Ideology

Would be neat if lemmy could form similar niche communities where people talk about their hobbies and scientific interests.

To achieve communism in the US I think you'd have to dissolve the labor aristocracy to the point that liberalism is no longer palatable. Fascism promises to restore the labor aristocracy, which is why (as you pointed out) so many flock to it for that "good old days" feeling.

To lose the final shred of hope, they'll have to see fascism crush their dreams of getting back what was lost. They don't have the foresight to see the tendency for the rate of profit to fall. They will only understand when they feel what centuries of indigenous peoples around the globe have felt: the crushing weight of boots on their skulls.

I'm starting to wonder where people even get information anymore. Are libraries making a comeback?

It is rare to find a large number of thoroughly clever and unprincipled persons playing a game together. Where the knaves assemble, there will always be fools; and where the fools are present in sufficient numbers, they offer a more profitable object of exploitation for the knaves. The psychology of the fool has become a subject well worth the serious attention of the knaves. Instead of looking out for his own ultimate interest, after the fashion of von Neumann’s gamesters, the fool operates in a manner which, by and large, is as predictable as the struggles of a rat in a maze. This policy of lies—or rather, of statements irrelevant to the truth—will make him buy a particular brand of cigarettes; that policy will, or so the party hopes, induce him to vote for a particular candidate—any candidate—or to join in a political witch hunt. A certain precise mixture of religion, pornography, and pseudoscience will sell an illustrated newspaper. A certain blend of wheedling, bribery, and intimidation will induce a young scientist to work on guided missiles or the atomic bomb. To determine these, we have our machinery of radio fan ratings, straw votes, opinion samplings, and other psychological investigations, with the common man as their object; and there are always the statisticians, sociologists, and economists available to sell their services to these undertakings.

• Norbert Wiener: Cybernetics (1961)

@[email protected] this looks like something you would post.

The guy can't have more than 5-10 years left in his old bones.

He has a mastodon account with the same threads on it.

No one lived on Hawai'i before white people arrived.

When you watched Death of Stalin as an instruction manual.

Russia’s state-owned Channel One covered the debate in depth, describing President Biden and Donald Trump as “small children from the nursery.” As Russian viewers were treated to replays of the candidates bickering over who was the better golfer, the presenter predicted that life itself in America would become “one never-ending game of golf,” with the United States lurching “from one big hole to the next.”

Where does your horseshoe theory bring you now, liberals? U