Edit: Sheesh. Some of you folks need this.
Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages
up·lift·ing /ˌəpˈliftiNG/
adjective
adjective: uplifting
inspiring happiness, optimism, or hope. “an uplifting story of triumph over adversity”
billionaires are not immortal (yet)
but their money is, and it’s already sequestered away. Their mere existence is a problem that lasts longer than their lifespan.
And they have physical bodies!
them being immortal would probably speed up their removal, if change can only happen through violence then your hand is forced
It’s my HRT birthday today, two years now and it’s really sunny and warm. It’s a nice day :3
Happy HRT birthday! Love your name btw :)
Happy HRT-birthday! 🎉
Fascism doesn’t actually last that long. At some point, policies have to have some kind of attachment to reality, and fascists are incapable of grappling with reality.
Franco stuck around for quite awhile, but yeah its track record is usually short.
Franco was the first one I thought of. However, his fascism didn’t outlive him, and President Pedophile doesn’t have 36 years to go.
But many other fascists have now been given power by TacoBoy. I don’t think any singular person’s demise is ever going to be as “uplifting” as many are dreaming…
putin and kim have been going for quite some time.
Those are well crafted, defensive dictatorships at this point that have had decades and decades to sow the seeds of complacency and authoritarian control of their population. In one of those examples, the people of NK worship Kim and his father and grandfather as literal gods. So Americans aren’t quite there yet.
Not saying they’re super far off, but still a bit to travel before you get to centuries of repressed soviet/russian control and literal god-king dictators with an iron first around their populace.
In one of those examples, the people of NK worship Kim and his father and grandfather as literal gods.
Lol, no they don’t.
Effectively they do. When even mild criticism can get you thrown in jail, the difference is minimal in effect…
Putin has always been a dictator, but he hasn’t always been a fascist. He started his career as a moderate technocrat that happened to have incredible access to KGB resources. Very handy if you’re in the market to be forever president. As time went on he’s been mixing and remixing his stances and aims.
As far as NK, I’m not sure they’ve ever been fascist. They’re just a vanilla authoritarian police state.
A major component you can use to point out fascism specifically out of the rogues gallery of evil ideologies is the notion that a fascist government specifically derives its power from endlessly designating and promising to destroy out-groups. If it lasts long enough to run out of targets, it goes on to consume itself.
Historians debate just how fascist Franco really was. In fact, Orwell wasn’t even that sure when he wrote Homage to Catalonia, and he was quite clear that he went to Spain expressly to kill a fascist.
Well, we all wish they’d “grapple” with a few rounds at high velocity instead of fingerbanging their own shit and screaming incoherently. They’re infecting the other adult-sized toddlers, and it’s getting tedious to corral at this point.
cheese exists
Underrated reminder here.
While this argument is true, it’s full of holes.
What’s your favorite cheese?
Monte Enebro, it’s a goat cheese rith a volcanic ash rind
I’m having goulash this evening, and the next couple of weeks. The world could go up in flames and hell freeze over and I wouldn’t care.
Two weeks of goulash sounds like too much.
Yea I’m gonna freeze most of it. But it is one of those dishes that only makes sense to make in massive proportions and I was lucky to find a lean and tough cut of meat for a great price.
Had a goulash today for lunch!
Goulash is the perfect meal no matter what so long as the weather is cold and rainy.
- public libraries are still there.
- Book (physical) can still be purchased and fully owned, without any risk of them being remotely edited or deleted and without nay tracking of our reading habits.
- Walking is still free, without any subscription required.
- It is still legal to turn off one’s phone.
- I love my spouse at least as much as I loved her when we first met almost 30 years ago. And, yep, she seems to kinda like me too ;)
the use of the term still actually makes this sorta ominous.
You mean it is worrisome (sorry, English is not my native language)? If so, it’s the intend because I think there is already too many hints pointing out to a (slow?) vanishing of many of those ‘options’.
yeah essentially its like. for now. implying they will be gone which is like part of the things I worry about for the future.
Ebooks can be purchased as well, with a little skill (or reading a tutorial) you can make it undeletable and uneditable as well.
Source: My epub library growing day by day, synced between multiple devices by syncthing.
Ebooks can be purchased as well, with a little skill (or reading a tutorial) you can make it undeletable and uneditable as well.
You’re quite right (at least it used to be easy, I have not checked for some time how hard it is now to get rid of Apple’s and/or Amazon’s DRM… the two main DRM-locked ebook sellers), but keep in mind not everybody feels ok to not respect the rules and/or breach the contract they signed. Also there is no need to that at all with printed books.
Why go through the trouble of purchasing them with DRM and supporting that garbage and doing all the work to make them your own?
Piracy is infinitely superior.
Writers gotta get paid, tho’.
They already don’t get paid. Nearly every writer has to supplement their income with a paying job. Writers know this.
Piracy doesn’t hurt the writers nearly as much as it hurts the publisher, and that’s the point. If publishers get hurt badly enough and can’t operate properly, then writers will find a different path, and go independent, and keep all the money for themselves. THEN I’d want to buy directly from the author.
Ask the independent writers on Amazon how that’s working out for them.
It’s getting their works digested by Amazon’s LLMs.
Every generation in human history has been more intelligent and progressive than the last.
This trend is not slowing in the modern era.
this is reductive and false to the point where i have a hard time deciding where to begin
Trump is pretty old, and I cannot think of an example where a movement based around a cult if personality has successfully survived long after their leader has gone. Nor are there any viable successors that are likely to dodge any infighting. JD Vance as a successor? Yeah, ain’t happening.
To summarize, the pendulum will eventually swing the other way. And the worse the MAGA crowd pulls it in their direction now, the harder it will swing.
been waiting for that pendulum to swing almost 50 years now…
I cannot think of an example where a movement based around a cult of personality has successfully survived long after their leader has gone.
Most religious cults especially Christianity lol, what a statement
yeah. frankly while most left/liberal dont’ see it, Trump is also a product of the pendulum swinging. we have been on a good spat of liberalization for 30+ years and there was going to be a backlash. and as someone who grew up working class white, i totally get the unfairness and bitterness of so many of those people who the economic/education system has totally abandoned, and the horrible feelings and condescending that comes from the liberal elite/educated set who look down on everyone who isn’t highly educated and living in a coastal city.
I thought of disputing, but every paragraph is a troll
esp use trans people and trans rights as the most important thing ever, which has alienated many many people due to the rage and hatred being spouted
You have completely and hopelessly fallen for Republican propaganda. You’ve swallowed their entire framing of trans issues without any thought. You’re repeating the Republican Party line verbatim.
Democrats have spent the last decade trying to stay the hell away from the trans rights discussion at every opportunity. They’re not over bigots like Republicans, but they try to talk about literally anything else. Republicans however have continued to scream from the rooftops about trans people, as they try to incite the populous to acts of literal genocide.
Where are all these Democratic leaders that spend all their time talking about trans people? Can you name a single one? You’ve been brainwashed by conservative media.
He didn’t have a clear vision. He had contradictory promises all over the place.
You must be a troll if you’re dumb enough to think all that tripe.
Im going to read through but I can’t imagine anything that is uplifiting enough to counter the current weights attached to us.
History always repeats itself.
Things get bad, then they get REALLY bad, then usually violence solves it and things get good again.
That last one. Could we find a way to skip to there this time? No? :(
Shakes magic 8-ball
“My sources say no”
It’s definitely a cycle, and unfortunately we’re getting really close to the end of one world order and the birth of a new one.
Oh, phew. 🫡
Humans die eventually.
Man this is some fuckin excellent news
The universe is extremely big and empty.
My kids ask me why grown ups make the choice to be mean to other people. They understand they are kids and are still learning. Doesn’t compute that a grown up would choose to be mean. Gonna keep it that way as long as I can.
