10 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 18 Jan \ parent \ on: The Art of Using Stacker News II ⚡️ meta
My two sats on the feds/spooks on SN. I seriously doubt there are any. I could be way off but my guess is that like any web site like this the NSA is just scraping it all up.
As far as conspiracy theories and sharing some you believe... this is pretty much zero threat to the state. I actually think they love all the crazy stuff we come up with. The more the better. It distracts people from the stuff they do in broad daylight. Just that should be enough for people to hate the state.
Most people should also be concerned about individuals targeting them and employers being pressured to fire people. We've seen a ton of this over the past 10 years. We plebs need to stick together.
As far as conspiracy theories and sharing some you believe... this is pretty much zero threat to the state. I actually think they love all the crazy stuff we come up with. The more the better. It distracts people from the stuff they do in broad daylight. Just that should be enough for people to hate the state. Most people should also be concerned about individuals targeting them and employers being pressured to fire people. We've seen a ton of this over the past 10 years. We plebs need to stick together.
These two points seem incongruent to me. Conspiracy theories might be well and good and benign in peacetime, but in "wartime", they get your fired, for the set of what encompasses a conspiracy theory increases, and then you get fired for what you wrote online in response to a post. We've seen this take place in the world relatively recently.
Are we living in "peacetime" now?
This is not about living in fear, this is about being aware of what's going on around you should you wish to walk a path not completely in sync with the normie path of existence, whatever that can be classified as these days.
We plebs need to stick together.
What does this even mean to be honest? It is like a call to action of some kind, almost a like a political slogan.
Who are you "pleb" to be saying this, and why would I stick together with you?
If something goes sour, all your virtual friends will disappear. There is no real "community" in the virtual/online world unless it has been anchored to real life in some way. If you want plebs that will stick together go and form some in real life relationships with humans who may assist you with whatever should the time come.
Hope this is helpful to someone out there to consider.
Adversarial thinking and opsec is important for those that want to be sovereign.
Unsolicited advice for anyone who spends a lot of time on SN, try losing your cowboy hat and see what that does for your mental health, you may find it rather freeing. Social media and these augmented realities are helpful tools yet they can elicit a real life emotional response and eat your life force. Taking a break can be good for your life every now and then.
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