• Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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          1 year ago

          Arguably, it already is barbarism. But many times before, there have been times as barbaric or more than this, and at a certain point even people in reactionary areas like Bavaria, in the most impoverished rural areas of the world like say 1930s China, in Latin American barrios and indeed even disadvantaged communities inside of the centers of capital and empire have eventually said enough’s enough and at least attempted to throw off their shackles - or even earlier, if you count the various medieval and early modern era revolts by peasants, indigenous people, etc.

          Things are bleak now, and they might get bleaker, but giving into depressive fatalism is not the solution.

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          I’m gonna have to go to Poland again next week, that’s gonna be psychic damage to look forward to.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      The strongest propaganda apparatus on the planet truly is something horrifying to behold, because it spawned us smug, condescending, confidently wrong internet losers who are almost impossible to deprogram.

      It’s a lot easier for “nonpolitical” consumers to nod along to all of the totally-not-role-models-but-yes-they-are-role-models on their screens and LARP as the Adults In The Room who Don’t Give A Fuck (compassion is for fools and weaklings, after all!) and Make The Hard Decisions (profitable ones, too) to Get Shit Done (atrocities).