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Congratulations on discovering the morose whining of Morrissey. He’s a run-of-the-mill self-important right wing douchebag. But as someone who has been listening to the same songs for 30 years (including lots of Morrissey), i went almost my whole life having no info on who the guy is as a person, which is true of all the musicians and other popular artists whose work i consume. i’ve just never really been interested in that stuff.

then as i was spending more time in online leftist spaces, i started finding myself under attack for mentioning my enjoyment of particular songs or movies due to an artist’s demonstrated lack of character and/or crap right wing political beliefs. these artists’ stated beliefs/actions are not good and they do matter, and while thoughtful discussions around “death of the artist” and what not are warranted (and desperately needed), that is not what’s happening most of the time. what i see is pretty much just replication of neoliberal individualism.

People compete for social status by calling out others as a means of establishing their ideological superiority. it severely undermines solidarity and only serves to reward those neoliberal individualist tendencies that we really need to be focused on unlearning - and that can only happen when we embrace nuance and acknowledge that this is a complex issue, people are complex, art is complex, and so is the social context that shapes our character, values, and principles. for example, how many of us have taken into consideration the ways consumerism has shaped our understanding of what it means to be “political?”

that’s just my .02 cents or .72 cents or whatever lol

American security culture vs Chinese security culture

executive function.

nah, these vetting questions are getting more and more over the top, we’re expected to spend hours formulating responses, not knowing if we’re being tricked (because trick questions are now a regular thing) - this is not how you vet people, and i certainly won’t go through all that to be on discord.

obviously it’s not just the deprogram, there are plenty of servers in the fediverse that also use vetting questions to showcase their big brain

competitive individualism makes us endlessly exploitable by bad actors, feds, and wreckers. what do they want? personal gain, personal achievement, and elevated social status.

i’m gonna be honest, i’m still pretty aggravated by what happened in this community this afternoon - there was a post that warranted serious discussion. not to scold the comrade who wrote it. in fact, we all need to take some responsibility for letting this type of “neoliberal left anti-left” mindset take root and flourish. we can’t just change spaces and expect everything to be better for it. the character of the space depends on the social interaction within.

there were the makings of a thoughtful discussion about cultural hegemony but it got deleted bc one person was embarrassed so nobody learns a thing and these dangerously wrong ideas still go unchallenged.

that was a perfect opportunity to discuss ways to recognize it, root it out and resist so we don’t just end up reproducing reddit over here. vetting questions can’t protect us when the feds are inside the house. case in point.

(is that how you say case in point?)

so this is NOT a parody? people are replying like it’s a legitimate concern.

this is the most important thing you all need to know right now.

given that we have not even begun to properly organize, and given that y’all haven’t done a single thing besides learn wrong things off of reddit.

you are not in any position to be deciding who you want to kill after the revolution. what revolution?

i have never listened to this podcast before but i’m familiar with Hakim. this post is just joking right? people don’t really talk like this except on Facebook, i’m scared lolol

what do you mean by “active communist?” did you join org or?

and are the spaces you’re referring to irl gatherings or internet discussions?

there’s a lot to explain on this, and the answers to those questions will tell me how to proceed.

i think he just did it as a distraction from the whole epstein debacle. i mean, think about it. why else would he just sit there and get shot in front of everybody like that? it was staged. obviously. it literally happened on a stage. case closed.