Comment by idle_zealot

Comment by idle_zealot 11 hours ago

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And advocating for mass individual consistent behavioral change is less than useless. If you want change you need political organization. The sum of public opinion is more influenceable than the sum of everyone's actions. Unfortunately, in the US it's not so simple as "vote for the party that's against this" as we only have two and neither are. Which means if you want to be effective you should throw your lot in with an advocacy group. In this case probably the EFF, maybe the ACLU?

sequin 10 hours ago

Many people (not the EFF or ACLU, lol) saw it coming years ago and put in a monumental effort to try to turn to tide, only to be relentlessly repressed and dehumanized by bolsheviks and idiots.

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  • idle_zealot 8 hours ago

    I wish you would put content in your post. Who are you referring to, what monumental efforts, who repressed them, and how?

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  • leninsghost 2 hours ago

    Ah yes the Bolsheviks, famous for simping for big companies. It's funny how all the fake bull shit people think is happening in Communist China is actually going to happen in the EU and the United States in the next 10 years.

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mmooss 4 hours ago

> advocating for mass individual consistent behavioral change is less than useless.

Again, the trend is to sound smart by saying it's hopeless. We behave much differently than prior generations in many ways. Heck, look at the rise of neo-right wing politics, the manosphere, YOLO investing, etc. Look at smoking, recycling, etc. Look at people using social media, when cell phones weren't universal for their parents

It doesn't require politics.

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leptons 9 hours ago

>we only have two and neither are.

Both sides are not the same. One side wants to criminalize protests, the other side actually respond to protests. So vote for the side that will listen to protests.

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  • Alex2037 8 hours ago

    is that so?

    it is still impossible to speak about such things here without getting flagged, so all I'm going to say is that I and many other people still remember the events that happened between February 2020 and March 2023.

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  • idle_zealot 5 hours ago

    They're not the same, but they are in agreement about expanding the surveillance state and cracking down on protests. They don't agree on which protests to crack down on, with the exception of anti-war or anti-genocide protests which both deem unacceptable.

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