Whenever YouTube tries to recommend me normy stuff I get really annoyed

Those stupid thumbnails especially

Capitalism creates innovation

The innovation:

Why is this type of thumbnail so effective

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most people who use the internet for entertainment statistically are just looking for something to consume, they're not looking for specific "quality" or "content". when people wonder "who tf is watching (whatever) on netflix" etc. its literally because many people are not trying to find something specific to watch, they're just trying to find literally something to watch.
also little kids

i guess i gotta spend more time in here

So grilling

Unironically yes

no thatts that one guy who said hes friends with the dude from rev left radio

thats another reason why i wanted to learn lmfao

Also there are times to stop reading theory and stop a***yzing bourgeois imperialist politics and start working in your community to build a strong socialist foundation

I think everyone itt has a strong enough understanding of their basic local issues to begin organizing irl

Sometimes I don’t get why we read so much. I kinda wanna see this thread pivot from just reading experiences and theoretical debate to sharing and debating pragmatic and material organizing techniques

hauntology

ktt2.com/time-to-go-organic-32528447

thread reminded me of this incidentally but ive been mulling over this idea for awhile (not that the thread is about this but tangentially to the news story)

ive always hated this stupid mostly rw trend on social media of "i will not eat bugs, i will not live in the pod, etc." bs

which sure, i understand the sentiment of in theory not wanting to be relegated to a lower standard of living by a higher authority vs the standard of living of the past generation

however these people gotta be the dumbest mfers on the internet when it comes to further extrapolating beyond the dumb little catchphrase

like what DO you think you're currently eating? do you think the food you're buying in stores currently is safe & pure? what do you think the people producing the based & epic trad steak you're buying are doing to get it to you as per FDA regulation? like the literal f***ing FDA handbook says "meat" is qualified by being only 35% intended/claimed meat. there is a legal % of allowed grinded up bugs that is allowed to exist in consumer products w/o disclosure after inspection

almost every consumer product is tainted in some way no matter what based "organic" product you buy. over 90% of the US population relies on grocery stores and only 22.6% of produced goods actually come from "small farms" (which is qualified as <$500k in revenue yearly). only 2.6% of jobs in the US are farmers and this has declined exponentially YoY

also people acting like if they buy land they actually own it because they were handed a piece of paper as if the govt can't just seize that s*** and kill them immediately if they felt like it

god i hate right wingers so much it is nuts

They already live in the pod and eat the bugs is what they don't understand

exactly thats what im saying

You're right fam i've been thinking abt that too

I'm kinda stuck just consuming political content, and it does make me more knowledgeable for sure, it gives me a better perspective of what's happening and how to make sense of things, which isn't useless at all, because people who were "apolitical" a short while afo are getting politicized into something terrible on different sides of the spectrum (even within leftism), and luckily i've been able to escape that partly because of that.

But i'm at a point now where i'm not getting much further than developing my own understanding why things are f***ed and not knowing how i can do my part in making things better. I mean i have my own ideas in terms of irl organizing but it's kinda hard to get started here bc there's honestly not much going on and at least rn it's kinda overwhelming atm to find something.

I'm also just way too online tbh, rarely do my online interactions abt politics actually make me even understand something better. I can't say it's completely useless either bc at the end of the day i did get to where i was w ideologically bc of ktt of all places (shoutout @cloud_rap ), and i'd like to think i've helped some others too, but at the end of the day i'm also doing a lot of bs petty arguing that doesn't do anything but make me feel like im owning the libs lol. Pretty much only this thread feels like it isn't just s***slinging for no good reason to me

Gonna have to disengage from a lot of shyt for a minute even just for my mental and come back wiser and when i engage w politics hopefully do it more productively w more real life organizing and less petty online shyt and doomscrolling

It's all good fam

We need constant noise to drown out the voices in our head Afraid of what we think when it is all silent

POLICE! MCNUGGET INSPECTION!

It does seem like overkill (no pun intended)

I'd eat crickets tbh I think they are like shrimp but on land

its hard definitely not to be too online these days regardless of if youre politically involved or otherwise but internet the main place of socialization for basically the last 2 generations. even if you were to play online games or something, you're still exposed to the same people and rhetoric essentially, and the monopolization of the internet into very few outlets means overlap between everything is basically unavoidable

the best way to "fix" being too online is to not fight it imo but balance it out against stuff in your life. while i understand the drive politics ignites in you esp when you know how f***ed everything is, you just gotta live in society sometimes unfortunately. it's not like even the greatest politicians or leaders of our time were hooked in 24/7 w/o external hobbies or anything unless they were literally either psychopaths or on coke

like what i've done is more generally cut out generalized outlets and reduced where i'm online to a very small set of circles. like restrict where you on/aren't online and then extrapolate from there as to what platforms you do/don't take part in. if you try to carry interests across all platforms rather than use certain platforms for certain things its gotta burn you out and drive you nuts

ofc that doesnt mean you have to stop reading commentary, theory or history but basically id separate the time for that from time online. i find additionally just being active esp. in terms of regimenting going to the gym or just like taking long walks where you legit dont use your phone at all for a set period of time really helps a lot w/ general mood as well as overall health (physical & otherwise). i'd also say trying to develop a schedule you can stick too weekly helps a lot with preventing things like doomscrolling even if it sounds stupid. like vs when i was younger, going to bed at the exact same time every night even weekends legit has prevented me from just aimlessly looking at doomer social media stuff because you find half the time you're not following a schedule or participating in a hobby, you really are legitimately just doing nothing