anarchy79

anarchy79, 14 days ago

Let’s not give this absolute nobody media space please…

anarchy79, 18 days ago

The concept of AI weaponized mass propaganda on social media makes it less mysterious.

anarchy79, 18 days ago

“The Greeks were a bunch of woke gays anyway, good riddance” is what a Republican might say if they knew the Greeks invented democracy.

anarchy79, 18 days ago

Compare how and why people cheer for sports teams. If you’re affiliated you will support any statement in favor of the team, while ignoring, suppressing, or attacking any statements to the contrary.

You won’t debate a Trump troll out of supporting Trump, because it’s about belonging to a group and showing loyalty regardless of facts. Honestly I’m not surprised he’s doing so well, consider how techy most of us are and still get overwhelmed by what the Internet is shaping up to be. If you’re in your 50’s from a poor rural area, what chance have you got to stand against weaponized online propaganda?

We are all like this, by the way. The inclination to blind affiliation with groups is the result of very deep, very old, very well studied cognitive structures and behaviors.

Here’s some introductory reading that might fundamentally change how you perceive people’s participation in groups:

thedecisionlab.com/reference-guide/…/conformity
Sherif’s autokinetic experiment - if enough people around you believe something, you’ll soon believe it too

www.simplypsychology.org/asch-conformity.html
A similar experiment performed by Solomon Asch

www.simplypsychology.org/robbers-cave.html
The Robber’s Cave experiment - arbitrarily divide a group into two, and watch the inevitable descent into inter-group conflict (hopeful note: if you make the groups try to overcome a common obstacle, fighting goes away)

Leon Festinger’s Cognitive Dissonance Tests - This is an interesting one as well, here’s the idea:

Experiment: Infiltrating a doomsday cult before, during, and after the date of their supposed apocalypse, Festinger and his fellow scientists noted that instead of losing faith, members doubled-down on their beliefs after the ‘end times’ came and went — eventually believing that their work saved the world.

Conclusion: When we have two (or more) incompatible thoughts, we adjust them to minimize internal conflict, what Festinger called ‘cognitive dissonance’ — a term that explains the mind state of those unwilling to accept information that conflicts against their belief.

anarchy79, 18 days ago

“status quo”

anarchy79, 18 days ago

“The sooner we sink this ship, the sooner we can build our own where we are the captains!”

anarchy79, 18 days ago

I’m not sure I follow, are you claiming that no political parties in liberal democracies are against violence on college protesters?

anarchy79, 18 days ago

Imagine if in this metaphor, the captain of the ship was swapped out every four years, with their completely own itinerary.

anarchy79, 18 days ago

“Vote for me or the other guy will eat your children to death” is closer to what’s going on.

(“vote for me instead, I will only eat the tallest of your children!”)

anarchy79, 18 days ago

“Look, in a democracy we also have to give a platform to the people who want to abolish it”

anarchy79, 18 days ago

This is how you combat bullshit like a pro- “don’t answer the question you get, answer the question you wish you had gotten”.

anarchy79, 18 days ago

This guy plugs holes.

anarchy79, 18 days ago

Current state of the world: “Should we build another boat, or should we take the train instead?”

anarchy79, 18 days ago

Joke’s on you, they were already depressed!

anarchy79, 18 days ago

Like these for example:

<span style="color:#323232;">* Lowest unemployment numbers since 1969, economy seeing strong growth in GTP, wages, stock market returns, household net worth
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Expanded overtime guarantees for millions
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Established the Office of Gun Violence Prevention awarding $286 million towards student mental health
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Made transition to green electricity a priority and accelerating approval of renewable energy projects
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Sealed nationwide Infrastructure deal for $1.2 trillion for roads, waterlines, broadband networks, airports, et c
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Opened for over-the-counter birth control pill (in stores in 2024)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Issued a sweeping crackdown on junk fees and overdraft charges from banks
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Effected anti-redlining frameworks preventing discriminatory mortgage lending
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Forced Chinese companies to open their books
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Issued the Inflation Reduction Act, authorizing funds to jump-start the transition of American agriculture toward less carbon-intensive practices
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Helped broker a deal to save the Colorado River
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Signed an executive order directing agencies across the government to promote competition and take on monopolies
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Loosened federal restrictions on cannabis
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Instituted penalties for college programs that trap students in debt
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Enacted the CHIPS and Science Act, offering more than $50 billion to subsidize construction of new microchip facilities in the U.S
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Aligned U.S trade policy with antitrust actions against big tech firms
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Brokered a deal to halt conflict between Rwanda and Congo to stall impending Cobalt crisis
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Released a new national cyber strategy, strengthening international cyber diplomacy, securing emerging critical technologies and taking more aggressive steps to disrupt hacking groups
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Countering China with a new alliance between Japan and South Korea
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Reinvigorating cancer research to lower death rates
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Making medication more accessible through telemedicine initiative
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Installed union-friendly allies on the NLRB board who have adopted positions that boost workers in confrontations with businesses
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Issued a national radio frequency spectrum strategy to fix 5G chaos
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Empowered federal agencies to monitor AI
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Strengthening military ties to Asian allies
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Creating a new agency to investigate cyberattacks
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Forcing airlines to pay up when flights are delayed or canceled
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Expansion of Benefits and Services for Toxic Exposed Veterans
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Stood up against Russian aggression by direct support for Ukraine
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Protected marriage rights for LGBTQ couples
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Historic student debt relief for middle-, working-class families
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* Implemented aggressive climate and environmental justice agenda
</span><span style="color:#323232;">* ...
</span>

Sources: vox.com/…/biden-trump-strong-economy-2024-inflati…politico.com/…/joe-biden-30-policy-things-you-mig…en.wikipedia.org/…/Economic_policy_of_the_Joe_Bid…. www.whitehouse.gov/therecord/edition.cnn.com/…/biden-executive-orders/

anarchy79, 18 days ago

Half the passengers want to do just that and install a captain who is hell-bent on chasing a white whale and wants to institute forced cannibalism for anyone on board with navigational skills

anarchy79, 14 days ago

I think it’s really more of the case that people feel no kinship, we’ve been programmed since birth and since basically centuries to only see ourselves as islands, working only for ourselves and to “get ours”, believing the lie that if only everyone fends for themselves then everybody will benefit in the end… Somehow.

Nothing can or will change as long as we are shackled by capitalist rule.

anarchy79, 18 days ago

“The whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost if you keep it a secret!”

anarchy79, 18 days ago

They develop IC on iPhones?!!

anarchy79, 18 days ago

Not the first totalitarian government people have felt like that about…

anarchy79, 2 months ago

MRGA, fuck yeah

anarchy79, 2 months ago

Kill the beast while it’s weak.

anarchy79, 2 months ago

Gremlins. Still freaks me out.

anarchy79, 2 months ago

Watching Alien at any age is a borderline traumatic event.

anarchy79, 2 months ago

Not a film, but I read Cormac McCarthys The Road at 25, and it threw me into a deep depression from which I never fully recovered.