winterayars

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[–] winterayars 14 points 4 months ago

They also have a personal, psychological need to be "normal". They can't stand the thought that other people aren't like them--or maybe even more importantly: that they aren't like "normal" people.

Bob Altemeyer's The Authoritarians talks about this in some detail.

[–] winterayars 1 points 4 months ago

Sweden has slowly been going insane right wing (and the rest of Scandinavia too, but more slowly). They failed to treat the Nazis in their society seriously and have allowed racism and conspiracy theories about immigrants and such to fester.

The right is in this for the long haul, too. When Anders Breivik (aka Fjotolf Hansen) blew up a bunch of people, who did he target? He targeted a camp full of future political leaders. He wanted to kill the next generation.

Every modern society has Nazis in it but you can't have a modern, advanced, peaceful society if they get any power. You have to fight them and their bullshit wherever they appear.

[–] winterayars 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't want to argue against mental health services, i think mental health services could be helpful. However, i do want to point something out here: saying this is a mental health problem really doesn't make sense. You know a group that has mental health problems? Women. You know who else? Black people. You know who barely do any mass shootings? Either of those groups. We're not (just) talking mental health issues, we're talking about people who view "shooting up a school" as an appropriate way to resolve their social grievances. You can help that with mental health services, you can take their power away by blocking easy access to guns, but that's a pretty big component here as well.

[–] winterayars 10 points 5 months ago

They just don't like Harris and they don't have any reason why that they can talk about in public.

[–] winterayars 4 points 5 months ago

...Oh yeah, that's true.

Fuck.

[–] winterayars 69 points 5 months ago (9 children)

I'd say "he's gonna lie" is the free space on the bingo but there's a lot of competition...

[–] winterayars 24 points 5 months ago (4 children)

It's just gonna be me staring into the camera for 5 minutes.

[–] winterayars 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Signal is E2EE encrypted (similar to Telegram's secret chats but probably better) so it's less vulnerable. If people know about it they can ask Signal to ban you, but they can't just passively spy on everything.

That said, XMPP is better still IMO.

(Edit: centralization isn't as big a problem as you might think with Signal. The wealthy own the whole world now. You can't set up somewhere outside their jurisdiction, you can only stay ahead of them as they force people to stop hosting you. Sending a takedown to Signal is the same as sending it to your hosting provider, do not fool yourself. )

[–] winterayars 8 points 5 months ago
[–] winterayars 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I am not a lawyer but as far as I know: it super isn't. It's also illegal for compounding pharmacies to make, where I live.

[–] winterayars 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Imagine not having 70,000 followers. Fate worse then death.

[–] winterayars 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You know that dude would be completely useless.

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