Americans (especially non white Americans) tend to speak very frankly about race in a way that can make Europeans uncomfortable. In this context “white” is simply meant to conjure an image of someone with disposable income.

(See “black twitter”)

“Money as a vestigial cultural relic” is a great concept. You’re right, Latinum doesn’t provide the Ferengi with anything but status.

I think about this exact topic a lot and I think you are mostly right, but I also think that open source replicators would be an agent of change, especially if one could be used to manufacture parts to make another. Of course, without land to make things on conflicts will arise. But once the need for money is removed some people will choose to “opt out” of society and start building a parallel one similar to how the open source community exists alongside closed source software.

The fact that they are only here was the final straw for me to make the switch to Lemmy.

It is, but diplomacy refers to disputes between peoples. Politics refers to disputes within a people.

I didn’t say anything about pacifism, but I also disagree with your proposition equating violence and politics. Violence is a breakdown of politics. Politics, almost definitionally, is how a people settle disputes without violence.

Politics is how how decisions are made in groups. If one person or group is forcing their will upon others, then no decision or compromise between the parties can be said to have been made freely. And therefore it cannot be truthfully described as following a political process.

I will engage with you in the context of your original proposition but I will not engage with Gish Galloping.

That is a very machivellian attitude. I don’t believe that hurting people who aren’t a threat in the name of “progress” is justified, even if it were somehow a shortcut to utopia, which it’s not.

Maybe referring to china’s treatment of minorities? Though usually when people say “extreme left” they are referring to scary groups like public transit advocates.

These threads/articles always get the facts wrong, TikTok is not “getting banned”, they are just forcing the company to divest from it’s Chinese parent company.

If you think Taiwan and Ukraine are “other countries’ wars” I have bad news for you. It’s better to pay as much money as we can now before the payment is made with american lives.

Israel is something else obviously, as was US involvement Iraq and Afghanistan. But the bulk of the money is absolutely worth spending if you value your freedom. It has nothing to do with the housing crisis whatsoever. The US has enough money for both.

I have nothing to add except that I love these threads. Thank you for making them!

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Well I did not expect time travel shenanigans in a story about the progenitors but I am not complaining. Really enjoying this season so far.

These two episodes were really enjoyable. Discovery is not my favorite Trek series but I have been looking forward to this final season.

If you want to blame groups for a Biden loss

Nobody is doing this but nice deflection.

Quit being obtuse. The time for “the right” candidate is in the primaries. The general is for forming coalitions.

Book and Saru are examples of positive masculinity on television, what does that mean to you?

Doug Jones: Thank you for thinking I am masculine at all.

lol legend

That’s nice but still doesn’t answer my question.

An anti-MAGA meme makes you feel attacked