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Whats your advice to the younger folks of Lemmy? (libretechni.ca)

submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/asklemmy@sh.itjust.works

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Mine:

Learn a second language and keep up with the language your parents speak. You will regret being a brat about not wanting to speak this language especially as your family members pass.

The only opinions about you that really matter are from the people you respect and who respect you back

Being a kind humble person, who leads their political convictions with curiosity and not self righteousness is important. As that one person said: "I am no hero and neither are you."

Don't throw out your old media (mix cds, tapes, records, photos, zinee, etc) because you think they're embarrassing. They either will not be embarrassing later or they will become expensive and you can tell them for mad bucks.

OQB @crash_thepose@lemmy.ml

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Or neither. Just don't play the game at all.

In this context "taking the red pill" would mean to accept all that alt right discourse; and "taking the blue pill" would be to keep yourself ignorant to it.

But both assume the alt right discourse is true and moral; it's neither, it's immorality built upon bullshit. The whole metaphor of "red pill, blue pill" is only there to distract you from the fact it's selling you a false dichotomy backed up by irrationality.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In this context "taking the red pill" would mean to accept all that alt right discourse; and "taking the blue pill" would be to keep yourself ignorant to it.

How do you know that? There wasn't any context given.

The alt right aren't the only ones who use that terminology. You can get redpilled on all sorts of stuff. All it means is that you've woken up to the reality outside the mainstream, whatever you think that is. Walking outside of Plato's cave and all that jazz. In the last few years I've been getting redpilled on socialism, for example.

In my opinion, the alt right didn't just take the blue pill: they chugged the whole damn bottle.

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I haven't heard anyone use "being redpilled" in any context that wasn't related to alt-right, racist or misogynistic ideologies and so I would be wary of anyone using that phrase in a positive context.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do you even know what that reference is from? The alt right didn't invent it.

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah I know what it references, but I've just never seen anyone talk about "getting redpilled" on anything good and I think if anyone tried to, I'd distrust them and avoid them.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 0 points 2 days ago

How do you know that? There wasn’t any context given.

We're in the internet. In the internet "taking the red pill" usually conveys "accepting that alt right discourse as true". It's conventionalised here. We're also in a federation of social media sites where your typical user is left-wing, and talks a lot about politics, further reinforcing the above.

So yes, there is context. And all other interpretations of their utterance (like referring to some actual red pill but never mentioning which; or a referential joke, but not sharing the reference) sound silly in contrast.

[From your other comment] Do you even know what that reference is from? The alt right didn’t invent it.

Origin (Matrix) doesn't dictate current meaning.