Think of it like a video game HUD where there’s just text floating above a person’s head where you see all their political beliefs, including the degree of bigotry (if any), or whether or not the person believes in the use of violence to acheive polical goals, basically every little detail that would accurately depict people’s political beliefs. Your beliefs are also visible to others. This effect has 1KM radius, including people above and below you.
So, how fucked are you?
(Think of all the authorities in your area that can see your beliefs, including the beliefs regarding the recent incident…)
If you’re engaging online at all, or donating to any politicians, the authorities are already aware of your politics.
Depends on the implementation for me. I’m in the southern US. If it just says ‘socialist,’ I’m probably fucked. But if it actually shows policies I support, like ‘everyone is entitled to own the output of their own labor,’ then most people would probably agree with me. People are propagandized against the socialist/communist label, but most of them agree with the policies.
Does it apply to people online?
Does it apply to people on a television screen?
Does it apply to videos of people in the past, who have since changed their beliefs?
What do I see if someone has convinced they are somebody else? Whose beliefs do I see?
I kind of understand the premise (“what happens if we can’t hide our beliefs anymore”) but the details are too important to gloss over
Well considering politics isn’t something I’ve spent a lot of my time thinking about, and I suspect my ideas are somewhat under developed. Because of which I’d love to take a look at that scoreboard and see what it says about me. Because I have no clue what I truly believe anymore.
I’m white, I’m male, I’m straight, cis-gendered, and middle-class. My neighbours aren’t going to bother me. And if they also become aware of what “anarcho-communism” means in the process, they wouldn’t even blink.
Thr police might not appreciate my thoughts on them, but I think they’d suddenly have way less public support in this scenario, so meh.
Oh, everybody can already see that. I’m a man in my 30s and I still wear my punk vest everywhere. My feelings on cops, Nazis, and fascists are made pretty clear on it, while anyone who recognizes basic anarchist emblems will see those too. It doesn’t do a perfect 1:1 job of communicating my beliefs, but I’m more open and specific with what I believe than any coward in a red hat
It sounds like you might need to grow up brother
You aren’t my brother, none of them are cowards or bootlickers
People have signs on their front lawn showing who they support. In a way, your hypothetical has been happening for decades. A lot of people don’t hide who they vote for.
I think you’ll find many people who are largely outnumbered in their area tend to opt out of signs.
My opinions and political beliefs are proven fact so everyone can just look at me for the truth
Lol.
I’m homeless and unemployed by the end of the day and have to flee the state. Both my landlord and general manager are hardcore MAGAts, and I live in a small, remote town in a very red state. It would genuinely not be safe for my politics to be known.
I’m pretty fucked. First of all it’s going to be several paragraphs because I don’t neatly fit an ideology and then there’s something to piss off every group.
I’m fine. I live in Canada, and I’m not a fascist, Nazi, (colour) supremacist, or anything.
I just lean to the left and appreciate public/social services; which is slightly “communist” but not “authoritarian Nazi” Communist. No no, you should be free to live how you want, work in whatever field you want, eat the food you like, love who you wanna love, and live how and where you want to live. I’m just in favor of things like, not bankrupting someone because they got pneumonia and had to go to the hospital for a day; also fire departments, schools, employment insurance (social/government), streets and roads, parks, sidewalks, community centers… You know, stuff that everyone owns, but nobody “owns”? Stuff we all can use without having to pay for it.
I’m also in favor of UBI, but I realize that UBI may not happen anytime soon, maybe not in my lifetime. I hope it happens eventually (or at do away with fiat currency), for the good of the people, but I recognize the fight is difficult to win.
Not fucked at all. I agree with my beliefs, and I’m tired of being misunderstood. Having them be visible would be vindicating. I just want to be friends with everyone at the end of the day.
Too bad there are right wing nutjobs that want you dead.
Hopefully there aren’t any of those within 1KM of you.
I don’t go through life like this. I think if I met a rightwing nutjob, I could get along with them or at least bond over something not related to politics. I had to do this when I worked in an office, too. People are still people.
I like you
Based take
In that case, if they succeed, it’s no longer my concern
Idk, how far is that in “freedom units”? Probably fine, the bigots are too far away to get mad at me.
About 11 football fields.
Like maybe 3 minutes uninterruped in car driving distance?
Is that 'murican enough? 😉
😂
Why does everybody think that so many people will just straight up murder everybody who doesn’t share their politics?
This is quietly a major issue in America. Fear of discourse and self-censorship. Leads to more and more echo chambers and anti-democratic behavior. :(
Also why would they come for you if you are progessive and leftist? I think, here in Greece at least, it’s far more likely people to be against you if you are a fascist. And I dont think Greece is much of a progressive country.🤷
And besides all that, I think it’s kinda easy to get a rough idea of people’s beliefs anyways.
Because most people on Lemmy secretly (or not secretly) wish they could murder everyone who doesn’t share their politics and are projecting this on other people.
Projection is a big part of the collectivist zeitgeist
I was sitting in the break room where I used to work and three supervisors were talking about the gun one is them had just bought and was going through the waiting period to pick it up. One of the said he should go into Chicago and shoot liberals with it and they all agreed about it adding to what he should do etc. These are fairly average people too. This was years ago, things have only gotten worse.
c/ThatHappened
Because some of us have lived in places in the US where that’s pretty much been said and demonstrated before.
If you don’t feel that way, consider yourself lucky to have never lived in extremely intolerant areas of the states that use violence against people who think, look, or behave differently.
Edit: Amazing. The people down voting this and other sentiments choose to live in their own little bubble and have never been to parts of the US where this is true. Keep believing what you want to believe then.
Because a lot of people live in countries where “so many people will just straight up murder everybody who doesn’t share their politics”.
Lol no. Most people don’t give a shit about politics, nor take it as a “life or death” thing like in Lemmy.
Florida here. Had a Bernie bumper sticker from the early days of his campaign til the end of Trump’s admin. Only ever incited two interactions, both were physical threats.
So, it probably wouldn’t go well.
Not very. Most people around here are able to coexist despite having different views.
