Hell yeah. Buy the dip! Reddit atheism comeback! “Lol fedora” won’t work this time!
In all seriousness, I am hoping we lay down some ground rules:
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No islamophobia. Don’t do the CIA’s job for them.
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Actually build a community around this beyond dunking on chuds. These MFs are pipelineable. (I mean duh, socialism was mentioned.)
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Relentlessly mock chuds and call them stupid. Don’t bother with pointing out their cruelty because people like cruel. Debunk some of this bullshit on your own channels and platforms in the most dunking way, and work to reduce hogs to little more than a caricature.
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Please, can we actually do some more good of our own this time around? Yeah, some of the r/atheism donations back in the early 2010s were kind of cringe, but that cringe was worth it to actually use this movement for good.
A lot of people don’t like cruelty. I think only talking about cruelty is not really a winning battle, but it’s still worth pointing out here and there, e.g. how abortion bans don’t really lower the number of abortions of viable fetuses, they just cause women immense suffering and sometimes death because people seek out backalley abortions or aren’t able to get proper medical attention for ectopic pregnancies, etc.
There are also sickos who love cruelty, but don’t let their loudness make you think they hold a monopoly on public opinion. There really are people who tell themselves that people aren’t being abused or don’t comprehend the real magnitude of suffering or, in some cases, genuinely are just misinformed, and it’s worth trying to help those people.
Incidentally, I don’t think it’s terribly important to do outreach to genuine sickos (which includes every reactionary public figure), but we should also encourage the more bog-standard reactionaries to develop a better outlook, which usually requires some level of empathy with the actual problems they face even as we firmly reject absurd narratives they parrot (e.g. “Do you think trans people are the reason your rent is too high?”). A lot of people on this site used to be chuds, and at least in some cases having people actually talk to them and not only abuse them was helpful in reforming.
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The religion selling point of fondling children, women being the problem, and genocidal wars just isn’t appealing anymore.
Because of woke, people no longer want to be genocidal. /j
Crap. I forgot the best part of religion! Pushing gays off roofs! Think of all the hurricanes the gays create that we’ve saved.
Why do I real comments on these videos.
“Democratic socialism, whilst not perfect is far better than all pure greed based capitalism.”
“Every EU country is living proof of that. But apparently, American conservatives don’t like cold, hard statistical evidence”
“Because Europe is not the model the US looks up to. It’s Russia and China.”
“We’re more familiar with the term “social democracy” in the Nordic countries.”
“but so then. Don’t elect people like Reagan or Trump and there won’t be a problem”
“Okay. But we need to distinguish between socialism & social democracies, which is what most European countries are. I support the latter, not the former.”
To get any kind of social policy to be popular you need to frame it as a white thing, I guess
Look, I get it. In some of these western countries I am totally fine with the framing progressivism is European and Americans are dumb stinky idiots for being far-right. If stopping the far-right requires us yanks to be left “holding the bag”. Go for it.
But please at least have SOME vigilance for fascism in your countries. If you have to bullshit people and call fascism “creeping Americanization”, so be it.
I would do a lot more, but I don’t really wanna get sent to a men prison as a trans woman who started HRT some years ago already. We never had such a luxury as being able to speak your opinion out loud, you’re not even allowed to even have Marxist literature in your book club or you have feds showing at your doorstep.
Yeah I know I’m a coward anyways I’m trying to get rid of that part of me as much as I can. I did manage to influence my family and some friends tho’
“Because Europe is not the model the US looks up to. It’s Russia and China.”
“What are we, a bunch of Asians?”Lol we have so far to go before people actually know what socialism is lol
True, it’s an opportunity to educate people, especially those living in the Nordic countries or European Socialist democracies, who are being failed by that system, so that they hopefully go further left and not right.
But what European country has soc-dems?
All of our countries are going more and more into fascism, and before that we’ve had uncontrolled neoliberalism
I know this isn’t what most people view social democracy as and that’s not what they refer to when they say the words, but it’s basically capitalism in decline/incline
From a socialist perspective it’s a move towards capitalism, because of removal of power from the workers and shift towards private property
From a capitalist perspective it’s a move towards socialism, because of regulations and mandatory welfare that take away a chunk of profits
Both want to get rid of it. So it’s probably not something that can last.
But what European country has soc-dems?
All of them, according to EU neoliberals who are lying to themselves and others.
Fair
Btw my comment is an honest question even though it’s mostly cinecal. there may still be one but I am not aware and not very knowledgable about the many EU countries’ politics
IMO European social democracy died in the 1990s, no matter what they claim they’ve all been neolib regimes since the final decline and end of the USSR.
I mean hey, I appreciate the useful idiots.
Because those things are cool as hell
is it bcs the one thing we all share is that we believe in nothing anymore?
I’m not sure what the intended meaning is here, so I’m going to just ask for clarification: do you mean that people who aren’t religious “believe in nothing”?
it was an honestly rather bad joke about the generally depressing situation in our world, sounded better in my head when i wrote it (prolly bcs i was high) sry if it sounded condescending
Oh, no problem! I’ve made my fair share of jokes which haven’t landed, no need to apologize. Thanks for clarifying!
Yeah, I get what you’re saying then
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