chapotraphouse CarbonScored • 1mo ago • 99%

Britons would generally choose communism over fascism

I don't know how meaningful the question really is, and fuck YouGov, but still thought the data were interesting and vaguely positive.

chapotraphouse CarbonScored • 1mo ago • 100%

I thought :inshallah: had a frog in the back, but it's actually just hands

 Or  Frogshallah lives on as my headcanon

chapotraphouse CarbonScored • 2mo ago • 100%

There are actual anti-lib, anti-capitalists out there in the Lemmyverse

An absolute many are neo-fascist libs, but some, I assume, are good people.  https://lemmy.world/post/18545268 I thought it was nice to see a couple good takes out in the wild for a change (an anti-dunk tank?). Not all of the comments are perfect, but many are fighting the libs on the posting lines.   >@Rookwood > >The reason capitalism leads to fascism is that inevitably capitalism will lead to untenable inequality. Injustice will be too great to ignore between the rich and the rest. This will lead to populism. > >There are two forms of populism. One will seek to rectify the imbalances caused by capitalism. The other will seek to divert blame to minorities. If there were less <minorities>. then our society would not be in decay. One is much more useful to the Capitalist and so it will ultimately prevail. The capitalist will devote all resources to crushing the leftist populism up to and including directly funding fascism. > >160 upvotes • 12 downvotes   >Dharma Curious > >Some of the comments in this thread really tell you why it takes a novel laureate to say this. Some of y’all do not have a basic understanding of history, economic systems, or what the term reactionary actually means. > >The correct response to “neo liberal capitalism has contributed to the rise of fascism” should be “no shit, Sherlock” > >It’s truly sad that that isn’t 100% of the comments here. > >Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleed, y’all. That doesn’t mean all liberals are fascist, that means that fascism is an outgrowth of liberalism. > >And just in case y’all also don’t know what that means, “liberalism” in that context isn’t “Obama liberal, Bush conservative,” it means the political ideology of liberalism, of which both Bush and Obama were proponents of. > >ETA: I’m not engaging anymore… it’s not my job to teach y’all the difference between an economic system and authoritarian states. Also, your magic has no power here, I am an anarchist, not a stalinist. Please educate yourselves. If for no other reason, do it to make it easier to pwn the tankies or whatever the fuck > >101 upvotes • 19 downvotes  >[@DancingBear@midwest.social](https://midwest.social/u/DancingBear) > >i hate it when I hear people making the claim that it is capitalism that has helped so many people in the world with better quality of life and more opportunities and better outcomes, etc. > >Capitalism is a fucking disease that we need to rid ourselves of, it is worse than Ebola the way it infects our minds with the dumbest shit. > >You know what has made lives better for billions of people? The washing machine and the cotton gin and fucking electricity. > >Capitalism has fought against progress every step of the way. > >74 upvotes • 9 downvotes  >@njm1314 > >Well of course it has, fascism is the end result of capitalism. Some would say it’s natural conclusion. > > 63 upvotes • 13 downvotes >>BlackLaZoR >> >> fascism is the end result of capitalism >> >> I wonder what sort of echo chamber you must live in, in order to believe this >> >> 20 upvotes • 67 downvotes

chapotraphouse CarbonScored • 5mo ago • 100%

NASA helped write a paper about the possible outcomes of extraterrestrial contact back in 2011 - Would Contact with Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity? A Scenario Analysis - arXiv

This is just a short, easy-to-read paper I keep in my bookmarks and go back to occasionally. It explores, qualitatively, the various outcomes that contact with alien intelligence might have. I think it's a really cool 25-page exploration of possibilities that are fun to think about. Some choice quotes: >ETI (extraterrestrial intelligence) might attack us not out of selfishness but instead out of a universalist desire to make the galaxy a better place. >perhaps ETI make contact with Earth to welcome us into the Galactic Club but only after we complete a set of required bureaucratic tasks  >They may be interested in incorporating us into their civilization so they can sell us their products, keep us as pets, or have us mine raw materials for them. >if ETI place intrinsic value on lives, then perhaps they could bring about more lives by destroying us and using our resources more efficiently for other lives My favourite section is the "unintentional harm" outcomes, which suggests the possibility that they just might squish us by accident. >One non-biological physical hazard that we could face from direct contact with ETI is unintentional mechanical harm. For example, ETI might accidentally crush us while attempting an unrelated maneuver.  Can't for the life of me find where I first heard of this, but I just wanted to share it for being fun and fairly silly yet still officially worked on by NASA.

chapotraphouse CarbonScored • 6mo ago • 100%

Why I'm blocking c/badposting

Because it's bad. It's a bad place with honestly bad posts.  That's all.

news CarbonScored • 9mo ago • 100%

"Healthcare lines" as people in the UK horde to opening day at a new NHS dentist for the scant few places available

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/05/queue-new-nhs-dental-practice-bristol-st-pauls "99% of dentists across the south-west aren’t accepting any new adult patients." Getting anything but emergency healthcare in the UK is nigh impossible for much of the country now, I've been on the waiting lists of all my local dentists for over 18 months. This'll get spread around as heavily as that misleading bread line photo from the USSR, right?

news CarbonScored • 11mo ago • 99%

IDF kills hostage with airstrikes, then rescues the body

You mean mass, indiscriminate air strikes aren't a good way to save hostages and actually just result in dead people???

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/52. Lemme kick it off with the still top rated post on hexbear.net, probably worth restating for our federation friends too. > edit: this post has gained a lot of traction over the course of the last three months so I believe some clarification is needed > > this title is indeed a land of contrast, and i think the following statement should do a better job at voicing what I really meant with this post: > > people who think they can own one or several human beings and treat them as their property or capital do indeed deserve to die, preferably sooner than later, and not of natural causes; helping accelerate this process by loading a rifle with ammunition, pointing it at a slave owner and pulling the trigger is a good idea and should be done when possible. hopefully this clarified the stuff > > > > The post that announces the death of Henry Alfred Kissinger better overtake this one as the most upvoted post. > > edit:edit:The killing slavers fandom is dying! Upbear to murder a plantation owner right now!