Giving up

Is indeed the opposite of

Getting down

At the same time

Aggregate public opinion, both the real, and especially through bullshit polls during authoritarian (read: dangerous) times, is at the whims of the government.

If the government bombards people with an idea, people without a robust opinion, will believe it.

Hate the people who act. The government, and the part of the public that is taking real Zionist action, participating in the ideology.

As I said in the other comment, the idea of “Israelis” is not real enough to justify hating the group. Putting all of them in the same basket is racism, because many of them (perhaps 20%, doesn’t change my argument), have neither the desire nor the power to contribute to the genocide, and part of those is fighting against.

Name the groups you hate by their real characteristic (violent fascists), because hating “people of a nation” is just being racist, and missing what the actual danger is.

The government is fascistic. The people in the government, and those who support it, are fascists. “Society”, means all the people together, just like in the above comment, “Israelis” are all the citizens.

“All the citizens of a place” is not a group you can just bunch up, that’s just racism.

There isn’t actually anything connecting them, apart from birthplace.

Bunch up groups with real stuff they have in common: Beliefs (Zionism in this case), or money (rich people and their suck ups), or real societal role (cops, military).

Those things are real. “Nationality” (one step removed from “race”) is not real. Don’t fall for the intellectual trap, that any of that matters as to which people are “good” or "bad

Nah, there’s plenty Israelis fighting for Palestine, and against their government. If it was “far-right Zionists”, then I’d agree

No act of sex is ever the same experience as another, even if doing the same exact things with the same person.

A girl approaches you, with two strap-ons (soft silicone for the proposed example), lube, and your wonderful proposed tangling device, and asks if you want to use them with her.

Would you say “But it wouldn’t be the same experience!”?

Or would you say yes?

@thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone You too, you should think about the above example, and your “lack of equipment”, and look inward, to find the true answer inside your soul.

You lack imagination.

If you don’t have homegrown, store-bought silicon is fine.

Tell me you wouldn’t, if presented with the offer.

These are all complicated, and every country is different, but a necessary part of the short term solution, is to focus on the people doing the manipulating, and fighting them, and their interests.

Long term, right-wing nonsense doesn’t hold up, and you can convince people, and help them move past that if they let go, but short term, they are just subservient to whatever the head of the movement-cult says.

The people leading those movements, are people. In very, very extreme cases, Luigi can help, but most of the time, they’re rich fucks who want to get richer.

Direct opposition to their interests, works.

Greece where I’m from, has a “sold out government” problem, and our public sector is being dismantled and sold for parts, but there’s a few tiny victories, where the routes for capital investment are blocked, in the last few years. Both 1) Anarchist squats block international hotel chain investment firms, and 2) beureaucratic safety laws do hold up, and block private colleges from trying to make a quick buck, resulting in reduced political pressure against the public education system.

Fighting on whichever level one has capacity for, works, whether it’s from inside or outside the law. Just make it more expensive for the rich fucks to get richer.

Did you just… Does your primary argument contain “Hopefully, not many of us have to die.” ???

Jesus Christ.

Look, you’re right that it’s just as impossible to convince a zealot (idiots who stand to gain from being obedient), as it is to insult someone back into logic (idiots who don’t, but are too stupid to realize).

But don’t despair and give up, because you’ll be giving fascists what they invested for, with all their propaganda aimed at making you despair.

Just keep in mind, the way to change things is not to fight the vulnerable zealots for their cooperation with the authoritarian, it’s to fight the authoritarian. The rich fucks are the ones who give the speeches, and lie and manipulate the zealots.

Fight the rich fucks, and fight them as early as possible. That’s what nipping this in the bud (or in this case, early stalk lol) means.

Yeah, sounds about right.

Yeah, and it might be different from person to person.

I’ve most definitely been more than hungry enough (starving myself to the point of losing my sense of hunger for 2.5 years), and yet I cannot honestly say I’d ever been “nauseous” from it.

Dizzy, disoriented, yes. But nausea very very rarely happens to me, in extreme, prolonged, vehicle-related circumstances, or sickness for example.

I wonder if nausea is just a consequence of the dizziness, in people that do get nauseous from being dizzy, instead of a direct consequence of metabolism.

I’m not going to rashly claim that you should, because it can be unsafe, or not the time for it yet (or not the right therapist), but, getting to the point where, there is enough trust that you can share such thoughts with your therapist, can be an incredibly useful thing.

Sex, violence, and relations with other humans (gender) are big parts of all of our souls.

Making those things into things you are able to work on, is liberating, in my opinion

Do definitely take care of yourself though ❤️

Incredible community holy shit

I love those days where I just endlessly scroll a community, and come upon a post I wanna comment on, without noticing the post is ancient hahaha

I do agree with you though, Ben and Jerry’s has a vegan ice cream that is fucking Heaven on earth.

Also, no need to call it anything but ice cream! (I’m referring to you calling it frozen oat treat). Peanut can be butter, vegan ice cream is ice cream, oat milk is milk. Don’t fall for propaganda marketing of rich fucks that want to hold on to their markets ❤️

Yeah, the only way to pass such a change to the law, would be to force it against their will… Or buy out the governments that oppose it…

Hmmm…

Hmmm…

Where would that lead? What would such a set of actions be called???

Hmmmmm…

I see so your suggestion is to make a government that has never functionally exist before

What. What are you talking about. I just said “Don’t remove Veto power”. That’s a whole different sentence you got there.

protect it based on your idealized version of how it could be used in your fantasy government.

Literally current day Europe.

eliminate something based on how it has actually been used the vast majority of the time

Criminals sell drugs. Doesn’t matter how strong a police you got, and how criminalized drugs are, drugs will be sold because Criminals want money and power. They’re just gonna get more expensive, and more harmful to the buyers. Look into the prohibition of alcohol half a century ago.

The rich and powerful, want power. They want to buy governments, in order to change the rules in their favor.

The stronger you make some governments, in comparison to others, the stronger you make the rich that can buy them, since those rich can just sway and control the weaker governments via influencing the stronger one.

Removing veto power to fight Orban and his rich backers, allows the rich of the European core to do whatever the fuck they want to the poorer European countries.

I can also seperately argue that it doesn’t even work to fight Orban and his backers, but I don’t even need to. Even if it did work, paving over the poor and vulnerable for gain, instead of finding another solution, is fascistic. There’s always countless other ways.

There’s nothing imaginary about this, colonial history is littered with dozens upon dozens of examples.

These political restructurings, are documented steps toward fascism, and they’re being taken right now.

Viktor Orban is a rich powerful authoritarian, in the pocket of bigger more powerful authoritarians.

Neither he, nor the people funding him are vulnerable minorities.

If a rich guy hires a Mafia that sends poor people to do their dirty work, you don’t make laws against being poor.

Make laws that actually solve problems, keep the weak safe from rich assholes’ manipulation, to make the Mafia weaker.

All the various “right-wing” authoritarians around Europe, are getting to power, by fucking Ginormous amounts of corruption. Greece, where I’m from, is one such joke.

Europe should protect the sanctity of those power structures, to prevent people like Orban from getting to power, instead of taking the lazy, short term way out, that leaves the Union weaker and easier to internally take over by the fascist bastards, later.

Yep, entire instance. Don’t worry about that though, the difference between Lemmy and the real world, is that anyone, can make an account anywhere, so the people that actually want to see your instance, are not going to stay in an instance that defederates you.

Each single instance, has its own defederation list, basically a block list. Defederation, is only for the single instance that decides to block yours, meanwhile literally everyone else except that instance interacts with you normally.

On top of that, Defederation is only one way, which means you can still see their content! Your interactions are just hidden from their users. Those users, are users that (under normal circumstances) know about the defederation, and choose to remain in that instance. On top of that, they also choose not to make a second account in yours, for example.

(Personally, when I wanted to see an instance that mine had defederated from, I just made a second account in that instance. Lemmy clients make having multiple accounts, and switching between them, really, really easy).

People have the freedom, and the ability, to choose who they want to interact with, here. Enjoy it, find your people.

I honestly really wish you luck, and hope you create a part of Lemmy, that is missing right now.

I like meme-dumps, I use discord for that explicit purpose (meme-dump servers). I just don’t want the good community driven culture of Lemmy, to be sacrificed for that.

Help Lemmy have both.

(For the record, I really respect the honesty that you’re facing this whole issue with. I really do wish you the best, and hope you succeed, if you try.)

Fascism ---------- Democracy ---------- Anarchy

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. . . . . . . . . . . . .Vetoes are here. . .

Vetoes are anti-Democratic, in the sense that they protect vulnerable minorities, from powerful majorities.

Centralization, unification, and empowerment, makes power structures much, much more vulnerable to corruption.

The ability of parts of the world to impose their will on the weaker, instead of letting them advocate for themselves, is what unavoidably walks the walk to fascism, literally every single time in history.

If you let the rich claim space (ways of communicating) without fighting for it, your communication will end up controlled.

Those who have the energy to throw hands (culturally), should.

There’s nothing wrong with those who don’t have that energy to fight, but no need to worry about others’ approach, everyone does what they know they can.

If someone rejects what you’re saying in bad faith just because of the aesthetics of how you’re saying it, they’re not worth changing your habits and ways of expression, for.