That fucking sign brings me joy 😂

Hey, happy lemmy anniversary, I’m glad you’re here! ❤️

I need to learn more about anarchism as a political philosophy, I have little grasp of like, what it actually means in practice

*sorry for the ridiculously long wall of text, I care a lot about this subject and my mental health is in the gutter so I don’t really have the energy to edit it down

Please don’t condecend to me just because I don’t agree with you, I’m quite familiar with Nazi history. Presuming my ignorance solely on the grounds that I don’t share your perspective is pretty frustrating and unpleasant to be on the receiving end of. And to be very clear, I was saying violence against hateful people radicalizes more nazis.

I expect you don’t agree, and that’s okay. Frankly I at some point there will be no other option but violence, but when you listen to people who has left hate groups like white nationalist or neo-nazi organizations, they’ll tell you very explicitly that the experiences that make it easy to stay stuck in their hatred and dragged them into that worldview in the first place are the ones where they can justify their sense of persecution. To be even more clear, I do believe nazis deserve violence or death, but I’m a lot more interested in what gets us out of this mess than I am in what constitutes appropriate punishment.

This is a long ass video but I feel it’s worth watching if this is a subject you care about. Its an account of a former neo-nazi, and he speaks very candidly about how his experiences receiving (deserved) violence for his hateful views radicalized him and are what perpetuated and sustained his hate. Though he also talks about a lot more than that, and it’s useful to know your enemy whether you see things the same way I do or not. Today he works for a nonprofit that helps support families with deradicalizing violent extremists like neonazis and incels. https://youtu.be/d-g3Z8IWsdU

Violence and persecution is what hate feeds on. The more you allow them to feel like victims the more people they will draw in, and I honestly don’t know what the best approach is, I think the issue needs a lot of research, that we will probably never get, or at least won’t have available in trying to fix the fucked up hole America is slipping into, and that the rest of the world seems to be drifting towards along with it.

Maybe violently culling anyone who advocates hate really is the only way to stop the proliferation of that hate one it reaches a critical mass. And if that’s the case, what amount of a population is that critical mass?

I’m well aware of how the Nazis came to power. What I’m saying is I worry violence in response to that process may just pour accelerant on that growing fire.

And yes, I know they targeted trans people, though it seems strange to me to call out only trans people as where it started? Do you have sources where I could read more about that? Or do you just mean trans folks were amoung the wide range of minorities that were initially targeted, and are mentioning them because they’re one of the main minority scapegoats of modern fascism? And for context, I’m gender queer. I’m amab, take estrogen, have boobs, and I sit down to pee. Nazis would kill me for existing.

I appreciate the book recommendation, I haven’t read it. I appreciate that you care and want to see us survive this whole mess. I hope it’s clear that I do also.

Firefox isn’t a search engine…? I’m talking about Brave search, not the browser, I have exactly zero reasons to use Brave browser lol 😅

Brave the company sucks, but most of the alternative/private search engines give poor results and/or are just a meta search. Brave search performs more competitively with google than most (thank you google for making that easier every passing day), and isn’t dependent on Google or Microsoft continuing to allow other engines to use their results.

From what I understand kagi has some issues too, but not as much baggage as brave has. Brave has a lot 😅. But Kagi and Brave will often appeal to different people, since Brave is free and Kagi is a subscription with a monthly quota of available searches

I think brave (*search) let’s you do the same thing with their goggles feature which let’s users make custom search filters. I could be mistaken though

(and yes I know Brave as a company comes with baggage. Pretty much all of the search options do unfortunately :/)

Edit: I’m taking specifically about Brave search. I cant see any reason I’d ever want to use Brave browser frankly.

I’ve always had a lot of respect for Penn’s sincere “individual freedoms as long as they don’t infringe on the individual freedoms of others” brand of libertarinism that advocated still caring about other people, and isn’t about just deferring to corporations

I’m not surprised he no longer identifies with libertarianism, given what it’s increasingly come to mean. I may not look at the world exactly the same as him or always agree with him but people with sincere principles always have my respect.

The way he and Teller made a show to basically showcase other magicians is super cool. If you look up Penn & Teller: Fool Us on YouTube you’ll see tons of magicians publishing their segments on the show on their personal channels, which must mean Penn and Teller negotiated that performers would have rights to their own performances and can publish them themselves.

Thats fucking cool. (Also a great show, it makes a great YouTube binge!)

I know this is a wildly unpopular sentiment, but the more I’ve come to understand about how this kind of hate works, the more apparent it’s become that this is exactly what it feeds on.

I don’t know what will solve the current crisis we’re living through, but the kind of violence this sticker is talking about just radocalizes people and justifies the feelings of persecution that hatred NEEDS in order to sustain itself.

I’m honestly still trying to figure out what kind of solution at can save us. But I’m pretty confident this isn’t it. I think this just digs the hole deeper, and accelerates the decent into full blown fascism :(

Oh neat, I did miss that!

What is *arrs?

I think there needs to be one for lactose tolerant and intolerant people. Same exact design.