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Why does it feel that the evil sides globally are winning. Even evil people are winning. Why?

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago

Class solidarity among the rich. Rich people want willing servants. They want people to fear disobeying them.

[–] AlfredoJohn@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 hours ago

Hate drives engagement and can have multiple intersections with opposing view points. Take our algorithmic methods of serving content and you get silos of positivity with oceans of hate in between that fuel metrics of user engagement and view time. Drive your share price by those metrics and run the economy on those share prices. Viola hate becomes the new most important resource to generate and those who can spread it most effectively or direct that hate become those with the most power. If we want to break that grasp on power we need to break the cycle of engagement being tied to hate, find a way to drive engagement through positive action and understanding. I talk like I know how to do that but in reality that's one of the most difficult problems humanity has in general. Like greed is terrible but if you could figure out how to make positivity and mutual understanding more profitable than spewing hate and divisiveness you could channel those at the tops greed into positive feedback loops. Once you have more understanding, and equity in individuals understanding each other we can them finally work as a collective to start eliminating things like bigotry, poverty, etc.

[–] VerbFlow@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Fascism is rising because the bourgeoisie is funding it to keep out Communism, Socialism, Marxism, and other things that explain why most people globally cannot afford a house, or why England pays such low wages, or why groceries are so expensive in America, or why Germany is undergoing an economic collapse. Once you understand Marxism even simply, these quotes will start to make sense.

P.S. If you're going to say that fascism is rising in power, please just say that. I know that things are shitty because fascism is rising, but I hate when people are vague.

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.world 17 points 5 hours ago

We are losing the class war.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago

because theyve been laying groundwork and slowly infiltrating every corner of our society for over 50 years.

The slow burn was for purpose, to keep people from noticing, and so that anyone that did notice and point it out would look like a crackpot.

and, imho, I think they didnt expect the opportunity trump presented globally, in his first term, but they chose to come out of the shadows and try to exploit it regardless, which is why they've had the stumbling blocks they have had that has given opportunity to fight it.

[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I think the same but feel a bit better when I go to protests to meet people, working out, reading.

Im taking this time to improve myself and meditate. System is designed to keep the rich without any checks and balances. But we cannot lose our faith in each other, stay close and make tribes. Join clubs. Stick together.

We got this.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'm going to start volunteering more. I have time and people need that time.

[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

Hell yeah brother or sis. Lets go.

[–] VITecNet@programming.dev 22 points 7 hours ago

Because Evil is winning globally.

[–] DegenerationIP@lemmy.world 20 points 7 hours ago

Well. Lots of people drank the kool aid. As long as some people getting a feeling of Power (like shitting on minorities), they will take the blow from the ruling class.

The last time that shit worked started WWII.

But yeah. What will we do about it. There are days where I think we will make it through. But other days I just feel weak and powerless and think we're doomed.

Fuck greed, eat the rich.

[–] AkikoMasayoshi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 9 hours ago

People are scared and angry and want action without thinking about the long-term gains only the short term. Creating fear is fascism 101 and how many rise to power

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 22 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Neuroscience says that the scared brain has a lower IQ, which is good for giving in to survival instincts in an acute threat situation, but really bad to make any longterm decisions. Populists try to scare us for this very reason. Scared people are easier to manipulate. It's working, and it's fucking scary how effective it is. But I am not scared in the way that lowers my critical reflection. So I hope someone brings out the guillotines before more poor people (our people) die.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 52 seconds ago

Sorry this just doesn't make any sense.

Why would people vote for candidates that make them feel "scared"?

[–] ScientifficDoggo@lemmy.zip 13 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Because good doesn't have the stomach to go blow for blow with evil anymore.

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[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 20 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Evil has always been there. People have a tendency to turn a blind eye when it isn't directed at them. Recently it's very much been directed at Europe and North America. It brings the problems of the world into sharp focus.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

This is very much it.

I'm not trying to dismiss OP either. I'm glad they finally notice. But for a huge population of the world, it's ALWAYS been there. There's been a lot of evil shit. It's just it was never on their doorstep until now.

But this isn't a "The world is all doom and gloom".

There is a significant amount of positive upswings. Looking in the past 10,000 years, we are absolutely in a better era. We can make jokes and shit post about it, but the average person's quality of life back then no where matched what we are doing today. We tend to be relatively safe. We can get a variety of food anywhere.

Humans unfortunately only have a small window of time and don't see it, but there's a lot of good in the past hundred years.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 hours ago

Because evil people control all the media

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 55 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

We need more violent good guys

[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 9 points 10 hours ago
[–] Makhno@lemmy.world 30 points 14 hours ago (13 children)

Everytime we talk about violence being the only way to create change, limp-dick liberals bitch about how peaceful protests are the only way.

Liberalism helped build this hell, and it's determined to maintain it.

Leftist need to get guns. Now.

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[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 24 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Because evil is loud and self-important, and people doing good have learned to be mycelial, underground, quietly building the new world in the shell of the old.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago

Evil also tends to be wealthy. And wealthy people suck up all the oxygen in whatever room their in.

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[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

We have a global economic system that encourages and rewards evil. More and more countries have political systems that do the same. Good people would rather help others and make the world a better place, and this prevents them from attaining power. It would probably require doing some evil to remove the evil people from power.

[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Evil is not winning. Greed is. If it was evil, it would be worse

[–] 2eanimation@lemm.ee 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Greed makes people do evil things. I don’t think your usual evil guy is evil for the sake of it. It‘s something they strive for.

[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

When we get someone who wants to do evil for the sake of it because why not, the difference will be astounding

[–] twocupsofsugar@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

evil people have always been there, but we're in an era of many crisis's, it was easier to ignore it when it didn't personally effect you. Now i imagine in the next 10-20 years it'll start effecting everyone in ways we've yet to imagine. But I don't think its the end of the world or anything just that its probably time we start considering what we want our futures to look like and start making plans to survive or fight.

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 hours ago

Bad news sells.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Because people say stupid shit like "but they have laser-guided drones and you have a rifle!"

Fucking idiots do not understand how revolution works and dont know that the US military has failed every invasion.

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[–] MrStargazer@lemm.ee 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

While times seem bad, and they are worse than they used to be, especially with the election of Donald Trump, imagine what it was like during WW2. Nazi Germany invaded France, Czechoslovakia, and half of Poland (with the Soviet Union the other half); Britain stood alone. Spain was under fascist dictatorship. Now Russia barely controls 1/5 of Ukraine, and has suffered many thousands of losses in tanks and armoured vehicles. Modern Russia is now weaker than the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany was (for their time period).

[–] TheGoddessAnoia@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 hours ago

I do wish people would stop with the "Britian stood alone." stuff. Even before Hitler attacked the Soviet Union, there were Allies fighting all over the world, resistance movements in every single continental European country, famously France, but also the Nederlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Norway, Denmark, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. The entire British Empire was at war, either based in Britain, as saboteurs on the continent, on fronts from east Asia to the Sahara -- Canada, Newfoundland, Nepal, Australia, New Zealand -- India alone lost 2 million fighters (look it up!), Burma, Malta, South Africa, Egypt, and southern Rhodesia. China did not just surrender blindly: before 1941, both Mao and Sun Yat-sen had armies fighting the Japanese which kept them from attacking the Soviet Union after Hitler turned. Mongolia and Korea never stopped fighting, either. Britain endured the Blitz, it is true, and Churchill certainly made some great speeches about 'standing alone' while he was sacrificing literally millions of 'colonials' to preserve his European troops. But it was, and is, propaganda.

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