• TheFriar@lemm.ee
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    An ironically poignant post in this era of social media where people allow themselves a back pat for posting something and then thinking their activism is complete.

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      If you’re doing anything remotely approaching activism with a brick, don’t post about it online. Being that sloppy is for War Thunder forum posters.

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          I’m saying that you don’t see people posting about their brick-adjacent activism because it’s a terrible fucking idea to post about it.

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            And I never said post about it. This is kinda the problem I’m talking about. Social media is so entwined with “activism” these days that so-called activism is nothing more than Coachella to some people: if they go, it’s mostly to post about it. I’m saying do it, dont post about it. Am I being unclear? I don’t understand this miscommunication.

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              Maybe I’m being unclear, I’m saying it’s not possible to know who is doing brick-adjacent activism if they’re not posting about it and you’re not there to see it.

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                Maybe I’m being unclear, I’m trying to say that the amount of people making political statements about X problem or Y issue on social media dwarfs the amount of activism. It’s not at all a new fact that social media activism has largely replaced activism. My argument is that people consider their work done when they make a post. It’s like a scheduled, permitted weekend march that largely gets over-documented on social media and used for clout/profile building. It’s a real problem. I’m not calling anyone here anything, I was making the point that posting on “aboringdystopia” about activism that largely doesn’t happen anymore was ironic because of this problem of social media posturing replacing effective activism.

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      I believe the idea is that you are supposed to distribute these bricks to deserving straight people.