"If you prefer something that remains within liberal institutions, state-level movements to define AI as price fixing would likely have an easier time to gain popular traction since AI is widely hated at this point. This isn’t to say you can’t complain without volunteering to shoot Delta’s CEO, but just that responding to this with, “the govt isn’t doing anything which means nothing can be done,” exemplifies the sort of learned helplessness that characterizes American neoliberal politics at a street level." from my first comment ^

No, I said the exact opposite of that the first time. You are choosing to not excercise the power at your disposal, stop acting like you're powerless. Nobody is telling you to do a "lone wolf" operation, they're telling you that this work requires actual, y'know, work. That means, yes, taking time out of your responsibilities to get involved, to contribute what you can, and at the very least, not promoting defeatist and fatalist arguments that only work to appeal to apathetic and privileged liberals. No, that is not without understanding of the pervasiveness of US surveillance, and you really aren't in a position to act like you understand this more than I do after being unable to comprehend the clearest language I could apply multiple times.

You want to do nothing because it is more comfortable? That is of course allowed and encouraged by the state, and you'd be like every other lib on this site once they realize the gravity of this situation, but then you can't act entitled to tell others that this is inevitable.

I'm pretty sure that's the point of the comic. He is a cartoonishly specific type that this woman is looking for, even the absurd aspect of him having a lobster head that we are shown most people do not have (obviously), and he discards her as a prospect over potentially superficial differences in religious belief.

I'm not sure if that kind of defeatism is useful, but I understand why you'd resort to it. I think a better way to articulate this is, "the means of recourse we agree to use is no longer effective." I also really don't know if small businesses can be regularly trusted to be considerate of ethics. Under a capitalist system, this behaviour is not only allowed but encouraged since it is fundamentally an unethical way to organize.

Luigi is in the news recently, and it's worth noting that United Healthcare rolled back some aggressive claim denial policies when the safety of its executives was threatened. There are many extralegal options available in terms of sabotage or, as other users in this thread has mentioned, staging demonstrations on planes that are priced on this model to disrupt plane travel, or starting protest campaigns at corporate buildings, homes of executives, etc. If you prefer something that remains within liberal institutions, state-level movements to define AI as price fixing would likely have an easier time to gain popular traction since AI is widely hated at this point.

This isn't to say you can't complain without volunteering to shoot Delta's CEO, but just that responding to this with, "the govt isn't doing anything which means nothing can be done," exemplifies the sort of learned helplessness that characterizes American neoliberal politics at a street level.

See, this is why you do have to be so harsh to bigots; they're so easy to energize that only a few need to get through to have a negative impact.

No, dude, you can't say "duh" when you have misunderstood multiple times now. I am saying to you that you cannot rely on "electing progressives," and being vocal in your town, even if those are tools you also cannot discard. Liberals like this tend to have difficulty understanding politics outside of the institutions that they have been raised to believe are synonymous with politics.

Brian Thompson's shooting was a political act in the same way that voting, rent strike, and mutual aid foodplans are. Yes, the liberal state is going to punish you for not abiding by the sensibilities that it finds favourable, which is also a good indication that if you are not punished by it, you are doing something to its benefit. I know you are likely to be harassed, injured, or even killed by law enforcement if you challenge this system, and you should learn to accept that risk if you really want this to change. Reliance on liberals to fix their own system has failed, and there is no longer time to wait both because the conditions are worsening globally and their responses to those worsening conditions will be authoritarian, as you seem to recognize.

Yes, my comment was pointing out that the exact mentality you just expressed again is a form of learned helplessness. You do not need to defer to the US federal govt to challenge corporations; especially so if, as you said, it has dropped the veil that it was going to do anything in the first place. Don't get disappointed when Dems don't do anything themselves -- as they have shown many times -- since they are, afterall, a neoliberal party that has also participated in or facilitated the erosion of US business regulation and antitrust enforcement. You're going to be exercising your power more effectively by dedicating your time and hope not to their political victories, but getting as involved as you can in local movements that typically have much more immediate and effective results.

Where do you guys find these people?

Could you imagine? Having art and media freedom hindered by the bigoted, imperialistic values of an authoritarian regime?

Anyway, hope this doesn't effect the Battlefield series. 😔

Because "progressive" is itself a more liberal term with its basis in inevitable, linear societal development. It often functions to naturalize the continuation of a liberal-capitalist on the assertion that "progress" (which can be either the institutionalization of social justice values or economic growth, depending on the period) is inevitable except when impeded by bad actors "misusing" what is fundamentally a stratified and violent system.

Unsurprisingly then, socialism is not very compatible with this basis save for the oftem-shared (though not necessary) idealized arc of social development and the more colloquial understandings of "progress" that are more in reference to a vague sense of social justice and its association with the more egalitarian, collectivist politics socialists subscribe to. Since socialists are also often quite mired in the linguistic specificities of political ideologies and rhetoric (for good reason), it would also create complications where further alienation of this word from its liberal use while maintaining its underlying political and social meanings could put socialist values even more at risk at appropriation by "progressive" liberal thinkers or politicians.

What you're describing is exactly that, the process by which liberals appropriate potentially challenging ideals and politics into their logical frameworks and effectively disarm dissenting movements by forcing them to integrate liberal values into their talking points if they wish to negotiate at least a marginally "better" chance at the adoption of their politics. We are living in the consequences of this when Democrats can claim ownership over queer and anti-racist politics while they consistently erode the rights and securities that those groups gained through more radical and disruptive politics than what is currently tolerated by them.The current wave of trans genocide in the US is very much a consequence of the liberal adoption of queer rights and social justice into their political rhetoric and platforms performatively, and therefore removed from the fundamentally anti-capitalist, anti-liberalism elements of anti-heteronormativity and anti-patriarchy.

What you're talking about may seem to make sense intuitively --adjust the language to something with less propaganda baggage -- but the problem is that this has failed multiple times in less than a century, and "Americanized Socialism" is already something Democrats have established when they argue that basic welfare liberal policies are somehow "leftist" policies. Since we all must be conscious of the coming genocides liberals 100% intend to commit in response to climate change, it is even harder to argue we have time to do anything else but clearly delineate their politics from what must be done in reality.

See, I understand the sentiment, but then I also know many people who use terms like "tankie" also wouldn't be super chill about anti-imperialism in any way related to abolishing the EU, US, Canada, Australia, etc. Not that is necessarily the case, but hardly worth focusing on "hypocrisy" without consistency.

You all for ending Canada or the US?

I think this is a really good start here. Lemmy is mostly populated by early- to late-middle-aged men in STEM fields, so it makes sense why many of the comments are focused on asserting how much better they are at parenting than actually talking about what the main topic is, which is how do we process this kind of situation. It's true that the reality of our society means that people who are legally adults are expected and, really, forced to be responsible for themselves whether or not they are prepared even if just by merit that nobody is guaranteed the material security to take care of all their kids after that point. Many of us find a way and find more lessond of use to ourselves for having done so, so it isn't very reasonable to only focus on these parents, though they do indeed seem like bad parents.

What you and most other people here have missed is the ableism element in this. This is very possibly an autistic person, and our society is extremely hostile even to well-equipped autistic people who have a reliable support network. Everyone here seems agreed that this ought not happen, but many if not most of you have chosen to go the route of finding individualized moral liability rather than identifying how this fits into a system where anyone is in this situation against their will.

Even if the guy was merely parented poorly, or is just a lazy bum, or disabled to the point of needing this kind of care, we should always be thinking about the fact that nobody should be fearing for their life because they don't know how to get a job or take care of themselves.

I have certainly seen more posts like this than the posts it references, of which I could recall none

I'm yet to see any really without seeking them out

Ahh I see

Huh, is there a reason you went with iode instead of e/OS despite the official support?

Yes, that is a very common fun fact about these particular phones. It is also the case that it is one of the only mass production phones that has support for "deGoogled" Android OS's, and therefore is unfortunately a contender for those of us who look for that. Pixels are unfortunately also the best option still.

Right, would that be the only place? I can't say I've seen any DPRK supporters like, ever. Maybe during that period where people began challenging US propaganda and understandably assumed it was all bullshit; that was like seven or eight years ago though.

But, correct about London Ontario's horrible infrastructure and city planning.

He's quite gracious, all things considered.

Is that on their version of Android or e/OS? This is the exact thing that has kept me from even coming close to purchasing one of these without handling one first.