I feel the same way about ancient Greek philosophers. Fascists like to hold up Greece as the birthplace of civilization and democracy, but if you read what Plato had to say he's all like "Slavery rocks, we should gear up for war, and everyone must breed for the state". It's so candid it's refreshing
The conception of a ‘universal right’ which assures to the peasant, to the Eskimo, and presumably to the Abominable Snowman, ‘periodic holidays with pay’ shows the absurdity of the whole thing. (…) What are the consequences of the requirement that every one should have the right ‘freely to participate in the cultural life of the community and to share in the scientific advances and its benefits’. (…) It is evident that all these ‘rights’ are based on the interpretation of society as a deliberately made organization by which everybody is employed. They could not be made universal within a system of rules of just conduct based on the conception of individual responsibility, and so require that the whole of society be converted into a single organization, that is, made totalitarian in the fullest sense of the word.
Totalitarianism is when everyone gets paid holidays and benefits from scientific advances. thanks Hayek very cool i love economics
Hmmm I see that the robot didn't say anything about jurisdiction. Assange isn't American nor was he on American territory when he published the information. Siding with the US government on this case is effectively giving American courts the power to govern the entire planet.
I don't think you can make exclusion filters, actually... You can pick as many tags as you want though and that sort of does the same thing. Like, you can pick the Dungeon Crawler tag to see all the dungeon crawler games
What console do you play on? If you're on PC you can check out itch.io and download the free stuff. There are tons of indie devs making cool stuff on there, it's like the flash game websites of old
Yeah, Aria mentioned how "prime minister" is the same thing but with neutral connotations. It's another case of using good words to describe ourselves and bad words to antagonize our targets.
The particular phrasing that gets thrown around is extremely cultish in English (dear leader, glorious leader, supreme leader, etc.) which is why westerners keep repeating it. It doesn't come off as a term of endearment, more like subservience. I dunno what Koreans say in Korean and whether it carries the same connotations though (probably not).
Why does everyone think North Koreans call Kim Jong Un "dear leader" or whatever? Is it a misleading translation of Korean honorifics or official titles or something? I know the main reason is bigotry, but this is so pervasive that I wanna know where it came from.
Ah, bummer. Thanks for the help!