Salah

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[–] Salah@hexbear.net 0 points 4 days ago

I’m frustrated I read the whole post not realising it’s AI because it so obviously is. I kept getting confused by the contradictions in the text, the vague references to other posts/comments and the factual inconsistencies. L.W is still a zionist shithole though, it always has been.

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That’s true, but I think we shouldn’t belittle the restrictions that exist in a liberal society. It’s not just a social bias, it’s ideology pushed onto us by government and other financiers. Just ask any Palestinian scholar about it.

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Science in the US is already ideology driven. It’s just that it’s currently driven by liberal ideology which current scientists agree with. When you study in the sciences in the US and its vassals, there is a (self-)selection process. If you clash with the leading ideology you will either not be selected for phd positions, your research will not be funded or you decide to leave the field.

This is one of the main reasons why most high positions in science are occupied by cis white men. Most marginalised people will at some point have moral disagreements with the status quo and they get punished harshly for it.

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why are you scared of Islam or hostile towards it?

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

I like this framing, but I wonder how would that work for structures that are more complex? Like institutional racism or corruption?

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

I hope you get good responses outside of using AI. Personally I became so frustrated with how useless search engines have become that I caved and started using deepseek to search for sources. I use it like I would use a search engine, but can be more descriptive about what sort of source I’m looking for.

I also more frequently use the search option of different websites and news outlets from which I know they will cover certain topics well.

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 0 points 3 weeks ago

Ironic for the US to have an issue with that.

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I just hate these fantasy scenarios as if it really matters who’s president. It’s annoying enough when liberals do it. From leftists I hope that they focus on the actual powers behind these atrocities which is not the president. I know you’re being ironic and it’s not a big deal, I just felt the need to voice my frustration. Though even ironically posting like that is doing free work for the libs who want to make every political conversation be about presidential elections.

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 0 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

I don’t think this is the discussion to have at this moment

 

I’m mostly interested in a general overview on the bounds we know of on what topics can be (de)politicised (without immediate societal collapse), how its status of politicisation in different societies came to be, and what the effects of (de)politicisation of certain topics are on the political engagement of the general public.

Would love to know people’s thoughts as well on this topic.

For example: in my liberal education I learned that political engagement in the Soviet Union was different than in current liberal democracies. It was more focused on a local and community level rather than a national one. Supposedly because that’s where people had more influence compared to in liberal democracies, where national elections grab the attention of a large part of the population and direct their energy to national issues. As I said, I learned about the Soviet Union in liberal education so I don’t fully trust this analysis to be true without more reliable backing. I would love to learn more.

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

There’s no need to sacrifice yourself, such actions rarely lead to good results. Everyone has their own way to contribute, but historically some sort of organizing effort has always been necessary for regular people to wield power over their rulers. Organizing takes different shapes depending on your goal. But suppose your goal is to disrupt the US war machine.

Look for small ways in which you might be part of or adjacent to this machine. Does your workplace work with arms manufacturers or other infrastructure used in warfare? Is there a heavily complicit company in or near your neighbourhood? Does your city/municipality have contracts with complicit companies? These are all things you can organise against. A campaign starts with awareness. Stand with a sign next to a company building and talk to workers about how their employer is contributing to mass murder. Or organize a protest. Or do something else that better fits your qualities.

Maybe set up a petition and build your campaign around that. Talk to people in your environment to agitate them. Educate yourself so you can educate others. After and during the awareness stage you start to recruit other people who want to take action. Together you can build a plan to achieve your goals. This plan should create the pressure necessary to change policy or supply chains either through a worker strike, direct action, mass mobilisation or maybe something else.

Read about organizing tactics from the book secrets of a successful organizer (or another book about the topic)

There are so many ways in which you can organize it’s impossible for me to tell you what’s best for you to do. It all depends on your qualities and your surroundings. But you can at least try, and learn from your experience. No one person can change the current course of the US. The threat of mass organization is the only thing that scares the people in power into moving at least a little bit towards the demands of the people they rule over.

This answer is not super coherent since it’s such a broad topic but I just want to impress upon you that being a citizen of the world means to engage with the world and how it impacts you and how you impact it. With enough people you can topple governments, but with less you can still significantly impact supply chains and/or policy. If you do nothing we are guaranteed to lose. If we all do something and coordinate, we can collectively wield more power than the people in charge.

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Do you actually care, that your labour and tax are used to commit the gravest horrors onto other people, or do you just pretend to care for virtue signaling? If it’s the former then there is much more you can do than vote every few years.

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

The same discussion with long covid where I live. There’s ‘no proof’ that it can be chronic so government denies most requests for disability assistance. They even tried to change the name to ‘post covid’ to try to obscure the chronic aspect that’s implied from the word ‘long’.

 

For me Ive found replacement activities like painting to do instead when I’m tired and get back from work with no brain capacity left. And whenever I notice that my phone use habits are starting to become much too dominant I take a week to decouple. So I turn it off and leave it at home as much as possible to break my habits. This takes some mental energy so it’s only possible in periods where I have the energy to spend.

I also intently buy small phones because it makes them less attractive to use in my experience. It’s unfortunate that small phones are seemingly disappearing from the market.

 

Climate activists are usually very against nuclear energy and I don’t think I understand why. Does anyone know?

Arguments I’m somewhat familiar with:

  • sometimes it’s used as a cover for developing nuclear weapons
  • nuclear waste is very bad for living things.

What are the main historical moral arguments?

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Hello (hexbear.net)
 

I’m Salah, any more info would be compromising to my identity so I’ll leave it at that 😎

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