That’s a good point, what do we choose to feed ourselves? There’s massive industry built around people’s food diets and almost no attention paid to what our media diets are like and what they’re doing to us.

I think at the end of the day we all need to really understand how maliable our brains are and how easily we can change the way we think just because of the stuff we’re watching or listening to, and this has been an unpopular topic for a long time because it makes people worry that what they enjoy might not be good for them, but I think as long as we stay aware and keep our diet varied enough we probably will do a lot better than people who just mindlessly draw emotions from people shouting on Twitch streams all week long.

This is basically all of media now, there is no such thing as objective media of any kind anymore, everything produced is meant to pander to some group or another.

Even if we accept the passing of the internet, we have to also understand that this is how it’s going to be always, forever. Unless social attitudes broadly change, this is just what the world is going to do with recordable content from now until eternity.

Everything you see, no matter your political ideology or attitude or values, is cultivated and selected just for you to reinforce your beliefs even if that reinforcement is inaccurate.

A few of you reading this are going to frown and downvote and roll your eyes, and to this I warn you: the more you think you’re outside of this system, or the more you think you’re invulnerable to manipulation… the more vulnerable you really are.

This was the price for making comedy legal, it made not-crime into crime.

Stop demanding that we be polite to them

This is entirely projection about what I said, I am not a liberal nor advocating for being “polite” I am simply warning you that these “All X’s are pedophiles” is dangerous rhetoric that is just black-and-white as their rhetoric so beware. There are very good reasons we need to be smarter than them. Re-read what I said exactly and take a breather. I know how frustrating it is, but this isn’t a tit-for-tat game or we end up in ruin and violence and without a “good guy” side to fall back on.

Whatever happens, we still have to live next to millions and millions of people who you might label so casually so we need better solutions and not dividing lines. If Trump dies tomorrow, all of these people will be desperate for a new narrative, and we can USE that energy to push them in the right direction and get actual movement to attack capital… or we can get vindictive and stuck in the trenches arguing about fucking words with a group of people who won’t remember your argument tomorrow. Let’s be smart.

History should be a very glaring example of how this can go bad if you think with your feelings instead of thinking about your feelings.

Most MAGA are just dumbfucks who would change their “values” 180-degrees if given the right emotional narrative to follow, they’re literally just children themselves, clad in machismo and vile rhetoric.

The evil pedo-aligned people who need to be targeted (with legal repercussions) are the grifters and pipers all over youtube, twitter, cable news and radio.

We really need to be careful about this "kill all pedos’ narrative while living in a climate where they are working feverishly to label basically anyone they don’t like but especially LGBTQ+ people as “pedophiles.”

Some of their major exports are coffee, cocoa, and gold, oil, sugar, beans, vanilla, tea and fish products.

Other than maybe some brands of coffee, you won’t be able to source any of this stuff, when talking international exports like this, these are goods going directly to manufactures all over the world for packaging and processing and reselling. It’s just something that sounds good on paper, but in reality I doubt there are any vanilla extract factory CEO’s reading Lemmy right now and suddenly standing up in their chair in shock.

boycott Uganda

I’ll stop going there immediately.

Its got to be deliberate.

It is, they want to do what every gaming company wants to do, have a huge and popular streaming platform with games hosted on their servers so that people don’t own games or hardware, they just pay an ever-increasing monthly subscription fee. (plus many, many extra surcharges, in-game upgrades and cosmetics and virtual collectables, etc.)

“You will own nothing and be happy” is going to be the motto of every electronic media company for the next several decades. Hope you didn’t like peer-to-peer gaming and having good ping in competitive gaming.

They’re going to go all-in on paid streaming gaming services, like every major company for the next thousand years.

You will own nothing and be happy.

They do not care, none of this is about “fairness” nor will lead to any embarrassment on their part, they WANT to shame cis women who aren’t “pretty enough” by their cartoonish mara-lago standards, they WANT to investigate women’s genitals and make women feel violated. If they could, they would have groups of men molesting girls and women outside every bathroom in the USA. This was never about actual safety of anyone, it’s always been about reinforcing control and power.

lawmaker

guilty of treason

Paraphrasing the words of Mark Carney at an absolutely bonkers world financial summit recently, the illusion of liberal rule-of-law is over.

Lawmakers are above the law. We stopped caring if they represented our actual values so we started letting criminals run the prison.

Interracial Marriage too, easy-peasy to set up: “We have intelligence reports that REALLY BAD TERRORISTS are using marriage to immigrate into the USA, so we are now investigating every marriage between native citizens (whites) and people of other nationality (not white) and invalidating marriage certificates so we can kick these baby-eating monsters out of the country!”

Smartphones have been worse for people by a thousand miles.

At least lead can be taken out of the system with enough advocacy and effort. How do you get people to stop wanting to see interesting things? How do you get people to regrow their attention spans?

They are the same people who have real tangible stakes in the media, the media is just them also. They are the media.

I am upset that there are absolutely no regulations and checks on corporate expansion or rules about neutrality in informative media.

Wait, a man’s laughter is illegal? I THOUGHT THEY MADE COMEDY LEGAL AGAIN

It’s also illegal to rape kids, but here we are in 2025.

Having delved a little into that lore myself out of the same curiosity I learned that it’s actually a very appealing temptation in the warhammer 40k lore, it’s a promise of painless immortality and a perpetual celebration of the cycle of life and death. You don’t mind that you become a rotten, bloated monster filled with bugs… because you feel great and feel the warm embrace of a divine being that you know you will become a part of one day. It’s like distilled religion, with all the body-horror that goes with religion amped up to eleven.

Also, the people who are convinced to pledge their perpetual loyalty are usually victims of Nurgle’s own plagues and horrific diseases so the people who succumb are a bit “motivated” to make the pain and suffering end.

As with everything in the franchise, there is a direct allegory here to the way religions or imperialist ideologies spread, cause direct, targeted harm to the people, and then forces those people to either be consumed by the movement that is harming them or be killed.

And it will go in history studies the same was as the civil rights pictures. We are seeing history happening and tend to forget it because so much of it is SO dumb.

Every neurodivergent in Lemmy wants to chime in with correct biological facts despite it completely undermining the context of the message.

Context.