What’s the best way to hypothetically deflock?

let’s say, just food for thought, that I dont want a surveillance state for some ungodly reason, and I want to deflock, god forbid. unfortunately I don’t have access to to a laser, so what should i hypothetically do?

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u/Specialist_Touch2771 — 12 hours ago

Presidential pardons shouldn’t exist

They are a blatant way for politicians to free people who support them or are related to them (as shown by both Donald Trump pardoning Jan.6th rioters and Biden pardoning his son). some people argue “But sometimes the justice system gets it wrong and is too harsh!” okay, so? that’s a failure of the justice system and shows that the justice system should be reformed, not that a single person should be able to decide to just overturn verdicts. also, appeals to exist for a reason. the other argument I sometimes hear is “well the president should have some privileges“ well not really. the president should serve the people. also, even if he gets presidential privileges, those privileges should not include a out of jail for free card so the president can pardon his allies.

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Literally proof that capitalism fundamentally flawed and that rags to riches is a myth

the number on screen is how long it would take to the average American to make $1 Billion dollar (assuming that they don’t spend any money). so roughly 1,432 years. and we don’t even consider $1 billion that much in this country, not when we recently had trillionaire. this is proof, clear as day, and all it took was a google search and putting two numbers into a cal on my phone. the only question is, WHY THE FUCK DO PEOPLE THINK THAT THIS SYST IS FAIR OR VIABLE IN ANY WAY?

u/Specialist_Touch2771 — 2 days ago
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Anyone got any good leftist book suggestions

I’ve already read the manifesto, all three volumes of capital, and principles of communism. any books or authors that you think I should check out?

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u/Specialist_Touch2771 — 2 days ago
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Is there any hope for the US?

This country is absurdly right wing. I know it was founded on that but seriously, it’s ridiculous. people are calling Kamala Harris a radical communist. There is a debate on whether or not kids should get free school lunch‘s. like what are we doing. Does anyone have any good news at all

u/Specialist_Touch2771 — 2 days ago

Why is the right becoming so much more open about their racism and authoritarianism?

I stumbled across this channel called “basic logic”. despite the name of the channel, the Person who owns it openly rejects democracy and believes that woman shouldn’t be able to vote, white people are the superior to other races, he’s a christian nationalist, and he even beefs with libertarian right wingers because he openly admits to being an authoritarian right winger. And I’m not getting this by reading between the lines of what he says, he says all of these things loud and proud, no subtext or critical thinking require, he’s just saying it. And this isn’t some random ass alt right channel with 300 subscribers who gets 100 likes per video and 2k comments. No, he has over 200K subscribers. Let that sink in. 200K people look at this guys content and think “Yup! We should live in an authoritarian christian state where the government oppresses everyone and executes minorities in the street! That would be awesome!” Now, obviously the right has always believed in these things. But I feel like in past years, they were more hesitant to say the quiet part out loud. you’d have to at least think a little bit about what they were saying for the Nazi shit to come to light. But now their just… being open Nazis on YouTube. thoughts?

u/Specialist_Touch2771 — 10 days ago

I hate the technolarp drama

I hate it because it shouldn’t be a drama at all. Technodad decided that he was uncomfortable with technolarp so Larp respected his wishes and gave up the persona. It should be as clear cut as that. But after moist‘s video, people are acting like he’s the fucking Antichrist or some shit. They mostly argue that the collab with skeppy, so it proves that it’s beyond a friendly tribute and it’s actually him trying to impersonate him. It’s worth noting that skeppy reached out to him first. also, see it from Karl’s perspective, you hop on this larper trend withoht much thought, then one of technos actual friends says he thinks what your doing is funny and wantsto collab, so you think “oh! Even his friends are cool with it, so why not!”. this drama has been dragged out and people are harassing larp just because his channel was sort of out of touch. It’s over, just chill out.

u/Specialist_Touch2771 — 1 month ago

I hate kidz bop

now first of all, their covers suck. like no hate to the kids lets be honest. however, beyond their music being kinda bad, I have a fundamental problem with kidz bop. Kids would rather hear the real thing, especially if they’ve already heard the original. Kids aren’t dumb, or at least as dumb as we think. it’s gonna be pretty obvious to them when something was cut out, and they can probably figure out the original message of the song. I’m also just not a fan of the idea of watering down music. a better thing to do would be to just make original music targeted at younger kids, rather then trying to water down music for teenagers/adults.

u/Specialist_Touch2771 — 1 month ago

I hate the Babylon bee

The Babylon bee is a conservative onion ripoff then makes right wing “satire”. Now, conservatives can have satire, but this really isn’t good satire. What satire is supposed to do is take a real issue and exaggerate it for comedic purpose, but the actual issue is still there. it’s supposed to be funny and thought provoking at the same time. The Babylon bee doesn’t do that. They just pull shut out of their ass. For example, they have an article titled “Democrats swear to reform ICE so they only deport immigrants who love America“ like I shouldn’t have to explain why thats a bunch of nonsense. also it’s worth noting that they think that “Democrat”, “Liberal“, and “leftist“ are the same. their other type of humor is “owning the libs“. basically they say that pro Palestinians are anti Semitic and laugh at the thought of people on the left getting mad at it. like yeah, I disagree with these articles so maybe im biased, I also struggle to see how conservatives find this funny. This isn’t intended to be super political btw, it’s just I think this shit is painfully unfunny

u/Specialist_Touch2771 — 2 months ago

*maybe* hot take, forsaken now is infinitely better than damnation/ old forsaken in every aspect

when people say that damnation is better then forsaken, normally they go “oh it took itself more seriously and was more scary“ no it didn’t. I started playing in early march of 2025 (before all the drama shit) and it wasn’t scary then. I also played the archived forsaken when it was still up, and it wasn’t scary, and it was also a lot less balanced and generally less fun. I don’t see a world where a game with c00lkidd, John Doe, walmart Jason, and zombie king, Jeff the killer, kool killer, or Sonic.EXE is scary. none of the killers are scary now, and none of the original damnation killers were scary. once again, the game itself was a lot less balanced. so yeah

u/Specialist_Touch2771 — 2 months ago

I hate imagine dragons

this is not a controversial take at all, I’m actually sorry for being the 16th person to tell you this today, but come on. Their music is some of the most bland, generic, and uninspired slop I’ve ever heard. like I have heard intros to kindergarten shows that are more musically interesting than their fuckass thunder song. Like sure not every band needs to write bohemian rhapsody but that doesn’t mean they should just be lazy. the music feels like it was made for ads, and It is in a shit ton of car ads so… yeah. i don’t have anything against the people in the band (I don’t really know anything about them) but GOD I hate their music.

u/Specialist_Touch2771 — 2 months ago
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Happy 4th

250 years, which unfortunately has been taken over by right wingers. The good news is that socialists are winning elections across the country, so I have some hope. Have a grea day!

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u/Specialist_Touch2771 — 2 months ago
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Thoughts on Mamdani?

I live in New York and I like him, but I’m curious on what the people in this sub think of it? good or bad?

u/Specialist_Touch2771 — 2 months ago
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Sir, you have one ugly fucking wife

I don’t give too fucks about what does or doesn’t insult this motherfucker, and frankly, none of us should

u/Specialist_Touch2771 — 2 months ago
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What the fuck is PragerU?

For whatever reason, I got recommended a PragerU video. I don't know much about PragerU so I clicked on it and was immediately met with Che Guevara depicted as brown even though he was white? what kinda bullshit is on my feed?

u/Specialist_Touch2771 — 2 months ago

Okay, let’s say Hitler came back alive today, and you somehow knew it was the real Hitler, but he had no memory of anything that he did. What would you do?

also, no he is not a child, he is the same age that he was when he died. he also doesn’t have the same world view as he did, his mind was completely reset, but this is Hitler, not a clone or anything.

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u/Specialist_Touch2771 — 2 months ago