Strike Systems

somasatori

It’s fine to discuss politics. It’s not fine to propagandize –

At this point in our digital society, any discussion of politics in a mixed space is vociferous propaganda. No one is changing their ideological opinions based on an Internet conversation. Discussions about politics are only civil when a) everyone agrees with what someone is saying; b) everyone is silent or ignores the topic in the general hope that it goes away; or c) everyone has been friends for many years and knows each other’s politics, which largely predate their friendship. Option c is becoming a rarity these days.

RIP Max Horkheimer, you would have loved to hate the Web 2.0 era internet.

Edit: the above applies to discussions about United States politics and may not apply to other countries.

L. B. Heuschkel

@somasatori With a lot of international players, we do see discussions that are genuine discussions. But they’re between people who disagree on fairly minor issues – not from either extreme. Frankly, I don’t think that gap is bridgeable anymore, and I’m not sure it should be even attempted.

MisterBoring

@somasatori said in Strike Systems:

No one is changing their ideological opinions based on an ~~Internet~~ conversation.

I really feel like the majority of people (in the US at least) are locked into their opinions (ideological or not) up until the point something happens to them that flies in the face of those opinions or beliefs. A guy I went to high school with was very right-wing leaning in ideology, had a lot of family in agriculture, and mostly voted Republican across the board (he regularly votes for legalization of marijuana, so there have been exceptions).

That all changed this year when a big part of his family suddenly defaulted on a bunch of their farm loans because of government shenanigans and now his aunt and uncle are living on his couch. He changed his registered party and is now willing to hear any arguments that aren’t Republican ones and vote based on that. He also started noticing a lot of stuff people have been pointing out to him for decades and realizing it’s true.

Rucket

Minds can change. I used to be more centrist. Now I think we need to bust out guillotines. Turns out paying attention is a good way to wake up lol

Muscle Car

@Rucket
A Buddhist was selling hot dogs for three bucks. A customer asked him “Make me one with everything,” and gave him a five dollar bill. He got his hot dog but asked, “Where’s my change?” The vendor replied, “True change comes from within.”

Your statement reminded me of the joke. Congrats on looking inside. ️

Pavel

@L-B-Heuschkel said in Strike Systems:

It’s fine to discuss politics.

Frankly, I’m sick of the idea that politics discussion needs or should be allowed a space to happen wherever we go. The internet is fucking infinite (I’m being facetious, but you know what I mean) if you can’t stop talking about political events for five fucking minutes while you’re tabbed over onto the game window you need to pull the hose-o-news out of your ear.

Is political discussion, especially political discussion outside of one’s narrow bubble, important? Absolutely yes, and it should happen frequently and diligently. Should it happen on GarouFuckers By Night or Men in Tights the MU? For all that is sacred, no.

Tez

@Pavel said in Strike Systems:

@L-B-Heuschkel said in Strike Systems:

It’s fine to discuss politics.

Frankly, I’m sick of the idea that politics discussion needs or should be allowed a space to happen wherever we go. The internet is fucking infinite (I’m being facetious, but you know what I mean) if you can’t stop talking about political events for five fucking minutes while you’re tabbed over onto the game window you need to pull the hose-o-news out of your ear.

Is political discussion, especially political discussion outside of one’s narrow bubble, important? Absolutely yes, and it should happen frequently and diligently. Should it happen on GarouFuckers By Night or Men in Tights the MU? For all that is sacred, no.

Increasingly I disagree about this and think they are important topics which should be discussed anywhere you want to discuss them.

That said, I think there should also be a place people can turn it the fuck off when they’ve had enough. but lmao none of us are talking about strikes anymore.