So you think people just happened to decide on a narrow range of positions that are highly convenient to the ruling powers in society?

Modern propagandists have realized it doesn’t matter if the truth is out there—you just need to make your narrative the loudest, most available, algorithmically boosted option and most people won’t put in the effort to question what you put in front of them.

Free will is an illusion and this completely ignores the near monopoly they have on the media and information people are exposed to.

Also, this isn’t saying they cause all problems, just a lot of them in our current society.

But that never happened. We never decided that. No one even asked me. Again, I never opted in and there’s no realistic way to opt out. I’m far more afraid of the state than I am from my neighbors, and if I had a real choice, I would opt out immediately.

I think there can sometimes be tension between these two ideals, as with any two disparate goals but I think they are often more aligned than people think. Freedom from terror and violence is an important freedom as well.

Social contract theory is statist propaganda. Even before I knew anything about politics or political theory I was so confused by this idea.

It’s just there to create an illusion of consent for state oppression. Even though there’s no realistic way to opt out, and we never even decided to opt in in the first place.

What kind of crazy contract is that?

Hmm I tried it out but it’s just a visual change. It doesn’t actually change the scoring or sorting of content the way disabling downvotes at the instance level does. Not quite what I had in mind.

Ironically when I first joined I argued to reinstate downvotes on my instance. But I’ve come to wonder if I was wrong. Even though they are useful to punishing misinformation or toxicity, they’re very often used outside of that context so I am not sure they are a net benefit overall.

What’s a normie? Lol.

But I’m sorry this has been your experience. I wish people would be a bit more friendly but I dunno that’s just how online interactions are. That’s why it’s better to socialize in real life. I personally don’t find it much different than Reddit, they’re both kind of hostile places. A better experience can probably only be provided by a bigger shakeup to how content is sorted or filtered than Lemmy offers.

Wait users can do this now? I thought just instances.

People seem upset about this. I’m over here wondering wtf is an echo?

Maybe there is a way they could have been done better, I don’t know, but I always feel the need to push back on this idea because in reality they’ve been an absolute calamity that I’ve been suffering from my whole life as one of the many people forced to live near one.

https://youtu.be/YWdD206eSv0

Except highways make everyone worse off not better. That one doesn’t fit.

I think it’s meant to be an internal debate about the left’s tactics. It’s not meant to ignore or minimize very real right-wing violence.

They aren’t a monolith. I attended the protests and voted for genocide Joe. I’m sure many others did too.

Not that people who didn’t deserve any of this. This is an extremely wrongheaded way to look at this.

It’s only a planet if we could walk on it. What would the name for that one be?

This is just not in any way accurate. Free speech means the government cannot penalize anyone for speech with specific narrow exceptions. Deporting them for such speech is obviously penalizing them. Laws or no, this is unconstitutional.

I don’t think it will be enough but I’ll be happy to be proven wrong.

But what kind of support are they going to offer that changes the outcome?

I don’t know, to me there’s a big difference between libel and kidnapping but they must not think so. Or they’re far more depraved than I imagined.

Doubtful but all other public lands yes.