In short, the authoritarianism happens because it requires a large amount of power to make the societal changes happen in the first place, which would then give rise to a generation that can maintain the system without overreach.

Now the problem obviously is that humans are corruptible, and very few people in the history of our species have ever been given totalitarian powers and not abused it for their own power and benefit.

My participation has dropped a lot compared to when I only just joined. There is only so much us centric doomer content I can stomach, and Lemmy is so extremely political that it is impossible to just browse cat memes and have a good time. So I spend less time here I suppose.

I mean, thats asking the fox what he did in the hen house, to coin a paraphrase. Chinese citizens are generally very nationalistic and have a very skewed perspective due to the near total control of information the government has.

Your first mistake was choosing to debate one of the most argumentative people on Lemmy. Can only get weird from there

Just for arguments sake, why is this not considered an act of war? Why is it not feasible to place navy in the area that is authorized to sink any foreign ships acting suspiciously? Chinussia will either have to admit they engage in covert ops against the west and NATO or have their assets destroyed without being able to complain about it.

Not saying he is an anarchist, just that he wants anarchism. So he can become the new state.

You ask for anarchy without realizing that anarchy is what the rich fucks like elon really dream of. A world without governments where their exclusion from any obligations to society and legal responsibility can be institutionalized.

And then we have true, official neofeudalism.

I am german myself, citizen of Europe’s capitalism capital. A country firmly in the grip of conservative impulses and the billionaires who play on them for their own gain. I still don’t want to roll over.

Anyway, why do you not kill yourself then? Be done with it, do something good for the cosmos.

Or admit that you’re just a fucking coward, too scared to keep on living and also too scared to just exit this plane of existence like your beliefs demand.

Ich habe deine posts in dieser Sache beiläufig verfolgt, und muss dir leider sagen dass ich von deinen Beschreibungen ausgehend nichts wirklich ungewöhnliches oder negatives in deinem Arbeitsumfeld wahrnehme. Für deine Kolleginnen und Kollegen ist der Arbeitsplatz offensichtlich auch soziales Umfeld, das damit einhergehende Getratsche und gelegentliche private Gespräche sind total normal in Deutschland.

Ich vermute aber auch dass deine Mentalität aneckt, da du deinen Arbeitsplatz in erster Linie als Wettkampf und Sprungbrett zu einer anderen Stelle zu betrachten scheinst und deine Kollegen eher als Konkurrenten wahrnimmst, was wahrscheinlich auch zur Folge hat dass du die anderen als kindisch und faul empfindest und ausgeschlossen wirst.

Letztendlich musst du es natürlich selbst wissen, wobei ich persönlich vorschlagen würde ein paar mehr Stellen auszuprobieren da du ja nach eigener Aussage stark nachgefragt bist und problemlos woanders unterkommen kannst. Auf diese Weise bekämst du Einblick in weitere Arbeitsplätze und die dortige Mentalität, und könntest besser beurteilen welche deiner Wahrnehmungen kulturelle Unterschiede, und welche tatsächlich problematisch sind.

I dont think i get your point, but for that matter I am not an american, I dont eat meat and I dont have a car, never mind an SUV lol. And the winning move here is to topple capitalism, not consent to die off.

So we should just roll over and die off peacefully? I think not

Only if you want your feed to be an echo chamber. In my opinion the best thing about the fediverse is that you can choose the rules and values you want to adhere to through your instance choice, without cutting off interaction with others unless you defederate their instances.

The frequent calls to blanket dismiss anyone on those instances are an unfortunate overreaction in my opinion.

I hate this so much as a leftist talking point. If the working class has no more kids all that happens is that we slowly phase out the peasants for the inevitable shift to fully automated labor, without even attempting revolution.

Just total submission to our neofeudal masters, allowing them to effectively kill us when we are no longer needed. Like cattle.

Have kids, if only so you have proper motivation to fight for a better tomorrow instead of this defeatist crap

Literally thousands of hours in stellaris and space engineers. Recently satisfactory as well.

When I was younger I also played a metric fuckton of world of Warcraft, though that thankfully is a lot less addictive nowadays.

As a fairly new Linux user, I haven’t managed to run a single program through bottles. Just never works for me. Luckily I could get by so far with proton and auto generated lutris entries, but especially the latter I wasn’t able to configure manually either.

This is a greentext. It must be fake and gay

Ich verstehe grundsätzlich nicht wie irgendeine Art von politischer Finanzierung aus dem Ausland legal sein kann, nicht mal für kleinstspenden finde ich das okay. Das läuft dem Grundkonzept von politischer Souveränität zuwider.

That is some weird shit to get upset about, but I suppose I can understand it for a game that seems to have put a lot of effort into the proper related jiggle physics. If I bought a game specifically because it has super realistic anime ass I’d probably be very upset if they took those away.

Wenn ich in Urlaub fahre mache ich auch immer die Touristenrunde durch alle militärisch und geopolitisch sensiblen Anlagen im Gastgeberland.

I feel very sorry for the beggars where I live but also hate them with a passion. I can’t go for groceries without two or three hawking the entrance to the store, ready to barrage anyone who looks mildly compassionate with sob stories.

Worst I got taken was by a young woman who looked very in need of help, asking me to buy some food for her family. Gullible me thinks alright, I can spend 10€ on some kitchen staples so these guys don’t starve over the weekend, and took her into the store. Woman proceeds to absolutely stuff her basket with expensive meats, brand laundry detergent, diapers, to the point she literally can’t carry the fucking basket any more. Cost me almost 120€ in the end, about 6x what I spent on food for myself.

Ever since then I will immediately recoil from anyone asking for help beyond the “classic” sitting quietly on the ground with a cup in front of them, because my scam alert has been readjusted in a bad way. I suppose I resent the woman more for destroying my compassion than for the money she tricked out of me.