Koarnine

Right, but Capitalism incentivises this behaviour, thus making the checks and balances required both more robust and needing to be applied for regularly - while the powerful are capable of preventing this.

On the other hand, Socialism has incentives that are completely different - managing the abusers would be a much simpler task.

Kicking the can down the road implies you have a better solution?

Everything goes poorly, always. Not shifting for the left means horrible things done poorly. Shifting to the left means at least good things done poorly, that’s not a meaningless difference.

Just be realistic with the goals of your movement and you won’t disappoint anyone - see Mamdani.

Lmao this is foolish, what about Bazzite and other immutable distributions, wouldn’t they then be more ready for mainstream than windows and mac os?

Since it’s impossible to modify (and therefore break) the underlying system…

Oh shit a new season, so hype

I first used linux with Ubuntu Hardy Heron, I was 8 or 9 years old…
the ‘macs are cool’ to ‘modifying windows to look like mac’ to ‘try linux’ pipeline was real

I did move back to windows with the windows 7 ‘black’ beta I found on kickasstorrents tho.

Ah… 2008 was a much simpler time (on the internet)

Big fan of

“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth”

• Garry Kasparov (2015)

That is to say, don’t let them shut you up.

There is a longer, more historical version of this but it escapes me at the moment.

I can only find the Hannah Arendt quote (1974)

“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And [to] such a people… you can do whatever you want.”

But i swear there was one that finished “When the truth is silent, liars can move onto action”