#sociology

[travelingtwentysomething]

Lesson #1. Don't listen to the media.

Lesson #2. Take it all in.

Lesson #3. Make up your own mind.

Lesson #4. Our enemy is not each other.

Lesson #5. Our enemy is our oppressors.

Lesson #6. This IS about class.

Lesson #7. Those who see themselves as above, do not stand with us.

Lesson #8. We stand together as one, and we have the power. It's why they don't like unions.

Lesson #9. They want to divide us.

Lesson #10. United we STAND. DIVIDED we fall. Pick up those around you who are falling, and help them stand back up. Help everyone you can see that we are equals, we may be different, but we are all equals. We all deserve to live with all of our HUMAN rights, including the right to life (health), liberty (choice), and the pursuit of happiness (defend our life and our choice).

NYT has been discouraging reporters from sharing photos of luigi mangione - not due to concerns for his safety but to dissuade sympathy - and refuses to post his alleged manifesto in full. and today, they published an opinion by bret stephens about how brian thompson is the "real working class hero" of this story.

reddit deleted luigi's account, which was completely innocuous and consisted mostly of him giving out advice in health subreddits. they're also deleting any post that includes his alleged manifesto and banning users for sharing it.

luigi yelled that this was "an insult to the intelligence of the american people" while he was being dragged by police and news pundits are framing it as a deranged and violent outburst. news media are picking apart details of his life to paint him as a cold-blooded and mentally ill individual. even something as innocent as playing "among us" with friends is being framed as some insidious look into an assassin's disturbed psyche, ffs.

news media are also capitalizing on luigi's supposed "bizarre and impossible to understand" politics as an obvious way to paint him as a scary individual when the guy is... a centrist, at most. whose views are similar to those of your average college-educated white guy.

multiple news media also keep harping on about how luigi comes from a rich family. an obvious attempt to break the class solidarity that's been formed around this case by continuously trying to tell us "oh he's not like you guys" while ignoring the now pretty well-documented accounts of his multiple health struggles throughout the years.

and all this, and he hasn't even been found guilty of the crime he's allegedly committed. luigi is, as of right now, still innocent until proven guilty. and the news are trying to tear him apart because they obviously fear the symbol he's becoming for low and middle class america.

[animentality]

[happyroadkillart]

actually made this before the election tho seems slightly more relevant after watching CA vote no on things like rent control and, like, Prohibiting Slavery

[travelingtwentysomething]

How many CEOs do you think will have to die before they change gun laws finally? And by then it will be too late because now the average American will realize that the government only wants to take your guns when they're used against the "powerful elite" they would rather they be used against the poor and powerless like children, churchgoers, Walmart shoppers, gay bar patrons, etc.

[yuribeam]

(common superstitions from the perspective of a USAmerican- would love to hear superstitions from other regions and cultures!)

(follow the most often when the situation arises, or believe in the strongest)

[prokopetz]

It's fun watching sociologists try to refute the Fermi paradox because 90% of the time it's like "the idea of Fermi paradox says more about the institutional psychology of the STEM community than it does about the nature of universe because it reveals their unexamined assumptions about the nature of extraterrestrial life, and here's why", then proceeds to unwittingly put the commentor's own unexamined assumptions about the nature of extraterrestrial life on full blast.

[queercodedangel]

The non-binary urge to be in a state of non-belonging because you feel too trans for cis people but not trans enough for trans people

[dakota-zen]

[mysharona1987]

[digitalismmm]

Jungle vines

[libsoftumb1r]

Liberals hate leftists almost as much as they hate conservatives. They’ll sell out any and every movement if the actual left doesn’t fall in line.

[midnight-specialist]

Misogyny survives because people make up new concepts about femininity and masculinity and using new age pop psychology as a way to ‘prove its accuracy’. Imma say this louder for the ones who keep talking bs.

Being assertive, independent, hardworking, goal-oriented and a go getter as a woman doesn’t mean you’re “in your masculine energy”. It simply means you’re a human who’s lived a life where those qualities developed. And actively looking for a man who will “put you in your feminine energy” is just another way of upholding these harmful ideas alive. Don’t partake in it.

[st-just]

A great question to get at this is: Did the trial of Galileo succeed or fail? If we believe that the purpose of the Inquisition trying Galileo was to silence Galileo, it absolutely failed, it made him much, much more famous, and they knew it would.  If you want to silence Galileo in 1600 you don’t need a trial, you just hire an assassin and you kill him, this is Renaissance Italy, the Church does this all the time.  The purpose of the Galileo trial was to scare Descartes into retracting his then-about-to-be-published synthesis, which—on hearing about the trial—he took back from the publisher and revised to be much more orthodox.  Descartes and thousands of other major thinkers of the time wrote differently, spoke differently, chose different projects, and passed different ideas on to the next century because they self-censored after the Galileo trial—an event whose burden in money and manpower for the Inquisition was minute compared to how hard it would have been for them to get at all those scientists.  The final form of Descartes’ published synthesis was self-censorship—self-censorship very deliberately cultivated by an outside power.

-Ada Palmer, Tools for Thinking About Censorship

[sociologi]

02.01.2024 | the wheather in denmark right now gives me cozy fall vibes. spent the evening in a busy café writing on my anthropology essays while it was raining ☕️

[happyroadkillart]

what did he mean by this