• fckreddit@lemmy.ml
    38·
    2 months ago

    “Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.”- Oscar Wilde.

    I think public opinion is overrated. Too many fools in the public. Just look at MAGA idiots in US.

    • Mayor Poopington@lemmy.worldEnglish
      45·
      2 months ago

      I believe public opinion is fairly left leaning. Just looks how popular Bernie and AOC are. It’s just that corporate media discourse is very good at suppressing left wing views.

      • NewDark@lemmings.world
        46·
        2 months ago

        You can describe socialist and communist policies and people generally love them. You just can’t use those thought terminating trigger words.

        • fckreddit@lemmy.ml
          12·
          2 months ago

          That comes from dishonest politicians and media, who twist things for their benefit. They frame certain acts like they are coming for your 2 chickens, when in reality, they are coming for a rich fucks’ 100000 chickens. Such people have a vested interest in fooling the people with 2 chickens. Hence, they campaign by equating such measures with ‘scary’ words like ‘communism’. Propaganda works. These kinds of tricks are bread and butter of advertising industry. So why not politicians and media?

          • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
            7·
            2 months ago

            there is technique and whole ideologies and entire categories of political theory in the left all literally dedicated to taking control off oligarchs and implementing it with varying levels of irl success.

            the west seems to think nothing even exists further left than democrat-equivalent liberals. its scary how they manage to suppress even the thought of effective rebellion.

            • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              2 months ago

              In Nordic countries, they do have something along the line. Although it ended up being democratic socialism, which is left-center instead of far-left authoritarian.

              • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
                9·
                2 months ago

                nordic countries exploit countries like mine for our natural resources and human capital in a brutal way. their capitalism just succeeds in neatly hiding away the suffering abroad. their government is not leftist, and that model is not sustainable for everyone to adopt.

              • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
                8·
                2 months ago

                The Nordics aren’t Socialist in any capacity, heavy industry and large firms are squarely in the Private Sector, and they earn the bulk of their income from acting essentially as a landlord in country form, from predatory IMF loans.

                Moreover, all Socialism is democratic in some form, the idea that there is a niche of Socialism that alone is Democratic is a misnomer. Democratic Socialism is better described as Reformist Socialism.

      • fckreddit@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 months ago

        What I mean is taking the opinion of the public seriously. I mean, people believe in a lot of weird things and that includes me. As an example, lot of people are anti-vaxxers, that doesn’t actually make vaccines dangerous. Should their opinion matter? If so, how much?

        I think the quote is meant to consider that sometimes we must ignore public opinion and do what is right. But, I agree some nuance could be lost. But sadly, the quote has no context because it is from a list of quotes Oscar Wilde wrote. Maybe, we should supply our own nuance.?

        • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
          6·
          2 months ago

          Public opinion has a pretty big influence on who is getting voted into public offices. Ignore at your own peril.

  • Tja@programming.dev
    11·
    2 months ago

    A stalinist comic about freedom of the press. Do you have one about the futility of mustaches, too?

  • Atmoro@lemmy.world
    10·
    12 days ago

    With every person dedicated to getting more people onto Better Platforms, Linux Distros, Fediverse, ActivityPub, and ATProtocol apps that just shines the light more and makes it a lot harder for anyone to spread lies or project their “power”

    Linux Distros for Desktop:

    Linux Mint Pop!_OS (Should be called Cosmic OS, sounds better) Fedora Workstation Asahi Fedora Remix

    Mobile Android Alt Distros:

    LineageOS GrapheneOS

    For Fediverse Apps:

    Mastodon PeerTube Lemmy Diaspora Sup

    For ATProtocol Apps:

    Bluesky Flashes Spark

    Let’s spread the word ladies and gentlemen!!

    • DNS@discuss.online
      7·
      2 months ago

      I got banned from Reddit for suggesting doing what the French did. I got banned for that suggestive language despite a corporation having no qualms in harboring actual Nazi’s who spread their message through loose doublespeak.

      Free speech is not a right on social media, especially a privately owned forum that wants you to stay longer on their site for advertisement money.

  • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    IIUC,

    the US had/has a Communist party, and you could probably sell copies of Pravda;

    while the USSR had no liberal party, and it’s doubtful you could have a copy of the NYT.

  • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
    4·
    2 months ago

    pretty sure there’s plenty of socialism online, I don’t think the capitalists are hiding people from that.

    • TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      14·
      2 months ago

      They just spend billions of dollars making sure Joe Rogan is on every from page and in a favorable spot in the algorithm.