Goddess of madness and rebirth. Excrucian Strategist. Capitalised They/Them. Anarcho-Antireal theorist.
Politics also made all those civilisations.
When a society all agrees not to eat all the potatoes now, but to plant some underground and wait for them to grow more potatoes, that’s politics.
When an artist and a programmer agree to divide responsibilities and make a video game together, that’s politics.
When a discord moderator decides to force everyone to agree to a no politics rule, that’s politics.
That’s just a list of four random things I like
I don’t. Politics is the greatest strength of the human species. Ants and wolves and elephants are pretty political compared to snakes or rats, but humans are the most political animal by several orders of magnitude. It’s their capacity for political organising that made the Pyramids, and Bioshock, and put a man on the moon, and created Avatar
That’s true, but I think there’s a sizeable portion of people who want to believe that nothing has significantly changed for American minorities in the past year. They didn’t bother voting in 2024, and now they want to believe that nothing got worse for their queer and poc neighbours.
When communists talk about “controlled opposition”, this is what we mean. A billionaire goes to the DNC and says “Here’s a consultant I spent millions on to help your campaign”. The consultant has secret orders to sabotage the campaign and says “oil jobs are very important to voters, brag about all the oil jobs you’re going to create”. Kamala brags about the oil jobs and loses the support of the left. Kamala loses and ICE starts shooting people in the streets. And the left doesn’t learn because we don’t want to admit we messed up.
It’s also affecting queer and poc people more than before.
I know the youngster in one of these kinds of situations, and she is ashamed. She’s also intimidated into compliance and desperate to leave so she can have her own life.
Politics is group decision making. Culture is group decision making concerning intangible things. History is group decision making in the past.
The good version of this is in Transformers One.
Orion Pax and D-16 just lead a revolution to overthrow the state, and are deciding what to do with the old head of state. D-16 wants to kill him and burn this motherfucker to the ground. But Orion reminds him that they’re creating a new government with their actions right now, and they need to embody the principles they want to see. D-16 doesn’t want to hear it because he’s angry. Orion gets in the way, and D-16 shoots him.
And that’s how Orion Pax gets the Matrix of Leadership and becomes Optimus Prime. By thinking about the future and what sort of world his actions are creating.
Awesome, thanks!
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No mental health slurs please. The proper term is ASPD, not “psychopath”
Ed is wrong about some stuff
Being far away from chicxulub
I’m a woke mob. Probably something cool like a woke ender dragon
This is great advice, seconding everything here
Those are the instances I politically agree with and are therefore nice!
You mean they can swing much further radical centrist with tankies. They’re not leftists.
Sincerely, a user of the instance so far left we think species is an oppressive construct.
Welcome and hello from MULTIVERSE! If someone’s mean to you, check the website they’re connecting from. If they’re from lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.net, or hexbear.net, that’s a tankie and you don’t have to take their opinion seriously. If you have a few negative experiences with tankies and want to avoid them, consider moving to a website that blocks tankies.
I’m going to recommend My anarchist manifesto at https://soulism.net/. It’s not an economic or legal manifesto, but a scientific and spiritual manifesto for a new kind of worldview to apply to society and identity.
I don’t believe you.
Many inflation metrics are based on a “basket of goods”. Let’s say a basket of goods in 1990 is a month’s rent, a new TV, a month’s groceries, three outfits, some toys for the kids, a digital camera, and a porno magazine.
In 2026, people can barely afford rent and groceries. People aren’t buying a basket of goods. They’re downloading their porn for free. The comparison is flawed.