this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2024
406 points (94.3% liked)

A Boring Dystopia

9781 readers
156 users here now

Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.

Rules (Subject to Change)

--Be a Decent Human Being

--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title

--If a picture is just a screenshot of an article, link the article

--If a video's content isn't clear from title, write a short summary so people know what it's about.

--Posts must have something to do with the topic

--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.

--No NSFW content

--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I mean I did preface by calling them idiots!

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Don't underestimate fascists. Bigotry is pretty ignorant, but these people do what they do for a reason. Dog whistles allow them to find each other, but claim plausible deniability about their affiliation.

Like every single person you encounter who insists on writing "friends" as "frens" will tell you that they are just being cutesy, but everyone in-the-know understands that it means "Far Right EthnoNationalist". Bring that up, they they throw their hands up and act like you're crazy. If you're one of them, you've found your people. If you're not, they will gaslight you while insisting that you're just looking for reasons to be offended.

People will use 14/88, "kek", "OK" hand signs, and other little things that you can just write off as innocuous without much push back, but it's all just a way of networking with each other. "Virtue Signalling" as they call it.

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or you could just skip the unnecessary ablesim, my point is perfectly clear and accurate as-is.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

Calling someone who is stupid stupid isn't ableism stupid people deserve to be insulted they make a choice of being stupid.

There's a difference between stupid and unintelligent. Unintelligent is just a limit on one's intelligence but a stupid person is a stupid person by choice