They probably have similar schemes to the NED to pay influencers to spread pro Russian propaganda but it’s obviously not as big of an industry as US propaganda. Overall Russia seemingly has very little influence over US politics.

He is such a sad man. Being the richest person on the planet is not enough, he needs the constant confirmation of random internet nazis.

Tech companies have been doing this for decades. Snapchat does it with the map that tracks wherever you and your friends are, google maps lets you look into your history to see which places and streets you’ve traveled.

I am of the opinion that learning to organize is much more important than having perfect politics. Read whatever theory people recommend, it’s always good to read, but you can only understand the theory if you put it to practice by organizing.

Secrets of a successful organizer is a book with all the principles you need in order to organize your workplace or community. Look for any type of friction that exists in your workplace/community and use it to agitate people and work together towards a larger goal. In this process you might meet other leftists who would be interested in meeting regularly to discuss theory and how it’s applied in your organizing.

Edit to be a bit more concrete:

Also I would actually recommend against joining any type of liberal political organisation and just join a union or find an online organisation that can provide free legal support while you organize your workplace or community (psl maybe?). I don’t know the exact context of where you live, but at least in my experience it’s a complete waste of time to join a liberal political organisation. Your time would be spent on internal politics and trying to garner votes for whatever liberal candidate they put forward. This is also a risk with joining a union but at least you could just choose to not be involved with the internal politics if they seem like a waste of time.

Thanks for writing out such elaborate explanations, I really like it.

I do have one question, when you say that sociopath and such should only be used in a medical context, does that mean that people can only use it if they are a medical professional?

I think there should be room for anyone to recognise a pattern of behaviour as sociopathic/narcissistic/etc and openly talk about it. The main question on whether or not the usage of such a word is ableist depends on if the diagnosis serves a purpose and if it’s well thought out.

This comment is really fucked up. It’s good that you’re protesting but don’t weaponise it against people who challenge Jewish supremacy in news coverage.

And just because you brought it up I will tell you that you aren’t doing enough and you shouldn’t be so smug about it when you clearly have some learning to do on zionism and jewish supremacy.

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Haha don’t worry about it. I used to do that all the time (on another account)

I don’t know if this is exactly what you’re looking for but on youtube there’s a cute 3 part series about emotions, self criticism and loneliness. It’s called Alfred and Shadow and it’s made for you specifically since the protagonists are cute owls.

I hope feel better soon, mental crises are difficult to navigate but often they are temporary. :meow-hug:

Tbf charles is the king of Australia so it would be really weird for him to be silent. Doesn’t excuse his silence on Gaza though

Wait why didn’t the zionist entity vote against

Looking forward to read about US households being forced to ration their power in order to keep the data centres alive.

What if my gay is tired and doesn’t want to leave the bed

There is a lot of misinformation on lemmy about hexbear so we like set the record straight when people talk shit like you just did. This post is also just weird, it’s clear that OP doesn’t care about the community they were banned in. Lots of lemmy communities ban people who haven’t posted in that com for bigotry, having a bad upvote/downvote ratio or clearly not aligning with the community’s values. I don’t think that’s bad practice because I’d rather see an anticommunist be banned from a communist community from the moment they out themselves as an anticommunist regardless of the community they post in, rather than waiting before they try to antagonise the communist community.

Also I don’t see this post anywhere in slop, slop consists of mostly twitter screenshots so I’m not sure why you would lie about that.

Hello I got here from the front page and as you can see (if you’re timely):

https://hexbear.net/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=Active

This post is currently at 2nd place of our front page, discounting the pinned megathreads.

Now I have provided proof of our position, will you provide proof of yours?

Therapy for autistic people is very lacking and it’s horribly ableist that experts aren’t doing enough research on developing better methods.

Knowing these Nazis walk on the same earth as me makes me feel really unsafe. Imagine if these Nazis were walking on your land and trying to steal more… Actual horror.

When growing a movement you never start by trying to convince your largest opponents to join. You make coalitions with likely allies and slowly get more and more people to join your movement. When you reach a stable majority, even your biggest opponents will notice that they have become a minority and will feel at least a little bit of shame for their behaviour and are more likely to change sides.

Sometimes it happens that a big opponents changes sides and give a large boost to your movement, but you can only spend energy on making that happen if there is any reason that makes your op more likely to change sides. In your example there is no such reason.

This is what we all feel in complicit countries, right? The shock that whenever you try to say publicly that Palestinian kids don’t deserve to die you risk getting fired and if you protest against the atrocities you get treated as a terrorist and are lucky if the cops don’t inflict permanent damage while beating you up. A lot of people never really get used to this dynamic but we still live with it and we continue to resist.

Girl, same