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Cake day: April 24th, 2023
  • stabby_cicada@slrpnk.nettoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme
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    5 days ago

    Shitposting is just pretending to be stupid/racist/shitty for laughs/attention, right? Pretty low form of humor, if you ask me (no one did), but I’m also guessing a lot of shitposters aren’t just pretending.

    The thing is, a lot of them are pretending until they’re not. In contexts where their audience isn’t made of assholes, they’ll just say their racist (or fascist or misogynist or whatever) posts are jokes, they’re making fun of racists and they’re making fun of easily offended liberals.

    And because they know they’re going to use the “just a joke” excuse, they’ll post shit that’s even more extreme than what they actually believe - so when they say they’re just posting to offend people and don’t actually believe what they post they’re being honest.

    But when they feel comfortable that their audience is full of racists, they’ll post the same racist crap, but they’ll do it absolutely seriously.

    I believe the term for that is Schrödinger’s asshole.

  • stabby_cicada@slrpnk.nettopolitics @lemmy.world•Sanders and AOC tell packed arena Trump is ‘screwing over’ working class
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    9 days ago

    Right. Now is the right time to start.

    But it’s too soon to tell if that effort will accomplish anything, because the effort has to be sustained through 2026 and 2028.

    And the people showing up waving signs have to become politically active - not just showing up and going home, but writing their congresspeople and boycotting companies and knocking on doors to get out the vote and so on and so forth. Bernie and AOC can stump all they want. If they don’t inspire people to act it means nothing.

    The Democrats need a grassroots movement - as angry and passionate and hopeful as the Tea Party was - not just speeches by celebrity pols. It’s too early to tell if liberal citizen voters will accept their responsibility to build that movement.

  • stabby_cicada@slrpnk.nettopolitics @lemmy.world•Sanders and AOC tell packed arena Trump is ‘screwing over’ working class
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    10 days ago

    Save your praise until they actually win some victories. Marches and rallies are a good start, but they don’t necessarily translate into political action. Remember the women’s marches in 2017? The largest single day protest in American history and it did exactly two things: jack and shit. People went out, waved signs, went home, and Trump flipped three court seats and ended Roe.

    Bernie in particular has always been great at turning out a crowd, but he’s never been able to turn that into political or legislative victories.