While I hate the statues and flags and everything they stand for, how well did that fight help us? Where are we now?

The nation is falling because people can’t figure out where to focus efforts because you all get distracted by emotional appeals and straw tigers and little fiddly bullshit while in the background corporations empowered an army of ravaging orcs who are now in control of the mightiest nation on Earth, laughing at our failed efforts to mobilize towards policy, community and representation, the things that would have prevented this.

I mean, it doesn’t matter now. The whole thing is a footnote in America’s slide into fascism and eventual fall of democracy. But sure, at least we successfully fought a few symbols.

Any amount of time I spend arguing with hysterical leftists about this point just fuels the machine, so I’m not replying nor will I see replies.

This is all so stupid and tragic and you all need to actually do something instead of attacking some rando on Lemmy who thinks we’re not fighting the right fights. I mean, it’s pretty evident we’re not fighting the right fights BECAUSE WE FUCKING LOST EVERYTHING AND ARE STILL BICKERING ON SAFESPACE BUBBLES LIKE THIS.

It’s more like the wealthy leveraged the poorly educated and mentally deficient segment of society and pit them against everyone else.

It’s not like the left was getting provoked to pass legislation to like, “end redneck culture” or anything (not counting the places they fell for bait like the southern flag and statue distractions) But the the left broadly has been pushing back against capital for decades and making progress, why should we be at all surprised they raised an army in self-defense?

The conservative right is not an even split in this country, there are far less of them than leftists or liberals. They do NOT represent the majority, but again, they leveraged the decency, complacency and naivety of the left to get a foothold into american discourse that will never dislodged because now most people do think the right is some giant monolith. They’re like, less than 20% of the population, and out of that 20% most of them are literally so dim that they would change flags and banners to some new issue tomorrow if led properly. They’re a small band of orcs and we’ve been treating them like a mighty empire of intellectual elves.

Wat

it’s not longer a culture war, but an actual war.

Literally how every war ever started.

Can’t tell if the pic is AI or not, but your point stands and applies to a much larger issue with the slop being generated at a death-spiral pace across the internet.

Most of the people trying to replicate “stock photos” on the cheap have no clue what the subject is about or how it should look, so if some South Tanzanian family decide to make a few bucks pumping out content with help of their local internet cafe, they can generate the most professional pictures of people doing all kinds of activities. Pictures which get picked up by someone else somewhere else who is trying to make a guide or informational content, again for a few fast bucks. And this story repeats at all levels of human society at all levels because of capitalism. Every time, something is lost, some detail missed, some cultural context glossed over, and this is how we lose human history.

And eventually, inevitably, one way or another, humans.

I hate to read any post on the internet that involves both the words “animal” and “consent.”

Human beings are inexplicable, contradictory species that don’t know how to view the world through anything other than our momentary feelings about things, and the universe suffers for it.

Stop making it a life-goal to go 1.5 million dollars in debt to own a stucco home in a vast ocean of identical stucco homes and maybe buy some property by a small town and sacrifice the luxury of convenience and being able to get doordash whenever you want and instead have a little garden or something.

If the market decided that living in suburban hell wasn’t profitable anymore, they would stop paving over vast tracts of land to unroll a sea of terracotta roofs as far as you can see like a rolling ocean of crippling debt and HOA fines.

I hope you’re copying and pasting this to every other user who thought your comment was inexplicable or I will know you’re just sore.

Your phrasing didn’t sound ironic at all, review the puzzled replies and rethink your notions of how well tone travels over text messages.

biblical torture, not medieval!

So like, the same but also involving incest or donkey semen or something?

Keep trying, I’m done.

Are you not a native english speaker?

Aha, so you ARE their alt hahaha thank you for making it make sense

You misunderstand, the comment may or may not have been a joke, it wasn’t funny, it was just weird, but everyone made it INTO a joke. NOW we’re all laughing, because of the replies.

You’re the one too intense and taking this too seriously, unless your an alt of the person who used the weird word “ghoulish” to describe erotic disney fan art, then I guess I understand the irritation at people making the best of a weird moment.

This has been another episode of “over-explaining shit until it stops being funny and becomes contentious because one goddamn person can’t figure out what’s going on and tried to make it into an issue.”

That damn movie was one of two VHS cassettes I had as a small child, the other was The Sword in the Stone. I watched them over and over and over.

As a result, my sexuality has been absolutely maimed in ways I am still untangling.

Wouldn’t trade it for anything.

You might need to take a long shower friend.

Which is exactly why they’re used on tombstones. See, the world makes sense after all!

As an American, I can’t get people in my team to standardize their email signatures with correct spelling.

Yah but what use is it for kids to say weird things if we can’t have 3000+ comment-deep debates about every possible angle of it online? This is what the internet is best for! Completely dismantling every benign situation until nobody even knows why everyone hates each other now.

Come on, you could have done better than that. I thought you were here for karma?