You’re equating Cambridge Analytica’s targeted psychological manipulation based on secretly harvested personal data with ordinary citizens debating each other. Do you really see no difference between billion-dollar campaigns using Al to exploit psychological vulnerabilities and regular people discussing politics? Who exactly is doing the ‘convincing’ in your version of democracy?
So you’re acknowledging that it’s a problem of wealth extraction but your proposed solution is for left wing parties to adopt a more anti-immigration stance instead of resolving the issue of inequality?
Right wing parties platform on isolationist policies (Brexit) while massively boosting globalization (how there’s now more migration post-Brexit than pre) and using migrants as a scapegoat for people’s economic issues.
Pinning the issue of globalization on migrants is like putting the blame on the exploited for the crimes of the exploiters.
Globalization isn’t bad because it allows people to resettle, escape political and environmental instability in their own countries - but because neoliberal interests specifically funnel away wealth from their local lower classes and destabilize poorer foreign nations to provide cheap labour for their businesses at home.
So instead of saying how great Denmark is for adopting “zero asylum” policies why not spend your energy advocating for wealth redistribution on a global scale? I agree, ideally people wouldn’t need to migrate to richer counties - but I don’t see the same “anti-globalist” parties advocating for paying reparations or providing zero debt aid to poorer nations instead either.
Denmark’s approach seems to prioritize protecting their domestic welfare system rather than addressing the global systems that create inequality. They’ve maintained many of the same neoliberal international policies while building higher walls around their own social safety net - exemplifying a “freedom for me, but not for thee” approach.
Which leads to the real crux of the issue - can a truly progressive approach stop at national borders, or does it require addressing the international systems that create inequality and drive migration in the first place?
Wait, you’re both saying people voted for Brexit out of their own free will but also that advertising doesn’t persuade people? How do you explain Cambridge Analytica literally influencing millions of people to vote for Brexit? (a vote won by 2% margin btw) - like why would the right-wing establishment pay for ads if not to sway public opinion?
Do you really think neoliberals spent millions to inform people why Brexit is good for them actually because that was factual information people couldn’t have found otherwise?
The issue here is decades of neglecting the wellbeing of citizens
Yes? But what does this have to do with immigration? Do you genuinely believe that immigrants are what’s causing the decay of citizen wellbeing and not as you say “neoliberal governments grounding low and middle class workers into dust”?
You see the issue but you side with the neoliberals on their preferred solution?
This is peak neo-fascist dystopia and it reveals the true nature of anti-immigration policy of humiliation and alienation.
The human rights and dignity violations, be it done with chains and cameras or with campaigns and administrative hearings - share the same hateful roots.
Don’t let this shift the overton window such that “civil immigration measures” become acceptable - push back on it now before it becomes the new normal.
You know what would reduce it by almost 50%? Not spending half your salary on rent…
Maybe then people could afford solar panels, insulation, heat pumps and general home improvements with their newly discovered 100% increase in spending
denied was implied by comparing musk’s salute to that of the pope waving his arm - but fair, she didn’t outright say it
still the timing is most definitely not coincidental - but I can see how that can seem that way if you didn’t browse xitter when it happened
her tweet was made a day after musk’s salute and consequent “funny” nazi puns - alongside posts denying the salute as sincere, therefore enabling nazi normalization
the issue isn’t if JK is a swastika waving nazi - she most likely isn’t - the issue is she’s siding with fascists because they share the same hateful rhetoric and is willing to defend and normalize their behavior because she sees them as allies and the “woke leftists” as the enemy.
we couldn’t agree on an illustrator. He wanted Eva Braun, but the sample sketches he showed me were shit.
If he wanted Eva Braun to be the illustrator why would he show JK his own sketches and not hers? Why even mention Eva at that point?
Idk but imma head out as I don’t have the energy to dissect a poorly written attempt at a joke by a known nazi apologist…
I mean Eva Braun was a photographer so not sure why her sketches would have been good? But I guess she was trying to shoehorn hitler being a bad artist but just didn’t know how to tie it in?
Call be old-fashioned but I prefer my jokes to be funny because they’re clever not because “haha hitler couldn’t draw amirite”
Also just to note - that “trans” account posting AI slop is actually a terf masquerading as a trans person to “own the libs”
nooo, you don’t understand - she was just saying this a day after the inauguration to defend musk doing his nazi salute - I’m sure all of this has nothing to do with her doing trans Holocaust denial either…
damn snowflakes always getting triggered by lighthearted fun from nazi apologists… 😤😤😤
Calling it simplified does a disservice of the real world impacts of the “trolley” - especially since unlike a thought experiment - this trolley problem is physically constructed by people to achieve imperialistic goals - so expending energy blaming random lemmings for this - instead of figuring out who built, maintains and presents the trolley as the only option and how to dismantle it seems useless.
I believe we should avoid infighting and actually organize to do something so we don’t have to choose if we pull the lever or not every 4 years (if there even is another election…)
Cool, we remember - now what? What do we materially do now to resist that isn’t just blaming non-voters online?
ofc not - but don’t delude yourself that Harris would have either - you don’t defeat genocide at the polls - get organized instead - https://generalstrikeus.com/
Doesn’t providing nuance counter the homogeneity? Also what’s the alternative? Algorithmically promotes content? But those create even more of an echo chamber as you only see what the algo thinks you’ll personally engage with.
I guess meeting in person might be better - but even then your neighborhood is probably rather classist so idk how much you’d end up not in an echo chamber either :/