It’s a timeline. tech companies have become much worse, and people warning about them more vocal, so the lower educated classes who mindlessly use their products have (partially) woken up to the real motives of companies who create “free to use” products, i.e. data mining. In the EU, we have a lot of dummies who we call “remote controlled”, who want to simulate a version of the US lifestyle (huge cars, celebrity adulation, eating like shit, single-issue voting, vapidness). These mainly teenagers but regrettably also low-class adults. Those are also the people who still use social networks because they have nothing else going on and are too lazy to invest their free time in worthwhile activities. So it’s a class issue, the social underbelly of the EU is remote controlled by US culture and corporations almost like the social underbelly of the US is.
It’s a bit more complicated: In your example, if someone from the outgroup (e.g. a liberal person or in general someone who isn’t as mindless and as purely driven by hedonism) suggests that “they” should prefer a different coffee chain, they’ll dig in and go to Starbucks even more because by doing that, you gave them another tool to feel like they’re rebelling against the “elites”, i.e. going to Starbucks went from something they did because they were uneducated to a new source of their personal and group identity. There’s no easy solution to bring people to live in their own best interest when they are so adamant to make every little aspect of their lifestyle into a culture war battleground. It’s exactly as hard and prone to fail, as getting people out of a cult.
Same. It’s the typical online right wing troll tactic to pose as the other side and act like the most uneducated fucking idiots to make decent people question their ideals. But because they truly are idiots they make it too obvious with the “Biden bad” - no true progressive would be so stupid to reduce the issue this one-dimensionally.
So yeah when you see people going on about how Biden is responsible for the situation in Gaza, its very likely they’re Groipers, Proud Boys, or some other type of internet filth.
Did the Metallica finish divert your attention given you’re usually such a Radio head when driving, that you wanted to rather eat a bag of nine inch nails than having to look at this thing?
Even then, in a “lorry problem” type of scenario, it could be OK. Like, you have a lever and there’s a fascist con-man polluting the world with bad ideas and products, and you could either do nothing or use the lever to go to town on one of those products to send a message to his supporters, I know what I would do
What makes it not work imho is that if you see the real thing you immediately realise it’s just a skin shoddily put on a conventional car base. Like a wig, if that makes any sense. The form doesn’t follow from its inner workings so to say, it’s like a costume.
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