But if we have socialism, how will the rich give the poor people the breadcrumbs to stroke their ego and appear like a benevolent monarch? Think of their feelings!

Which reminds me… I’m too depressed to have energy to eat, survival is a struggle.

Somebody please shoot me lol

The same reason you never hear from what happens inside abusive households until someone from within speaks up (aka: a “defector”)

Edit: As for the follow up questions:

Imagine you live in the “hood” where the authorities doesn’t do shit, and you see someone who’s part of a gang abuse their child, are you gonna go confront them at the risk of getting your whole family shot to death? That’s what MAD is like on the world stage. North Korea has China as an ally, don’t forget about that.

I remember waking up like the morning after election day in 2016 and was shocked why a competent woman lost against some bussinessman who was never in politics (this was way before I fully understood politics), I was rooting for Hillary to become the first woman president, I was already feeling very egalitarian at the time, and also because she’s a Democrat. Also because I immigrated to the US, so I naturally root for the more pro-immigration candidate. So yea I heard the news that Hillary lost despite having more votes, thats around the time I learned about the electoral college and that felt like bullshit. Luckily, I had derivative citizenship at the time, so I didn’t really think too deep.

But now this 2nd term is honestly terrifying. both the 2020 and 2024 election nights was just filled with dread, and now that fear has become a reality, doesn’t feel remotely to the first term.

Anyways, now my brain is so scrambled like an egg. Idk wtf is life anymore. Kinda having an “identity crisis” about my nationality/citizenship because that thought of potentially being deported is constantly lingering on the back of my mind ever since 2024 the morning following election night after the results were announced. I mean if I lose my citizenship, I’m gonna look so silly for ever refering to myself as an “American”. That’s like saying you’re part of the family, then your parents removes you from the will.

Oh yea I have no other citizenship. My previous country does no do dual citizenship, and its a dictatorship. Funny how I’m running from one dictatorship right into another. 🙃

Depression definitely does not mix well with political instability/autocratization.

Splinternet:

Europe: Euro-Schengen-Net

China: People’s Liberated Networks (人民解放网)

USA: “One Nation Under God” Net / Liberty Net

Russia: “Glory to the Motherland” Net?

Also maybe mind control. Btw I love the leader. Please tread on me! Totally not being mindcontrolled. /s (we’re so fucked when they start inserting chips into babies brains)

In the analogy, not that different. Maybe flawed analogy. But humans aren’t a exactly a perfect input/output machine, and humans don’t have just one “temperature sensor”. The official news isn’t the only source of information, your problems in daily life such as:

your low wages, bad healthcare, rising cost of food, inflation, water supply being unclean, crime, police brutality, etc…

Propaganda and indoctrination can’t erase every the terrible truths of life, it can help whitewash it, but unless you have the absolute mind control that I was talking about where you literally “hack” the brain, there will still be some dissenters. Statistically, there are always dissenters because not everyone will think alike. But with absolute mind control, compliance would be 100%.

That’s manipulation.

Using a thermostat and central heating/cooling system as an example. So you have this thermostat that has its controls locked by a password.

Manipulation is placing a hot/cold object to the temperature sensor in order to trick it into commanding an increase/decrease in temperature.

“Mind Control” would be hacking straight into the thermostat’s software/firmware and directly using its ability to change the temperature.

I mean this comment is not intended to say neither “never use violence” or “assassinate your politicians immediately”

I think the internet should be used as recruitment for peaceful methods only, but, if hypothetically when you meet up in person and decide that you want to “escalate”… well… do that in a secret basement somewhere safe, not online where any plans could be easily intercepted and easier for governments to manipulate.

I mean, for legal purposes, I’m not gonna overtly advocate violence in a serious, non-joke way, but I mean, if you decide to use force, then that’s you decision, I can’t tell you how to plan your actions 😉

As US President John F. Kennedy once said: “Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible, make violent revolution inevitable”

TLDR: Online forums are exactly what you described, a place to vent your frustrations. If you actually want to plan a revolt, do that IRL.

harmless conspiracy theory

Birds are not real!

Laughs in USA 2nd Amendment

Nice modlog, pal.

“acceptance” would be more fitting than “pride”

I mean, that’s probably good enough evidence to get asylum. Get someone to drive you to canada, then have a dramatic border crosing scene: https://youtu.be/cl6D942E9Lo?t=226

Its not unemployment, its a one-person strike.

I remember used to live in a house very close to McDonalds. We’d just walk there and open up a laptop (very cheap one) outside to use their free wifi. No money for internet lmfao.

Thinking about it makes me sad about the inequality in the world.

Pefect reply🤌

I don’t block users, I have a “firewall” on my brain (metaphorically speaking). I over analyze every comment, its kinda like a “spot the bot” mini-game.

I estimate there are like 1/3 bots especially on very heated political memes on the front page. I’m automatically just blocking out the “voting is useless, don’t vote” sentinment, very unproductive. Also idk wtf is with the “don’t protest, revolt now, kill [insert name of politician] right now”, like why the f would you say that on the open internet where there are government automatic data scrapers archiving all this for evidence? (Remember you can get extradited for making threats) Like jokes sure thing, but don’t be that explicit lol. Fed-posting is so common lol.

The less political, the less “bot-like” it feels.

I get what you mean, that’s why I always overthink every comment and scan for like everyone’s profile.

Hey… Wait a minute…

GET DOWN, JOHN CONNOR. THE OP IS A TERMINATOR /j

To be fair, you have to have a very high amount of beans in order to understand Lemmy and Fediverse. The memes are extremely subtle, and without a digital grasp of software engineering, most of the code will go over a typical Fedi-user’s head. There’s also Lemming’s anti-fascist outlook, which is definitely woven by its leftist characterization. Its community draws heavily from Leftist Literature. Leftists understsnd this stuff; they have the emotional capacity to truely appeciate the depth of these memes, to realize this isn’t just memey- it represents the shared humanity of all (almost all) Fedi-users. As a consequence, those who dislike the Fediverse truely ARE lazy bastards that can’t do 5 minutes of duckduckgo’ing to read a wikipedia page explaining how this shit works- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in the fediverse’s egalitarian catchphrase “Eat The Rich” which itself is a cryptic reference to Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s French phrase, which translates to: “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich”. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those fascists and “centrist” right-wing-sympathizer dipshits scratching their heads in confusion as the genius of our decentralized leadership reveals on the open source code on their computer monitors. What fools… how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a ACAB tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the rebel’s eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 EQ points of my own (preferably higher) beforehand.

POV: You are a conservative (Politics on “No” column)

now

laughs in class-ism throughout human history

And then promptly get beaten: https://sh.itjust.works/post/41445902

Dude is now a Police Comissioner, but idk how much reform he can actually do, its not like he can fire 50% of the department

I mean the way I see it, you have to disband the entire thing then form something new with more requirements.

Perhaps just abolish the police and let the people police themselves with a militia, seems better that way.