I don’t see anyone in the present day actually following Stoicism (as in the original philosophy, not the generic and pop culture version of it). Acceptance of one’s own emotions (but not necessarily acting on them) seems way more useful than trying to :galaxy-brain: your way out of sadness. Both are better than no regulation at all, of course.

Yeah that’s why I said it was technically true

I agree that it can help people cope, but IMO it’s never going to be as good as actually being free physically. And, freedom is different from happiness. You can feel plenty free in prison but your conditions can still make you miserable in other ways.

and what mistakes did we learn from? did we consider why it failed, or what they could have done differently? or did we just dismiss the entire concept because it was internet politics?

even if you think we can’t learn from mistakes here, we can definitely agitate

I respect it, but I am far too stupid for it

They’re talking about making the “blackout” indefinite, like a real strike. I think there’s a lot of agitated moderators who could be convinced to further organize there.

“accused of being trans”

what does this even mean, why is being trans some dirty thing to be accused of, i hate this country

This is slander, we love children’s card games.

I want it to stop being used permanently, I understand the data is valuable

it’s kind of sad to see hogs on this site regard this whole situation with such disdain. this is a prototype for mass internet action. this is extremely important. at worst, we can learn from their mistakes. the nihilism of internet politics was a mistake.

i hope reddit dies permanently