Think of it like a video game HUD where there’s just text floating above a person’s head where you see all their political beliefs, including the degree of bigotry (if any), or whether or not the person believes in the use of violence to acheive polical goals, basically every little detail that would accurately depict people’s political beliefs. Your beliefs are also visible to others. This effect has 1KM radius, including people above and below you.
So, how fucked are you?
(Think of all the authorities in your area that can see your beliefs, including the beliefs regarding the recent incident…)
Not very. Most people around here are able to coexist despite having different views.
What kinda Googlebook data powers are those that know me better than I know myself?
I’m already pretty loud about my political views. At worst, I would probably get pretty irate seeing just how many fascists exist around me, tho.
Low to moderate. Lower than it would be if I wasn’t a white male, because is the world we live in.
I wish everyone could see and understand what I believe. I think it would make it so much easier to talk to people.
Why does everybody think that so many people will just straight up murder everybody who doesn’t share their politics?
Because most people on Lemmy secretly (or not secretly) wish they could murder everyone who doesn’t share their politics and are projecting this on other people.
I was sitting in the break room where I used to work and three supervisors were talking about the gun one is them had just bought and was going through the waiting period to pick it up. One of the said he should go into Chicago and shoot liberals with it and they all agreed about it adding to what he should do etc. These are fairly average people too. This was years ago, things have only gotten worse.
Because some of us have lived in places in the US where that’s pretty much been said and demonstrated before.
If you don’t feel that way, consider yourself lucky to have never lived in extremely intolerant areas of the states that use violence against people who think, look, or behave differently.
Oh I’m so fucking dead. Like, queer anarchist factory worker in Ohio dead
Hmm. You remember how congress used to round up suspected communists?
Red Scare v2: Electric Boogaloo
Universal Healthcare? Fuck I’d settle for Healthcare that works.
Just… anything I want anything good, any change possible. Obviously that makes me a ‘traitor’ to society or whatever. Why does it just keep getting worse?!
So anyway, they’d burn me at the stake.
A citizen of the world; A left leaning, anarcho syndicalist and when I’m feeling moderate, a democratic socialist. People would think the same thing they already think about me: that I’m a person that is fed up with fascist boot lickers on both “sides” of the rapidly rightward shifting Overton window.
If everyone’s political beliefs were something you could see, I actually think it would create more peace. How many people go along with a more extreme take only because they are afraid to be ostracized from their community? Odds are folks would look around and see that the world is more shades of gray than what social media tries to mold us into.
I had someone tell me I was brainwashed because I have a degree in political science. I was taken aback, but then decided to ask myself if I was. I mean, what’s the difference between being educated and being brainwashed? Is it the conclusion that you come to? Is it some physically measurable thing?
Some good questions to ask is “is the information I’m getting geared to make me feel a certain way or to inform me about something?” “Am I learning in a setting where I am afraid that to have a dissenting opinion would get me kicked out of my community?” “Are certain ideas immediately ruled out as false without further discussion?”
At least in my degree, I felt that there were a plethora of opinions in my classroom discussions, and when we approached different lenses, we made sure to have a thorough understanding of them, as best we could. I can think of only one philosophy that an international relations teacher ruled off outright, and that was “ancient hatreds theory”. Even then we spent several classes taking it apart and why it is a poor tool to view conflicts.
That said, I would say I was brainwashed after college when I spent more time on Facebook, reddit, and Instagram. With the perpetual rage machine at my fingertips, I was afraid that if I disagreed I would be flamed and cancelled from groups that I loved. I am very wary of getting information from the socials since things are so over simplified and there is little to no welcomed critical discussion. It’s just a yelling pit with people further entrenched in their beliefs.
I’m deep in Trump country. I wouldn’t even feel safe putting a Republicans Against Trump sign outside my house.
as an anarchist I wouldn’t do well anywhere
I have heard that they want anarchy in the UK.
They don’t know what they want but they know how to Brexit.
Hi five, fellow lonely-tarian! I also often joke that my alignments usually make “both major sides” glare at me.
Rojava?
You’d be most welcome at my house.
I can’t drive anywhere. There are way too many people in a 1km radius too see past the cloud of floating tags. I just really hope closing my eyes turns the effect off so I can try to get some sleep.
