bearboiblake
@bearboiblake@pawb.social
🏳️🌈 hi there, i’m blake! i’m a silly gay bear 🌀
- Submitted 2 days ago to [deleted] | 4 comments
- Comment on pirate shit 3 days ago:
You have openly stated that you aren’t engaged in activist activities, whereas I am. I actually have real, recent experiences, you do not. This isn’t people with two experiences disagreeing, this is just you refusing to accept that your “vibes” are off, because you are emotionally invested in being right.
I’m done with you for now, nobody else is reading this shit. See you next time. Hope you get paid well for doing this.
- Comment on pirate shit 4 days ago:
I present you with my actual lived experiences and you are just like “Actually, no, despite the fact I am not involved in activist efforts, somehow I know all about them”. Brother, do you work for Mossad, or what?
- Comment on pirate shit 4 days ago:
Sometimes, but not always. Many people were radicalized by Gaza, others were radicalized by Trump threatening to invade Greenland, others still by local stories and events. Most of our new members actually weren’t personally affected, unless you count seeing TikToks of atrocities as being affected.
Look, I understand where you’re coming from, I’ve been in this fight since I was 17, and I know how it has felt like swimming against the tide for a long time, but I am categorically telling you that things are actually finally changing. You can be a part of it, or not, but please can you just stop trying to discourage others from doing something to help?
- Comment on pirate shit 5 days ago:
You have no idea what you’re talking about. In the last year or so there has been a huge surge of people getting involved after realizing that shit has to change. I have heard so many stories of how people are becoming radicalized.
People are waking up, they are doing what you say they should be, while you’re sitting around, doing nothing but bringing negativity, and justifying it to yourself.
Do nothing if you want, we don’t need you, but keep your defeatist attitude to yourself.
- Comment on pirate shit 5 days ago:
Yeah, the image’s URL has a space in it so it doesn’t show up properly
- Comment on pirate shit 5 days ago:
I am a union rep and organizer, I have a front row seat to the movement which is building and growing every day.
Everything you say is rationalization. If change is impossible, that lets you justify your own inaction.
The indifference, laziness and self-interest you perceive is just your own reflection staring back at you.
- Comment on pirate shit 5 days ago:
Ah, back to spreading nihilism again, I see. I’ll share the same thing I said last time:
I understand how you feel, but we actually do have the power to change our world. We need to first recognize that something needs to be done, build a popular consensus, network and build connections with like-minded people, and start a real movement for change.
Electoralism has not solved our problems in the past, and it won’t do so in the future. At best, it is harm prevention, and at worst, it’s a distraction from more effective efforts. I encourage people to vote for the candidates they feel best, but to be aware that it’s not a real, long term solution. It’s always just the best of two terrible candidates, both of whom ultimately serve the ruling class.
The problems we have did not start and will not end with Trump, they are in the fundamental roots of our society, and the road to change our society is a long and difficult one, but it is a journey we have to undertake. We are going to have to act if we want to live in a better world. Simply giving in to nihlism is not an option.
- Comment on pirate shit 5 days ago:
It goes without saying that boycotts by themselves are an ineffective system of effecting change, and that everyone who wants to fight against fascism must take further action.
I encourage everyone to get involved in local activist efforts, join or form a union, join the IWW, read through an anarchist FAQ, get involved in protests, vote for the most progressive candidates possible including in primaries, and use every possible tool and avenue of resistance at your disposal, both legal and illegal.
Your link is broken btw
- Comment on pirate shit 5 days ago:
Maybe you could pirate From Dusk Till Dawn next? :p
- Comment on The Art of the Deal 5 days ago:
Take the money and use it to fund renewables anyways. Trump loves breaching terms of contracts, I’m sure he’d be cool with it.
- Comment on pirate shit 5 days ago:
This is true, but the bigger threat I see is the mainstream news media and social media, as the Ellisom empire expands it continues to encompass more and more news channels, it already contains CBS and TikTok, with the upcoming merger it’ll also include CNN. Other Trump supporters include Jeff Bezos who owns the Washington Post and Elon Musk who owns Twitter.
- Comment on How? 5 days ago:
Personally, I don’t think it’s very fun to share free advertising for a horribly exploitative industry with Family Guy tier content (hay guise, remember that advert from TV back in the day???)
- Comment on pirate shit 5 days ago:
Fair enough, I suppose from a certain perspective you could argue that it is - especially if you make a smiley face with breakfast food.
- Comment on pirate shit 5 days ago:
None of them are good, they’re all a bunch of exploitative bastards.
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 5 days ago:
I don’t think it is subjective, but even if it is, I am asking you, what is your subjective opinion? Because to me, it feels like you are too cowardly to admit your true feelings, and instead you are hiding behind this semantic argument instead.
- Comment on pirate shit 5 days ago:
Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.
Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!
- Comment on pirate shit 5 days ago:
Note the period/full stop between the words “media” and “I’m”? That denotes the end of one sentence, and the beginning of another, which is a helpful clue that those two things I wrote are seperate thoughts.
- Comment on pirate shit 5 days ago:
I feel the same about all media. I’m doing my part to hasten the collapse of capitalism by keeping my spending to an absolute minimum, pirating everything, buying second hand where possible, and eating as much at home as I can.
- Comment on How? 5 days ago:
Some may say “weird”, I say “astroturfed”. This post is illegal in the jurisdictions lemmy.world is hosted in. Online advertisement of tobacco products is illegal in many jurisdictions. I’ve already reported it, and I’d encourage others to do the same.
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 5 days ago:
So you would prefer to live in a society without homelessness, but you wouldn’t say that it would be “good” to create a society without homelessness, is that right? Just trying to understand.
- Submitted 5 days ago to [deleted] | 94 comments
- Comment on How? 5 days ago:
nice advertisement, tobacco brand
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 5 days ago:
Wouldn’t you prefer to live in a society without homelessness, for example?
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 6 days ago:
@OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world - What do you think, buddy? Do you disagree with this too?
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 6 days ago:
I think you misunderstand, I have already written off the original discussion we had, and I was just trying to help you learn about yourself. There is nothing to be ashamed of, I am not trying to discredit you or undermine your arguments in any way, I don’t really need to do that, nor do I care to. I think my arguments are extremely persuasive and stand very well on their own terms.
I was genuinely trying to help you. Sociopaths often do not realize that they are sociopathic or that they are thinking of people as being property, they don’t generally understand or interrogate the source of their own feelings because emotional intelligence was never properly modelled for them in childhood. That isn’t their fault, and it doesn’t make them inherently bad people.
Anyways, I am going to step away from this discussion now, and again wish you all the best, much love and solidarity.
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 6 days ago:
I’d like to carefully disagree here. If someone took a friend from me, or abused them terribly without any apology, I would want them to die.
Viewing friends and family as property and becoming angry and violent when someone violates your perceived property is perfectly in line with sociopathy. Most humans care about others, because they feel empathy, even for people who they have never met and have no connection to, heck, even towards creatures entirely unlike us.
Have you been a victim of abuse or trauma? Did you have an abusive or neglectful childhood?
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 6 days ago:
Thanks for your honest response. I think your values are sociopathic, but luckily, I also think you are a rare exception among our species.
Thanks for the chat, I don’t see how there’s anything productive that can come from discussing this further, so I hope you have a great day and I wish you a lot of love and solidarity. All the best.
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 6 days ago:
Ensuring that everyone has access to food, water, healthcare, education and shelter is objectively good. Do you disagree?
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 6 days ago:
I’m not moralizing, I am talking about an improvement to material conditions, in real terms. We all know what the word “better” means, why the fuck would we not advocate for improvements to our quality of life?
