Feel like it should be required in High School to learn enough psychology to understand how your brain works.

I have been saying this like a crazy person to anyone who will listen. There are so, so many misconceptions about how our very system of awareness works, and if we put less trust in the things we think and feel, we would all do a lot better in our lives, we would listen more, we would rethink things, we would examine ourselves and actually consider how and why we make decisions.

But half the time when I try to tell this to someone they feel automatically attacked and challenged. “Why does it always have to be MY fault? Don’t you think other people might be the assholes who aren’t thinking right?”

I genuinely feel bad for our species broadly, we desperately all want social acceptance, we want a valid identity that others recognize and respect, and these needs will just perpetually conflict with each other, leaving everyone alone and miserable and even more desperate for validation and recognition from others.

We are hard-wired like lovebirds and guinea pigs to be deeply social creatures, without social connection we lose our minds and even lose the will to live. But we also have brains that hold onto narratives and stories that aren’t even real or true which keep us from being able to share anything with anyone.

Anyway, yeah that’s how I see a lot of Lemmy and social media broadly. Lost, lonely souls trying so hard to be seen and heard.

I think people are also just waking up to the idea that they’re moving to beans and rice just to survive anyway, so why go out for the same shit with lime juice squirted on it?

Interesting, but whatever happens in our version, nobody is coming, there are no greater powers watching, no groups in charge, there isn’t even a powerful secret cabal running things. We’re all lost children beating each other with increasingly powerful and deadly sticks until there’s nobody left standing and it all starts over.

Liberals and leftists may believe this, but the sad reality of our species is that we’re not a logical creature, and at the end of the day, we care far, far more about interpersonal perceptions and feelings than we do about consistency or logical, fair argument.

And this is really serious, we have to understand this better. We have a minority of the population running roughshod over entire nations and constitutions and even the social contract because the only way we know how to engage with them and fight them is with consistent, good-faith debate, meanwhile on their end, they care far more about aesthetics, appearances, skin color and accent, superficial attitude and beliefs than they do being called out for inconsistency.

This is the Kayfabe Crew, they willingly and knowingly will believe things they know to be untrue because it’s more important to them how they feel than what they know. They have made this choice and our inability to engage them on this level has created walls that will keep us from having success.

Let us all remember and mourn the days that Tim Waltz was calling them “weird” and making more political waves for it than years of statistics and data and debate, before being muzzled by the democratic party for not being a boring shade of inoffensive grey.

I love how you’re scrolling around to see if people are talking about you.

There are some really great hobbies out there that will give you a sense of accomplishment without having to feel connected to the toxicity of politics, I highly recommend taking a break.

Some people and animals learn they can get attention with negative behavior as much as positive, and just get stuck there forever.

Except in the realistic version of the story, the Bell Riots lead to more riots, which lead to a militarized police state, which lead to an economic boom for authoritarian-protected oligarchy, which lead to financial collapse and the eradication of the middle-class, which lead to more tentd-cities and shanties, forced migration, rampant disease and starvation… etc, etc.

That whole story is so unrealistic.

I mean of course the part where Sisko said it led to better things.

Our species will not have the stars. We are not going to have a post-scarcity future. We are too primitive and we don’t have the mental tools to even understand when we’re being manipulated, much less all work together to create a socialist utopia without wealth-hoarding and exploitation.

100 would probably mean the end of life as we know it on planet earth

It would alter the course of human history for sure, but it wouldn’t actually end human civilization. Just being annoyingly pedantic after growing up in the cold war and learning about such cheerful topics as fallout patterns and blast wave radius and how to fashion air purifiers from an early age.

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It’s very expensive too. It takes a LOT of time and resources to make spicy rocks even more spicy. It’s a huge waste of money to test a system we perfected decades ago when you can simulate detonations for almost nothing.

if it means supporting someone like this guy I’d rather be rotating on a spit tyvm

That’s just utterly insane hyperbole that most likely has the opposite effect as you might think. I hope you grow more.

That’s a pretty 1-dimensional perspective. If you understand both the shitty reality we live in AND that nothing is black-and-white, you will be a lot more effective at actually pushing the needle towards progress, like so many actual great activists have done which has gotten us to a world where your chances of being murdered and raped and eaten by bandits has fallen dramatically low.

Sorry, I didn’t hear you over the sound of actual nazis wearing unambiguous symbology they’re proud of who are now running the country. Next time I will learn to be more performatively hateful to someone who is acknowledging and fixing problems and still working for a better outcome.

Because what really matters here is that we all preserve the purity club and never, ever practice what we preach by giving people empathy and good-faith.

Thank you for proving my point. This is why we don’t have good things, provocateurs like you who literally rather us lose and get herded into boxcars than actually unify and have any measure of success and progress.

It’s the same as the MAGAts who want daddy to choke them but from a twisted alternate angle. I don’t get it, I hope I never do. May you find some way to feel persecuted that doesn’t interfere with actual society or politics.

Being against military service is a far more honest criticism, but also utterly unrealistic. We just don’t live in that world.

That you translate this as “anger” tells me we’re not going to have productive communication. Pretty much everyone pounding the “nazi” drum on this seem pretty reactionary.

Then switch to decaf and talk to some people who are in the service or have served and prepare to get laughed at for suggesting it.

This is a “hasan’s dog” thing all over again, it’s overblown bullshit meant to distract you from actual nazis running for office or in office now, people who aren’t even subtle or ashamed. We’re not in some cloak and dagger thing where they’re sneaking in by pretending to be progressives, it’s media-fueled hysteria.

If you’ve ever been in or known anyone in the service, you would know that it’s massively overblown and doesn’t “mean” anything. There are thousands of different varieties of skull and crossbone out there, you would have to be really deep in the nazi sauce to use that particular design as a signal.

This is pretty much a “hasan’s dog” thing, it’s being overblown because of the desperate need by media personalities, including youtube streamers, to harvest money from reaction content, driving up everyone’s black-and-white thinking.

We have actual nazis in office and running for office, people who don’t even hide it. We have to stay focused on what the actual dangers are.