Sponging Bob
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Brown Esotericism was always a thing in Germany, there's a german wikipedia page about it, psiram wiki has a chapter about "National Socialism and extremist right groups today" on their page about Esotericism.
This has been going on since the Third Reich and is one of the pipelines to bring economically better off people into right wing rethoric and thought patterns.
I'm a billionaire baby! I'll pay a small fine and sleep at home.
Hell, maybe they'll make me US secretary of health and human services
Paris! She's in Paris!
And the inevitable decline of neoliberal politics. People have been taught and indoctrinated by the media, that the right is economically proficcient but hindered by the left. And now they double down on neoliberal bullshit politics because not going hard enough didn't help them and going more left is generally presented as an economically worse choice.
The sad truth is: Going more left would leave "the economy" (the stocks / rich peoples wallets) worse of but help the real economy by giving expendable income to people who right now, cannot spend what they don't have.
An answer like this is
a) not a yes or no, and thus usually not allowed in such dilemmas. That's also why "I just tap it lightly on the head" is not a real answer. There is no valid "outside the box" answer for dilemmas. Your valid answer seems to be "no", since you would not kill that animal, the rest of your answer is just ... unimportant to the question asked.
b) disregarding that you're going to jail for murder and aggravated robbery. You have just taken your own life (to jail)
I do eat meat, yes.
Edit: Meaning I'm not going to pretend that an offer like that would not sway me. I'll be unhappy about it, cry and have a bad conscience for a very long time until I successfully rationalize it. But seeing as I do eat meat, I feel it would be a lie to pretend that I'm not capable of rationalizing killing an animal for my own indulgence. And uncoupling myself and everyone I love from the horrors of capitalism by simply elevating them above... that's quite a strong incentive. I could even spend a billion dollars on environmental causes, saving millions of bunnies and still have enough left to make everyone I love a multi-millionaire.
I don't actually know where my price is... would I do it for 1000 Euros? No, definitely not. For a million? Likely yes... somewhere between those numbers is the price for my conscience. I hope I never find out where exactly, it's a ghastly thing to know about oneself.
Did not call you a bot, but I have read your comments before and flagged your username as someone who appears left-aligned, but unreasonable, pro russian and anti-NATO when it comes to the russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
This is, I presume also the main point in your opposition to the german Greens, a party very much aligned with a free Ukraine and opposed to russian imperial aggression.
Because from my point of view, it looks like in your worldview everything western, everything touched by the US, everything that opposed the eastern block in any way is tainted by imerialism. Your comments lack any evidence of nuance or understanding that both the west and the east were and are are ruled by horrible people and good people trying their best. I'm forced to fucking both-sides-ism upon reading your history, because your radical positions lack so much dearly needed nuance.
Hmm, honestly, I feel like that isn't necessarily the case and often connected to the audience, especially if such a comment is offtopic.
Personally I have felt that on Lemmy effort and care are very much appreciated. But there is a breaking point in regards to the insightfulness and the length of the comment. Like there needs to be at least X amount of new and interestimg information per paragraph.
Upvoting the selection of truly impactful comic books. Guess my collection is missing Saga. Thank you for that.
This account is a known pro-russia anti-liberal troll.
Don't feed it. plonk
Because the servers are subject to their respective national laws and regulations and the governments are all to happy to take down uppity servers full of people who are opposed to those governments.
The rules regulating speech on our servers are not there to protect the rich or the system, they are there to protect the servers, so we can continue to call for direct action, even if we can't outright call for violence.
It's either regulated speech or no speech at all.
Fighting Oligarchy resonates greatly. But yes, the dems have focused too much on the culture war in favour of participating in the class war against the working class.
That is definitely something they should put waaaay more focus on. Trump is the cry for help of much of the working class, if people would believe you actually fought FOR the working people in your country, the dems would be unstoppable.
depends on your Distro, for Linux Mint it's just the Driver Manager.
To access the Driver Manager in Linux Mint, follow these steps:
- Click on the Menu (Taskbar) in the lower-left corner of your screen.
- Navigate to Administration.
- Click on Driver Manager.
Once you have opened the Driver Manager, follow these steps to install the Nvidia drivers:
- The Driver Manager will prompt you for your password. Enter your password and click on Authenticate.
- The Driver Manager will scan your system for available drivers. Once the scanning is complete, you will see a list of available drivers for your graphics card.
- Select the recommended Nvidia driver from the list.
- Click on Apply Changes to start the installation process.
Then reboot.
For most problems you can really just google stuff like "Linux Mint Nvidia Drivers"
I'm so glad I don't drink coffee...
Mjam, leave it in there for the weekend to ripen!
I remember a seldom used office coffee machine that everyone complained made the coffee taste "funny", they got the message about the necessary cleaning after maggots started crawling out. 🤢🤮
There is a difference between atheism and anti-theism.
I am an atheist, which means I don't accept the proposition of the existence of a god as true.
I am a strong or gnostic atheist, which means I am convinced that the answer to the question if a god exists is knowable and that the answer is no, no god exists.
I am an anti-theist, which means I am convinced that theism (the unfounded, superstitious belief in a god) is a bad influence on the human civilisation.
I am a militant anti-theist, in that I feel I have to vigorously defend the scientific and civilizational accomplishments of my society against the ever present encroachment of superstition in the form of theism that wants to press its bad and wrong morals and ethics on my community.
Most atheists aren't anti-theists.
Edit: If I am a fanatic would entirely depend on your definition of fanaticism.
Fanaticism, a belief or behavior involving uncritical zeal or an obsessive enthusiasm
I am quite convinced that my position is not uncritical as I have arrived on it through critical thinking and am prepared to leave my position if shown convincing evidence or logical flaws in my position. This I would regard as very much opposed to zeal.
I also would take issue with the word obsessive, as it connotes excessive, unrelenting, unyielding and headstrong. Because I would very much love to abandon having to defend my values, I simply feel that I can't when they are under attack.
As a militant anti-theist I have informed myself about the most influential theist on earth. He was heading the most influential, superstitious, conservative, dogmatic organisation in the world and his views and speeches still shape policy in my country and the union of countries it exists in. Where I have to suffer under or combat every policy idea the people influenced by him impose on me, as I hold views diametrically opposed to his. Keeping myself and those around me informed about the hollowness of the public image of these enemies of modernity is one of the few ways to fight back against theist feel-good propaganda.
How you think I could have done otherwise is beyond me.
It seems to me like saying people should ignore bad actors instead of actively opposing them.
The catholic church... any organized religion really is a force for conservatism, tradition, dogmatism and superstition.
You will NEVER see a pope who aligns with modern, secular, humanist morals and ethics, because such a person would never rise to power in a monarchical, absolutist structure build on hierarchy, dogmatism and obedience.
In my opinion, no pope will ever be not an asshole.
But you can absolutely be a HUGE asshole like Joseph Alois Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) (Fuck the Motherfucker), or you can be a somewhat less bad asshole like Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Francis). But even if this one produces less shit than the other, it's still a huge asshole producing lots of shit.
So please don't underestimate the amount of shit this asshole produced!
Francis scored points in the Evangelical camp not only by dispensing with traditional Catholic pomp (such as the red velvet shoes), but also by implementing the Evangelicals' political agenda. Hardly any other pope has supported the worldwide campaigns against abortion as massively as he has, and hardly any pope has done so little against the massive attacks on gays, lesbians and trans people from within his own ranks. When, for example, the Nigerian Bishops' Conference called for even harsher punishments for homosexuals, no substantial criticism was heard from Rome. All in all, Francis was not an “advocate of humanity”, but rather a sympathetic, smiling face that concealed a deeply inhuman ideology. He was a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Instead of clearly naming the aggressor, Francis called on Ukraine to “show the white flag” as an expression of willingness to negotiate - a call that was understood in Kiev as an invitation to surrender. The fact that he repeatedly avoided directly naming Vladimir Putin as the person responsible for the suffering, but instead spoke of a “drama on both sides”, called his moral judgment into question and damaged his credibility as an advocate for peace and justice.
His response to the islamic attacks on Charlie Hebdo:
“If a dear friend speaks badly of my mother, he can expect a punch, and that's normal. [...] You shouldn't provoke the faith of others.”
His position towards abortion:
“like hiring a contract killer to solve a problem”