In Politics, It Is That Serious - It Always Is

Never downplay a politician's lust for control. I beg. A proposed, seemingly insignificant bill starts one place with the goal of leading to another, then another… [...]

https://write.as/ddnnacheta/its-always-that-serious

“Democracy shouldn’t end at the login screen.”
~ @Mastodon

Literally everyone who uses Windows on their personal devices are (un)intentionally voting for authoritarianism.

Leave Big Tech at work.
Make open source tech household names.
Democracy is not convenient. Authoritarianism is.

#GoOpenSource #UseLinux #VoteEveryDay #ConvenienceVSControl #BoycottBigTech

Modern day convenience is not an example of how much freedom the vast majority of the world has.

It is a tool used for mental slavery.

It causes laziness and apathy towards and detachment from things that are important for a democratic society.

#GetUncomfortable #ConvenienceVSControl #VoteEveryDay

Enslaving people is easier than freeing them.

Why?

Because freeing people requires them to do some of the work. Enslaving them requires them to do nothing.

People love doing nothing.

#convenience #apathy #ConvenienceVSControl #GetUncomfortable #VoteEveryDay #MentalSlavery #Capitalism

There is a thin line between apathy and evil when one's apathy encourages or perpetuates the continued suffering or oppression of others.

#GetUncomfortable #ConvenienceVsControl #MakeItPersonal #VoteEveryDay

Looking forward to no longer being seen as a tech-savvy nerd that also somehow gets completely dismissed when I say that #BigTech needs to be boycotted en masse.

Wonder how long I'm gonna have to wait...

#GetUncomfortable #ConvenienceVsControl

Tired Torch-Bearer

https://write.as/ddnnacheta/tired-torch-bearer

I'm grateful that I was born in seemingly the last generation where having a different opinion was either seen as simply silly or daringly genius.

I'm very grateful not to have been born more recently, where having a different opinion means you get ridiculed into oblivion or forced to have the same opinion as the brainless and brainwashed masses.

Normal does not mean good.

#Millenial #Millenials #GenY #GenerationY #GenZ #GenerationZ #GenAlpha #GetUncomfortable #ConvenienceVsControl

Vote unethical mentalities out rather than politicians/parties.

The only way to do this is to VOTE EVERY DAY.

Voting every day means demanding change by boycotting what we don't want and celebrating what we do want EVERY DAY.

We need to this every day for several years to make it the norm, so that we do it subconsciously the same way we get up every day and subconsciously do nothing about it.

#GetUncomfortable #ConvenienceVsControl #MakeItPersonal #ItsNotJustAboutYou #boycotting

Given enough time, humans WILL get used to ANYTHING. Whether it's a new job or city, or maybe a piece of tech or ideology; ANYTHING CAN BECOME NORMAL.

Slavery used to be normal.
Segregation used to be normal.
Monarchies used to be normal.

NORMAL DOES NOT MEAN GOOD.

The good and necessary things we let die today for the sake of convenience and political pandering will either be yearned for, or get so bad that they are completely forgotten and wiped from history.

#ConvenienceVsControl #AI

Future Ted and Marshall Syndrome:
Thinking that because something doesn't affect you now, you don't need to worry about it until later in life.

The issue with this mentality is that it is then too late to fix the problem.

#ConvenienceVsControl #himym #actnow

“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.”

#GetUncomforable #inaction #indifference #silence #wordsneversaid #takeaction #speakout #selassie #selassiequote #conveniencevscontrol #noprivacynodemocracy

Too many humans feel or think that they can't change the world. If you change 10 people, they can change 10 people EACH too. That's 110 people that you changed.

Now imagine it was 20 or 47 people that you directly helped to see the world in a better way or changed a bad habit that has become normalised by the majority of the population. And imagine those people directly helping the same number.
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#convenience #control #conveniencevscontrol #change #defeatism #mentalslavery #socialnorms