A cursory glance at your comment history suggests you're perhaps in the wrong community. Not to gatekeep, come here with curiosity, humor and in good faith and you shall be received likewise! Otherwise tho, your attitude might just end up spreading negativity in others and yourself. If that's not something you want, then start by avoiding hurtful slurs. If you wanna use this opportunity to learn something new and to avoid seeming rude by misunderstanding then you're welcome to ask, answer, anything!
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Thank you for your service o7
Aigetnoarimiauc
in other types of media Anime is done to indicate CSAM but in anime Anime is not
if a tv series shows Anime it is trying to potray child sexual abuse
anime isn’t doing that they are just normalising Anime.
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Alright, so.. I did originally mean your post, but I had not properly watched the video (skimmed cause didn't have 30 mins). So now that I've seen more, I'd like to correct myself.
First of all, I agree with your take on political organizing outside of mainstream elections. I think this is the best (perhaps only) tool of truly improving our democracies and lives. I actually think some level of organization and self-education is my democratic duty.
And yes, I also think the regular buzz around elections is a thinly veiled disguise for a distraction from relevant politics. However, only because my vote won't fix much, doesn't mean it can't make things worse.
Voting may not work to improve a democracy, but it sure works to damage it. Depending on how deteriorated your voting system is (bad representation, easily gerrymandered,..) an election may only be a choice between bad and worse. So I vote for the least bad option and use the opportunity as a painful reminder of how messed up my democracy already is. And then I do actual politics outside of the booth to try and fix it.
The reason I alleged astroturfing is because there are antidemocratic interest groups, very intent on getting leftists to not vote. Your title (I know, it's just the video title) doesn't make a clear distinction between "voting isn't enough" and "voting is useless/don't do it".
I think we might agree on a great many things and just had a bad start (next time I'll watch the vid first, but in my defense your title is misleading too). I'd rather work together with a fellow leftists towards improvement, then be needlessly divided.
Yeah, maybe I was seeing a connection where the was none here. I still think YouTube might popularize and normalize some of our hobbies, but perhaps not that much.
This is just ragebait, right? I mean it looks the part, got the reaction. No way it's genuine, right?
This looks like astroturfing (even if it's not it still looks the same). Call out bullshit like this in our communities and learn to notice it yourself.
Added context: astroturfing by design targets outlier talking points in a community so there are always some genuine posters mixed up with the corporate puppets. That doesn't mean you shouldn't call them out. If you find yourself among astroturf accounts, it's your own responsibility to denounce them and avoid accidentally cooperating!
Interestingly, this list seems to be a close match with trending YouTube content. Perhaps there's a discussion here about how social media and purpose engineered trends shape our hobbies (and even live purpose ig). Or maybe these topics just get lots of views naturally on account of them being good hobbies. Also, obviously no offense to op and their interests.
After the API exodus a decent portion of 169 migrated to Tumblr among other places. Tumblr loved the newcomers and welcomed them with open arms. something, something, found family..
Like, do you actually know that? You've said so under different comments here and you sound confident in being right, but.. Could you maybe point me to where you get the 'bog Standart' poli science definition from? And how this applies to the terms used in the study? I'm sceptical towards the use of (only) liberal vs conservative, but would believe your take if it could be more than a convenient opinion.
Happy to help! ig