Looks interesting, but I was looking at the headphones and you have to buy with Google Pay for some reason. 👀

*edit - OK actually you can put it in your cart and choose something else, but on the product page that’s the only option?

Only thing I said that I think might be worth downvoting is “unified society,” which might have unintentionally implied society was once completely unified. It felt so obvious I couldn’t possibly mean that, it didn’t even occur to me to be more precise there. In hindsight though, what I should have stressed is that we’ve been getting less unified than ever. We’re losing the ability to see the humanity in one another, and have been for a long time.

Folks who sow division want to make it about culture or politics, but it was always about class or more fundamentally, power. The more willing we are to play the hierarchy game, the more power goes to the ones on top.

Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t agree with such a move, but X is an exception. We’ve seen the platform owner directly interfere with politics in multiple countries and we know what crowd of terrorists he’s been running with both on his platform and elsewhere. The platform owner is definitively a traitor to Canada, aiding a malicious enemy who has threatened our country and set out to harm us. But I do wonder what reaction the average Canadian (who just uses the most popular social media because everybody else is on it and hasn’t participated at all in alternatives like the Fediverse) would have. If we manage to elect a non-CPC gov’t though, maybe they can use that mandate.

Doubling down on tribalism won’t save us from their ignorance. The degradation of a unified society by means of Us vs. Them thinking is how we got here in the first place and how things continue to get worse.

There are those at the fringes of that style of thinking that can be reached by those of us who are adjacent to them (via family, mutual friends, workplaces, etc.). Those folks at the fringes can reach those adjacent to them. We’ll never get 100% of them on side but we can at least weaken the well-funded machine that continues to keep them uninformed by relating to people as human beings instead of stoking division like oligarchs intend for us to do.

Maybe if it runs longer, we all get to jump to a better timeline. 😅