György Lukács: (T)he proletariat is the first oppressed class in history that has been capable of countering the oppressors’ philosophy with an independent and higher world-view of its own. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5592
Friedrich Engels: Our view, which we have found confirmed by long practice, is that the correct tactic in propaganda is not to draw away a few individuals and members here and there from one's opponent, but to work on the great mass which still remains apathetic. The primitive force of a single individual whom we have ourselves attracted from the crude mass is worth more than ten Lassallean renegades, who always bring the seeds of their false tendencies into the Party with them. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5593
James Connolly: War is a relic of barbarism only possible because we are governed by a ruling class with barbaric ideas; the working class of all countries cannot hope to escape the horrors of war until, in all countries, that barbaric ruling class is thrown from power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5594
So the root thing behind this that we only relatively recently figured out is that much of it comes from us having value based identities (as opposed to organization/association based identities).
Allistics tend to have much more fluid relationships to their values, because while important, their values aren't fundamentally who they are. Instead their identities are based off of their social structures (think things like "team spirit", "hometown pride", etc). Their values shift based on whether people are watching and how their actions relate to the groups they associate themselves with.
We on the other hand typically root our value purely in our values: the choices and actions we make. We're consistent regardless of whether someone is watching, as well as whether or not the thing impacts groups we're a part of. (things like "If it can be destroyed by the truth then it should be")
So of course we're angered by injustice... it's people and groups around us betraying their own values constantly. And so often one of our key values is "stand up against oppression", so we'd be betraying ourselves if we didn't get infuriated.
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I might actually end up using Signal.
My issue has always been how it takes over your phone number...
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/04/signal-app-username-phone-number-privacy/
Signal’s New Usernames Help Keep the Cops Out of Your Data
Ephemeral usernames instead of phone numbers safeguard privacy — and makes the Signal messenger app even harder to subpoena.Micah Lee (The Intercept)
Any usage of "AI" detection is trash and accomplishes nothing but hurting innocent people.
https://youtu.be/7Av0w55Q6Ps?si=f6I3YuOy4WFAwH_y
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Shiri Bailem
in reply to Lolita • •Edit: Incorrect, see Fabio's response
@Lolita as far as I'm aware there's no user level language option, it can only be set for the server.
So for a different language interface you have to find a server in that language.
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Raroun
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you can add
?lang=en
to the url which will temporarily switch the displayed language.Example:
https://friendica.opensocial.space/?lang=en
for englishhttps://friendica.opensocial.space/?lang=de
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