Which is why I cannot understand why people aren’t simply repurposing Lemmy to be a self-publishing platform, where one puts each category/subject in its own /c/ and one can keep publishing articles all the time, no hassling with any owner-platform, or whatever,
& then one can just have a FundRazr for ( hopefully, not too likely, though, given the get-but-never-give culture this world has bottle-fed into the last few dozen generations ) getting paid.
The Guardian fired most of their journalists, now, in the change-of-ownership, & that’s only a single example of how “journalism” works, nowadays ( ALL the others are equally selling-out journalism, ttbomk… …sigh… )
so, self-hosting, making one’s own platform, seems to be the only sane alternative, then just federate with whom you want…
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I’ve read that Hitler intentionally gave government-departments overlapping authority, so that they’d be in turf-wars, so whichever one “lost” could then be shut-down…
It wasn’t incompetence, it was intentional: a means for force-dismantling government’s function.
IF the point of having the incapable running the different departments … is so that total-dictatorship later becomes “justified”, then it is a strategem, not a mistake.
& differentiating between unconscious-strategems vs conscious ones …
… as an example of unconscious-tactics, I’m now certain that Hamas’s strategem of using the lives of Palestine as bait, to get Israel to demonstrate its nihilism & sadism & narcissism & machiavellianism ( etc ) on, …
… so that in future, the entire-region wouldn’t care what “deterrent” Israel had, … that such a huge percentage of the region’s population would be committed to annihilating Israel at ANY cost, … that Israel’s annihilation becomes inevitable…
… was completely unconscious.
But it is effective.
I don’t bet ANYthing on Israel existing, as a country, by 2029, now.
Trying to sort-out the … bucket-of-vomit, which is what geopolitics now is … with all its unconscious-strategems & insane tactics & sickening “values” …
I’m betting that Trump will use the consequences-of-his-people’s-incompetence to “justify” greater, & more-complete, highjacking of the US of A.
I absolutely do not believe it’ll result in the Dems regaining the US:
that opportunity was thrown-away with the election that Biden wouldn’t get out of, until it was too late to save.
differentiating the convenient-to-the-left-belief isn’t journalism, it is just more of the filter-bubble that cost the Dems the 2024 election.
seeing such things not with the superiority/contempt of the left, but rather with the … how is this going to be dealt with and adapted-to by the ruling-regime, how are they going to use this to further their highjacking? would be much closer to journalism.
humans are mixtures of unconsciousness & consciousness, & much of our “tactics” and “strategy” is actually just unconscious-instinct & feelings-motivated stuff, so it doesn’t matter whether it is unconscious or conscious, it doesn’t matter whether it is contempted by so-and-so, or whether some caste/class of people are condescending about it, in Natural Selection, it only matters if it works. Pay attention to if it’s viable-enough to continue taking our world down, not to what the upper-middle-class-left are saying while denigrating it.
( feel free to contempt everything I said here, but I’m sooo damn tired of filter-bubble making-believing substituting for the survival-stuff that humankind needs … & every mistake made by anybody can be changed in significance by circumstance,
so the whole “they’re failing, & we’re going to be their ‘daddy’ when they do” narrative that much of the upper-middle-class left that I’ve seen is identifying in… is just more ignoring/denying, with a price-tag counted in lives later this decade.
Pragmatism would be a good thing, now, & “it’s only a won-game when it’s completely finished” would also be good to live by. )
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