My social media environment (mostly Lemmy for the last year, after I left Reddit) is very leftist. I’m finding myself floating more and more left because y’all have a point and there’s not many counter-arguments in this social media environment. I sometimes wonder if that’s how MAGA folks feel–floating more and more right because that’s what they’re surrounded by.

Of course, my floating is (naturally /s) based on reason and leftists making good memes/arguments.

Anyways, that’s this morning’s introspection.

Side showerthought: my convictions are based on memes. Anyone have nice, accessible resources for giving those convictions a more solid base? I’d love something like a graphic history of leftist thought (similar to Queer: A Graphic History). Something approachable but with citations. Thanks :)

  • EABOD25@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Don’t swing too far in either direction. Doing that is what creates radicals

    My advice is to get news and info from all sides. If you’re able to identify what the dramatics are and are able to exclude them from news you absorb, then that’s where the real truth is

    • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      When you are no longer willing to listen to those who disagree with what you hold as truth, you have not found truth, you have stopped looking for it.

      • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
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        11 months ago

        I don’t really need to listen to people that think there are microchips in the vaccines, for example. Lots of ideas aren’t worth considering. There’s nothing noble about having no standards.

        • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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          11 months ago

          There is a difference between believing someone is saying nonsense and plugging your ears when they say anything. If someone talks about microchips in the vaccines and certain entertainment producers are pedophiles, you know the vaccines don’t have microchips in them because of technological limitations but you can’t prove that producers aren’t pedophiles.

          The boy who cried wolf was right the one time when nobody listened.

          Snowden exposed what conspiracy theorists were lambasted for believing because the truth was masked by nonsense.

          If I told you that the US government was force sterilizing Native American women for decades, I may sound unhinged until you gave it enough consideration to find out what the reality was in the 60s and 70s.

          If I told you the US government was giving unknowing black men STDs, you may not believe me until you looked into Tuskegee.

          • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
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            11 months ago

            If I told you [documented facts]

            Those things are true, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say because some claims are true that any and all claims have merit.

            Also, you should reread the boy who cried wolf. The point isn’t that the wolf is real, the point is people won’t put up with bullshit.

      • bluGill@fedia.io
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        11 months ago

        The left has their own fascist tendencies that are just as bad as the right. At different times different sides are in power and implement their version which their side supports because it is their side. You have to be willing to be critical of your own side. Make it a point to vote for someone not your sides candidate every election just because choosing that other person is a good exercise. (In my case I’ve just decided nobody gets more than two terms in office). Note that I didn’t say other side, there are always “fringe” parties on your side that you can vote for. the important part is you look for reasons why your own side is evil and take action to prevent it even if that means the opposite side gets power and does things you don’t like.