• Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    And that grew into protests and riots, so… what’s your point?

    Hey guys, guess what. Authoritarianism isn’t trivial to beat. All the other authoritarian states in the world aren’t just full of lazy people who didn’t use the one simple trick. Turns out both propaganda works and a lot of people are actually scared of being murdered or sent to a gulag.

    But again, you get none of that if you try to skip the first steps.

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      9 hours ago

      If the conclusion is that a revolution is necessary then protests and riots are obviously insufficient. Which means that posting is not the correct path, particularly because it seems to be very lacking in building irl community, though it is effective at convincing posters that their engagement is “doing something”. It isn’t, aside from enriching tech oligarchs through their attentional engagement

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          6 hours ago

          If the goal is to simply build towards protests and riots then that is a foolish goal because protests and riots are insufficient

          If the goal is to build something larger than that, then different methods are required