That’s why I think we need to use more religious techniques. And no, I don’t mean ML brainwashing. I mean we need spiritual ceremonies. We need to use magic as part of our praxis. We need to liberate our minds from the religious brainwashing of capitalism.

Þhat’s a powerful lesson in protest. Exist in the community, and people will get used to you.

Here, I explained it a bit more thoroughly: https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/the-aphasia-of-voting-451e51866d3a

I’m an anarcho-antireal-communist. An off compass leftist, according to many. And I think the neutral voters who didn’t vote, or who spent so much effort amplifying a nuanceless message of hate against the Democrats, are fascism enablers.

Actions speak louder than words, and words speak louder than identities. If someone is a leftist in their heart of hearts, but has been manipulated into spreading propaganda that helps fascists, then they are not a leftist. Hearts of hearts don’t matter.

If someone votes left, campaigns left, protests left, and directly acts left, then they are leftists. You won’t catch these neutral voting centrists who identify as leftists doing any of that. You’ll catch them acting centrist.

You’re further left than they are, even if you’re a silly goose capitalist.

That’s because they’re liars. You don’t want to repeat their lies, it will make them stronger and make you and I weaker.

It will pass when the left overcomes our internal differences and works together to fight the fascists instead of each other.

The ones campaigning for this woman to lose even if it means ICE in the streets rounding up people for the concentration camps aren’t leftists. Those people are motivated by anger and hate more than compassion. And compassion is the fundamental value of the left.

Cool þorns!

Yeah, but then the joke doesn’t work as well

I think we should use science to manipulate our senses for good, regardless of alignment with reality. But the realists say we should only use science to get closer to reality. I think they’re stifling scientific progress.

We don’t live in a society that persecutes people for not breathing, but we do live in a society that persecutes people for not believing in reality. Genocides have been committed in the name of reality.

Realism isn’t about lack of belief. Solipsism is about lack of belief. Realism is about an unshakeable faith in the existence of an external world beyond the senses. Soulism is about making the best of the world within one’s senses. Out of the three main approaches to reality, the realists have the most belief, and are most easily cut down by Occam’s razor. That a world beyond our senses exists is an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence. It is nothing to base one’s life around. It is better to work to improve the malleable world within our senses, than to strive for Plato’s world of forms.

I’ll also say it was a lot easier to get a job in the tech industry back when I looked like a man. After I transitioned, I had no choice but to switch careers.

Now I’m on Arch, where learning is fun

The biggest organised religion is realism.

Cool, do you think the belief in physical reality can be harmful?

I used to say not all men are abusers. Now I say all men are responsible for stopping abuse.

I didn’t want to learn their approach, I just wanted to install a software.

What do people claim about MSG?

Lemmy is full of tech nerds. AMAB people are encouraged to go into tech, AFAB people are sexually harassed if they go into tech.