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  • I literally cannot override my color perception to trick myself […]

    If biology had intent, I’d think this is intentional. You’re not supposed to be able to do that.

    Once your brain decides on a context, that becomes the (percieved) truth, and it’ll take a lot of new information to change your mind because your brain will invent reasons why what you’re seeing is correct. Your brain makes up a story, that story seems to make sense, and so new perceptions not only need to make sense but also disprove the story it has.

    Take, for instance, this silhouette. It has no lines to indicate depth, but I bet you’ll settle on a mental 3D model—you’ll be able to see where the hips end, which leg is doing what—and it’ll be really hard to switch perception from spinning one direction to spinning the other.




  • Anyway, you have a very unimaginative and literal approach to all this

    The one thing I really dislike about lemmy in general is that there are sooo many people like this here.

    No fun. No whimsy. All philosophical challenges are puzzles meant to be conquered by misinterpreting the point and then writing a 4-line python script. It’s linux people, man, I swear.


  • They really did not like being called weird, yeah. You should, I dunno, read the news sometime.

    Trump won. Their ways are already popular.

    I mean, if I even agreed that the righteous and just weren’t allowed to show any contempt—this is a bit like saying Maga also breathe air, choke yourself—but even if I agreed: they won. The landscape is already different.













  • Yes.

    Do you realize you are also spreading “right-wing ideas,” such as “we should not mock them, it would be very mean”? Curious. Interesting. Concerning.

    I’m considering those who may still listen and the next generation.

    That’s awesome. What is preventing you from doing this?

    Unironically, the education you give should include how stupid the nazis actually were. Anything less would be lying, honestly. Can we not have a little fun? They’re a very stupid and insecure people.


  • I’m gonna be honest: you can’t. Education is dry, and dull, and boring, and exactly the kind of lame bullshit I’m talking about. Your strategy is the strategy of nerds and losers.

    It’s not that it’s not worth doing. You are correct that education was my vaccine against the far right. But no one is listening. If you’re not drumming up energy, social momentum, no one is paying attention to you. Even people who agree with you are not really getting involved.

    You need charisma. Mockery not only damages the rizz of your opponents, exposing them to be the rizzless, softboy soy-drinkers they always were, it also bolsters your own. It gets the crowd jumping and doing stadium waves and shit. I don’t know how else to say this, but people like displays of power. That is legit the only way fascists even win.

    Long term, it would be great to educate these fickle-as-the-wind dipshits as I was, but that takes time. And, they have to already like you. If they don’t like you, they just won’t listen.

    If you want to move populations, you need to wield the tools of social power. You cannot depend on the truth to do it for you.