ChristerMLB

imagine if people who were good at other things started showing up to those meetings

That’s interesting, and maybe better than what I had in mind.

When I was 19 I went to a sort of social pedagogy boarding school thing that we have in the Nordics, after that I got drafted and did alternative service, after that my brother had long since moved into my room, so moving back home wasn’t really on the table – at least not as I saw it.

So you’re suggesting just outright banning social media?

It is apparently a movement, but it gets way too little attention: https://www.politico.eu/article/targeted-advertising-tech-privacy/

I dunno, they will still want people to stick around on their site, so they can see their ads.

Some of it can be accomplished by just setting universal demands for how social media works for all users:

• ban targeted advertising
• make it mandatory for companies to ensure algorithms don’t prioritize posts for making users angry, scared or depressed

Stuff like that. These kinds of regulations don’t involve ID checks, and could take care of a big chunk of the problem.

If the approach is just “look for evil people and then destroy them”, or “if politicians piss the people off, and they’ll come for their head”, it’s likely to produce more evil through the fear that it creates. A good political system is predictable – politicians should know that if they do evil (clearly defined in law), it will become public, and it will have consequences (again, clearly defined in law). This should also apply to all powerful people, not just politicians.

At the end of the day, the goal is to control and counteract certain ambitions, not to create fear.

It is going to get worse, but it is inequality that is at the center of the problem. Inequality will be a problem regardless of what our mode of production is.

Fear leads people to do stupid evil shit

That sucks, and I hope you’re wrong, I can’t say you’re wrong to prepare, though. Solidarity from Norway

In that case, shouldn’t your focus be on building a broad political alliance of opposition that includes as much of the military as possible?

fair enough. why do you think that, though?

alright, I’ll give you a better answer.

I wouldn’t say I’m looking to make capitalism ethical, as much as I’m looking to make it harmless. The big problem is the high and increasing inequality, that eventually makes free societies impossible.

As for FDR: whatever. I neither engage in, nor approve of, political hero-worship. His legacy is complex, including maybe even the image of the führer-president that Trump is exploiting right now.

that sounds like a slogan, not a strategy

yeah, I switched to Linux on my personal computers once I noticed ads in the start menu, my work computer has win11, though

Let me rephrase: it can, and probably will, get worse. It is not in the left’s interest to hurry that process along.

I mean, this is clearly the same kinds of magical immigrants who steal all our jobs while sitting around claiming welfare all day.

dude, Notepad even has Copilot now

Pretty sure no type setter or graphic designer would use Word for anything else than making Word templates.