• PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 hours ago

    the whole idea that discussing politics is lame is a neoliberal brainworm.

    Don’t discuss politics with your family, just enjoy the time! — okay weird but sure

    Don’t talk politics with your friends — what the hell why not

    No politics at work — that’s a deeply political place wtf are we doing

    • Gladaed@feddit.org
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      1 hour ago

      Don’t yell about politics in the work place. Just complaining about straw men is tiring.

    • Limerance@piefed.social
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      3 hours ago

      The cranky unhappy politics wonk endlessly droning on about the evils of the world are a drain on everyone else’s joy.

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        Politics means the dealings of the city. It means the people and their lives. We’ve been conditioned to immediately believe political is equal to electoralism, which is a lie.

        Politics is unionizing, it’s feeding your neighbors, it’s organizing community gardens and sing alongs, it’s starting a mutual aid network to ensure every need is met. It’s all these and million more things.

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    9 hours ago

    Is this not a victim-blaming meme telling me to shut up and stay at home? The last domino is going to hit the rabbit.

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      7 hours ago

      I think it’s more something like if you don’t confront bigotry it’ll grow and eventually crush you.

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        Ah, OK I see that. I thought it also looked a bit like it would apply to the downward slope of social media and polarization of everyone into hate-filled groups where “no one is wrong.”

        Thanks for explaining your perspective!

      • Sir. Haxalot@nord.red
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        7 hours ago

        Yeah, my first thought was that it’s a reference to how facism has grown by allowing people to discuss it in anonymous echo chambers.

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            4 hours ago

            You’re here. A fascist from a fascist server, interacting with the rest of us, how the fuck is this therefore an echo chamber?

            Just because your dumb takes aren’t tolerated by the majority of Lemmy users doesn’t mean it’s an echo chamber.

            In the context of news media and social media, an echo chamber is an environment or ecosystem in which participants encounter beliefs that amplify or reinforce their preexisting beliefs by communication and repetition inside a closed system and insulated from rebuttal.[2][3][4] The echo chambers function by circulating existing views without encountering opposing views, potentially leading to three cognitive biases

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media)

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Butterfly: a rectangular playing piece with dots indicating the numbers to match.

      Not to be confused with Dominoes, which is, of course, a pizza place.