That people watch them. I can stop myself from watching them, but all those billions of my fellow stupid people are still being influenced, and I can’t do anything about that.

I’d have to say it’s the mind control that bothers me the most. When I cut the cord to my TV way back when, it really felt like most people lived in an ersatz reality where people only did things they saw in TV commercials. Whatever they see on TV is “real” and anything that capital doesn’t have an interest in promoting to them is “weird.”

like there is a good kind

It has taken the place in people’s behaviour but it has not taken the place functionally. No doubt, you use technology to filter ads out of YouTube viewing, and one could do the same with OTA broadcasts.

Or, don’t participate in atrocity against animals.

Gay people have exactly as much money as everyone else. There are proportionately as many gay billionaires as there are gay homeless people.

Recognize is not perform.

literally russian bot farms

easy. wait.

I don’t accept that defending trans SAFETY is a losing election issue.

You’re not saying that they are disinterested, that this is an ineffective way to spend energy or something. You’re saying that it will actively drive moderate Americans to hate trans people. I think you need to look into your heart.

So you think the way to counter the Republicans using fascist tactics to demonize trans people is to not support trans people. Because if we support trans people, it will only make more people side with Republicans and attack trans people.

Fuck that. Fuck that every conceivable way.

you have to win votes from both sides.

I don’t know what you mean by this. Progressives just need people to vote. The higher the voting turnout percentage, the better progressive candidates do. Conservative voters are the last people to stop voting due to disenfranchisement, they are practically immune to it. There are not a lot of swing voters.

I’m confused by your title and responses. Was there some document somewhere that we were to read to familiarize ourselves with what you already know before we post?

Evolutionary pressures are inevitably going to turn them to using the two most effective but distinct strategies for exploiting and controlling voters that can exist. As soon as techniques more effective than, “win by allowing the voters to educate themselves and vote their conscience,” were developed, mass democracy was fucked.

can we please not weaponize “weird”. I know it’s popular right now but surely you can see how this can blow up in your face.

My dad would rather think he had a lazy, stupid, worthless kid than one struggling with mental illness, because somehow that would have been a greater reflection on him than my innate lazy, etc nature would.

Democrats, Republicans, it’s all good as long as everyone is pulling in the same direction: transferring wealth from natural, human, and government resources into corporate ownership.

They CAN’T win by swinging moderates, they have to disenfrancaise voters and discourage turnout by making us all sick of the whole fucking thing.

I guess they are too close to see it.