(I don't care about USA enough to discuss its specificities. I'll talk about fascism.)
It's a mistake to conflate two enemies. Even if you hate both for the same reasons, once you conflate them, you lose the ability to fight against at least one of them.
And what the video describes as "friendly fascism" has barely anything to do with fascism. And it has already a name - plutocracy, or "government of the rich".
Once you disregard witch hunters and their brainfarts, fascism has a rather consistent bundle of traits:
"strength through union"
conflation between a government, its population, and a "nation"
persecution of minorities as "harming our unity"
a "strong leader" taking decisions for you
hate against separatist movements
emphasis on traditional values
a discourse of a "glorious past" to return to
usage of force to silence dissidence
By far #0 is the most important trait of fascism, as the others come from it. In the meantime plutocracy (or "friendly fascism") would fit #3, arguably #7. And the contempt for liberalism and electoral politics appears for different reasons for both - ideological and pragmatic respectively.
Once you make this distinction, this video becomes specially interesting to watch, as it allows you to notice how one of your enemies is using the other to kill you with a borrowed knife.
Misleading name, on the same level as calling water "non-explosive hydrogen". That said the material looks promising, as a glass replacement for some applications (the text mentions a few of them, like armoured windows).
(It is not a metal; it's a ceramic, mostly oxygen with bits and bobs of aluminium and nitrogen. Interesting nonetheless, even if I'm picking on the name.)
I'd probably look for an instance that does not federate with instances that federate with Reddit. Yes, two levels of separation.
Because only a small part of my hate against Reddit is about the stupid, backstabbing, obnoxious and disingenuous administration. Most of it is about the userbase. I do not want to deal with 90% of the Reddit userbase and its stupidity.
It reaches the point that I don't know if "I dun unrurrstand, u think dat 50 is not 100? than u think dat 50 is zero? dats dumb lol lmao [insert same emoji 10x] EDIT: WOW THANKS FOR THE GOLD KIND STRANGER!" exaggerates or accurately represents their [lack of] reasoning.
I believe that there is at least some learning/cultivation; I've seen plenty people becoming nicer over time, and some nice people becoming arseholes. However that is not enough to rule out a potential innate component.
I like it better. Sometimes you do see users being irrational, entitled/whiny or disingenuous, but it's still way less than you'd see in Twitter or Reddit. And I've seen users chewing others for engaging in those three things, frankly that's fucking great.
However I do think that there's lots of room to improve. I'll mention some sore points:
On disagreement, some users immediately assuming that the others are stupid (lacking reasoning) or ignorant (lacking a piece of info), instead of asking themselves "am I missing something?".
While witch hunters are not as bad here as in Reddit, they're still bad. If you want to denounce people, basic reading comprehension is obligatory.
Excessive focus on the words being used to convey something instead of what is being conveyed.
"WAAAHHH TL;DR!@!@!1" is becoming more and more frequent. If it's too long to read, it's also too long to whine about its length.
In the context of the OP: yes, Great Britain is part of the socio-political, economical and cultural area referred to as "Europe".
In a strictly topographical context: no, Great Britain is not part of the peninsula referred to as "Europe". It is simply not in a continent, just like Honshu and Sri Lanka aren't either.
(Relevant detail: I'm focusing on GB alone, but UK also controls Gibraltar. The later is a topographical part of Europe, as it borders the territory controlled by Spain in Iberia.)
The first response seems reasonable for me; it's informative and replying to an ambiguous comment, as you can't quite know if "isn't there" refers to his individual needs or in general.
The second response is however passive aggressive garbage. Fl4ppers clarified that he was talking about his individual needs; notjustforhackers failed to take it into account, and his response sounds a lot like "I'm just sayin lol lmao... you liar".
It is kind of the same suffix but the story is a mess.
That -ario and all words using it are reborrowed from Latin. And originally it was two related suffixes, fulfilling two purposes:
masculine -arius, feminine -aria: transform noun into adjective. Like "a be ce de" (ABCD) into "abecedarius" (alphabetic).
neuter -arium: noun denoting a place for another noun. Like "dictio" (saying) into "dictionarium" (dictionary, or "where you store sayings")
Except that Latin allowed you to use an adjective as if it was a noun (Spanish still does it), so that "abecedarius" ended as a substantive again. And Spanish merged Latin masculine and neuter, further conflating both versions of the suffix.
the inherited doublet is the -ero in llavero (place for keys) and herrero (related to iron - professions took the suffix and systematised the re-substantivisation).
I don't think that it's weird; it's a personal choice, and I think that it should be respected. I said that the soda is for the kid because he got to choose it and from earlier experiences he's the only one who drinks it.
I'm celebrating it in family. 4 relatives, me, 2 cats, and probably 1-3 uninvited (but still welcome) guests. It'll be:
Snacks - 2 types of chips, mozzarella with olive oil and oregano, salsicho (local sausage, nice to eat with some sprinkled lime), olives.
Booze - beer. Sis is bringing something else too but I don't know what.
Soda - for the kids. Or rather the 16yo "kid". And likely for the adults to mix with the booze.
Main meat - one of those big chicken breeds with fancy names, locally called "chester" or "fiesta". If I were to choose it would be mutton, but I'm the only one who eats it so... I'm still glad that it isn't turkey. At least Kika (cat #1) gets some chicken breast as a treat.
Siding #1 - white rice otherwise there's a bloody revolution here.
Siding #2 - a yucca meal farofa. I wasn't in charge of it, so I don't know what's in.
Salad - a salad with everything and a bit more: ricotta, arugula, bacon, lettuce, cherry tomatoes, croutons, and a yoghurt-based dressing. Siegfrieda (cat #2) gets some yoghurt as a treat.
Dessert #1 - a fake tiramisù with pasty cream instead of zabaglione + mascarpone because it's how my family likes it. 22:00 yesterday and I was still preparing it.
Dessert #2 - sweet french toasts with syrup. I'm expecting the sweet teeth in the family to drizzle its syrup over the tiramisù.
It's theoretically for five people but we're expecting 1~3 more to come in, and leftovers always become part of the Christmas breakfast and lunch, so we give ourselves the luxury to go a bit overboard. Plus three pairs of hands to cook, fuck yeah.
Pretty much. English borrowed it from Latin because it's posh. And Latin borrowed it from Greek because it's posh. But at the end of the day it's in the same spirit as "the ABC", or Latin "abecedarius".
I got something similar-ish... low tolerance towards assumptions about things that one cannot reliably know. It includes assuming what I'm thinking, but also more objective matters.
My most enforced boundary is likely "if I clearly told you «no», do not insist". Insisting further won't just piss me off, but also decrease the likelihood that you'll get what you're asking for.
I will warn you, it does have a silly name, but that was the name that was decided upon.
Damn, I was almost going to suggest some stuff. (chippym.uk - chippy, UK, a rodent...)
Serious now. I'm glad that federation means that people aren't putting all their eggs into the same basket; sure, feddit.uk going MIA is a loss, but just imagine if it was a non-federated platform. Hopefully the old users will be able to build their new home in the new instance.
Lvxferre @ lvxferre @lemmy.ml Posts 17Comments 1,115Joined 4 yr. ago
(I don't care about USA enough to discuss its specificities. I'll talk about fascism.)
It's a mistake to conflate two enemies. Even if you hate both for the same reasons, once you conflate them, you lose the ability to fight against at least one of them.
And what the video describes as "friendly fascism" has barely anything to do with fascism. And it has already a name - plutocracy, or "government of the rich".
Once you disregard witch hunters and their brainfarts, fascism has a rather consistent bundle of traits:
By far #0 is the most important trait of fascism, as the others come from it. In the meantime plutocracy (or "friendly fascism") would fit #3, arguably #7. And the contempt for liberalism and electoral politics appears for different reasons for both - ideological and pragmatic respectively.
Once you make this distinction, this video becomes specially interesting to watch, as it allows you to notice how one of your enemies is using the other to kill you with a borrowed knife.