If you’d like to know who this guy is, here’s a paragraph about him on History.com
One such erasure was Nikola Yezhov, a secret police official who oversaw ██████ purges. For a while Yezhov worked at ██████ right hand, interrogating, falsely accusing and ordering the execution of thousands of Communist Party officials. But in 1938, Yezhov fell from ██████ favor after being usurped by one of his own deputies. He was denounced, secretly arrested, tried in a secret court, and executed.
I’m cis. The flag does not belong to me. It does not describe me. You can ignore my complaints…
But nevertheless, my neurodivergent brain is very bothered by the fact that there are only four panels, with the backgrounds going, “blue, pink, white, pink…”
There’s a lot of trouble with definitions regarding capitalism. (I’d call them intentional since muddying the waters serves the people who benefit from our current system.)
Pick any person who is complaining about “capitalism” right now.
If you proposed a system where everything was structured the same as it is right now, HOWEVER instead of shareholders and owners possessing companies, every, single company was a worker cooperative (owned and controlled by its workers) then I am 95% sure the anti-capitalist you picked would
Not consider that capitalism, and
Vastly prefer that over what we have right now
With some minor variation. (Tankies don’t think it’s possible to maintain such a system without monopolizing violence. Anarcho-communists wouldn’t be too happy about the scope and financial power of state and federal governments, and would seek to pare them down. Democratic socialists would think it was perfect. Little disagreements like that.)
But I think most other people (people who aren’t anti-capitalists) would think “that’s just a form of capitalism” if I described the above.
In fact, if I said,
A free market system, but ownership and control of the means of production is only allowed collectively and democratically. No shareholders allowed, no transferable individual ownership allowed.
Most ordinary people would consider that a form of capitalism. (Even though calling it capitalism is, technically, highly inaccurate). So it’s a difficult conversation to have. Because most “anti-capitalists” disagree with most “pro-capitalists” on the basic definition of what they are fighting or defending.
I’m actually convinced that a lot of “pro-capitalists” are more eager to defend the free market system than they are to defend transferable, stock-marketable, individual ownership of the means of production. I think they would compromise on the latter if they could safeguard the former.
Suppose you win 100 million. What do you actually do with it? Banks only guarantee 250,000. Do you have to invest it? Is there anywhere you can just let it sit and draw interest?
I derive a lot of benefit from mind-mapping in the style shown below. I usually do this in .txt files. But is there some generally accepted text file extension specifically for monospace art?...
I have found part of the answer to my question: it’s not a major mode, but the minor mode picture-mode is a necessary component in what I’m trying to accomplish. It has special commands like, “fill selected region with spaces” and its SPC and BACKSPACE keys now move across the text, replacing everything in their path with whitespace.
Do you suppose there’s a way to use artist-mode with Unicode characters replacing the ASCII ones? Because looking at artist-mode, the ASCII characters are causing a bit of hesitation.
EDIT: I do see an artist replacement table. Maybe I should paste the whole artist.el file into chat.openai and ask GPT3 whether and how I can use that to replace all four corners.
I like this logic. Killing should be a last resort.
Further, if I had a billion dollars to spend, I’d sooner spend it on organizations like Life After Hate and get them the resources necessary to deconvert and deprogram Nazis than I would on any iteration of our current system of playing whack-a-mole with their censor-evading code words. Or on some Nazi-killing executioner.
I hate how quick people are to advocate giving up on their fellow humans.
Just a reminder: the actual Nazis never said their goal was to steal from and murder a bunch of Jewish people while they were still seeking power.
They did say they were against the “International Jewry” that was pulling the strings behind all the world’s governments and controlling all the media and manipulating the populace with their “lying press” (aka “fake news.”) They also said gay people were groomers. Does any of this sound familiar?
The fascist must always position their self as the defender of the free world, of stability, of decency, of natural values, of a natural hierarchy…
and they must always invent an attacker who seeks to forcefully, tyrannically rob society of everything they know and love.
Without an attacker (who can be slandered), the fascist would need to defend the actual value of their own positions against level-headed, logical scrutiny.
The fascist ideology can survive a violent foe: all you need to do is vilify them, murder them, or throw them into death camps.
It cannot survive logic.
So they need to stop people from ever looking at the ideology through a logical lens.
Look: a lot of companies would suffer from an office real estate crash.
the businesses that own the office real estate
car manufacturers
tire manufacturers
petroleum companies
coffee franchises
fast food franchises lining freeways on the way to work
And most importantly, funds invested in all of the above.
People who own businesses also own stocks in other people’s businesses. Meaning they all fall and rise together. Trying to keep the “work commute” and “office rental” industries alive is just an attempt on the part of those who hold capital to keep their portfolios growing.
In secret, they are probably also trying to hedge their bets, diversify and make themselves immune to the coming collapse. They’ll try to position themselves and their capital in such a way so that the working class is the only group hurt when it happens.
But in public? They are not going to devalue their assets by standing by, complacent, as an office apocalypse approaches.
Maybe they’re focused on playing for time so they can insure their assets and move to hedge funds that are shorting all of the above industries? I don’t know investing that well.
I’m just curious about this. As someone with a chronic illness, I pretty much never hear anyone talk about things related to the sorts of difficulties and discrimination I and others might face within society. I’m not aware of companies or governments doing anything special to bring awareness on the same scale of say, pride...
But his favorite way of weaseling out of giving any direct answer on his actual religious beliefs is to highlight how “true in a sense” the stories are.
There are two very good Cosmic Skeptic YouTube shorts about it: [1] [2]
I don’t know. The name feels weird. I could see calling your community,
“moderates”
“moderategop”
“RINOs” (just like Trump’s supporters embraced calling themselves “deplorables”, non-Trump conservatives should probably ready themselves for turning enemies’ insults into their own battle standards.)
plus RINOs also gives a decent logo idea for the community (the rhinoceros)
Owen had serialized dream many years ago in childhood times. New dream chapters kept releasing for many nights. Dream parts were spooky. Owen was scared there, but felt like pain and fear was deserved.
However, when Owen was being pulled back to very scary place from earlier season, Owen chose instead to fight. Creature tried to pull Owen down, but Owen planted feet and pulled against creature. Creature fell into last season’s spooky place.
Panting, Owen spoke, “I’ve been down there.”
Weird dream stopped returning. “I’ve been down there” turned out being series finale.
Years passed. Owen decided to make anagram of “I’ve been down there.”
Owen failed: “Owen Ever Bind Thee” was closest Owen could come to good anagram. Owen got bored of scrambling letters. Chose Owen Everbinde and abandoned attempt at making anagram. Owen’s leftover ‘T’ and ‘H’ and ‘E’ will never have home.
I hate the word ‘Consumer’ or I mockingly call it ‘CONSOOMER’. Because that’s to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We’re no longer customers. We’re consumers now. And a consumer’s purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it’s what...
Edit: oh, and the belief in intelligence as an immutable genetic trait is only social darwinism if higher intelligence makes people more likely to reproduce, which it doesn’t. That’s the premise behind Idiocracy.
That’s what I thought at first too. But the definition, oddly enough, doesn’t actually mention reproduction.
social Darwinism noun : an extension of Darwinism to social phenomena specifically : a sociological theory that sociocultural advance is the product of intergroup conflict and competition and the socially elite classes (such as those possessing wealth and power) possess biological superiority in the struggle for existence
It’s most often used to describe Andrew Carnegie’s “Gospel of Wealth” which was all about the superiority of some members of society, and the benefits society would reap by allowing them power over everyone else and over all of society’s resources.
alternate rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Rule (ani.social)
What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?
What Do You Do With Large Amounts Of Money?
Suppose you win 100 million. What do you actually do with it? Banks only guarantee 250,000. Do you have to invest it? Is there anywhere you can just let it sit and draw interest?
Is there a file extension (and major mode) for monospaced unicode "art" ?
I derive a lot of benefit from mind-mapping in the style shown below. I usually do this in .txt files. But is there some generally accepted text file extension specifically for monospace art?...
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62% of Student Loan Borrowers Say They're Likely to Boycott Repayments: Poll (www.commondreams.org)
What is "anti woke"
Someone please explain why people are using “anti woke” instead just calling it what is… example: racism, bigotry
why are companies trying so hard to have employees back in the office?
I have posted this on Reddit (askeconomics) a while back but got no good replies. Copying it here because I don’t want to send traffic to Reddit....
As far as public support goes, why aren't disabilities and chronic illnesses treated in a similar manner to LGBT issues?
I’m just curious about this. As someone with a chronic illness, I pretty much never hear anyone talk about things related to the sorts of difficulties and discrimination I and others might face within society. I’m not aware of companies or governments doing anything special to bring awareness on the same scale of say, pride...
Every Religious Person ever (lemmy.world)
!gop: The Community for Republicans of the Fediverse (Please note that the Far-Right and Trump-Lovers are not welcome.)
Come on in to !gop for news, discussions, and more about the Republican Party....
Without using pronouns (me, he, she, it, etc) or articles (a, an, the), how did you come up with your user name?
Essentially, I want us to sound like cavemen....
What's a 'dirty word' that you hate hearing when it's used to describe something or someone?
I hate the word ‘Consumer’ or I mockingly call it ‘CONSOOMER’. Because that’s to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We’re no longer customers. We’re consumers now. And a consumer’s purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it’s what...