This isn't about ideas it is about calling for violence towards people. This isn't how you get Nazis this is the "you already have Nazis and need to do something about it"
Also, funnily enough, the proletariat or what's left of it, are the ones currently flocking to the right-wing extremist party here in Germany.
Maybe I missed it but it seems the average Joe voted for people that are responsible for what's going on right now instead of trying to change direction drastically right?
I think protesting against the vote of the average Joe in a way that affects the average Joe is quite valid. The politicians got voted for their policies, they wouldn't be doing their jobs if they just shifted their whole position because of a protests that are expressing quite old ideas. The average Joe has to stand up and vote for people that actually want the change we need.
The pressure regarding queer rights was successful because it became a less and less favourable position to be against those same rights in the public view. Being conservative regarding fighting the climate change is still a pretty favourable position so not enough pressure can be built by protests against politicians alone.
And, one aspect that is overlooked in the discussion, at least in my opinion: People are allowed to be angry at the state of the world and the popular opinions, and express that anger publicly and in the face of the general public. This is a valid thing to do.
Welcome to German politics. You thought the orange boi was weird...
Maximilian Krah, the now more or less disgraced frontrunner for the EU elections has 7 kids from like 4 different women. The AfD still explicitly claims to be in favour of traditional families
It's a parks and recreation reference. A character was a very young mayor and ruined the city which involved building an ice skating rink
He is complaining that the crowd booed his partner. The partner he chose to play with. But he won't recognize that the reason the pair is being booed is that one of the partners is a child rapist. I think it's fair to think that that is bad.
Uhm, what 96% of the population actually kills stuff themselves?
Tell Nokia to release android 13 or 14 for my device and I'll gladly run it.
Imagine deliberately refusing cuddles
It still means we are condemning the next generations to a world where we selfishly destroyed all that comfort.
Sometimes though a judge has decided that it is factually correct to call the leader of a party a fascist because he is one
Damn. Calling the Ruhrpott new York is an insult in both directions
The problem is that yes, historically humanity has learned (at least temporarily) when it induced a crisis.
The big difference between climate change and other catastrophies like the world wars is that it's irreversible. We can rebuild cities, countries even within few generations. We absolutely cannot rebuild earth after we fucked up the climate.
Even if we learn from this it will be too late to apply the learnings. This one isn't a case of "fucking around and finding out".
There is a difference between wanting food you think is delicious and killing something for that reason and taking pleasure in the process of killing something. In one scenario the killing is a necessary evil in the other it's the whole point of the process.
Aside from that the fact that so many people do pay "hitmen" should tell you that they do not enjoy the killing part, because otherwise they'd do it themselves.
I think I can say that I am living in germany, currently a country not under the government of national fascists, that has a law against so called "Volksverhetzung" which has been introduced quite literally to prevent some speech of the nationalist fascists, to prevent them from spreading their hateful ideology. Maybe you wanna think about that for awhile.
Sir please keep this USB stick away from the machine
Whispering into Radio We've got another nerd here!
I mean that's completely wrong as far as laws go. Socially that's pretty much true
Oh Yeah definitely. I'm aware that incels are mostly the way they are because they need to cope.
My opinion as a german probably doesn't really matter, but this guy as well as Kamala are giving me hope again that the world might not have gone completely mad. Also if this works out for you guys I hope the german party system is paying attention.
then we'll be able to get a lot more computing power.
I think that's not quite true it depends on what you want to calculate. Some problems have more efficient algorithms for quantum computing (famously breaking RSA and other crypto algorithms). But something like a matrix multiplication probably won't benefit.
The problem with this specific law is that it isn't practically enforceable. You'd need to regularly search people entering this zone, which we will certainly not do.
Law's only matter if you can expect them to be enforced. Raising prices is easily enforced (because it would be done via taxes which are checked for correctness already).
I get that being on the winner side is convenient. I am too. I just see that constantly winning seems to lead the world into a pretty bad state overall where, suddenly, noone is a winner anymore.
And all it would take to not get into the disaster scenario would be some redistribution. Doesn't even mean you can't be a winner anymore. Just means you get to win less hard.
Is that good reason that there is a minority that profits greatly from capitalism that has a majority convinced that they might once also be part of that winning team even though that believe isn't substantiated by any statistics, but the opposite is very much empirical proven?
Yeah that "will single out meat prices" got my eyes rolling so hard I might have a knot in my nerves now.
Meat production is one of the main contributors to the climate crisis. We need to produce less of it. I get that campaigning with that message would probably not be popular, but just focussing on groceries would have been enough right?
I'm also unclear on the exact technical details but there's probably a reason that lineageos and the other free androids out there are not easily installable but have to be customised to each device.
I'm pretty sure that reason is mostly manufacturers being dicks about this. So it could probably be fixed by mandating some kind of interoperability. OTOH the governments are probably happy that not more people are using degoogled devices
That's an opinion one can have, but it's different from calling everyone that might want a more restrictive policy a nationalist fascist
I believe it shipped with 10 and I'm currently sitting on 12. Last security updates are from December 2023 so I'll probably have to switch sooner than later...
It's a Nokia 5.4
Edit: to be fair that's not too bad compared to other android vendors. It's actually pretty good. But being the cleanest pig in the mudpit isn't really the goal I want to achieve. I'd rather be actually clean.
The mines are yearning for the children
If you have mostly passive income to pay for all that you are actively taking the gains produced by the labour of others that are most likely not as comfortable as you. Are you ok with that, or do you at least get why people get frustrated at that?
It definitely feels like humanity might have peaked and we're just around to see it all falter
There’s a difference between wanting to feel pleasure at the result of killing someone and wanting to feel pleasure over the result of killing them?
I'm not sure what the difference between those two options is. But those aren't the two options I was talking about. There are people that enjoy the process of killing things. There are people that like to eat dead animals but do not enjoy the process of killing the animal. Those are two different things in my mind.
Communism is a system that lacks any motivation to do the work. There is no award. No gratification of ownership, getting higher on the ladder.
Thus it never works and countries starve.
That is just bullshit that assumes people only work if there is a monetary benefit to be achieved. The most common provided reason is "human nature" which is easily disproven. There are many examples of societies where cooperation without this has worked.
What’s funny is that there are no examples of successful communism and thus all the attempts are proclaimed as ‘no true communism’.
There is a wide range of why communist experiments have failed. Most of the time it is because the revolution was compromised leading to authoritarian communism. I'm just going to hint to you that there are other, more desirable forms of communism. Which of them is "true" communism is not for me to decide.
The reason capitalism works is because it utilizes human greed. It needs boundaries and restraints of course because greed is infinite. We get the cream top achievers make and redistribute it to incentivise bottom ladder to climb.
This meritocratic ideology is what is being used to justify the differences between peoples incomes and way more importantly their wealth. Which is weird because the most common way of achieving wealth today is not by working hard but by inheritance, which has decidedly nothing to do with being a "top achiever".
State protects the vulnerable and minorities and sets boundaries. Upper boundary is the climate one. Lower one is essential necessities one.
The state protects first and foremost the right to ownership, which is not aligned with the desirable goals of protecting minorities and setting boundaries. It is aligned with these goals only so far as it keeps the status quo going, which means maximizing the profits for the few right up to the point where the many do not yet revolt.
And this is the ideal that some countries actually achieved.
I'm going to go ahead and have a laugh right here. What basically every "developed" state on earth has achieved is a system that allows capital to accumulate in the hands of ever few people. This isn't an opinion by the way, this is a straight up fact and has nothing to do with political views.
Unlike ideal of communism that never got even close. So instead of thinking about some utopias let’s just adopt everywhere the tried and true system.
The tried and true system is currently throwing us all in a climate crisis if the IPCC reports are to be believed. Which I think they can be. The tried and true system is accumulating the global wealth in the hands of very few people. The tried and true system is failing to implement a tax system that would actually allow to redistribute this wealth. Instead this tried and true system is forcing nations into a betting war for ever lower taxes on wealth "to keep production in their country" while the companies go around chasing the lowest taxes further fueling this circle.
And the other parent is "Pal"
Ey, hasch du au a Lizens für des Messerle?
Conflating everything from anarchism (endlessly critiquing power) with the authoritarian left (fascist dystopia) under leftism and then picking and choosing the negatives ends in comments like these.
That would have made sense. Ruhrpott isn't in Hesse though. It's the region north to it around Düsseldorf Köln Bonn etc
Hm yeah I think getting subtitles isn't a thing for this kind of content
I'm just going to point out that you are the one even bringing communism on the table and I am happy to discuss it. You brought that up as a response to my comment:
I get that being on the winner side is convenient. I am too. I just see that constantly winning seems to lead the world into a pretty bad state overall where, suddenly, noone is a winner anymore.
And all it would take to not get into the disaster scenario would be some redistribution. Doesn’t even mean you can’t be a winner anymore. Just means you get to win less hard.
To which you responded:
I am still not gonna vote for communism and neither socialism. Good luck with that stuff. It’s isolated to niche internet communities for good reasons.
I wasn't arguing that we just use the magic communism bullet to solve our problems. You just think that I am arguing that. I was and am of the opinion that we can improve the situation massively by increasing redistribution of wealth.
Edit: And I like the idea of communism in a theoretical way because I think it can be helpful to think about stuff that probably won't be implemented to get ideas on how the current system could be improved. The idea of distributing economical power more evenly is at core of socialism but it doing that in a moderate way doesnt require a revolution, it can be implemented in our current system. /Edit
Any westoids that never knew communism and think it is amazing can go and remove themselves from the gene pool in my book.
Thinking of people as less valuable to "the genepool" because their opinions differ is the kind of thinking that explains why liberals and fascists are so often political friends.
That's still suggesting they are worth less than other humans based on their opinions
At some point speech becomes hate speech that actually hurts people. In Germany there are laws against that, I'm sure the US has too.