who value a life without needless stress, and who value their physical health.
We can certainly mourn those who have left us. But we also make new relationships as we get older. Is life better when you have a grandparent? Or when you have a grandchild?
The trend I’ve seen with people who say this to kids is that they have failed in one or more of these areas. The classic being, say, the divorced truck driver who had kids he didn’t want, and who only interactes with people at work and at the bar.
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 2 weeks ago:
When people talk about AI taking off exponentially, usually they are talking about the AI using its intelligence to make intelligence-enhancing modifications to itself. We are very much not there yet, and need human coaching most of the way.
At the same time, no technology ever really follows a particular trend line. It advances in starts and stops with the ebbs and flows of interest, funding, novel ideas, and the discovered limits of nature. We can try to make projections - but these are very often very wrong, because the thing about the future is that it hasn’t happened yet.
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, imma need a source for those numbers.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 weeks ago:
I see I’ve found another Type 2 connoisseur.