What the crap is a “consumer geeta roy”?

There are ways…

Idunno, the pillory could get pretty brutal if the crowd was sufficiently riled up. It wasn’t uncommon for people to bring stones or bricks.

They absolutely could. I don’t know if there’s a good technical solution to that. Maybe requiring IP registration or some other identity verification for mods over a certain number of communities.

While I grant that there probably are a handful of people who can mod a dozen or more smaller communities and not power trip, I think they’re probably the exception to the rule, and we shouldn’t encourage it. The more communities you mod, the higher the standards should be for community engagement.

Have they tried a Lysistrata yet?

Religion is exploited by actual sociopaths to justify their behavior.

Right? What he’s saying is absolutely incredible and stirring, but it’s also useless, because it’s just words, and everyone takes it as a performance and a “viral moment” and then goes back to the next program on the dial. It’s incredibly prescient.

And can you blame them? The opposition infrastructure is so incredibly overbuilt that it’s like trying to chip away at a wall when they keep taking away your tools.

Doesn’t it come from the same place, though? At the heart of it is the idea that we have no obligation to the future because our own present comfort is all that matters.

The meta of this scene is that the network only allows it because it’s pure spectacle, and everyone goes back to their normal ignorant apathetic existences afterwards, with nothing changed.

He clarified his words after some people naturally started to take it a little too literally, but I don’t think he needed to.

Whoever that “anonymous exec” was who said they wouldn’t even start to negotiate until strikers started losing their homes deserves to be pilloried.

He clarified his words after some people naturally started to take it a little too literally, but I don’t think he needed to.

Whoever that “anonymous exec” was who said they wouldn’t even start to negotiate until strikers started losing their homes deserves to be pilloried.

Change is slowwwww, my brother. It’s rare that an actual upheaval happens and things shift noticably overnight.

It is and always has been a long, long struggle, and there is no final victory, only temporary triumphs that must be vigorously defended, because the enemy will never stop trying to take back every inch.

He’s all over this thread and his opinions are the worst.

Man, this comment is naive as hell. I’m disappointed to see so much anti-labor sentiment here. But what else should I expect from that username.

To what end? You think a user comment on Lemmy is going to change emissions policies? Direct your ire somewhere it might actually make a single bit of difference instead of just perpetuating the infighting that gets nothing done. If you’re going to waste your time on the subject, spend your thumb-taps on an email to your congressman instead.

You know why they think that. They believe, truly, that God made the world for man to exploit and use up, and anyone who says otherwise is spouting the Devil’s lies.

Some will claim to believe that it doesn’t matter one way or the other, that this is the only life we have, and that there’s no point in sacrificing our own joy for the future of others. This apathetic stance is held by many, but it is wielded as a shield and reinforced by those who believe that Earth is just a toy for us to have fun with and break, but won’t say it openly.

Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, this conflict is a religious one, and anyone who denies that is only enabling the wingnuts destroying this planet.

I feel sorry for anyone born there or brought there as a child. They didn’t choose this.

People who moved there voluntarily are another matter. I don’t have much pity for them.

The people with the real power to do anything are the people who will suffer the least. We’re going off the rails on a crazy train.