throwawayacc0430

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[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

There's too much lies in the world, I kinda developed a sort of "solipcistic" view of the world.

If I never witnessed it, I categorize it as "potentially false".

Of course, the entire news could be just fabricated. Nobody can tell for sure.

Anything beyond my immediate sorroundings could just be a stage. I could be in a truman show with everything I see being a deception, or in other terms "propaganda".

I'm not saying that everything isn't real, I just feel like that possibility should be entertained, to keep in mind as a potential possible explanation of what appears to be reality. Just as how a nation can lie to its people about reality, even the people closest to you, your parents, could also just be liars as well.

People never question if they are, in fact, the biological children of their parents, and just assume they are. That is another form of "propaganda". People just accept their parent's words as truth.

Propaganda is certainly everywhere. You cannot be sure what is real, other than the fact that "you" exist, in some form.

When I read the premise, I was instantly hooked, on the plot not characters, but eventually characters too. Never even turned it away. I was dealing with an existential crisis at the time and that why I loved it.

BORTLES 🍾πŸ”₯

Oh maybe I'll try again. I was kinda turned off and stopped before the end of season one.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I mean, go ahead, arrest all democratic governors. More supporting evidence for asylum claims.

Maybe California would finally become a republic, and perhaps become the new "beacon of freedom" (well it was better than the last "beacon of freedom" anyways)

Invade? More like form a union. The Germany-Italy type.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

So... my phone was out of battery, so I pulled out my power bank and connected the cable to my phone, but then I was feeling like I'm connecting two parts of an explosive device, I instinctively said, loudly:

"BOMB PLANTED"

Now the entire plane is staring at me like I'm some sort of criminal.

 

For me:

-The Expanse - The beginning was confusing AF and the politics didn't make sense and seemed boring, so I quit. But then eventually after like a year or two, went to reddit and it was recommended again, so I just read some light spoilers and that helped me got through the first season. And then it has been an intriguing and thrilling journey.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Why boycott if I can just pirate it?

I get to enjoy it and they don't make any profit from it.

Heck, I'll seed it and cost them even more profit. πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈπŸ˜Ž

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

Their oppressors didn't have tanks.

Our oppressors do.

There's no way out.

Unless...

Anyone down to steal a tank?

(For Legal Purposes, I'm talking about GTA6 πŸ˜‰)

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

Probably nothing revolutionary.

But if you don't believe the propaganda, you'd probably enjoy life more.

For example: there literally a list of steam games that some far-right nutjob compiled that declares a lot of games to be "Woke" or "DEI". Imagine how much fun they miss out on because they are so far up the kool aid cult and actually refuses to play those games.

And other times, it can save you from a lot of misery and perhaps save your life. See: Anti-Vax and Anti-Science propaganda. If you are able to see through that bullshit, you wouldn't die from a stupid horse dewormer or other psudoscience crap.

"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind." -Mahatma Gandhi

The fight might not be right here, right this moment, but you can pass along the torch, the spirit.

Teach your children to be skeptical of the authorities, and be vigilent of propaganda. If they are getting involved in a "Hitler Youth" equivalvent, you'd intervene and stop them.

Treach kindness and empathy, but also decisiveness when the time comes to stand against injustice.

And also, pick your fights carefully, do not do this alone. Do not become a foolish dead hero, become a successful revolutionary. (Underground Movements)

Don't let them imprison your mind.

TLDR: The best you can do is just refuse to regurgitate the same propaganda. This is a passive thing that is, while subtle, an important part of the resistance.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Half? Try 2/3. Remember those non-voters?

The migrant caravan ate the spy balloon then flew past the border checkpoints with the ingested helium. And then transformed into Haitian, of course. Then crash landed in the Suez Canal and blocked it.

Suez Canal was an Inside Job

Cargo Ships Cant ~~Melt Steel Beams~~ Block Canals

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Looking at the 2024 election results. I guess not. 😞

But 1/3 of eligible voters didn't even vote, so is that really about critical thinking? Or is it just laziness?

 

I don't know about y'all, but if I grew up in a country that never has the news criticizing its leaders, I'd be very skepical and deduce that there is censorshop going on and the offical news could be exaggerated or entirely falsified. Do people in authoritarian countries actually just eat the propaganda? To what extent do they believe the propaganda?

 

If the government is willing to spend the effort to investigate, they'll find that deleted comment you posted 10 years ago criticizing the government.

But if you want to find your lost files after your cloud account gets suspended for vague "ToS Violations", I hope you have a backup, because good luck trying to get the cloud provider to send you a copy of your files.

It might be out there, but not for you.

Unless you convince a government to try and get it for you. πŸ€”

 

You can have a face-to-face conversation with a friend, but how do you do that if you want to talk to a therapist? No therapist is gonna make an exemption and leave their phone in another room, not to mention, they literally write their notes into the computer system, instead of on paper.

And with lawyers? I just read about how Luigi Mangione's conversation with his lawyer is being unlawfully recorded. How do you even have a conversation with your lawyer if you are in custody and they could just hide recoding devices all around the jail?

Sure, maybe they can't use the evidence in court, but they could just leak an out-of-context audio clip to the press to win the "court of public opinion".

 

This question is common throughout the internet, but I'd like to see Lemmy's response.

The country you end up in would be random, you don't get to pick.

 

Obviously this is about the power outage in Spain.


While normally, if a card declines, people would probably have to leave their IDs with the restaurant while they went to get a withdrawl from their bank; this is a power outage, withdrawls wouldn't work. It would be silly to arrest people because of a power outage. So I'm assuming people just have to give the restaurant owner/management their identity info with a promise to pay?

And power outages shouldn't affect buses, since they run on gasoline/diesel, but the payment system processing transit passes might not work. Do buses still get run during a power outage and they just let people on for free, or do they just shut down the bus lines?

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