Lemmy political pov: the universe should be free and open source
It specifically needs to run Linux.. also there is a literal war about which distro it should use
Debian. It should run debian. We should genocide arch users.
You will never stamp us out btw!
They don't call us the bleeding edge for nothin'
It’s the algorithms. Except 4chan where that’s just how it do.
4chan was simply where everyone banned for extreme views everywhere else went because there were no rules or close to none.
Now as algorithms of social media sites have been chosen to dictate our daily news cycle, discussion topics and visibility of culture by engagement metrics alone, as are dominated by flashy, extremist content that appeals to our lowest instincts. Before humans curated content by trying to use human reasoning instead of relying on instinct alone. I think we have taken a step backwards in evolution culturally.
Redditors are communists? News to me.
Image from 2021, I was on reddit then, I am a communist. Checks out
People with extreme views are also more vocal, so that's what you see. That's why social media is bad for you. If gives you a very distorted view of the world. Most people are able to look at politics with nuance.
This, plus everyone is concerned with engagement. If I say a perfectly normal statement on Facebook or X or whatever, no one will care so no one will comment or interact with it. If I say that Jesus wants us to make America white again, even the people who disagree with me will only be boosting my message by commenting.
Jesus wants us to make America white again
I love this. It's so dumb in so many different ways, but I can easily see people unironically saying it.
Discourse evaporated when the rightwing and Faux "News" declared "compromise" as blasphemy. That's why so many moderate Republicans will still vote along party lines, despite knowing the candidate is batshit crazy. To vote Democrat is to commit suicide to those people.
Edit: was trying to get this comment done before kid woke up from nap and barely made it. Fixed the faux pa.
The media has tried very hard to normalize extremism.
Funny key then
Ducking autocorrect I meant: Don't let them.
Enlightened centrist thoughts intensify
People even use centralism as a weapon as well though. They push the idea that the correct position in any debate is slap bang in the middle. Sometimes there is a demonstrably correct answer, and sitting in the middle is a bad thing.
But they'll argue to the death that sitting on the fence is the best thing to do in every situation. I've had people claim that the Ukrainians should just negotiate with Russia (assuming that would be even be possible) because that would be the middle option between fighting them and surrendering.
Its probably because extremists don't feel comfortable expressing their views in their everyday life, so they do it online instead, where they have some anonymity or at least don't face the same backlash as they would if they were to voice their opinions at work or at a bar or something.
Also, controversial takes get more engagement, which means more ad revenue.
Internet also helps gather these people together.
In the past if you were a "weird person" you would not find too many people that resonated with you and eventually many would just "normalize".
Now doesn't matter what kind of shitty take you have, there are always some group of people who thinks the same and will echoing each other
Social media politics is confirmation bias by design.
A few of my opinions that are less popular here:
I have no desire to debate any of those here. I talk politics with friends and in person and I try to remain skeptical especially of facts that happen to go my way.
One factual point: we haven't tried communism, we tried socialism. Communism was more of a faraway ideal.
Not debating substance of the claims, as debate not asked for.
Holy strawman. Ironically, by reducing all those platforms to one extremist opinion he is doing exactly the same thing he is whining about.
It's an exaggeration about the stereotypical opinions from those platforms
The more extreme someone's views, the more likely they are to talk about them.
People with moderate views generally avoid talking politics as much as possible.
Plenty of people with moderate views are passionate about politics and love to talk about it. Its just that they talk about boring stuff like policy positions and numbers.
I dunno but northern European socialism is looking pretty ok to me lately.
They're voting in anti-immgrant right wing politicians. Same with Germany, Spain, and France
That's not a fiscal policy. A country or block of countries can be right about 1 thing and wrong about others.
Something about a fence and the colour saturation of the grass
Denmark is tearing itself apart, we have a total right-wing government tearing down public infrastructure and institutions. Mere days ago, pensions for lower class workers, which were promised by the last government in 2020, have been cancelled and 60 year-old people who are falling apart have been told to go back to work. 2 years ago we lost a national holiday under the guise of 'the economy' but the 'the economy' was just rich people wanted lower taxes and they got it. Our PM us a US puppet, or at least acts it. Car infrastructure reigns supreme, gets all of the funding. Rail projects are cancelled for being 'too expensive', despite being a fraction of highway expansion projects. Jobcenters (and consequently all people who are too sick to work or work under special circumstances) are being handed over the municipalities who are completely unequipped to handle the burden, and have only so far been doing it because they had to by law and even then did a really shitty job of it. Our entire public healthcare sector is bombed, there is no help to get. If you get cancer, tough luck, roll the dice. GPs generally just don't care and will diagnose you with anything to make you leave. Emergency lines are staffed by old farts who can't speak properly and will tell you that no, actually, it's totally normal for a person of your age (25 then) to spontaneously bleed from the anus; don't worry about it!
A Ukrainian refugee wrote a lengthy blogpost on r/Denmark about how he was met with nothing but contempt and racism at every step of the process here, and the comment section was full of "No; our institutions treat citizens like that, too. Welcome to Denmark."
Can't speak for the others, but Sweden is definitely doing better than us at this point in time, but I am hearing it is also on a similar decline.
No country in Northern Europe has Socialism. They have a strong social welfare system on top of a capitalist economy. Aka Social Democracy. Not even close to socialism.
I pictured literal sheep in Halloween masks at first. I thought it was just insane person Facebook.
If I did see a whole flock of sheep in Halloween masks, I would have something to say...
Lemmy is a combination of Twitter and Reddit.
"Communism is inherently racist and homophobic" or "All white people never fail"?
True whiteness has never been implemented.
We’re here…we just don’t shout as much the others. We’re probably reading a book quietly in the other room.
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