Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org
Nemo me impune lacessit
Voted Best Psychic Of 2026
Non-practicing intellectual
https://www.metafilter.com/user/99809
Certified freak, seven days a week.
謙虚だが弱くはない、自信に満ちているが誇りに思っていない、神秘的だが不魔法ではない
Joined Mar 2020
@futurebird @debonairetoast Wow, great story!
@brainwise @pluralistic I happened to wake up early on recycling day, and I saw that they sent the regular garbage truck instead of the recyclables truck. I think my municipality has given up on the charade.
@dave_hone You didn't bring Iszi with you?
@futurebird @Rycaut If you have the time and the know-how, then go for it. Change is part of reality. Google used to be number one, before that it was Yahoo, and before that it was Ask Jeeves or Alta Vista. At the present moment it seems like Duckduckgo is doing for Google what Mastodon did for Twitter.
@futurebird Seconding the suggestion of Duckduckgo. I only use Google for translation and GPS these days.
Put your money where your mouth is. After 9/11 I saw how the media was complicit in manufacturing consent to take away our freedoms and invade a nation that didn't do it. So I swore that I would never buy a paper or pay a cable bill again. And guess what? It wasn't that difficult because mere entertainment was never more important to me than justice and liberty. Can you do it? Are you strong enough to send a message to the enablers that you are sick of it? Is that show you love REALLY so good that you would rather watch the country go down in flames than miss an episode?
@Cdespinosa I haven't bought a paper in 10 years, and I use an ad blocker if I must click on one of their links, and I use 12ft ladder if there's a paywall. https://12ft.io/
@essjaykeys @unearth You said it better than I could have. They want us to play defense because they know that it makes us look pitiful and weak. We must ignore the urge to defend our positions, and go on the attack. Make them defend their position. Ask them Socratic questions, and if they don't or can't answer, insult them and I mean deep insults that strike the bone. You can't win a boxing match by only blocking punches, and we won't win the argument by playing defense. Always remember, their position is indefensible, so don't let them shift the Burden Of Proof. Control the narrative.
Ambulocetus
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You can't shame, surprise, or correct these conservatives (including their supporters) using gotcha moments and hypocrisy. Every single issue - you can catch the right making disingenuous arguments. They don't care. Coherence and consistency of rhetoric and action is not their goal. Power and hegemony are their goals, and hypocrisy is just one **strategy** for accomplishing it. In fact, it's become a sport for them: rack up the most points, and any opposition focused on your words will never be able to hold you accountable for your actions. Kayfabe and theatrics.
I beg everyone. We are wasting effort focusing so much on gotchas, and instead focus on **getting out the vote.** Focus on right-wing **violence, treason, tolerance of domestic terrorists, and apathy for real problems affecting middle and lower-class Americans**. Pointing out hypocrisy does almost nothing - it arguably makes it worse. The people you accuse don't care. Reactive discourse like "Trump says X, but does Y" is not a viable strategy for promoting political agendas. We need to focus on issues, and not the hypothetical positions of our opponents. Promote the bolstering of our **voting rights, climate change readiness/mitigation, infrastructure development, education, worker's rights, non-violence, and affordable healthcare**. Promote issues that affect the working class, and repeat these points often. It's a waste of effort to engage them on their talking points if they are based on false presuppositions and they care not for evidence, unless we also intentionally divert the conversation away from their dishonesty and toward the common good. We should make a concerted effort to frame them as the enemies of the common good.
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Ambulocetus
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@jlowenwrites I put this "ghost hunting" show on when a friend was visiting, and it took him much longer than you would think to catch on. https://youtu.be/IXu7tXixrtQ
@futurebird Beautiful. Makes me wonder about some of the comments on my old blog.
Nemo me impune lacessit
Voted Best Psychic Of 2026
Non-practicing intellectual
https://www.metafilter.com/user/99809
Certified freak, seven days a week.
謙虚だが弱くはない、自信に満ちているが誇りに思っていない、神秘的だが不魔法ではない
Joined Mar 2020
