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[+] 133 points 9 months ago* (8 children)
  • [–] 37 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    There's an idea for using AI for good.

    Start having Ai generated ads of things Maga likes so they end up destroying all their property.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    The toilet razor is amazing to me. Like, surely, he had to get that out of the toilet. So like... After the picture now what?

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    That's the act now and think about it later, kinda thing. Most of us were trained as early as the age of 2 to 16 to not do that. But some forget the lesson or were never taught the lesson to begin with. Sad but true.

    Although, there is a deceiving reason to do it. I couldn't decide on one term that I've heard more than the other, so I'll share them all.

    • Rage farming - deliberately creating outrage content for engagement

    • Performative activism - actions done more for visibility than impact

    • The attention economy - where virality itself has monetary value

    Another that fits well is, Outrage profit.

    ...

    This kind of act isn't as bad if you were gonna throw your toilet away anyway. And if you got enough people to watch it on YT or now TikTok, you could in theory, make enough or more to cover the cost of the item you destroyed. Rage bait is a chronic issue online. And sadly, I spent many years exposing myself to it and not realizing that most of it was an act or the post and/or poster was orchestrating it for their interests.

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  • [–] 113 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    Reminded me that Mark Ruffalo actually created a Mastodon account in 2022. For a second i thought it was just fever dream i had, but it is actually true

    Stopped posting on it in favor of bluesky though.

    EDIT: wording

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    [–] 98 points 9 months ago* (10 children)

    Why are the Magats surprised about Ruffalo. Dude has been vocal about his views for a very long time already. Not to mention he's an actual activist. Or did they never see Dark Waters?

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Well, you know what they say about MAGATS: "They're stupid."

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Or did they never see Dark Waters?

    To be fair, people act in/as things they disagree with.

    Hell, Disney makes a ton of "rebellion" themed works. They also fund arthouse films. Spoilers, disney are not the good guys, they're the empire.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    they dint like it when hes more outspoken now than before. its the same thing they said about trek and dr who shows, come on the shows is about things other than white christian straight men, can thave women especially poc in charge.

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  • [–] 81 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Imagine being mad at an actor who says murder is wrong...

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  • [–] 29 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    For all we know, many of these angry commenters are bots.

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  • [–] 75 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    I swear conservatives are some of the dumbest people

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  • [–] 39 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    They're also hypocrites because they'll scream about "cancel culture" too.

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  • [+] -6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    this is a line straight from preschool playground lol

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Like finding out "Rage Against the Machine" is a political band...

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  • [–] 58 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    That'll show'em

    That was my reply to a coworker who days before May First had a rant about how he does not respect that day as a holiday, and he will work instead!

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  • [–] 48 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    In the same vein, it wasnt that long ago that here on Lemmy someone was giving me shit because I won't throw my Harry Potter movies away. Like, it's not gonna take the money back from Rowling if I do that. 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 48 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    Just pirate them multiple times a day until she goes bankrupt.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I can't tell if you think that's how things work or just being sarcastic...

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I got into a spat on lemmy a while ago when I said Rowling wouldn't care about people burning her books as she already had the money for them.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    It is way more effective gifting them to people who would have bought new if they did not received a used one…

    If there are less books in the field, the value of the books rises, which in turn allows to sell new ones more expensive as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    When WOTC started to fuck up D&D and people were talking about chucking their books away I was encouraging them to mail them back to WOTC instead.

    If you're going to protest a company you have to figure out how to cost them money.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Unless they are sending you a pre-paid postage envelope/box to send to them, how would that cost WOTC anything? It would cost YOU money to send it to them.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It costs a company money to process mail at their place if business. Not like, crazy amounts but someone has to open the box, see what's in it and figure out why it's there. It's probably going to cost them at least $2-$3 in time.

    It's far from an effective way to cost them money, but it's $2 more than throwing a book away at your house.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Exactly They have to recieve, store, open, process and pay for the disposal of the items. Its nothing if 10 people do it, 10,000 people mailing back a box full of books becomes a logistical headache very quickly.

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  • [–] 43 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    Why is Mark Ruffalo now the bad guy?

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  • [–] 31 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Basically he called tRUMP a rapist, and said Renee Good was murdered.

    Both of which are true. The orange kiddie fiddler has been involved in about 30 sexual based court cases over the decades, the most prominent ones are the E Jean Carroll trial, and also his ex wife where he paid her off handsomely but one of the conditions was she wasn't allowed to call what he did to her rape.
    And Renee Good was obviously murdered. I mean even if she was aiming her car at the pig that murdered her it's still illegal to just shoot unarmed criminals. So it's deffo murder to shoot an unarmed mother pulling out of her driveway in the head 3 times.

    However, some people think it's ok to rape and murder...

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I mean even if she was aiming her car at the pig that murdered her it's still illegal to just shoot unarmed criminals.

    The problem with this sentiment is that motor vehicles can and have been used as lethal weapons before.

    This absolutely isn't a defense of ICE murdering a person, but there are definitely instances where use of lethal force on a driver with no other weapons is warranted.

    This wasn't one of those instances, though.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Although police are evidently trained not to fire into a moving vehicle. If the vehicle is a danger, you have to use another vehicle to stop it. If on foot, just stay out of the way of possible danger (which the guy also screwed up by walking toward being in front of the vehicle).

    See what happened in this case, when he killed her, did that stop the car? No it sent the car accelerating uncontrolled down the road until colliding with a parked car stopped it. No amount of shooting the car would have stopped it or made it less likely to hit him.

    Using a car to stop another car, yeah, they do that (and it's risky enough as it is), but don't shoot into a moving car, the risk is just too high.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    My point is that a person behind the wheel of a car isn't harmless.

    The fact that it's not harmless is what negates the terrorist's claim of self defense because he intentionally positioned himself in front of it. He wouldn't have been in any danger if he took literally two steps to the right.

    But I don't disagree with anything you said, I'm just clarifying my point. Well, I disagree with calling ICE law enforcement.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yep, I completely agree.
    The pigs are trained to not stand in front of cars, I mean most children are taught at a very young age to not do that.

    The only reasons for that murderer to circle then stand in front of her car are that he has less intelligence than most children, or he wanted to escalate things so he could pull his gun out and shoot someone.
    Both could be true, but the latter is most likely.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Exactly. The terrorist was creating a situation in which he could murder.

    I just take issue with the notion that a person behind the wheel of a multi ton death machine is harmless. They're not harmless, which is why intentionally standing in front of the vehicle negates the ICE agent's claim of self defense.

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    Reminds me of the Iraq War era, when angry conservatives were buying expensive French wine (or had already bought it) just to make a spectacle of pouring it down a drain (in protest at France refusing to send troops into Iraq).

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    Or buying cases of Bud Light so they could shoot them, to protest the fact that Bud thanked a trans person who liked their beer.

    "I hate you! I'm giving you money to insult you and prove it!"

    "Okay, I guess?"

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    If all those MAGA only realized how radicalized they are.

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago

    This is like buying a 24 pack of BudLight then shooting it on camera.

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It turns out the book store will keep selling you books to burn.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    What about Thor: Ragnarok?

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    Dumbshits rigged an economy so they can't even go and say they got a refund for it

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    Mark Ruffalo is a mensch. He's fantastic in Task

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago

    The dude was dead right with what he said. Of course a certain ton of mongols need to find something to undermine that.

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  • [+] -9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    Saying "you deleted the Avengers films from your Apple TV, yet you've already paid for those" is a lot like saying "you support socialism, yet you use products of capitalism". Seriously!

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