I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life.
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I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life.
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I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life.
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You, me and everyone we know have all been subjected to a 40-year blitz of anti-solidaristic propaganda, aimed at convincing us that we are only allowed to fight the system as individuals.
Hard agree!
Also - re solitary actor propaganda and propaganda in general - Naming is Framing.
The way most non-Republicans use the name ‘Democrat’ refers to conservative, established politicians and insiders rather than activists and upstarts and reformers.
Which is the exact opposite of the way Republicans use the word ‘Republican’. For them, establishment Republicans aren’t ‘Republicans’ they are RINOs.
AOC is almost never described as a Democrat. Why is that and what framing does it engender?
To me, it frames the party as never including progressives, activists, reformers, etc.
Who benefits from that framing?
Republicans and Democratic conservatives, established politicians and insiders.
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You, me and everyone we know have all been subjected to a 40-year blitz of anti-solidaristic propaganda, aimed at convincing us that we are only allowed to fight the system as individuals.
Hard agree!
Also - re solitary actor propaganda and propaganda in general - Naming is Framing.
The way most non-Republicans use the name ‘Democrat’ refers to conservative, established politicians and insiders rather than activists and upstarts and reformers.
Which is the exact opposite of the way Republicans use the word ‘Republican’. For them, establishment Republicans aren’t ‘Republicans’ they are RINOs.
AOC is almost never described as a Democrat. Why is that and what framing does it engender?
To me, it frames the party as never including progressives, activists, reformers, etc.
Who benefits from that framing?
Republicans and Democratic conservatives, established politicians and insiders.
@CptSuperlative @pluralistic Funny thing that the most successful Democrat of the 21st century started off in that community organizer collective effort sort of role...
Maybe there's some correlation there?
