I break things. Then I put them back together. Then I break them again. Just to show I mean business.
All states are “nanny states”- just because you use a derogatory term for it doesn’t change the fundamental principle of what a society is, which is to care for its citizens, run by its citizens, for the benefit of all citizens.
The alternative to it is anarchy.
A “nanny state” (god i fucking hate that ridiculous right wing propaganda term) is the normal state of society.
This is the sad state of the USA.
“The revolution will be bloodless if the left will let it be.” / Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts speaking with Steve Bannon on air
Linux takes a long time to learn and is often quirky and strange in unexpected ways- life long Windows users already know how horrible Windows is and its quirky strange behaviors.
We stick with what we know. Unlearning behaviors is doubly hard when replacing them with something better.
Hey, let’s try and be the change we want to see. I tried, and just ignore the dumb snotty children, not worth neither your nor my time.
Wow, yeah, i just randomly read through this thread- i basically never read replies because it’s full of the shit you’re talking about and I was just thinking, damn, this is even worse than reddit.
Lots of identity confused kids in here, I think, I ever only hear this type of jargon and lack of openness and anti-intellectuality from that demographic.
Fucking shame. Came here from reddit to get away from that.
His collar should be made of iron and connected with a chain to the wall of a prison dungeon, the corrupt piece of self serving shit.
The only thing more tiresome than their constant fucking projection is the people too fucking dumb to see it.
It’s a scam, and people keep falling for it over and over and over and over and o
Thanks, chatgpt, it’s always so meaningful to hear what you have to say.
Semantic constructs. Audiosemiotic conceptualizations. Wordy McWordwords!
The all knowing robot told me it’s meant to mimic the sound of heavy running.
Considering some of the other banned words on the list, some fat kid is getting bullied in that class.
I figured it was generally understood that that one is a no-go in most all situations. I mean you only need to do it once to learn what happens if you do.
“What’s the matter Lisa? You’re usually the first one out of this deathtrap!”
Playing devil’s advocate here, could it be that they ran something like a baby euthanasia outfit? like, no contraceptives back then, extreme social stigma surrounding birth out of wedlock, poverty forcing women to give up their newborns, giving them up to the nunnery, which had no resources to deal with feeding caring and raising thousands upon thousands of children, and so either A) simply took it upon themselves to take the logical step and cull some of them, or B) that a high number of babies died of natural causes (neglect, malnutrition, sudden infant death syndrome, disease, whatever) and they simply disposed of them.
I don’t know what else could explain this, it’s not like we’re seriously talking about gangs of murderous baby killing nuns roaming the streets at night and snatching up babies by the hundreds for lust murders, right?
As far as I’m concerned, the only crime here is the institutionalized psychopathy of a religious patriarchal system that refused to take responsibility for giving people a legal and moral avenue to raise children that were brought into life in violation of religious law.
Makes more sense to me at least, I may be fuck way off wrong.
Let’s not give this absolute nobody media space please…
Compare how and why people cheer for sports teams. If you’re affiliated you will support any statement in favor of the team, while ignoring, suppressing, or attacking any statements to the contrary.
You won’t debate a Trump troll out of supporting Trump, because it’s about belonging to a group and showing loyalty regardless of facts. Honestly I’m not surprised he’s doing so well, consider how techy most of us are and still get overwhelmed by what the Internet is shaping up to be. If you’re in your 50’s from a poor rural area, what chance have you got to stand against weaponized online propaganda?
We are all like this, by the way. The inclination to blind affiliation with groups is the result of very deep, very old, very well studied cognitive structures and behaviors.
Here’s some introductory reading that might fundamentally change how you perceive people’s participation in groups:
https://thedecisionlab.com/reference-guide/sociology/conformity
Sherif’s autokinetic experiment - if enough people around you believe something, you’ll soon believe it too
https://www.simplypsychology.org/asch-conformity.html
A similar experiment performed by Solomon Asch
https://www.simplypsychology.org/robbers-cave.html
The Robber’s Cave experiment - arbitrarily divide a group into two, and watch the inevitable descent into inter-group conflict (hopeful note: if you make the groups try to overcome a common obstacle, fighting goes away)
Leon Festinger’s Cognitive Dissonance Tests - This is an interesting one as well, here’s the idea:
Experiment: Infiltrating a doomsday cult before, during, and after the date of their supposed apocalypse, Festinger and his fellow scientists noted that instead of losing faith, members doubled-down on their beliefs after the ‘end times’ came and went — eventually believing that their work saved the world.
Conclusion: When we have two (or more) incompatible thoughts, we adjust them to minimize internal conflict, what Festinger called ‘cognitive dissonance’ — a term that explains the mind state of those unwilling to accept information that conflicts against their belief.
“The Greeks were a bunch of woke gays anyway, good riddance” is what a Republican might say if they knew the Greeks invented democracy.
The concept of AI weaponized mass propaganda on social media makes it less mysterious.
Let’s not forget the realities of capitalism. When money rules our societies, and when money can buy you literally anything, you will always be able to incentivize people to do anything at all.
I think humans are inherently moral creatures, but if you put them under artificial constraints like economic scarcity, or in prison camps, or otherwise force them to survive under some level of duress, they will always do what they need to to survive.
Combine that with powerful national rhetoric and uniformed men with guns telling you what is right and tell you what to do and we’re beyond the concept of free will underpinning the foundations of morality.
Just see the Milgram experiment.
The human mind is supremely easy to manipulate.