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  • Commiunism@beehaw.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneDepeche Rule
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    2 hours ago

    Adopting leftist music by perverting its meaning is pretty much the M.O. of far-right anthems/songs, no matter what the song was about originally. See: Tomorrow Belongs to Me, Fortunate son (to a milder extent), Born in the U.S.A as some of more well-known English examples.

    I wonder if this was an attempt at doing precisely that, or was it just some publicity stunt for the movement.



  • I’m not from US, but rather Eastern Europe, though I do admit that the most news I see is from US due to them being the majority on most popular internet sites.

    That being said, I’m not talking just about the US but rather western world as a whole, particularly US, Western Europe and my home country, Lithuania. Unless I slept through some event where oppressive systems there got dismantled this century, what I wrote should, at least from my perspective, still apply to those regions and not just the US.


  • Don’t get me wrong, I fully agree with you and the post. It’s what SHOULD be happening - after all, the rich and powerful are not going to let power be voted away from them, which means some kind of direct action is needed.

    My issue, however, is that there’s just no such action happening in reality and there really hasn’t been for decades - there are protests, there are some attempts, but they’re nowhere close to being successful enough to make an impact. Hell, the right seems to be doing a better job on that regard for some reason, with events like January 6th being something that the left should have been doing.

    With all this in mind, that kind of rhetoric starts sounding more like empty slogans or even LARPing in a way.



  • Ironically enough, even the “think for themselves, it’s all nuanced” option often gets picked up from subscribing to someone else’s views, mostly because staying in the middle and considering all options sounds like the ‘smart thing to do’ even if there’s some deliberate ignorance of the facts to retain this position (like with the current Israel Palestine war).

    It’s a very similar thing to those kids in school who’d hear the quote “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing”, then go around and immediately start telling everyone how they know nothing to try and appear very deep and smart.

    Besides, there’s way less original thought in the world than you think - in order to actually properly research a subject and MAYBE come to a nuanced, informed, open-minded view, you’d have to do a ton of research, know all the history and little quirks, things that most people don’t have time or education to do especially for multiple important events going on at the same time.

    Anyway sorry, I write too much


  • Don’t fall into doomerism - news companies are companies, and negativity gets people on their platforms for much longer than positivity, it’s easy to get addicted to it. Set time limits or limit the amount of news you consume per day/per week.

    Recognize that caring about something requires mental energy - if you had 1 friend who asks you to care about their hobby or learn a bit more, then you might agree, but if you have 20 friends with different hobbies asking the same thing, then there’s no way you can care about all of them. Similar thing applies to the news, recognize that you can’t care about everything and try learning how to stay informed without giving up lots of mental energy stressing about things you can’t really influence.

    It’s admirable wanting to keep up with the news, but it also can be a bit of a trap and does require a degree of skill to not fall into what you describe in your post.










  • Commiunism@beehaw.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonethey were buddies rule
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    18 days ago

    Maybe it’s because the guy is a relevant public figure, and if he were to say something along the lines of “the bastard deserved it” he’d face a ton of consequences for it? This is so much easier to do in an online space where you are anonymous, especially in an admittedly echochambery place like lemmy.

    I do recall the Trump’s first assassination attempt, and some celebrities (can’t recall the names right now) did come out and say something along the lines of “shame the guy missed” which made the media start hounding and targeting them, with their colleagues being forced to disavow or kick them from their projects entirely.

    It would be cool if Tim Walz or any influential figure went “rip bozo” regardless though