I dislike personifying landlords just like I dislike personifying greedy corporations. It’s the system which is broken, and entities which act in greedy self-interest are merely a symptom.

I’d say that’s what separates a good landlord from a bad landlord, is if they are intentionally adding knives and grenades.

yes, but everyone already knew they had such attitudes.

well no, obviously not. They’re privately mocking people.

This state of affairs is not especially surprising – if it were the popular belief that violence is justified to change society in some particular way, then society would already be changed in that way. Just like how no stock on the market can be widely seen as undervalued.

This is why class consciousness is important.

Oh, don’t get me wrong. For these particular people, since they’re my political opponents, I am glad that we can pounce on this slip-up that they made and get them cancelled. I just don’t think there’s anything objectively wrong with making politically incorrect jokes, and it’d be a double standard for me to think it’d permissible only if they were politicians I liked.

Of course, in 2025, we don’t really have the luxury of trying to apply a consistent standard to our opponents. These days it seems like we have to take what we can get when it comes to political warfare. (/genuine, in case there was doubt.)

BTW, stop it with the all-caps or I’ll block you.

I don’t think it’s possible, within the context of a private chat, to take any particular string of words and declare them verboten. What matters is the context and meaning. If it’s ironic or sarcastic? I don’t really find it especially problematic personally.

My larger concern is more with the gradual erosion of irony which happens in some groups. I think this happens more on public forums and in large groups, say 4chan, than in private chats, but I don’t have access to large numbers of private chats, so I can’t know.

Even a joke about murdering people in a gas chamber can be funny in the right context. Arrested Development had jokes about this, and it aired on prime tv and got extremely high ratings. What’s not funny is, ado of nothing, “let’s just murder x demographic in a gas chamber.” That’s not really a joke at all.

tbh I don’t especially care if people want to make politically incorrect jokes in their private chats. Obviously, not wise for a politician to do so. But my friends and I have made politically incorrect jokes in private that obviously don’t reflect our actual beliefs. For instance, I am queer, and I make queer jokes all the fucking time for example, but never with strangers.

Everyone here is either on the side of hating big AI companies or hating IP law. I proudly hate both.

What is the problem with techno-solutionism? Is it just that under capitalism techno-solutionism often results in corruption? Is the development of lemmy not techno-solutionism (to the enshittification of reddit)?

on the one hand, obviously this is not the way you should be using that function. On the other hand, I’m not sure how you even should.

Dividing the world according to this uniform mathematical system is so stupid. Is this secretly a pro-gerrymandering psyop?

I think the regime probably seems pretty good to pro-life anti-queer christian white and east-asian women.

51 years is 2 generations.

I agree with this philosophy, but it does require you to admit that before civilization we were all slaves to nature. I think this is true, but some people might object that this meaning of “slave” is different from the conventional meaning.

yeah, I agree. But like, pointing fingers at “politicians” broadly speaking is still just pointing fingers.

I was saying that if the left is broadly condoning the murder, then it might as well be the party that murdered Kirk.

This seems unrelated to what I was saying. You’re talking about what one should expect. Of course I expect political violence.

I’m not claiming that.