Doomsider
@Doomsider@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 1 day ago:
I agree your belief is admirable, but it is extremely naive if you think it will make a difference on a large scale even if there are millions who believe what you do.
We already had a movement about peace, love, and understanding that was very popular with a huge chunk of the population doing the acts you described in the 1960s.
You have also clearly not spent any amount of time with the kind of people you think you can emphasize with. I lived in rural Idaho for Obama’s years. I couldn’t count the amount of times people joked about hanging or shooting him.
You want to emphasize with a racist who wants a man dead just because he is black? I did plenty of this and guess the positive change it made. Yeah, it didn’t matter at all.
The only way is to stop the propaganda. This is the source. Hate radio, Faux News, and now Xshitter feed people with lies using psychological manipulation to twist their minds and hearts.
It takes years, sometimes decades, to deprogram people from this if they are willing to change. They are creating new racist losers at a pace you cannot keep up with. This is the reality we face.
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 1 day ago:
You can spend years turning the heart of a racist and certainly some people have done this successfully.
Meanwhile propaganda has turned out another ten thousand racists in the time it took you to change a couple minds.
To be frank your belief is not completely wrong but it will not solved our current problems.
You hint on the reality that it is our social constructs such as social media that is driving this reinsurance of hate.
As a social worker by trade I can say I know a lot about this topic. There is a classic story of people getting swept into the river.
While it is admirable that you want to jump in to save people the real solution is going upstream and stopping people from falling in.
Understanding racist losers will not accomplish what you want. Changing their minds will not either. You have to stop it at the source.
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 1 day ago:
You just got to get to know the Nazi to understand them?
Oh wait it is more nuanced than that. You gotta get to know the racist to emphasize with them?
Dang it, we got to dig deeper. You have to get to know the misogynist to get them?
Sometimes getting to know someone is not the magical solution people think it is.
- Comment on There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage? 2 weeks ago:
They borrow against their stocks tax free. The system they have created is perverse and should be illegal l.
- Comment on There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage? 2 weeks ago:
You just make it illegal to compensate in this form. Problem solved.
- Comment on Why do Republicans bring up Kamala's "lies"/shortcomings as a way to claim Trump is better? 2 weeks ago:
That is a lot of mental gymnastics even for Shapiro.
When Trump says he is going to withdraw from NATO it isn’t 4d chess he is playing. He is not a mastermind of anything. Rather he says and does what he is told to by his handlers.
He is not a businessman in any respect unless you mean a failed businessman whose image was rehabilitated by a reality TV show called the Apprentice.
If he had never touched his daddies money and just left it invested he would be several times wealthier than he is now.
He is perhaps the perfect person to destroy the presidency though which he has done a decent job at. You must understand the real goal of the conservatives is to prove our government is failing by making it fail.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 4 weeks ago:
I saw a disposable vape with a screen and Bluetooth/mic built in. You could play games on it and take calls. That is a ridiculous amount of e-waste.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 months ago:
The leader of the KKK said he would vote for a black man over a white woman. Sexism has always trumped racism.
- Comment on ‘It’s All One Giant Charade’: Steroids and Hollywood's Drive for Super(hero)-Perfection 2 months ago:
$150 to read one fucking article? Get bent!
- Comment on Ticketmaster to be investigated by watchdog over 'dynamic pricing' of Oasis tickets 2 months ago:
Ahh yes, the old stop scalpers by becoming scalpers trick!
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
For sure, because I know exactly what you mean because I have already lived it.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
Ah yes, tolerate their name intolerance. Sounds like resignation to me.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
Keeps him in decent shape!? Thanks for the laugh!
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
Savage!
- Comment on Close enough for government work 5 months ago:
That one trick NASA does not want you to know about.
- Comment on (Bad) dog owners be like 11 months ago:
People should be mindful not everyone wants your dog up in their face. My wife developed a severe allergy to dogs but her coworkers love to parade their doggies into her work area all the time. Welcome to Alaska I guess.
- Comment on Current state of Reddit 11 months ago:
Oh I remember saying something along the lines of Ron Desantis was a dirty diaper and should be thrown out in the trash on a conservative Reddit.
The mods tried to have me banned over it and said I was harassing them. Unbelievable when all they did was talk smack about everyone. I learned when Reddit suspended my account over mods being butthurt that it was going down the drain.
- Comment on (Bad) dog owners be like 11 months ago:
I know several people with scars on their faces from pitbulls. Four of them had to get reconstructive surgery.
I grew up with one so I am not a hater, but I know they can be very dangerous especially around other dogs.
- Comment on Gilbert's gripe 11 months ago:
I am imagining Gilbert Godfrey saying this loudly and in the most annoying way possible as he climaxes.
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 1 year ago:
It is a lot more complicated than that. There are strong cultural reasons we defunded them but in essence they had become so toxic it was best to close them.
- Comment on CEOs of top 100 ‘low-wage’ US firms earn $601 for every $1 by worker, report finds 1 year ago:
When was the last time a CEO was held personally responsible for a workers safety or the death of an employee?
A CEO answers to the shareholders or a board of directors and do not concern themselves with their employees livelihoods or maintaining stores.
They may very well provide a valuable service to a company but not for the reasons you mention.
- Comment on Sign Maintenance Is Important 1 year ago:
Ever notice the sign looks like a dick? Now we know where that horsey sauce comes from.