“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.”
-R B Fuiler
Yes they are specific historical people that did things or advanced ideas we as a culture celebrate, like the notion of equality under the law.
The authoritarian playbook is to use a mystical, ill defined “great past” when a tribal “we” were “great” in all we did. No specifics. Greatness by God mandate.
Redlib FTW
Edit: current fork
“I was trying to work around an error condition”
What do you get from a glut of TV?
A pain in the neck and an IQ of 3!
Why don’t you try simply reading a book?
You’ll get no… commercials…!
-The Oompa-Loompas
… and then all that will be left will be .onion sites
You are rather quick to assume I am one of the “pro-genocide people”.
I have been quite consistent (and am certainly not the only one claiming) that both Israel and Hamas-run Palestine have each separately engaged in genocide (and, separately, various war crimes). I try not to “both-sides” this; each actor has their independent rationale for what they do.
I fail to see how what I said was so “vile”. Troll-ish, yes, guilty. In my defense, this was in response to an equally invective comment; I was trying (poorly) to show that the same standard was not being applied equally.
And FWIW I agreed with the mod removal; it was a good decision. The comment that stood was what I should have posted, had I been less emotional on this admittedly… pretty emotional topic.
Anyway, good luck fighting against everyone until they agree with you.
All her books are life-impacting
Would have loved to have been able to be yet another fan telling her how much she affected my life
Not terribly far off the plot of one of the great works of science fiction
He was by all accounts an insufferable asshole, petty, vindictive, and completely aware how fucking stupid most people are esp compared to him. And also a Biblical conspiracy theorist who was much more interested in the exact dimensions of the Old Temple than in developing Calculus.
Also he arguably created the miraculous technological world in which we live better lives than he could have dreamed. Our debt to him can never be fully paid. His name will rightly outlive us.
Screw Christmas.
Instead, on that date, celebrate someone real and much more worthy of consideration
Oblig Veritaseum. One of his best vids … and that is saying something
“Shitter”
If Trump did a deal with GoDaddy Airo just think how many slop websites how great America could be /s
Low education standards and high consumption of propaganda.
Exactly like Hungary, Slovakia, Isreal, and a number of other backsliding Democracies
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corporate propaganda
We all swim in the sea of ideas that is our culture. Many people for many reasons seek to make certain ideas the dominant ones.
most communities are much quieter than reddit.
We can change that right now!
I’m doing my part!
Not Necessarily all that well!
And they wonder why darknet forums like Dread exist