Personally, I believe it because I was a reactionary that changed my mind when presented with information. It's not as rare as the doomers make it out to be.
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In the US it's technically a target, since you can be ticketed for going too fast or too slow.
There was a post somewhere that went viral claiming Gaetz set them up. This is just people taking screenshots as truth again.
The term you're looking for is 'virtue signalling'. It's a shame it got assigned a political bias, because it's a handy term for what makes rainbow capitalism so infuriating.
Another big point that needs to be made is that engagement driven social media algorithms have pushed the most controversial content to the top, giving it an oversized representation. Then there are also those with vested interests in preventing unity who are more than happy to jump on any opportunity to stoke division.
Except AI centers are much much more impactful than any single decision a single person can make. Demanding perfection before assessing legitimacy of a complaint is also an excuse to justify dogma.
I don't know why you keep bringing up luxuries like avocados. I don't remember the last time I ate an avocado, or a banana, or any exotic fruit for that matter.
I somehow feel like you won't listen to LLM criticism from me either, so it's a disingenuous argument.
It was just some old brand stickers I was trying to get off a secondhand printer, nothing too important, lol. Luckily most of the profane stickers I've removed have been on glass or metal.
The verticality will make most of the solvent flow away, but the capilliary action will draw solvent under the sticker. Targeted application and frequent reapplication also helps!
Yeah, zippo fuel is petroleum naptha. Iso is probably going to be the safest if you're concerned about leaving marks, but also the slowest. Absolutely do not use acetone on hard plastic, it will melt the plastic. I have learned that the hard way, lmao.
Technique is also gonna matter, since a lot of stickers have a plastic coating on top to help longevity, so you'll want to get the scraper under the edge of the sticker so the solvent can directly work on the adhesive. Then let it sit for a moment to soak in, scrape a bit more, add more solvent, repeat. There's probably going to be sticker residue left, but that's usually pretty easy to wipe up with more solvent on a rag.
You want some kind of solvent and a scraper. Isopropyl alcohol is pretty easy to find, and is safe for most surface finishes, but will take longer to dissolve the adhesive than acetone. Lighter fluid like you'd put in a zippo is my personal favorite, but there are obvious safety risks.
Not disagreeing, but in addendum.
What you're describing is the end result of the Starve the Beast method of politics, to slowly break a social program so people don't care when it's axed.
Yeah, we absolutely need to start with worker rights. I think part of the problem is that we in America have been on the nationalist train for so long that we're simply unaware of how good it could be.
It's nuts that people over here think my state law of 1 hour PTO awarded for every 40 hours worked is too much of a burden for employers.
I was raised in the New Apostolic Reformation, so I was deep deep into crazyland. It made a lot of promises that never happened and made a lot of statements that didn't line up. It took a few years, and there was a LOT of resistance on my end, but I eventually realized that one side was going to make my life better, and one side would make my life worse.
The hardest part of deradicalizing people is keeping a level head, because coming at it with anger is playing into the indoctrination. I was raised to believe that people were going to hate me for speaking the truth, and that the anger I was getting was evidence that the cult was correct. This is where the persecution fetishism comes from, they're trying to convince their brain in lieu of facts. Getting internet hate is like a meditative litany in a way, it's seen as a digital analogue to a scourge purging the weakness from you and leaving only the pure fire of god behind. I honestly wouldn't have gotten out if it weren't for my gaming group believing I could be a cool person, and taking the time to educate me instead of just kicking me or hurling hot takes at me.
I'm now big on Street Epistemology as a framework for deradicalization.