There are some people who have just been filled with so much wrong information over the course of their life that it’s impossible to reach them. Anything you say to them will have a keyword that puts their guard up, any fact you share would be fake news. It’s like their brains have been encrypted with the propaganda and hate. It’s pavlovian. I try to recognize it in myself and maintain an open mind but it’s hard.
For now, They’re trying to do it federally as well.
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It seems like it’s just a matter of time until the US has it’s own red firewall.
same! I love femcel memes. The lesbian ones are pretty funny too but it’s the same thing. It’s not my space to yap in, but I’m going to save that meme and share it with my friends.
I was going to make some joke, but instead I’m just going to talk about being heartbroken.
Because if, by some miracle, we get more anti-establishment elected officials in 2028, their policies would most assuredly destroy the country. Not because those policies are bad, but because the safety nets that would have absorbed the market shock were destroyed by this administration.
This was very informative. I was slightly sheltered from the nature of the server because I didn’t log into my hexbear often and generally I just broswed the most popular posts. Thanks for the share.
A classical approach. That’s so refreshing.
Unfortunately, it’s what has become of the internet. If you’re not correct enough, then you are now “other.” I wish more people could see what the tribalism is doing. I miss the old internet every day. For a small window of time, we were all made closer by being able to talk to each other. Ignorance was forgiven if it was acknowledged, if you showed growth. Then assholes with money and an agenda started controlling the conversation. I’m sure there are true believers out there who stifle and snub anyone who isn’t 100% on board with their ideology, but for a time we were building coalitions to change the world.
Thank you, I had found the Lemmy post, but it was three years old. That’s an eternity in online forum time. The other links still make it seem like a cool place with cool people.
Yeah true. I don’t post much but in the modern age when you say something in one community it will often get you banned somewhere else. The fact that I said I enjoy hexbear should key you in on what some of those posts were, but I tend to keep a neutral profile in neutral spaces. This profile wasn’t banned from hexbear, but I wouldn’t be suprised it it got banned now. It’s the current order of things.
It’s less about fitting in and more about keeping this profile more politically correct. Even if it fits in with the current modderation standards. I believe that in the age of AI anything said online is a data point.
I’m not a tankie, but I do enjoy their memes. They don’t play well with others and they get defederated. But I promise, I’m not a tankie
lol. No skin off my back. I just have friends in the area so I took the particular post a little personally.
oh yeah, sure. I likely will. I can’t say when, but before making a new account I’d like to understand the right way to act. Besides, I took a look at their application questions and I’m really not sure how my answers would land when their trying to keep that community purity someone else mentioned. Everyone deserves a space. I just have friends in Ukraine so I took that particular post personally.
I keep multiple accounts on various servers because I think it’s better to be able to read all the points of view. I like Hexbear and .ml but they do get pretty wild sometimes.
I’ve been here for like a year but it does feel like being in highschool sometimes lol. I gotta work on regulating my emotions better.
Yeah, but understanding a community makes it a little easier to interact with and contribute to. I don’t take it personally. I just wanted to understand it better. It’s a different online culture. same as any culture really. respect it while you’re there. I just didn’t know the unspoken norms.
It’s really hard to find history and lore about the various communities beyond “these ones are communist and these ones aren’t.” I tend to keep quiet most of the time for that reason. It’s not always what you say, but how you say it, and many people are operating from completely different historical touchstones. Like I said, I tend to keep alts so I can see all sides, but the world is so ban-happy these days, idk. I was pretty heated in the moment on those posts, but what can you do? shrug At least I’m getting the news and discussion I want.
It was my understanding that it was a misconception that companies are legally bound to have an ROI or whatever. Not an economist so IDK. I just remember hearing that from several places. Regardless, the buyer-seller relationship is “I give you money, and you give me a product or service”. The investor-seller relationship is “We give you money, and you give us more money, and we don’t care how you do it.”
Only very technically. Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. still made the shareholder a priority over the product or the customer (technically it only set the precedent). It’s a misconception that actual profit is the legal requirement. I suppose I’m guilty of furthering it, but it’s easier to keep the oversimplification than to explain the nuances when the outcome is the same. The controlling shareholders are the ones that create this issue because their votes affect company policy, and if they don’t like the way the company operates, they have more direct legal avenues to change and challenge it than you or I would.
It’s this.
and it’s always worth distinguishing between executives and investors.
Executives are going to push the problem, but the core issue is shareholders. In the US, where most of these companies are based, a publicly traded company is expected to make money for its shareholders. Shareholders have subplanted customers in the companies ethical obligagions. The law has been used to make this national policy. Controlling shareholders can (and do) vote to remove company leadership that won’t act how they want. It is not just that they have to generate revenue, they have to generate as much revenue as possible as determined by shareholders. It’s corporate cartel tatics. Fail us and die. Do well and you’ll get rewarded with some of the take.
If a company goes public, It’s only a matter of time until it’s product goes to shit.
That’s like admitting they live in a completely different world. That’s what blows my mind. By implication, he’s admitting the wealthy exist in a completely separate reality. That the shadow economy is real, and that the average person is effectively a second-class citizen. It’s an acknowledgment that it is, and maybe always has been, us versus them. I’ve always said they exist in a completely different world, one that operates on different rules than the rest of us. More than just the obvious. Everything you posted, culture, norms, ancestry, history. They will never change to help you. They will always operate from a place of exploitation. It’s their culture. They made it so.