cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/34728745

Since the age of the internet, we are all publishers, each of us bears some private responsibility for the public’s sense of truth.

Things that Require Our Focus (In No Specific Order):

  • Genocide in Gaza
  • War in Ukraine
  • Fascists Paramilitary Disappearing People or Sending them to Concentration Camps
  • School Shootings
  • The Epstein Files
  • Rising Inflation and the FED Giving Up on the Economy
  • Surveillance Capitalism & the Surveillance State
  • Environmental Destruction
  • Militant Right Violence
  • American Citizens Losing Their Rights
  • Nazis, White Supremacists, and Fascists Feeling Safe and Secure in the Regime

Edit: replaced FED with Fed as it is not an abbreviation.

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    12 hours ago

    “In no particular order” is kind of a problem, because when you try to focus on everything, you can’t focus on anything. When everything’s a priority, nothing’s a priority.

    “But everything IS a priority!!”

    Everything is important but prioritized means in some kind of order. It isn’t better to get nowhere on 15 things than to get nowhere on 8 things. And neither of those is as good as getting somewhere on 2 or 3 things.

    • CubitOom@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      21·
      12 hours ago

      Agreed, but who better than to prioritize and to decide on countermeasures than all of us collectively.

      • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        12 hours ago

        It would honestly be better if some clear headed leaders proposed some prioritizes for the “all of us collectively” because “all of us collectively” have a bad track record of trying to agree on and decide anything.

        • CubitOom@infosec.pubOPEnglish
          1·
          12 hours ago

          That would be welcomed, but we do not have that right now. Perhaps we can use this to our advantage and have collective resistance?

          • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 hours ago

            We don’t have leaders right now? And we’re just going to act collectively and effectively as a whole? I’m sorry. Are we talking about the same species?

            Probably the best collective action to hope for is that each of us pick the one thing here that we can do the most about, and go focus only on that thing.

            You seem to like this word “collective” but trying to get everyone to do everything, as one, is an absolutely fantastic plan if your ultimate goal is failure.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    17·
    14 hours ago

    Deal with the last one on that list and the rest fall in place a whole lot easier.

    • CubitOom@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      4·
      13 hours ago

      I used environmental destruction instead of climate crisis/change because I personally think it’s past that point.

      All wars should be listed. Please use this not as a guide but as a call to action.

        • CubitOom@infosec.pubOPEnglish
          5·
          13 hours ago

          There is actually an interesting phenomenon that happens when we read long lists. We tend to skim the middles and only really read the tops and bottoms.

    • salacious_coaster@infosec.pubEnglish
      3·
      14 hours ago

      I always figured that the life support systems for most or all life on earth should be priority one through one hundred, with all other issues (yes, ALL) being a non-concern until the thing that will literally kill us all in the short/medium term is addressed. I’m just weird like that, I guess.

      • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        12 hours ago

        It’s the bottom bitch of the big issues. But interestingly, we can’t really make progress on it without clearing the table of some of these joker politicians. That’s why, weirdly, I’d put the Epstein Files above environmental destruction on the prioritized list.

    • Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz
      21·
      14 hours ago

      No we’re far too busy to think about that right now. Maybe some day soon, when we’ve solved our more pressing problems.

  • Trevita17@lemmy.world
    9·
    14 hours ago

    The Fed is the only thing stopping Donald Trump from absolutely destroying the dollar and wrecking the global economy along with it. They didn’t “give up on the economy.”

  • podbrushkin@mander.xyz
    5·
    12 hours ago

    Does this picture mean “consume a lot of posts and news on these topics and participate in comments section”?

    • CubitOom@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      I take it to mean that it’s our responsibility to be true in how we comunicate and to do our own investigations. We should not be trusting “smarter people” to do this for us.

      This can also lead to a call to action and to resistance.

      PS, I also think it means we have the responsibility to not allow the narratives to shift on to topics that the regime is using as a distraction.

    • CubitOom@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      3·
      14 hours ago

      Excellent point. Please use this not as a guide, but a call to action. I’m sure there is a lot I have missed.

  • Victor@lemmy.world
    3·
    13 hours ago

    This doesn’t even need to include “American” and still holds true. Not sure why it does include that, really. These things are relevant for many countries right now. Always have been.