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latenightnoir @ latenightnoir @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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  • Nostalgia

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  • As a Millenial, I can 100% say that I do not miss being young. Granted, the busted lumbar region and cranky guts aren't fun, but the familiarity with my own body and the gained cognitive complexity are worth a helluva lot more to me.

    I do miss those contexts and how they made me feel, I miss seeing my friends carefree and jovial, and I miss drum and bass and punk gigs. But I was a moron back then, and the shit I did to myself, I wouldn't wish on anyone else.

    No, there is one thing: I miss not needing as much sleep as I do now.

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  • I, too, prefer to take my natural disasters while sitting on the toilet. It is a place of calm🧘

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  • beep-beep-beep-beep

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  • "Erections not welcome."

  • The American Dream x The American Government

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  • Awesome, thank you!❤️

    Wish I was 20 again, miss pulling all-nighters reading without needing to recoup for half a year afterwards...

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    NATO is so heckin wholesome

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  • Because, like it or not, everything is intertwined nowadays. We've grown and developed so much and so expansively as a species, that nations are really almost literally just lines drawn around bits of land on a map. In terms of interconnectedness, however, no piece on the board will be unaffected by another's movement - just like when you have a bunch of marbles in a box, with the free space remaining being smaller than a marble, or downright non-existent.

    As such, defending NATO has the exact same worth as defending the USSR's Army - none. The blame game is a distraction, the point is that shit's fucked up enough for us (*the human species as a whole, referring to ALL nations with a standing Military) to have hordes of highly trained, highly armed people who do violence against other people. Which is the epitome of self-defeating stupidity.

    Without Reagan's "The Aliens" trying to take over our planet, we don't actually need to defend ourselves from any major threat as a species (last I checked, we're currently the ones eating everything else around us, so...), it's just that sociopathic shitheads who hold the reigns want what other sociopathic shitheads "have", and they use everyone else to get it.

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    NATO is so heckin wholesome

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  • Agreed, and thank you! Yes, that's, indeed, what I meant, the symptom covers both the action and reaction sides of this aspects!

    Which is why I don't much pay attention to "who is the dirtiest," as long as the whole deal sucks. Sure, some are more... prolific than others, but it's an ultimately irrelevant qualifier in the greater scheme of things, imho...

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    NATO is so heckin wholesome

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  • The Military in general is a symptom of a very defective society, yes. Not judging anyone in particular, just think that a healthy society would have no need for a massive, organised force trained almost exclusively for grand scale violence.

  • The American Dream x The American Government

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  • Yep, that makes a lot of sense. I mean, it's much easier to change things if said change is built upon what's useful from the old. No use throwing out the things which actually do work (whether by design or incidentally, doesn't matter, happy accidents are still happy), plus it has the added benefit of maintaining some degree of familiarity, so I would imagine that makes the pill easier to swallow.

    I'll most definitely take it in the order given, the new is always prioritised:)) Sounds delectably thorough, my brain will be happy, thank you! And, yeah, that's pretty much the basis on which I've started pulling hard to the Left (used to be Undecided, a.k.a. I'm Severely Depressed And Don't Have The Space For It). Existentialism steered me toward an understanding of what a satisfying life means for the human psyche, which then shoved me into "well, hey! Sounds like something which would be nice for everyone!" Then I finally saw the world for what it is and... yeah...

    Completely agreed, change starts from home, always. It looks daunting, but the fact that so many people remember that Fascism is objectively bad, actually, means it's not impossible.

    Thanks so much once again, both for the resources and the conversation! And sorry again if I came off as hostile, I've been struggling to manage a hefty case of misanthropy for the past almost-decade.

  • The American Dream x The American Government

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  • Most definitely have a lot of Leftist reading to do! If nothing else, I at least know I'm well Left of Center:))

    Now that I've mulled it over some more, I think it feels very intentional to me because I do see a lot of similarities between it and Feudalism, yes! It's like Capitalism is comprised of multiple smaller monarchies, referring to Corporations and any organisation/person with a large amount of capital at their disposal, and thus influence. But, yeah, we're talking orders of magitude of complexity above traditional feudalism, so it would stand to reason that it's most likely just a mathematical whirlpool of sorts. I do agree that capital is the main point of power in Capitalism and that everything else has formed around it.

    Which, on a personal side note, is so sad when looking at the big picture! It means that the people in power aren't actually driven by anything concretely Human™, so to speak, they've ceeded full control of themselves and their lives over to the accumulation of something entirely fictitious... It'd be lamentable if it wasn't so damned dangerous...

    Thank you so much for the reading list! It's so nice to have a quasi-curriculum for these things! And I probably will drop a line or two once I get started with the reading! Truth be told, I'm at the point where I know enough to understand just how little I know about the subject, so I can't even think of relevant questions at the moment. I've focused more on existential philosophy and such so far, needed to fix myself first:))

    As for joining an org, that's in my 2-year plan (life got upended, again, so it's running alongside several other need-to-do stuff). I will lean very heavily into volunteer work, hopefully that'll open up some political networks as well. If nothing else, it is urgently clear that it's time to act as a citizen. Thank Christ we've managed to pull another 4 years of European Union (Romanian)... We have a lukewarm Centrist now, but at least it's not a raging Fascist...

  • The American Dream x The American Government

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  • Maybe you're right, maybe I'm just so completely lacking any faith in greedy humans that I now suspect everything was a ploy. I dunno, maybe it's one of the pitfalls of hindsight, that it can easily seem to have intentionality when the string of failures is so smooth and perfect. I mean, at the end of the day, Capitalism is, to my mind, uniquely insidious as a system.

    Either way, I really don't want you to think I was disagreeing with you about anything else, whether planned or not, it is most certainly worth learning everything we can from its evolution. As you've said, we need to have the future in mind, because this thing'll be around for at least a bit longer...

    Sincerely thank you for the theory! I'm not as versed in these aspects for now, so I don't know where I'd land on the political/philosophical spectrum exactly. All I know is that I sincerely want everyone to have a truly fair chance at life without having to worry about being persecuted for who they are, without having to be relatively rich to afford basic healthcare (I'm including the various hormone therapies here because it's well past time we grew the fuck up and stopped obsessing about other people's genitals, as... uuh... someone smarter than me put it) and without the fear that they may starve or become homeless, ffs... And I also know that what we've been doing so far obviously ain't it...

  • The American Dream x The American Government

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  • Yet again, I agree! But wouldn't you also agree that the system always had this in-built inequality? What I meant to say was that, while it was less immediately obvious at the start, the subsequent pooling and acceleration of said pooling were always going to happen within this system.

    And that's why I suspect that this was the plan all along, because it has been visible from the start, it didn't require a retrospective if one was paying enough attention. And those who did got very, very rich.

    But even if everyone would have been paying attention*, there would be no room for equality, otherwise the entire pyramid would collapse, taking everyone's "more than" with it.

  • Former GM Executive: BYD cars are good in terms of design, features, price, quality. If we let BYD into the U.S. market, it could end up destroying american manufacturers

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  • Our free market's good, yours is the problem! Gotta read the fine print!

  • The American Dream x The American Government

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  • Well, yeah, it's the pyramid scheme to end all pyramid schemes, not arguing against that. But that was the Dream.

    And "not cheap" as in "had a wage," as opposed to not being paid at all as a slave (although there were some costs involved with that as well, so not entirely free - I am not arguing for slavery in any way, I was just boiling down the expenditure). But wealth was clearly still pooled at the top, while most people were no better off than they are now, when talking strictly about wealth distribution ratios.

    Edit: the only advantage they had was that land was "free for the taking" (if they were willing to do a little genocide beforehand), but even that ended up pooling around a handful of people once things and people settled in.

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  • Think you took a wrong turn somewhere, this is the Technology community...

  • The American Dream x The American Government

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  • Nope... zero. It's just what I feel is the right thing to do, regardless of results. And, on a more self-serving note, I will at least die with a clear conscience knowing that I did all I could do to follow and respect my principles, to be at least a quasi-decent human being.

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  • Agreed, that was the "advertised" goal, and the overall shape things took once it was set into motion. But looking at things now, in retrospect, I genuinely believe that's just what everyone was told to sell them on the idea, with the actual plan being very different for those who had access backstage, y'know?

    I mean, it's much easier to motivate people to uproot their lives (regardless of how abysmal their living conditions were at the time) by promising a Land of Opportunity For Everyone, instead of telling them "yeah, we're a bunch of rich guys who want to get even richer, and we need cheap labour to get things started, then work for us, so that we may accumulate all of the wealth."

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  • To be perfectly frank, I can relate... Not gonna give up trying, just that I've never had much use for optimism given how things have been going overall.

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  • That guy was ridiculously correct about a frightening amount of things...