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  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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    10 months ago

    The important part is to direct the anger towards the real enemy: the leeches sucking our planet dry and planning their escape off world. „Left“ and „Right“ are categories we were told to think in, along with buzzwords like „neoliberal“ and „woke“.

    As in the definition of a cult, special language is used to divide us further and cut us off from one another.

    Even calling for guillotines is kind of the same thing. We should stop killing each other. Just seize everything they have and leave them fending for themselves, same as every one of us.

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      10 months ago

      The idea that Capitalists are directly controlling the media and intentionally inflammatory to create endless culture war that divides the Proletariat against itself is a firmly leftist belief.

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        10 months ago

        I know. I‘m just trying to get peeps from hating each other because this only helps those in power.

        From the downvotes I deduce that not everyone likes the idea.

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      10 months ago

      As in the definition of a cult, special language is used to divide us further and cut us off from one another.

      Which definition of a cult is that? Because there is no scientific definition. There are models for high-control organizations (a term used specifically because “cult” has too much baggage for scientific methods), and language is only one aspect of information control. Every single organization on Earth will create its own language for things. That alone doesn’t mean they’re high-control.

      I’ve been in a high-control organization. It doesn’t work like that, and I think diluting the term to cover such broad categories is insulting to people who have been there.

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        10 months ago

        Saying something shares the mechanics of a cult is not insulting to someone who has been in a cult if that is what you mean.

        Its a pattern I recognized. People fight over who is right and left, neo-contra-whatever. Its ultimately not informative and makes misunderstandings more common.

        And what I‘m actually saying is that the media is controlled by the same people who benefit from us fighting instead of demanding housing prices go down immediately or wages go up accordingly. Its not that hard. We‘re just told its impossible.