Everybody has a cardboard box, not everybody has a lot of space. This is something you can do for the cost of whatever your last online order was plus the seeds and keep on top of your fridge. The materials are ubiquitous and the setup is simple. It makes you wonder hmm, why am I procrastinating doing this? This is how you prompt people to actually make positive changes in their lives.

I’ll cop to not having read the article and I’ll say I might, but I can think of some pretty good ones. It’s so children and teenagers can tell people when something bad is happening to them. Like being in a child marriage. Or being abused. Or being shot at in school. Or when their community is being preyed upon. Or when they’re in a cult. Or when they’re kidnapped and they have a phone. Or when they need to advocate for themselves against policy that chiefly affects them. Or when they’re afraid something is happening to their friends. Or when they’re suicidal. Or when they’re lost. I could probably come up with a hundred of these. The thing is that children and teens are half-finished people and we afford people certain rights. So we need to decide if we’d rather treat kids as human or as another group of pawns to control. I loathe this debate.

Isn’t this central feature of how the fediverse works great?

Bubble, echo chamber, besieged fortress syndrome…

Hmm, maybe we should consider this viewpoint on its own merits. Oh wait

I mean what the fuck, just ban the person you don’t like.

B does not follow A.

Users who don’t like what an instance is doing can register with a new instance.

I know some folk agree with the feddit.uk admins approach of pushback through discussion and voting, but this instance is not designed to be that kind of space. Blahaj lemmy is meant to be a place where we can avoid the rampant transphobia universally visible on nearly every other social media platform, and where we can exist without needing to debate our right to do so.

This comment feels like it was written by a Markov chain

As the photo in the literal OP makes clear, this movement is nonviolent. Why are you folks hellbent on making it violent? Nonviolent does not mean non-disruptive.

Maybe start your own national protest movement.

I’m not saying the French haven’t achieved great things with fire but I am begging people on Lemmy or Reddit or Bluesky or whatever to watch the fuck out for agitators trying to push the mass toward a violent/riotous state. You do not want to push the admin to sick dogs on you and declare martial law purely because of ~~ vibes ~~.

Corollary;

a) We all know that if Fox can reasonably photoshop your demonstration to look bad, admin has what it needs. This isn’t a counterargument.

b) We all know things are really fucking bad. I don’t have a good answer.

c) Just remember the French got their reputation over the course of centuries after the Terror. Americans don’t have that historical baggage.

Just don’t get got by psyops, people. Tell Umbrella Man to fuck off and start filming anyone trying to change the tenor of your event.

Perhaps the future will make my apparent timidity look foolish but nevertheless there is a concerted effort going on in these comments to ratfuck this particular movement’s goals and methods.

I could use some optimism so may I ask why?

The AfD came second in the election, the best performance by a far-right party since World War Two.

I’m sure its fine.

The amount of dogshit takes from 2 week old to 3 month old accounts is absurd, Lemmy instances should institute a one month lurking period or something. Some fuckass actually posted Asmongold to a gaming group. Its a tidal wave.

I give you: every lynching ever under Jim Crow in the American South.

Calm down. Agitprop is just what it is, not a value judgement. I’m not offended at all, I just asked a question. The US military is powerful but hasn’t won on its own terms in awhile, so I wasn’t clear on what you meant.

Victories in the Middle East

I’m honestly not sure what this refers to in recent memory unless you’re talking about the initial battlefield victories, executing Hussein, killing Bin Laden, or dropping MOAB to make ourselves feel better. We fled Afghanistan with our tails between our leg, left a power vacuum in our wake and the people to be ruled by their theocrats. It was godawful and we lost stupendously more than we gained at least in the public sector. Nice agitprop though I guess.

You don’t always have to. I know some of what you’re feeling and sympathize. There’s some music in the above post. I wish I could do more for you than link to an eclectic barrage of tracks.

<3

I’d like to second this sentiment… I know that there’s one man who understands the fear I’m feeling, the building rage and panic. He posts on my instance and his name is Pete. Its a little thing but it makes me feel less alone.

Might edit this post with some music I’ve been using to cope later. I just wanted to let you know I, we, see you.

Here ya go. I got into a game with a soundtrack by an infamous breakbeat producer called Sewerslvt and what I took away from reading about her career is that her oeuvre hinges a lot on suicidality, loss, and shock. This track is called Jvnko Loves You and references one of the most brutal, graphic stories of murder I’ve ever come across and… it makes me want to live because the victim in question didn’t get to, which I think is what the artist was going for.

More generally, the music of Death Grips helped me internalize that spite can be a vile humor that pushes us to live and that hate, rage, and nihilism are core parts of our humanity that hurt as much to deny as they do to embrace. Many of their songs are about how hard it is to choose to live and many of their lyrics have stuck with me. Beware - an audio formatted raison d’etre. On GP - a screed about choosing to live for others. Come Up and Get Me - Self explanatory.

These are angry and/or intense songs and thoughts that I hope won’t be triggering for you, please don’t listen if they are. I know you DID say anger wasn’t your cup of tea, sorry. Its not ecstasy, but I’m in a somewhat similar boat of coming off of being a daily weed smoker during one of the worst times I can imagine for ANYONE to kick ANYTHING, whether it’s opiates or gummy bears. My sympathies. I’d like to also add a couple of more beautiful, serene tracks, to counterbalance the bleak tracks above.

Sufjan Stevens - I Want to Be Well

Zoe - Luna

Anoraak - We Lost

Sigur Ros - Glosoli

Kamala will be just as bad as Trump I’m told

Mmmm an archived tweet, yummy current events, delicious breaking world news

Cruelty Squad (Finland) - Madness inducing immersive sim and tactical shooter set in a biopunk ultra-capitalist dystopia where death itself has been conquered and commodified. You are a wageslave assassin for the 1%. Raise your networth, diversify your portfolio, kill God.

Peripeteia (Poland) - Anime-influenced immersive sim and tactical shooter set in a 3d printed megalopolis in post-nuclear Poland. You are an amnesiac cyborg questing to find your origins, caught between fascist Pols and insurgent Russians. Has an incredible soundtrack. Early Access and still quite rough around the edges but very impressive.

Yes, I have a type

I just got on Tuta and don’t want to do this every 3 years forever. Can you elaborate on Tuta upselling the customer? I just need reasonable encryption, basic mail service, and for my data not to be in the hands of psychopaths.