Me opening lemmy
Is that like breaching the 5th wall?
I just scrolled past three depressing posts because I didn’t want to deal with it this early and clicked a comic instead, only to have it be this comic.
This is the way to do it though. These posts are meant to make you feel a certain way, that’s it. Lemmy is starting to fall into similar traps reddit did, with certain accounts doing all the heavy lifting on posting, and so now we have people or entities using this to basically decide how the regular Joe schmo (i.e. me) should feel. And we often see editorialized titles, cherry picked info from articles, and obviously biased sources.
Despite my cynical view on the information presented, I am generally in agreement with most of it, but I do feel it’s presented in such a way to foster anger and sadness among the readers, and that just makes me question motivation. Information should be presented and the reader should come to their own conclusions, and it is not what happens.
Where Lemmy excels, at least for now, is that there is still some discourse. Posts that are negatively voted are not disappeared into obscurity as they are on Reddit. We haven’t yet sunk to having a hive mind opinion, but I don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility, and it’s probably likely it occurs, because, like I said, I think we’ve already got bots and entities posting like they’re individuals.
This has been me every day for like… Years now.
Making good use of their time left.
Your username is [deleted] or his account is really deleted?
Display name in settings to customize, you can use just about any characters and I think even emojies.
That’s too funny
Yeah, might as well go enjoy a beer or something before the nukes hit.
I remember my corded kitchen phone and newspapers
you mean the leash and the whopper?
corded phones is exactly why parents knew what was going on with their kids more than they do now.
news papers were more than just knowledge, they were judge jury and executioner. anyone who got smacked across the face with a rolled up news paper knew exactly why they were getting smacked.
Back when the world made a little more sense
Finally.
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If only. Our apocalypse is so slow and boring and stupid.
Lenny Bruce is not afraid
Team by team reporters baffled, Trump, tethered, cropped
I’m in this comic and I don’t like it.
I dissaccoiate so hard that I as I buy hats for dogs am I thinking to myself “It’s the end of the world tomorrow.”
Removed by mod
“Thank god, I was getting tired of waiting!”
pfb?
Perry fible bellowship
no its ferry pello bibleship you dumbass
I mean, it is like this but it doesn’t HAVE to be.
If you all just got off the internet and started talking to each other more and making your own future one worth living and fighting for, you wouldn’t all be so apathetic and even relieved at the idea of the end of everything. We probably also wouldn’t have death-squads killing innocent people on our streets and our only stable political alliances being dissolved around us.
I don’t get this great-filter scenario. Where everyone just gets so socially anxious and sad about stupid shit that we just let the world die. It’s fucking nuts.
Or I could read the comics and be happy for a minute.
What about after that minute passes.
Just keep reading comics. Problem solved.
The society which we unfortunately exist within has been built for the sole intent of keeping people disconnected and distrustful of each other.
We let the ruling class destroy our communities and replace it with commodities.
And just to point out. Me and you are no better. Here we are, on the Internet bitching instead of talking with our communities. But here is the thing, I have tried talking with mine. Unfortunately, they are a bunch of MAGA troglodytes who blindly support this country and its current administration. So, here I am participating in a community that is at least somewhat like minded to distract myself from the fact I live in a community that would happily string me up for not falling in line.
I have tried talking with mine. Unfortunately, they are a bunch of MAGA troglodytes who blindly support this country and its current administration
I did have a lot more success with mine. They were also largely right-wing middle-class zombies stuck on fox news, but with the power of yard sales and asking a lot of questions, I found connection with a few of them.
The idea is, we’re not trying to change the world. We’re just trying to be that “one good one” to at least one conservative/liberal who thinks in stereotypes and cartoon pictures of the world. When I say “I found connection” I also don’t mean I made great friends, but rather I met people and were invited into their lives and had new perspectives of why they were stuck and how to empathize with their ignorance and stilted desires for a better world, and I used my human ability to think and reason to find ways to care about them as humans without immediately just trying to change them, which drives people away. We as a species can remove a spider from our home safely, we can preserve wetlands with crocodiles, we can certainly find compassion for local dumbasses who just never had curiosity sparked in them, if nothing else so they know your name, so they know you’re a person deserving of life, not a 2-dimensional cut-out of some enemy idea. So when the squads start driving up and down our streets people work harder to take care of each other.
I wouldn’t tell people to go befriend someone who hates them for their skin color or accent (although some people are exceptional even at that) but I think if we humanized ourselves more to the people we would rather avoid, it is breaching a gap that’s growing wider and more dangerous by the day.
Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
