This is a very dangerous line of reasoning that will play right into the hands of fascists.,

Well I get why a war criminal would be afraid to stop committing genocide, the only way for Netanyahu to stay in power is to keep the lie and genocide going until Israel is met with catastrophic violent resistance that Netanyahu can point to and say “SEE, this is why we HAD to do a genocide”.

Oldest dictator/strongman play in the book.

For an indirect metaphor, see how Assad retained power in Syria for much longer than seemed likely at first by prematurely labelling the resistance as ISIS and then brutalizing people in attempt to push them into extremist groups that could be used as PR to rationalize authoritarian control.

Just get a hybrid Sienna, it comes with a free preinstalled cap on, AWD and sliding doors which shit on normal car/truck doors in terms of practical utility and capacity to do work.

I agree prey is just a bad verb, to “prey” should mean to sneak around in people’s yards munching on plants and sketching out whenever anybody else gets close.

I see you there, being a badass and directly linking to scientific papers in the comments.

…and that centralized system of culture disemination played a major hand in creating the crisises we are in now.

You are the one pearl clutching.

The rise of criminal assholes like Andrew Tate has to do with ADULT MEN VALIDATING these figures all the way up to the most powerful adult men on earth.

Why do you think turning up the centralized censorship dial is NOT going to directly benefit people like Andrew Tate when Andrew Tate is exactly the kind of person the people who have control of that dial actually want?

I am in support of more human moderators moderating social media for kids, but in an empathetic way of giving kids more actual human attention, not as an authoritarian impulse to fix things by always just tightening control over others.

With social media being dominated by US style “freedom of speech” algorithms and US style acceptance of the impossibility (or even undesirability) of regulation and with completely unaccountable megacorps running them while giving very minimal if non-existent attention to who is watching what, we have a complete lack of age rating. We have given up on the idea of protecting childhood it seems.

…and you have clearly given up any pretense of not being extremely authoritarian it seems, what the hell does “freedom of speech algorithms” even mean? Rhetorically you are completely mixed up about what is going on and what the solution is, I am amazed you made it here to the fediverse.

We had agreed as a society that certain things should not be visible to children until they grow up.

Do you have evidence the systems we employed to do this actually didn’t make problems worse? As far as I can see, it is also just overly righteous adults desperate to fix the world in ways that don’t make them look inwards and question the policies they support and the beliefs they hold.

It used to be that to put something in front of kids it had to approved by some sane adult.

I love how you got a ton of upvotes by vaguely gesturing at the past.

When was this time you speak of?

What has changed is the social fabric of society has been ripped up.

I have gotten to the point that when a scifi world is made futuristic by having… traffic jams in the sky, and futuristic cities absolutely must have magic sky cars in their skyline but there is ZERO thought towards futuristic mass transit I just shut it off.

We already have flying cars that people use as their primary vehicle, it is called living in the middle nowhere Alaska and owning a bush plane. The thing is, that is actually the only kind of situation where everyone owning a flying car makes sense, extreme isolation, huge empty distances and no roads.

The whole point of a city is NOT to need something like a flying car.

“One potentially crazy idea is to consider wiping everyone’s graphs and having them start again.

Pleasse try this in a panic without testing it first Mark and also btw the reason people hate facebook has nothing to do with you and your rich friends I promise.

No they are leaving because this is a trash country to live in, and a hellish place to try to make any kind of art.

Of course NYT would focus on labor being too expensive in their headline and article lol, when will people stop reading this antiworker, pro-capitalist neoliberal propaganda and pretending it represents any kind of progressive view?

The strikes were an invitation to build a future, and the people who own things in the US have a deeply violent relationship with the future.

Why the hell would you make a big budget movie in the US these days unless you had to? Nobody likes hanging out on a rapidly sinking ship.

I agree, I lost a huge amount of respect for the people running and moderating lemmy.world after dealing with their reactions to people simply upset that a genocide is happening.

I had an interaction with one of their mods and it was very disappointing to see them so confidently on the side of silencing voices speaking up about genocide.

Sometimes I get the feeling lemmy.world is run by a bunch of centrists who’s hobby it is to undermine leftism because they are afraid of leftwing beliefs exactly the way pathetic conservatives are, and it makes it hard to take the entire community seriously.

Some of the prominent very active low effort posters like Pugjesus have absolutely trash views when you actually get into a conversation about their beliefs.

you hear a shrill tiny voice yelling from just over the southern border

“GET OUT AND VOTE”

As a USian, trust me, you don’t want to become one, brain worms are bad!

Look at their post history, this is what they do

No, no they won’t

See I would compare it to the permanent dread of bringing children into a world that you knew would not be a good life for them given the trajectory we are locked into now.

Came here to ask the same question, any SAM would do really :)

You do have the power to change the world when you stop individualizing your suffering or try to make it magically disappear by changing your perspective and start connecting your suffering to the suffering of others to build genuine community, power and resiliency.

Notice I never said “there is no use being negative all the time” as a lazy plattitude.