Unfortunately the "you" in this case is generic, and plural. And most people, in the UK, even the progressive folks, as evidenced by ITT, are definitely so inclined.
LainTrain
joined 9 months ago
I don't really give a shit what Rossman thinks and I don't owe anyone "good activism" and especially not according to his opinion. Don't get me wrong, he's a good dude and all, I have nothing against him.
But imo, the time for "activism" has long passed, if people weren't onboard with it after the past 10 years of "activism" and things have only gotten worse I don't see much point in it. I'd rather scream into the void, harmonizing with the faint echo chorus of downvotes.
🤷♀️ everyone eats it here honestly
Okay yeah that's pretty warm
Either US local pizza chains are unbelievably good, or your dominos is HFCS crap
they now know that nobody will give a shit.
It doesn't matter, there were plenty of people who gave a shit about a law in the UK that made protest legality be at discretion of the government and it still passed. The people are increasingly powerless, and most people don't understand and don't want to understand anyway.
they get no actual pushback
They've been getting pushback since like the 2010s. It hasn't changed shit.
push back against those changes.
Doesn't matter they'll pass anyway because most people just take it.
Boycotting works
Lmao. Isn't that literally what I'm proposing too though? Boycotting all that tech, hoping that en-masse that's enough to stop the tide?
how Netflix is fucking them over
Spoiler: they don't care
even a Mastodon post works
No normal person has left twitter.
Most people aren't even aware how shitty Elon is or what he's done to the platform quality and algorithm wise, they stay away from politics and scroll memes.
One of my normie IRL friends was trying to prove to me - a trans person - how twitter is actually good and hasn't changed much. I never used twitter much but I had a blocklist 10k+ of shinigami reds by the time I abandoned ship.
Imagine explaining to that same guy the more nuanced slow early stages enshittification of Reddit.
The man doesn't even get Reddit, I don't mean he doesn't like it but I think he straight up doesn't understand it. His perception of it is that it's some kind of nerd platform where people write long paragraphs about stuff and the surface level understanding of "argue on the internet" and that's lame and he'll go all "redditor" at seeing a video longer than 30s or more than one paragraph of text, though the irony of him also using it for every Google search doesn't seem to bother him at all.
The fediverse is beyond most people I reckon. So are all the things I said. So is the concept that some corpo is fucking you over or the concept of free software or the free and open internet. It's all over, the dream is over.
To me it's kind of the opposite. The realization that yes the system is rigged in this way only makes it seem more powerful and everlasting.
Never accused you of this, that was another user.
Try hitting the volume buttons?
Server nation rise up
erroneously equating
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy
emotional response
And where did I mention emotional responses?
The world is in the state it is in not because some evil person decided to be evil one day but because of a natural development of the human condition.
I somewhat agree, but it's not so much a question of nature and the human condition as a question of material circumstances and class warfare.
We can't all go back to living in caves that wouldn't work, we can't sustain the current population sitting around campfires and singing camping songs. So unless your advocating for mass genocide I don't really understand what you want here.
Ah yes the two options boring cyberpunk dystopias and hunter-gatherer. No in-between. None at all. /s
would prefer to live in the real world and be a realist, I want the world to improve, but I don't believe that the way to improve it is to be an unmoving obstacle
But you just said that you don't even understand what kind of world people want these days. I'm all for being effective, but it doesn't seem like you believe in the possibility of structural change we need.
Doing that is counterproductive to your own argument anyway because everyone will just get fed up with you and eventually ignore you.
Not how it works at all historically.
I thought it said Poland I was like dayum