How COVID-1984 Changed Me.

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[–]jykylsin2034 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

I used to just be a bit right and down a year ago when I was a normie, now I'm literally all the way on the right and about half way up

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

You got more authoritarian during lockdown?

[–]jykylsin2034 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I care about it a lot more, but the test sees my Nazi like views as not liking freedom

[–]insta 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Makes sense. COVID-19 shows how little people care about liberty and freedom.

Put some scary images on tv and tell people meemaw might die and suddenly everyone wants everything except walmart shut down by the gov't.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

It only makes sense if you're a sheep.

[–]insta 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

How so? Why bother fighting for an ideology that nobody respects or believes in?

Makes more sense to try and gain the authoritarian power than simply ignore it and pretend people care in freedom. COVID restrictions and shutdowns has been a near complete refutation of the viability of libertarianism.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

" Why bother fighting for an ideology that nobody respects or believes in? "

You mean like freedom? Why bother when you can just go along with the sheeple herd to get along - and when they slaughter you there will be nothing left to worry about.

LOL. The sheeple will NEVER gain power from authoritarians.

" COVID restrictions and shutdowns has been a near complete refutation of the viability of libertarianism. "

This makes zero sense. A manufactured complete global collapse does not refute liberty.

You're employing the worst logic in the world to defend your groupthink and cowardice - possibly for the benefit of the readers, especially if you're shilling.

[–]insta 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

First off, use ">" at the beginning to quote properly

You mean like freedom?

Yes, I mean freedom. The majority of people dont care about it, has COVID not taught you this? Why bother arguing for freedom when nobody wants it? Better to argue for your preferred flavor of authoritarianism. Seems more likely than your preferred vague state of libertarianism thats never going to come to fruition.

This makes zero sense. A manufactured complete global collapse does not refute liberty.

Yes it does. The govt got a few doctors to come out and say that meemaw might catch the coof and die and everyone fucking surrendered their rights and freedom. People do not value this freedom you speak of. They're willing to give up their entire way of life for a death rate like 2.5x as deadly as the flu. COVID has shown that the public will drop liberty for """security""" at the drop of a hat.

especially if you're shilling.

Stop repeating trendy words you say on twitter dot com. You're using them wrong.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Truth be told, it's actually been a shift since about 2014 to 2016 when I started diving down all the rabbit holes.

Also, I would have been a little further up and left from 2003-2009.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Jason, check this out, I think you’ll find it interesting: https://saidit.net/s/politics/comments/6yup/americanvalues_is_an_8values_clone_aimed_at/qhig

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Ah, interesting. I wasn't aware of more recent political testing. I'm not doing any tests again nor new ones.

IMO, judging the vibe on SaidIt is like looking through a keyhole. I can only see what I can see, with my biases and preferred topical subs and communities and friends, etc. IMO Saidit ebbs and flows with heavy flows and dry spells and informed banter and stupid trolls. When I discuss these or read others views they're often contrary to my own because I haven't seen what they have. It's very curious and peculiar.

Since before the election it's seemed to me that the over all noise and activity has dropped dramatically. (Fine by me. I just keep on - until I don't.) Last week I looked up the analytics on SaidIt and found a strange anomaly. I haven't shared it yet. I was procrastinating. Last night I couldn't sleep so I finally posted (dumped) a big folder of recent stuff I'd meant to share.

Usually when multitasking at my box I post as I go (unless I'm blocked by Saidit's security). If I'm doing things with my headphones on all I do is save it to share (if worthy). In this I've realized what a giant timesuck it is. I copypaste the time length and creator for all the YouTube stuff I share (99%). I've felt like a human robot for some time. I now realize I can't continue this soul sucking shit anymore without a simple browser addon (or SaidIt update) to do that for me (then with that I'll just have to select the target sub). I know I could just post the title, but it just seems wrong for videos. This is a good thing though. I need to quit my addiction to SaidIt and my compulsion to share the endless great stuff I find. I need to create my own content too, and I can't do that tied up on SaidIt. Plus I need to earn some funds to not scrape by monthly anymore. I need to finish drafting my "Trillion Dollar Idea" and "Quitting SaidIt" posts to make it official so I may withdraw. Sort of. I'll be shifting my SaidIt activity primarily to music - so I can listen and focus as I create. Plus I need to catch up on 550 messages.

For the record, I didn't take a test for my post here. I guesstimated. I was just implying that on SaidIt I've been exposed to more Right ideas bringing me more center, and this lockdown shit has me more anti-gov than ever, if you can believe it.

[–]Vigte 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The center will rise again!

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Good, as long as it's not rising towards authoritarianism.

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It's more of a graph than a meme. Although I guess that me + me = meme.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

DAMN! I started by looking up political compasses. I found this weird one: /s/politics/comments/6ywt/a_confusing_modern_take_on_the_political_compass/ and didn't think it belonged in /s/PoliticalCompassMemes. Then realizing that the image I sought (posted) would already be on ImgFlip I made it there (as usual) instead of in Photoshop as I'd intended - then when I posted it I'd forgotten about /s/PoliticalCompassMemes and just habitually posted it here in /s/memes. D'oh!

[–]IridescentAnaconda 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I experienced a larger left-to-right shift in the last year.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Did you change or did the world change, or both?

[–]IridescentAnaconda 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Did the world change? I don't know. My understanding of the world certainly did. I now know how society and my own larger social network behaves in the face of obvious propaganda, how actions don't match stated values/beliefs, etc. That has caused me to re-evaluate the norms and values of my larger social network while at the same time deepening an understanding of my own values. The juxtaposition of these processes has caused me to change my opinions about social norms and social policy, thus leading to the rightward shift.