the people you’re defending are working for a corporation that deliberately hooks its users ( particularly kids ) into a fascist sympathizing skinner box in order to surveil them, harvest their PII, and sell it to whoever has the money for it
as the commenter said above: fuck them
i don’t, for one second, buy the “i work for facebook because i had no other choice” argument
there are a lot of tech companies
it’s true though. look up “depression glass collection”
actually savvy business choice. saving money on color ink, and people will buy extra for collecting
well, if shady things start happening on .zip, i’ll switch to a smaller instance. easy
i won’t say you’re a bad citizen, but you’re commenting in a post about people on a huge instance being subjected to the whims of apparently one person who’s doing dodgy shit because they’re the one in control of the instance.
i’ve been on small instances for years (piefed.zip, lemmy.zip) and never had problems with reliability. or crappy actions taken by the admin
one of the first things i learned about the fediverse (lemmy specifically) when looking for reddit alternatives is that it’s best to look for instances with 100-200 users instead of thousands, and definitely not tens of thousands. that’s what keeps it decentralized
Are you completely unilaterally in support of everything on the left
no. that’s a separate discussion that would be a waste of time in a fascist state
believe everyone/thing on the right is equivalent to 1940s nazis?
does it matter? they’re not calling their detention centers “concentration camps,” but that’s what they are. people are dying, “illegal” or not. for the crime of not being 100% white. no consequences for anyone causing these deaths (or any other crime–are you familiar with the epstein files?). because that’s how it is in a fascist state
don’t worry, the science one would use to counter nazi viewpoints (climate science, health science (e.g., vaccine safety), LGBTQ studies, etc) is being actively obliterated by the regime put in power by the people we’ve been trying to talk rationally to for decades. the eventual outcome is of course that there will be no trolling or disagreement, only compliance with the party’s whims
this article is a pretty good examination of the term
https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/53586/maga-trump-and-the-question-of-american-fascism
Fascist regimes are characterized by authoritarian governance, the suppression of democratic institutions, and the concentration of power in the hands of a few. Redemption rule saw similar tendencies in the South, where democratic processes were subverted (with open terror) to maintain white supremacy.
pretty much what we have in the states right now, and i would extend the name “nazi” to those on the bottom rung who support the nazi regime, even though they fight tooth and nail to distance themselves from being nazis-- if someone’s talking about “antifa” (anti-fascist, note) as if it’s some evil organization that’s trying to replace white people, then it’s a safe bet that person is a nazi
people are getting rounded up, detained, murdered. we are in another pointless war. whatever checks and balances there ever were in government are gone.
i will not agree that my (or anyone’s) trolling of nazis has had any part in these outcomes, in fact, letting these people run amok without calling them out, i think, led more to it than anything else.
i understand you’re mad, but like many other “let’s try ‘talking’ to these nazis” or “let’s just ignore them” people, you’re mad about the wrong thing
giving them someone to unite against.
they are already united against everyone who isn’t one of them. part of their core identity (by design) is to flat out reject any ideas that don’t align with their nazi mindset. it’s the same in any other cult you’ve ever heard of. their greatest fear is to be shunned and cast out of the cult. watch that documentary “going clear” about scientology to get an idea-- it’s extremely difficult to remove someone from that cult programming
so–mockery, ridicule, shaming them–i will never stop until i’m dead
arguing an opposing point for no other reason than to piss people off, with no intention of reaching agreement or understanding
i troll nazis
my ultimate goal (wildly ambitious, i’m aware) is to not use the internet for anything except paying bills, buying things i need but can’t get locally, and getting news. and research, if i need to buy something expensive that i don’t know anything about. i think blogging could be a productive thing, but i’ve never been a “i want to write an article about my thoughts” kind of person.
interesting article from ~20 years ago (even before literally everyone was on social media) about this topic
https://www.cracked.com/article_15231_7-reasons-21st-century-making-you-miserable.html
the psychological dependence is real. i get why it seems impossible for a lot of people, but yea–gotta reevaluate what’s adding value to life, and what’s wasting time at best, and causing harm at worst. noticing myself getting angry at all the stupid on fb was a big factor, but also all the anti-privacy bullshit like cambridge analytica, made it easier to ditch the platform
spending too much time on it
fb was the only thing i was using. election '24 gave me the extra motivation to just delete the entire account that was sitting empty anyway. now it’s pretty much just piefed/lemmy, and will eventually delete these too
it’s not that they “don’t grasp” what you want, it’s that they couldn’t care less what you want
the way i was able to eventually delete my account was to sit down and delete everything i’d ever posted, every photo, every comment, etc. makes it easier to just say YES i want to remove this bullshit from my life altogether
getting kids addicted to IG in order to feed my kids
LOL