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Somewhere, some poor schmuck is phoneless, sitting by a waterfall, completely unaware of how scared he is supposed to be
by BJones12 2y ago
Somewhere, some poor schmuck is phoneless, sitting by a waterfall, completely unaware of how scared he is supposed to be
- hackyhacky 2y agoYou can ignore politics, but politics won't ignore you.
- esafak 2y agoAs fired federal workers found out.
- Muromec 2y agoThat's not the most severe things that can happen for ignoring politics. Some people are unfortunate enough to ignore it to the point they sit in a frozen trench while IR-enabled drone is looking for them
- FreebasingLLMs 2y ago[flagged]
- kspacewalk2 2y agoI know, what is it about shrill people insisting on looking up lately? Dial down on the fear factor, baby! It's like they say on Russian TV: what do you decide, anyway? The higher-ups aren't fools, they know what they're doing.
- hackyhacky 2y ago> The higher-ups aren't fools, they know what they're doing. Recent evidence contradicts this viewpoint.
- dredmorbius 2y agoParent was satire.
- Muromec 2y agoIt can be very abstract for some, but I am actually eligible for a magical summon letter to participate in this team sport involving drones
- latentcall 2y agoI understand not wanting to live in fear but if SHTF what are you gonna do? You’ll be less informed than the “scared” ones and you’ll be screwed. I wouldn’t say I live in fear. I still enjoy day to day life but I also stay informed and ready to scram if need be..
- becquerel 2y agoI regret to inform you that war does in fact happen. In fact it happens quite frequently
- FreebasingLLMs 2y agoYes and Ukraine is just like the United States.
- jajko 2y agoDrone warfare as we see in Ukraine is new default. Any poor schmuck ragtag group can muster hundreds of them, with basic grenades or 30/40mm AP grenades. Enough power to kill anything on wheels or tracks apart from modern main battle tank, that one would be just more or less crippled. Bigger drones can and do kill everything, some drop literal 152/155mm shells. You may say - but we have good EW! Which is pointless for optic cable drones, can't affect them like that. Those are a bit more expensive and sophisticated but not that much. If US decided to do their invasion to Iraq or Afghanistan these days things would be very different re US casualties and expensive material loss.
- unyttigfjelltol 2y agoInsurgency is not the highest and best use of drones. Odds are we have not yet seen their true capabilities in the hands of a world industrial power.
- FreebasingLLMs 2y ago[dead]
- hackyhacky 2y agoDo you have an actual point, or are you just here to troll? If you disagree with the points in the article, please state them.
- briandear 2y agoThey could learn to code. https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/476391-biden-tells-coal-miners-to-learn-to-code/amp/ https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/47...
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoMany of them voted for this. I know they are portrayed as a cabal of woke leftists, but a third of them are veterans and they probably broadly reflect American professional demographics. You could argue that many of the people voting Trump are also simultaneously ignoring a big chunk of politics and reality more generally I suppose, but it's not the standard meaning of ignoring politics.
- sixo 2y agoOr you can pay attention to it, in which case it will ignore you. Because what are you going to do about it? Say the same thing everyone else is saying? But a little different?
- Tactician_mark 2y agoYou could get together in a big group and all say the same things in unison. Maybe even hold some signs saying those things
- sixo 2y agoThat's right! And on average, the impact of mass protests in recent years, towards the causes they support, is somewhere between "zero" and "massively negative". Care all you want and politics will just ignore you or get angry at you for caring. See e.g. throwing oil on famous paintings, or everything re Palestine in the past couple of years. Protesting effectively is a skill which the present generation lacks. They don't even realize it's a skill issue. "Surely if we just care harder somebody will do something..!", they think, over and over. Doesn't make it so.
- orwin 2y agoFrance Yellow jackets, China anti-lockdown protests are well known failure with 0 impact. I will also tell the friends I made/lived with in NDDL that our action had no impact and that the airport is being built (given that a couple of them bought a house where the airport was supposed to be, they might not all believe me).
- kspacewalk2 2y ago>Or you can pay attention to it, in which case it will ignore you. That doesn't make any sense. The small minority of people who are involved in politics affect politicians completely disproportionately to their number, and this is completely unrelated to whether they actually know what they're talking about or have reasonable concerns.
- csomar 2y agohttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60284352 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60284352 If you opt out of the system, for the most part the system is not interested in you.
- hackyhacky 2y ago> If you opt out of the system, for the most part the system is not interested in you. Opting out of the system, in this case, by living in a forest in Singapore, is not an option for most people. People who are engaged in the system (by e.g. buying things, having jobs, raising a family) are touched by government policy every day.
- csomar 2y agoIt is an option, just not the preference for most people. The guy had an alright life, married a woman from a nearby island in a different country, had a daughter and still tend to his garden. In a way, that’s how humans have lived for most of their existence except the last 100 years or so.
- sennalen 2y agoThat's how most humans died except the last 100 years or so
- Tainnor 2y ago> In a way, that’s how humans have lived for most of their existence except the last 100 years or so. Sure. They would also die whenever there was a famine, some disease ran rampant, Mongols or crusaders pillaged everything, some recent council decreed they were all heretics, etc.
- p_ing 2y agoOr this guy... https://metro.co.uk/2024/07/08/worlds-loneliest-man-lives-70-c-temperatures-siberia-21182931/ https://metro.co.uk/2024/07/08/worlds-loneliest-man-lives-70... Or the Lykov family.
- red-iron-pine 2y ago"can't be neutral on a moving train"
- FreebasingLLMs 2y ago[flagged]
- varelse 2y ago[dead]
- beepbooptheory 2y agoI'd rather be the guy worried about guys like Thiel than the one who spent the last ten years scared of college kids and "culture." But yeah, to be neither sounds nice too!
- silverquiet 2y agoIs that poor schmuck sitting by some friends? Because social isolation is a huge driver of anxiety in itself.
- e40 2y agoGetting liberals and centrists to disconnect from politics is exactly what the GOP have been working on for decades. It’s working. 36% of eligible adults didn’t vote in 2024. That allowed what we see happening today.
- throw678937 2y ago[dead]
- thinkingemote 2y agoI remember an Adam Curtis documentary called The Power of Nightmares, in it, there are examples of making people scared, threats and anxiety to achieve political ends. Neoconservatives believed that making people scared about threats not only helps in actions against the perceived threat but helps increase social cohesion. They wanted people to come together in their worry, to form new social bonds shared by being scared about a common enemy. The documentary gives the examples of Neocons's hyping up the threat about Islamic terrorism and Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction. It's really rather good. I'm always wary of earnest calls for people to be scared. Scared people are scary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares
- sillyfluke 2y agoIt's fine to be wary. It's dumb, naive, or reckless not to do the work and analyze whether or not the fear is warranted in a specific case. Adam Curtis did the work in a specific case and found the fear unwarranted for that specific case. Parading that example has no fucking relevance for this specific case except to say that someone always has an incentive to lie about something. The people abiding by the principle "strive for peace, prepare for war" are not "scary scared people" despite being very afraid of war on some level.
- penguin_booze 2y agoI keep coming back to The Century of the Self. I didn't know about The Power of Nightmares - must check it out.
- bluenomatterwho 2y agoI'd say the masterpiece of the Wolfowitz doctrine was Ukraine. The best mental picture I can paint is seeing the longing, looking-for-acceptance look on the face of the little old hippie lady that sold me my Patagonia marching in a pro-Ukraine rally. Watching the Democrats and liberal media press themselves into mobilization for Neocon theory was truly like appreciating a work of art. Big, bad, scary Russia. Nuland and her husband, right there, the high court of Neoconservatism!
- Tainnor 2y agoFrom the guidelines: > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something