My initial reaction is that automated posting, even if moderated, fits into the spirit of the Bot tag. If it's not a human creating the posts, votes and comments, then it should be flagged.
I honestly don't personally know any real-life person who acts like that - they're either just not scared of cool infrastructure, or they're the occasional 'patriot' freak who's nationalist/racist enough to consider Japan a threat too.
Leave the straw-man circlejerking to the rightoids, comrade.
Where I previously lived, I would have said 'agree', or at least it would be a serious quality-of-life determent to not drive, due to spending over an hour to make a trip that a car could in 20 minutes. It also helps that I don't want to hire drive-share or taxis constantly, but this also wasn't a reliable option.
Blackness/Whiteness is an interesting concept - it's remarkably fluid, especially with changes in time and place. Race isn't the same as ethnicity or genetics, or a direct result of it, although racists often try to claim it is - a stark example of this in Western societies like the US and Australia would be how they categorize Italian and Greek peoples, Slavic peoples, or ethnically-Jewish peoples - the idea of whether or not each of these is White has largely shifted over time, often as a group stops being the current biggest immigration demographic. The USA even had a concept of "Black Irish", which originally meant a post-Famine Irish refugee. Human races are ultimately just social classes, not a biological concept.
Another aspect, related to this thread, is hypodescent. In some societies (it's not a universal thing!), if a child has a Black parent and a White parent, is the child Black or White, or another label entirely? As mentioned in that article, some US states used to legally define someone as Black even if only 1 of their 16 great-great-grandparents were Black.
I understand that the media direction is terrible and that other post of the rabbi being interviewed was ridiculous, but independently of that, I was thinking that locking down synagogues was a sane thing to do in the context of Christian/White supremacy.
And, lo and behold: already a post suggesting the shooter is a neo-Nazi https://lemmy.ml/post/47552728/25766524 (for those who don't know, that's a Sonnenrad)
Athenian democracies solve a lot of our current issues. It’s a bit like jury duty. You put your own name down and can be picked for roles in government.
I see a lot of people on Lemmy recently claiming to be left but also trying to tell me how democracies are bad. -_-
Probably the case, although it's important not to dismiss people for criticizing liberal democracy - the system that has repeatedly put us in the mess we're in now. There are plenty of issues which are wildly popular regardless of political alignment but which liberal democracy fails to deliver, so to consider it a democracy at all, simply because most people get voting rights to pick representatives, is very debatable.
There are plenty of other forms of democracy, many which have been successfully run in communities of hundreds of thousands of people (consider Zapatistas, Cheran, and more).
Since you mentioned India, Kerala is does not currently have a socialist mode of production (that's a specific way of saying, their economy isn't socialism) but they have been led by socialist parties (parties which are trying to implement a socialist mode of production), and it shows.
These mid-half money breaks are truly terrible. But they are so very American.
My initial reaction is that automated posting, even if moderated, fits into the spirit of the Bot tag. If it's not a human creating the posts, votes and comments, then it should be flagged.
I honestly don't personally know any real-life person who acts like that - they're either just not scared of cool infrastructure, or they're the occasional 'patriot' freak who's nationalist/racist enough to consider Japan a threat too.
Leave the straw-man circlejerking to the rightoids, comrade.
Reminder, for those who aren't familiar with Butler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
Off-topic but related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Epstein (born 1915)
Stopped reading at "Do you want to work"
(well, at least not for money)
Where I previously lived, I would have said 'agree', or at least it would be a serious quality-of-life determent to not drive, due to spending over an hour to make a trip that a car could in 20 minutes. It also helps that I don't want to hire drive-share or taxis constantly, but this also wasn't a reliable option.
Excessive for my threat model, one more thing which could break something (even if by no fault of its own).
I like it as a concept, but many of my devices don't use it.
Linking to a reply I posted in this thread because it talks about a relevant aspect, which other (correct) comments haven't named: hypodescent.
https://lemmy.ml/post/47987898/25930253
Blackness/Whiteness is an interesting concept - it's remarkably fluid, especially with changes in time and place. Race isn't the same as ethnicity or genetics, or a direct result of it, although racists often try to claim it is - a stark example of this in Western societies like the US and Australia would be how they categorize Italian and Greek peoples, Slavic peoples, or ethnically-Jewish peoples - the idea of whether or not each of these is White has largely shifted over time, often as a group stops being the current biggest immigration demographic. The USA even had a concept of "Black Irish", which originally meant a post-Famine Irish refugee. Human races are ultimately just social classes, not a biological concept.
Another aspect, related to this thread, is hypodescent. In some societies (it's not a universal thing!), if a child has a Black parent and a White parent, is the child Black or White, or another label entirely? As mentioned in that article, some US states used to legally define someone as Black even if only 1 of their 16 great-great-grandparents were Black.
Send an email to their webmaster if you haven't already. The more of us, the better.
I understand that the media direction is terrible and that other post of the rabbi being interviewed was ridiculous, but independently of that, I was thinking that locking down synagogues was a sane thing to do in the context of Christian/White supremacy.
And, lo and behold: already a post suggesting the shooter is a neo-Nazi https://lemmy.ml/post/47552728/25766524 (for those who don't know, that's a Sonnenrad)
Tempted to try the Traffic Light Reactuon, but I don't know how safe it is to store something that alkaline in a regular glass bottle long-term
Anything in the ballpark of "working class ownership of the means of production".
Sortition?
Probably the case, although it's important not to dismiss people for criticizing liberal democracy - the system that has repeatedly put us in the mess we're in now. There are plenty of issues which are wildly popular regardless of political alignment but which liberal democracy fails to deliver, so to consider it a democracy at all, simply because most people get voting rights to pick representatives, is very debatable.
There are plenty of other forms of democracy, many which have been successfully run in communities of hundreds of thousands of people (consider Zapatistas, Cheran, and more).
Since you mentioned India, Kerala is does not currently have a socialist mode of production (that's a specific way of saying, their economy isn't socialism) but they have been led by socialist parties (parties which are trying to implement a socialist mode of production), and it shows.
This is a definition specific to certain communist ideologies. Valid, but not general.