250 years (thelemmy.club)
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[–] -4 points 6 hours ago* (8 children)

makes sense.

how many times have you been told to stop voting for the political duopoloy, but you still kept doing it anyways or -- worse yet -- not bothering to vote at all?

how many times have you been told to start using green tech to mitigate climate change's impact, but just shrugged your shoulders when your gov't effectively banned green tech and maxed out fossil fuels nonetheless. and did you vote for them anyways because the red team was slightly worse for the world -- not just the united states -- than the blue team?

how many times have you been told that your media has chocked fully of propaganda but never bothered to change your media consumption habits while decrying all other media sources as propaganda?

how many times have you been told that it's not a coincidence that all the us empire's political enemies are "authoritarian" hellholes, but you still accept the lies that your propaganda keeps telling you despite the fact your government had already effectively admitted that are lies decades ago?

this i-told-you-so nagging is annoying, but it's the only way to keep people aware that they're choosing this enshitify their own environment, society and future just so that the epstein class can keep their control over us.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    "and after all that, someone will come up and tell the powerless it's their fault for failing to stop the powerful".

    "But have you considered that the powerless deserved it because they failed to stop the powerful? I know it's annoying I'm doing this, but it's the only way to keep the powerless aware that it's their fault"

    That's how much of an asshole you sound like.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 child)

    the only assholery on display here is the presumption that they're powerless and the re-enforced misinformation that you're spreading here.

    history proves that the people can be just as powerful as the epstein class — and that's exactly why they expend so many resources keeping you from ever doing what that nagging tells you to do.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago

    Cool story bro, and way to miss the point.

    You're totally right. It's wrong to call the individuals who belong to the class of people who need to work together in the thousands or millions to effect change via coordinated collective action "powerless", or to imply that the handful of individuals with enough sway that they've managed to effectively prevent that are somehow "powerful".

    The right thing to do is definitely to find a place where someone has griped that the experience being one of those temporarily disenfranchised oligarchs is kinda shit and remind them that since their millions of equally powerful cohort haven't joined arms against the handful of not-more-powerful people who oppose them that they, personally, are guilty of a myriad sins that contributed directly to all of their misery so they should just shut their imperialist fucking faces and fix everything in their lives and country.

    Because you know, it's your responsibility to be the morality police of people you've never met, and to proselytize your specific beliefs about the way Americans can unfuck themselves.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 hours ago* (4 children)

    doing all these things on a personal level also didn’t do much to help as far as i can see. i get conflicting propaganda now, and can maybe see accidental glimpses of the truth more often, woohoo. and i pay more for the privilege, but as lest i actualy have the financial mobility to make that choice. makes the nagging much more shrill.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago (3 children)

    the epstein class has been forced to reveal several times that collectivism is the only threat to them and all of this nagging directly points out to how the epsteins prevent collectivization from happening on an individual scale.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago (2 children)

    and nagging and othering people promotes collectivism how exactly?

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  • [–] -1 points 4 hours ago* (1 child)

    the nagging points to the things that you -- as an individual -- can do to ruin the epstein class' day.

    and collectivism will make you understand why & how doing it will ruin their day so that you can take it a step further than just ruining a single day.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

    and i have done these things, and i see no difference.

    you push for individual culpability through othering and alienation to force collectivism, absurdity on nonsense.

    just the notion alone that in order to achieve collectivism one must alone shoulder the burden of systematic change separately is oxymoronic and a waste of time.

    do you just assume that people don’t do as you say because they are inherently evil? they actually seek their end?

    all this nagging does’nt seem to be convincing me to agree with you after all

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