I see Lemmy and other fediverse platforms as pioneers for desentralized web which is still in its early stages. There are still problems to be solved and likely bunch of things that should be streamlined before bringing in the masses but there’s a lot of potential in desentralization even beyond social media.

Honestly it’s probably better this way as Fediverse is likely ill prepared to host all these people. There’s likely still a lot work to be done to make instances more efficient, scaleable, sustainable and easier to moderate.

No need to get rude, the point is that:

If you want group of people to be supportive for your cause then there are better ways than:

• Try to blame them for things these people have nothing to do with, like actions of people more than century a go.
• Convey them as villains in bullshit “us vs them” narrative.
• Tell them to check their privilege while they may be just as well be living in poverty or otherwise be struggling.
• Attacking them for not being woke enough.
• etc

I personally hate the modern day identity politics and it’s polarising narrative and this goes for both the left and the right or “woke” and “anti-woke” sides. This leads to radicalization of some and alienation of more moderate individuals from both sides of the spectrum. I also think that exclusion, scapegoating and vilification can lead to people and their supporters accepting their newly given role as a villain and start campaigning against what they where initially for.

If you apply strong constant pressure for years even steel will bend and concrete crumble.

I am sure that conveying these white men (and women) as oppressive, entitled villains in these articles or opinion pieces will help calm that anger and win them over. /s

Well I have to agree that he did have controversial takes on those issues.
Albeit many of which probably resonate well with average American voters.

Haven’t paid much attention to Sam Harris for years, last time was probably around 2017 when some grouped him in to the “Intellectual dark web”. Based on this episode it seem that unlike Jordan Petterson, Harris has somewhat managed to avoid getting radicalized by his audience and/or haters. But it could be that he’s just really good acting calm and reasonable.

Care to give any examples on these white washed centrists talking points that you’re most critical of?

Since this is transcript of podcast episode here’s few links for that one.

Making Sense: Episode 391 - The Reckoning

• samharris.org
• Spotify
• Youtube

If you want to make a fan game, make spiritual sequel instead.

Nintendo can’t do much about games that are very similar to Mario, Zelda or Pokemon for as long as they do not copy any assets, (some) names or levels from those games. Based on the videos the main character is unique but most if not all the other art assets are direct copies from the original game.