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16·22 hours agoyou mean the Gestapo since GDR was integrated into the west German model
111·1 day agogestapo is back I guess
fedposting from feddit.org, checks out
^ when you definitely understand what memes are
My favorite part is how dems judiciously avoid discussing the elephant in the room which is that it is their own policies that disenfranchise the public.
Linda Nagata deserves a lot more recognition in general.
One of my fav series hands down as well. Can’t wait to read the next instalment.
not for long it seems
Yeah, you kind of have to play it by ear. I find a big red flag is when somebody just starts regurgitating well known tropes that have been discussed to death. That’s usually a clear sign they’re just here to stir shit up.
You’re right that mockery is a terrible way to convert anyone. I think the real issue is that you’re not going to reach everyone, and that means we have to be strategic about where we put our energy. When someone is genuinely asking questions or wrestling with ideas in good faith, that’s where patient, respectful dialogue is essential.
But a huge amount of online discourse isn’t that. It’s just bad faith concern trolling, sealioning, or just repeating liberal pieties. Engaging with that on its own terms is a trap because it wastes time and gives legitimacy to arguments designed to waste our time.
A sharp dismissal or ridicule draws a clear line, shows others they don’t have to entertain every bad argument, and prevents the conversation from being derailed. The target is the audience, not the provocateur. So while it’s useless for persuasion, I’d argue that it has a role in defining the boundaries of the discussion.
what level of brain rot is this, oh wait lemmy.world, that explains things
For sci-fi, I can’t recommend Linda Nagata enough. The Nanotech Succession and Inverted Frontier are a couple of my all time favorite series.
What specifically are you doubting here?
In a plot twist worthy of a political thriller, the EU’s new diplomatic chief, Kalla Kallas, finds her shiny new office getting a surprise “spring cleaning” from Belgian police. Raids, seized documents, and detentions over alleged fraud and corruption have arrived just in time to spice up the bloc’s already strained credibility. Nothing says “united front” like a corruption probe at the heart of your foreign policy HQ.
also wtf
8·6 days agoAlso, it might be possible to engineer life forms that can actually survive and even thrive in space.
11·7 days agoWe cannot understand class behavior by examining individual morality. Viewing the capital owning class as a collection of mustache twirling villains is not a useful framing. Rather, we should look at them as the human personification of capital itself. Their social being, their entire material condition, is defined by the accumulation of private profit and the protection of property relations that enforce their dominance.
Their inability to relate is not a personal failing but a direct result of their objective position in the capitalist mode of production. They live in a world insulated from the precarity of rent, medical debt, and wage slavery that defines life for the working majority. Their consciousness is shaped by them being insulated from the problems regular people experience. Therefore, critique of their lack of empathy is a liberal dead end because it mistakes a systemic outcome for a personal choice.
The focus must be the capitalist system itself, which necessarily produces the inequality and the divide between the capitalists and the workers. The fundamental contradiction between the socialized nature of production and the private appropriation of wealth is the core issue. The solution is to dismantle the economic base that creates them as a class and move towards a system where the means of production are socially owned, abolishing the very material conditions that breed alienation and disparity.
the essence of the American political system