Another metaphor for the US election.
woodenghost
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From 2001 to 2003, people tried getting the Nazi party NPD banned. They sued at the highest court and argued, that it was a danger to the constitution. The court found, that too many members of the Nazi party, including highest ranking leaders, where funded by the state. Specifically, they were paid by the very agency (Verfassungsschutz) that was supposed to protect the constitution. They had funded the Nazis for years and radicalized them under the guise of introducing under cover agents. The court concluded, that a clear distinction between the state and the Nazi party could not be made. And so the case was dismissed. The funding continued.
Earlier this year, the former head of this agency set up his own Nazi party.
My convos with libs seem like I'm talking to a computer chat bot, the empathy and concern that I'd expect from a real person isn't there.
I feel exactly the same way. It's called the empathy gap and it's a symptom of racism. This is how they can manage the mental gymnastics of supporting genocide and thinking of themselves as good people. Brown people just matter less to them.
Yes, it's good that you see the western centrism now, because in its own, this post was a bit racist and invoking orientalist cliches. Like suggesting, that all non Western people are theists. Or saying, that atheism is a western liberal thing, when people all over the world actually think for themselves, draw their own conclusions and become atheists. Like every Marxist movement everywhere, for example. China, Cuba and the Soviet Union. Every liberation movement ever had to struggle against organized religion. Yes, even religious ones like liberation theology in South America, which struggled against the Vatican and lost or in part was ordered to stand down and obeyed.
A Marxist should accepts personal believes and fight oppression based on religion because it splits the working class. But in the end, while organized religion might in some cases be a temporary ally in national liberation, it has historically always succumbed to reactionary authority in the end and turned against us.
Furthermore, you're right, that the new atheists invocations of "facts", "logic" and "science" are seldom more than thinly veiled appeals to authority. They often do not define these things, nor do most of them seem to understand the many material contradictions and open philosophical questions within them. But that doesn't in itself make theism an defensible philosophical position either.
In addition to the advice about a group, like if you don't have a group try to join one and talk to them and so on: In the meantime think about your limits and needs for yourself. It's okay to feel overwhelmed and you don't have to be able to deal with the stress in a certain way. You can still contribute meaningfully, if you know your triggers and are mindful of them. Decide beforehand, what to do if a situation is too much, like getting out or getting some distance or trying calming exercises.
Edit: You might even decide not to go to a protest, if police presence is too high and that's okay too. You can still connect to people and help organize or render support.
Also talk to them beforehand about what you will do in specific situations, like if the police attack or threaten arrest or if it just feels like to much for you. Decide where to meet if you're split up. You could have three meeting places for the start, middle and end of the route of the protest.
And within your group, you could have pairs or triplets of people who agree to stay together no matter what. Within these, the member least willing to engage further in an action or protest should determine when to leave with no shame or questions asked.
And talk to people afterwards too to debrief. This whole concept is called an affinity group.
They all end with "In conclusion..."
No, but I'm not sure, it would help. I'd really like to dns block made-for-advertising sites. They have exploded because of AI. One would need to create an index of them like there already are for ads, pornography and gambling. I'm talking about the blogs full of long AI articles and pictures on every conceivable obscure topic.
Wow, I hadn't realized it's gotten so bad. I use duckduckgo and just tried it. I also got some of these. A little fewer though.
Yes and also, nuclear power is really expensive. No one would ever invest in it without state help. No one insures it. The cost per watt is way to high and set to rise further with depleting uranium deposits. And much much higher, if it was mined in a slightly less destructive and exploitive way. Higher still if security precautions were forced to be up to date. Incredibly high, if waste was properly taken care of and the costs included in the calculation.
Nuclear power was never profitable. The only reason it ever gets founded is because governments are motivated by the urge to amass more and more deadly nuclear weapons. Or keep that option open. Or to feed the industrial complex that grew around that.
It's the most roundaboud, stupid and primitive way to go about creating electricity to collect rare ultra poisonous, slightly warm rocks, throw enough of them into water until it boils and push that through something similar to a steam engine. All the technology around it is just to keep the rocks from poisoning us too quickly.
Compare that to all the genuine novel research that goes into solar and batteries. The advanced materials like complex semi conductor alloys. The clever techniques using the latest in quantum and nano technology. How they squeeze every bit of efficiency out of remotely collecting energy from the nuclear fusion in the sun, that's already going on for free and at a save distance.
Nuclear energy on earth is superfluous, dangerous and expensive and every month new advancements are made in solar and battery and other genuinely green technologies, that make them even better and cheaper and widen the gap even more. And of course China is investing heavily in both solar and battery research.
Will we finally get an official "welcome on Elbaf" chapter next week? Or are we somehow still on a ship or nearby island?
They had met a few times before, but it was when Marx had read "The Condition of the Working Class in England" by Engels, that they became lifelong friends.