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Caleb James DeLisle@cjd@pkteerium.xyz (2026-07-23 10:03:32)
Was one of many things to dispel the myth that people will "wake up" if presented the facts in a clean consistent manner.
Turns out they won't wake up, they'd prefer to play silly mind-games with themselves rather than look at the overwhelming evidence that the world is not as rosy as they would like to imagine. Because the implications of facing it are too stwessfuw for them.
Cowardice.
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Wolf480pl@wolf480pl@mstdn.io (2026-07-23 18:02:49)
@cjd
Ok but like, what was actionable about these revelations? What could an average person have done?
I was in high school when it happened. I installed httpseverywhere and noscript. I started to avoid using google account wherever there was another option. The admin of a forum I hung out at switched it to https-only
But beyond that? Every day brought more and more depressing news that I could do nothing about. At some point I had to stop reading it
@phnt @npc @p @SilverDeth @mrsaturday @sun
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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-07-23 18:21:52)
@wolf480pl @cjd @phnt @npc @p @SilverDeth @mrsaturday trump won by protest votes, could have done that for an abstract principle
Caleb James DeLisle@cjd@pkteerium.xyz (2026-07-23 18:43:54)
Hey Wolf, long time no chat!
Well, the really obvious immediate point here is that running around like a conspiracy theorist saying "the people gotta wake up" is nah guh work. So that one can be written off...
If you're trying to move the Overton Window, one point is you shift the conversation away from "people wake up" to "people are fucking worthless cowards" because then it creates a social stratification with the cowards getting made fun of. Now everybody knows what they want to NOT emulate.
Then on the other side, you might decide you are NOT going to worry about the 99%, you're going to worry about creating a lever for the 1% who have the capability to pull it. This is really where stuff like Bitcoin fits in.
Both are (obviously) happening as we speak...