Who TF subscribes to the Star?!

Propaganda conflates industrialization with capitalism continually, obscuring the possibility of any other economic system.

It’s not just medieval. Sargon of Akkad started instituting that shit millennia ago. It is embedded in the region and has infected a good chunk of the world. Islam is just one vector; ancient greeks passed the same patriarchal idea of women’s behaviour determining male honour into christianity too.

Oh, Indonesians have some, ahem, concerning stories for you.

Yet Putin published an opinion that Ukraine is a modern fiction and should return to Russia. It isn’t official… just the geopolitical opinion of the dictator.

Decommissioned mines can be used as gravity batteries.

I think the topic is less about largesse and more about being badass at really, actually literally like totally, super fucking important work.

The irony is overbearing: an article about the fog of war, in a publication whose slogan is “Fighting Israel’s media war.”

They tell you right in the header that it is propaganda.

Hmmm, what would Krishnamurti do?

Realllly not sure how what I wrote was hatred or redditworthy, I must be missing some unwritten code. Maybe it’s a communism vs anarchism thing?

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It’s worth contemplating how absolutism influences our various cultures. Genocide feeds on it.

“Specific hatred” does not equal “don’t like”.

People are so touchy about being judged, so ready to be insulted. It all works in favour of the authoritarians.

Sure, we need to talk out the terms and agree on things, but that only works when people have open minds and critical thinking. In the meantime the epic struggle is between those who work, and those who own.

All the quibbles about left and right, about borders and morality, about identity, is distraction from solving the problems of fundamental disparity.

Basically, living in a kleptocracy sucks. Owners vs workers, authoritarians vs egalitarians: these are the real battles.

Since capital inevitably pools in the hands of the wealthy without invasive centralized regulation, “anarcho-capitalism” is an oxymoron designed to distract you from its inherent fascism.

Yes, it is, psychologically. You only need a few thousand to be highly accurate.

Individuals can drop attachments to organized religion. The example given, if true, can be seen as evidence. If you are making an anthropological argument that there’s a fundamental and practically immutable psychological difference between societies, you should say so, and address the occasional rapid shifts in social structures evident in modern history.

So far, you merely assert, with no explanation about your terms of reference.

Is it a fact because you want it to be, or are you some kind of statistics savant? It doesn’t represent the planet anthropologically, but it does psychologically, and whether it is possible for a population to drop organized religion is about brains not tradition.

Why not? What are your assumptions about diversity in the context of the range of emotions and political tendencies?

Millions of people is a pretty good dataset for statistical reliability. That country can be considered a useful example of what’s possible.

And yet here you are, in the fediverse.