• HelloThere@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    5 days ago

    Go to your window, stick your head out and yell: “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this any more!”

  • The last angel@feddit.ukEnglish
    4·
    4 days ago

    I would honestly kinda like to print out a bunch of these and put them everywhere those knobs have put a flag.

    But then it occurred to me that this pretty much how Elon and trump have wound up a bunch of mouth breathing idiots into a racist frenzy that is literally hell bent on destroying the country, and I’d need to write “mad about the racist fuckwits and government complicity”, which would rather dilute the message.

    It also leads to uncomfortable questions like ‘hang on, is anger actually transformative or helpful, or does it just lead to more angry people’ and ‘hang on hang on, aren’t Musk and Tommy Ten Names spending an awful lot of money telling people to get mad? Isn’t that the driving force behind the most toxic social media platforms? Isn’t that just what rage bait is?’, and anyway long story short between the time I wrote the first paragraph and now, my view has changed to -

    • Antisocial media and pro-nazi agitators want us to get angry (or ‘mad’, in American English) Zen the fuck up to resist. Wield calmness like a weapon. Refuse to emote on command
      • The last angel@feddit.ukEnglish
        11·
        5 hours ago

        Oh, I’m more of a pacifist, and someone on this platform recently convinced me that it’s kinda difficult to occupy the moral high ground while also laughing at jokes about killing the ‘right kind’ of people. It’s annoying, but if The Axis Of Evil are whipping up violent rhetoric about what a threat women / minorities/ experts / lefties / non conformists are, it wouldn’t really help to put up stickers about killing them.

        Bit counterproductive.

        (I absolutely reserve the right to keep proclaiming ‘eat the rich’ on a regular basis, because that’s not violence so much as a communal nourishment from the glorious circle of life).

        ‘Keep calm and convert nazis’ is more accurate, but it does sound a little like I’m pushing catholicism (weird) or the gay agenda (would be funny but best not encourage the delusion that sexuality is a choice). ‘Keep calm and re-educate / deradicalise / discourage’ also works, but gives the distressing impression that I’m aiming for more intelligent, moderate or temporarily glum nazis which, not really.

        ‘Keep calm and get off the internet’ would probably be the most helpful, concise message but somewhere between aspirational and hypocritical.

        ‘Keep calm and defend diversity’ captures the main problem with nazis, but it sounds a bit ‘placards and knitting’.

        I’m struggling to find much beyond ‘keep calm and eat the rich, the intolerant, and the men who seek to enfeeble other men by creating a dependance on thinking machines which inevitably lead the newly unthinking masses into the servitude of the men who made the machines’, say which point it may as well just say ‘Join The Butlerian Jihad, meetings Thursdays at 19:00’.

        Which actually works, but it is quite a long way from the original message.

        • primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexusEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          Nazis literally cannot be talked down. Its part of how they consume information. It’s really depressing–but once they hit critical mass there’s nothing to be done.

          “Keep calm and eat the rich” is also good. Keeps the original pattern. Love it.