@mungus That suggests to me that successfully rubbing their noses in their own failure will help foment the division we seek (yes, in this case we're being divisive! we bad) rather than increasing team unity in the face of a common enemy.
So, yeah -- make them look at their own shame and disgrace.
I think a key understanding here has to do with the nature of "truth". I've broken it down more here, but in this particular discussion I think it's key to understand the existence of what I'm calling "evidenced truth" -- our best (flawed) guess at what is true, based on all the evidence currently available, and with all of that evidence being documented.
When we use propaganda techniques to convince other people of this type of truth, we're helping (not exploiting) the audience:
Propaganda can get through emotional barriers that logic just bangs its head against -- while the fact that it's evidence-based always leaves room for similarly honest disagreement, once the audience gets far enough to start asking questions or even just disagreeing explicitly.
Disagreeing with evidenced truth is not, in itself, a problem; what is a problem is speaking as if you know it's wrong without ever confronting or even presenting the evidence that it's right.
Maybe I'm just rambling, or maybe that helps fill in some of the framework for this whole thing?
Hey everyone! I'm thinking of making stickers of some rabbits from my recent series and I'd love your input!
I know it's a lot to sift through, but if you've got time I'd love to know your favourites! You can name as few or as many as you want :> :tealheart:
Boosts appreciated :>!
View the rabbits here:
https://kokorobot.ca/site/punk_rabbits.html
@Xibanya Maybe take it as "this person has so much talent, it must not go to waste, I vow to harshly criticize until she is the best she can possibly be!" and/or "I hate this person because she is clearly much better than me; I will now proceed to throw shade until I feel slightly better".
the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey but instead of an old guy in bed looking at a Big Black Monolith, it's me on the couch working on my laptop
Welcome to our tiny furry computing clowder, @hanabiraochiru ! (Free wifi now available on all catbus routes!) :tootcat:
@artemis Maybe part of the goal can be just reminding them of who is betraying them (promising one set of things, delivering a very different set) -- towards the goal of directing their anger in more beneficial directions.
Somebody would like you to know what happens when you stop giving him scritches.
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Idea for a poster to put up in areas with large ICE operations:
"Are you an ICE agent?
Do you have no way out?
Here are 5 easy ways to fuck things up from the inside:"
And then a list of a few types of sabotage/obstruction that are hard to distinguish from incompetence or being nitpicky.
I dunno. Is that anything?
encountered the final boss of transport companies today
Yes! Any policy should be a means towards an end, not an identity. (Identity politics drives me bananas, sometimes even when I agree with it. :blobcatupsidedown:)
@riley Yeah, I've heard of whataboutism -- but I hadn't seen that page ^.^
That particular variety sounds like a cross between a purity test and ad-hominem (with a seasoning of "group accountabiity"): "the speaker belongs to a group in which others are doing very bad things, therefore nothing they say is valid!"
(often used e.g. for destroying pro-Palestine arguments, because Hamas!!! ...and defending Muslims, because terrorism!)
FFAB unlocks the batch audio powers of the free ffmpeg with a GUI.
And this is so much more powerful than I can even articulate. Holy s***.
https://cdm.link/free-ffmpeg-gui-audio/
(macOS + Linux for now, Windows possible if anyone wants to help)
A thing I've been working on (well... working on working on, working on designing the machine to lay the bricks for the foundation, kinda) is a means for people to reach consensus on what they actually agree on, in a way that is both as frictionless as possible but also accountable to logic and facts.
TLDR: I'd like to see us defining ourselves less by all-encompassing labels and more by specific, well-examined, clearly-stated principles.
@riley If you find any later on, let me know; seems like it might be a good companion-page for mirror argument.
