skogens_ro

You gotta start killing people dude. History shows that's how you get your way.

Just look at how the reddit protest ended. Once threatened with losing their status as mods, they all caved.

Money and power are powerful motivators, and the mods work for free.

Sounds like they've successfully created a safe little echochamber. Wasn't that the point?

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Edit: thank you for the gold, kind dear gentlesir or gentlemadame.

Edit2: wow I never expected to wake up to so many awards, who'd knew my most updooted comment would be about this?

You are the only one who decides what gives your life meaning, and you decide what counts as "waste". If your meaning is keeping up with people who have achieved big goals without working hard to achieve big goals of your own, you'll probably end up envious and miserable. A lot of people like doing that so you've got plenty of company to wallow in your misery with if that's what you want to do.

I'd suggest finding another form of meaning.

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man"

Reading reddit and now kbin and lemmy about stories like this one makes it easy to see how socialist regimes so often turn to authoritarianism.

Followed. Don't let me down!

I disagree it's a media thing. It has been covered. It's just not an unusual story so people don't share it as much.

Now billionaires dying on a submarine will get shared plenty. People love those stories. So naturally, you'll see more about it.

You're kidding yourself if you think it's a negotiation tactic. When the revolution comes, such revisionism will get you executed by true believers.

But at least you're useful to them for the time being. Someone needs to radicalise the people who will carry out the purges.

I dislike seeing radicals joke about murdering their enemies. It dehumanises them which helps extremism takes hold.

Of course that is the point of such jokes, but you shouldn't be surprised if people call you out on it.

Let's demonise a subset of the population and joke about murdering them just like my ideological comrades did in the 20th century! Look how provocative I'm being.