honestly, you never know - anyone can be brainwashed and radicalized, it's not just something that happens to stupid people
i went through a little alt-right phase when i was younger, now i'm an anarchist i want to go back in time and kick my own ass.
people sometimes take strange, winding journeys to get where they're going!
first of all, don't put too much pressure on yourself, it's really tough to hold back sometimes. if you can't hold it back, that's okay! sometimes, people do need to be told when they're being cunts sometimes.
but what does help me a bit is really going all-in on the "kill with kindness" thing, really just turning on all the southern charm and hokum. i find playing that character to be quite funny, so it feels less like i'm being taken for a ride, it's more like i have a private joke.
also, i think it really helps to find some common ground, even for some of the worst people imaginable, they'll usually say at least something you agree with, even if it's something silly, like you both like the same video game - i always start with the common ground, people are way more receptive when you open with "yes, i agree with you, and...", that's honestly been really effective for me.
if you look through my history you'll find plenty of evidence of me not taking my own advice. but i'm trying, and i'm trying to bring others with me
i don't think we all need to be perfect, if we can all just try a little bit
I read the article rather than watching the video. I noticed there seems to be quite a bit of (accidentally) duplicated text
There's a good chunk of this I'd disagree with, too. Suggesting the use of any Google service or product to someone concerned about privacy is absolutely bewildering to me.
Bitwarden is far and away the best password manager and recommending anything other than Bitwarden isn't great, really. Password managers are a bit like VPNs, lots of junk and big promises without much proof of anything, except Bitwarden is fully open source.
I think going into self-hosting is a bit self-indulgent and, honestly, not really appropriate for the intended audience. Self-hosting is a great choice for someone like the author, but for someone who is new to it, they're way more likely to misconfigure something and leave a major security hole.
Yes. I'd highly recommend checking out the 5-4 Podcast episode about Citizen's United
this is just a millenial version of a boomer meme. you guys are really shaping up to become what you hated. complaining about kids these days not enjoying the same shit you did when you were a kid. what next, you gonna complain about how gen alpha are destroying the economy because they're not buying avocados or something?
stop the inter-generational fighting, honestly, it's cringe and a huge distraction from the fact that the rich fucks in charge are looting us for all we're worth. let's fight them, instead of eachother
do you wanna stop fascism? want to see trump and elon musk lose power?
working class solidarity is the first step
our entire lives, we've been tricked and manipulated into fighting among ourselves, because they know if we worked together, we would be able to take them down.
why do you think, every time that something bad happens, there's all the media spin about who we should blame?
they love to do this for age, think about all the boomers vs. gen X vs. gen Z articles and social media posts you've seen
but they do the same shit all the time with different things. their aim is to split the working class into as many splinter groups as possible.
we need to stop letting the assholes in power divide us like this.
unfortunately, that means extending solidarity to people who haven't earned it, including people who chose to vote for Trump.
most of these people were tricked and manipulated. many of them have been fed a steady diet of misinformation. many of them are proud, insufferable bigots.
but being smugly superior, insulting, rude or intolerant isn't how we change people's minds. the best way to do that is by having a two-way conversation.
we are all so busy yelling at eachother. it doesn't work. we need solidarity.
we're never going to see an end to the risk of fascism until we end capitalism, and it's as simple as that.
money is power, and if corporations and individuals can hoard wealth infinitely, it's only a matter of time until enough of that wealth is accumulated in few enough hands for those few to use their wealth to take control of the state
even if people were mega geniuses it wouldn't matter, money talks, and it talks a lot louder than people
I saw your reply before it got deleted by the moderator. You are every bit as hateful as a Trump voter. It's people like you who will gladly watch as LGBTQ+ people get systematically rounded up and put in camps.
crypto doesnt help, because all of the crypto coins can easily be captured and influenced by big tech. most of them are also super heavily reliant on US tech
looking for a technological solution to a systemic problem is a bad idea really
if you really want to change things, we need to end capitalism