I haven’t stated my position. Yes, I think our democratic processes could be better in many countries.

I also understand the reality that there is no simple 'one system" solution that is just going to miraculously fix everything.

The downvotes say it all. No one in favour of it here seems able to have an honest discussion.

If you are genuinely unable to see that any political system, no matter how great in theory, doesn’t translate that simply into reality because of human behaviour, then you’ve got some reading and thinking to do.

The attitude towards communism here comes across like a cult. Present facts or a reasonable point of discussion, you get shouted down/strawmanned, othered, etc.

Ironically, the very behaviour that stops things like communism working in reality.

Of course they haven’t, and while I’m happy to be proved wrong, I’m sure they’re all enjoying the benefits of living in a democratic country while cosplaying communists.

2.12 out of 10 on the democracy index.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-eiu

Yeah I’ve got nothing but respect for his initial achievements and character. I’m not really an MMA follower but I saw some of his initial fights and interviews.

Not sure what happened since but it’s clearly not good. I wonder if the kind of people you end up being around when you get that rich and famous are part of the problem. I’ll never know so I can only speculate haha.

Yeah, they’re all the same. Musk, Trump, crypto, religion, AI - they all offer a simple, easy solution to all problems. It’s false hope, but it’s reassuring and we’re all susceptible to it given the chaos of existence.

Reality is complicated, politics is complicated, running countries is complicated, and no one has all the answers. We have to work on those together. No one person is going to solve all the problems we have, and these cunts absolutely don’t give a fuck about you or me or the ‘working man’.

It works because it’s such an easy sell and it’s easy to fall for it. I have before too. But being good at battering people and choking them out does not by default translate into being able to run a country (maybe thousands of years ago hah).

Thats the other aspect to these things. We tend to mistakenly assume that because a person is good at one thing, they’re automatically going to be good at everything. People like Musk and McGregor are also very good at selling this, because they’re generally talking to people who also have a limited understanding of the topic.

I honestly think if we taught local civics and critical thinking on a global scale you’d massively reduce this kind of problem, but who knows.

Ah, makes sense. I wonder how long he can slither around like this until it finally bites him hard.

Well, he certainly would be whether he realised it or not - if by that you mean easily manipulated by outside interests (like musk and god knows who else)

Looked him up. Agree 👍

Jesus could he be more vague and incoherent?

Seems like a good reason to put him in charge to me.

Interestingly, it seems the last government were sitting on a massive prison overcrowding crisis, and there is now talk of sending prisoners to Estonian prisons to ease it.

To be honest, I’d imagine that’d be an even stronger deterrent for these pissbags. I can’t imagine an Estonian prison being very accommodating!

Just waiting for the token drop 😂

They’re going to have a meltdown when they realise they’re committing genocide on a cellular and microbial level every second they exist.

How the fuck do you ‘swap’ consciousness into something that doesn’t have it?

Can you ‘abuse’ a brick, or a search engine, or a toaster?

Consciousness has only ever been observed in brains.

Chat GPT is not a fucking brain. It’s not even close.

Wow, what a prick.

I think the government or the Labour party updated their definition of what anti Semitic meant to include any criticism of the Israeli government a few years ago, which also says a lot.

I think what we can do Nick, is read a bit about how modern ‘AI’, works, so we understand it isn’t capable of ever having anything approaching consciousness in its current state, and not fucking worry about it.

Kind of like how we don’t worry about people’s race unless your skull is full of pig shit instead of functional neurons.

(On a side note Alex O’Conner is getting more and more disappointing in his quest for clicks.)

I guess that’d be standard for such a big brained philosopher though, so no need to point it out. Right?

“in Canada we don’t kill them, we just objectify them!”

I agree. Lemmy isn’t as progressive as it thinks it is generally. Just like other social platforms, the concept of a nuanced discussion is mostly (not always) an alien one.

People want things split neatly into ‘good’ and ‘bad’ or ‘us’ and ‘them’ and melt down when anything challenges those neat little boxes. We all do it to some degree, and I get the appeal of it.

But if we want things to ever really get better, we need to be able to have better discussions about important issues and accept things are very rarely binary.

Placing Kamala or Walz on some pedestal as if they’re perfect is just as blind as doing so for Trump.

I’m not in the US, and yes I would vote for Kamala, but I think it’s important to be aware they are not perfect and the fight for a better society/world won’t be over if they win.