How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
www.theguardian.com
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

  1. Even dickheads love their dogs. Find a way to connect to those you disagree with. “The obvious mistakes of those who find themselves in opposition are to break off relations with those who disagree with you,” texts Vera Krichevskaya, the co-founder of TV Rain, Russia’s last independent TV station. “You cannot allow anger and narrow your circle.”

  2. Pay in cash. Ask yourself what an international drug trafficker would do, and do that.

He’s thinking about flying a SpaceX rocket to Mars and raping and pillaging its rare earth minerals before anyone else can get there. We need a 30-year road map out of this.

  1. Take the piss. Humour is a weapon. Any man who feels the need to build a rocket is not overconfident about his masculinity. Work with that.

A fundraising banner from The Guardian, an indepedent British newspaper. The centerpiece is a serif block "For f****s sake", with the letters after the f sprayed over with "act '"

  • Shardikprime@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    So basically a reminder that, beyond all the mind killer politics memesphere we have integrated into our cortex, the other is also a human being and as such, we have the same capacities/capabilities as them and they have the same capacities/capabilities as us as neither are superior to each other.

    Huh.

    I don’t think that will fit here

        • Aatube@kbin.melroy.orgOP
          2·
          3 days ago

          Read the rest of my post again.

          (Also, “propaganda machine”? You realize The Guardian is one of the few independently-owned news outlets?)

  • _bcron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    572·
    5 days ago

    Find a way to connect to those you disagree with.

    I’d rather find a way to integrate them into society in such a way that they aren’t actively trying to destroy it on multiple fronts as if it’s some sort of prank

    • NutWrenchEnglish
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      2 days ago

      This. I don’t want to “seek common ground” with Klansmen and fascists. Their beliefs disgust me.

            • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
              11·
              3 days ago

              Yes we are.

              Name one other species that shows the levels of love and care that humans can?

              We are lead by the worst examples of humanity, but they do not represent or act like what a normal person does.

              • Chip_Rat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                3 days ago

                Lol you had so many truely excellent arguments to make about our technological prowess or our society building abilities and you chose love? Dude my cat loved me more this afternoon snoozing on the couch with me than I’ve felt from all of humanity minus my own partner, mother father sister and brother. Ever.

                Love is abstract concept, it can’t knock down stuff. -Cleopatra

  • AnIndefiniteArticle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    3 days ago

    There are reasons to build a rocket other than fragile masculinity.

    Take the piss and make jokes about what he’ll do with them (rape and pillage)? Absolutely. That’s the fragility: his plan for wealth and power is entirely dependent on stealing it from the neighbors. Just as he’s been taking all of the federal and investors’ cash in exchange for memes for the past few decades. He doesn’t produce anything of value himself.