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aeon said:

From Reddit:

When people say ‘violence isn’t the answer’ my response is always ‘no, violence *shouldn’t* be the answer but it is’. When you look at the history of rights and benefits for everyday people, almost all significant progress is earned in blood.

People who hold power and who are unwilling to use it morally aren’t persuaded by arguments of fairness. They aren’t persuaded by ethics. They aren’t persuaded by the law. That’s all their own choice. What that means is that the only thing that moves the needle is the eminent threat of personal harm.

Look at healthcare companies suddenly forgiving medical debt the last few days. Do you think that’s because they all had a dream about being nice and decided to redistribute wealth? Fuck no, it’s because they’re suddenly terrified of being killed.

Women got voting through violence. Slavery was ended through violence. We have a weekend because labourers made their bosses choose between that and being killed. All of that was because no other form of change worked.

It’s not pro violence. It’s just that you cannot avoid any form of non violent responsibility, respond only to violence, and then be shocked when violence happens.

Cheers,
Ian
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Uninstall a few more and a lot of problems in society could either be improved or solved nearly outright.
 
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Micheal Moore, on being mentioned in Luigi Mangione’s manifesto, and being asked if he condemns murder.

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Maybe they hate because of where you put them.
 
lol ...but it's true.
The thing that angers me about what Vivek Ramaswamy says especially about kids being praised for being math wizes and aspiring engineers before college is that reality doesn't work the way he's espousing it to. In America, even kids who were very good at math and tech before college, got good grades, scored high on the SATs, etc. aren't guaranteed a college education. If you are good at STEM subjects in high school, it doesn't mean you'll be stellar in college, and it especially doesn't mean you'll have a successful career either. Life happens. Shit happens. And especially if you are poor(even by American standards 'poor' or working class) and especially if you are a minority, it gets extremely hard by college age, because you are "unspoken-ly" expected to do well in college, while holding a job, bills, and supporting your family members or possibly a family you are starting, all before you turn 25. And if you have problems along the way handling all these things at once, it just all falls apart, you got to pick up and start from scratch again. On top of that, everybody around you suggests that it is expected that you failed: you weren't smart enough, you have some kind of personal/character flaw, or you're just simply not working hard enough. You get hit harder and have to work harder than someone who is average, watched TV throughout their younger years, and lived a relatively safer and more comfortable life, with stable relationships and such. As I get older, the more I realize it is not just about who is willing to work 'harder', it's a lot more about positioning and "where you already fit" socially and economically in life that gives you opportunities in America. Vivek doesn't understand America, imho.

Ok...rant over.... :p
 
Jexocuha said:
lol ...but it's true.
The thing that angers me about what Vivek Ramaswamy says especially about kids being praised for being math wizes and aspiring engineers before college is that reality doesn't work the way he's espousing it to. In America, even kids who were very good at math and tech before college, got good grades, scored high on the SATs, etc. aren't guaranteed a college education. If you are good at STEM subjects in high school, it doesn't mean you'll be stellar in college, and it especially doesn't mean you'll have a successful career either. Life happens. Shit happens. And especially if you are poor(even by American standards 'poor' or working class) and especially if you are a minority, it gets extremely hard by college age, because you are "unspoken-ly" expected to do well in college, while holding a job, bills, and supporting your family members or possibly a family you are starting, all before you turn 25. And if you have problems along the way handling all these things at once, it just all falls apart, you got to pick up and start from scratch again. On top of that, everybody around you suggests that it is expected that you failed: you weren't smart enough, you have some kind of personal/character flaw, or you're just simply not working hard enough. You get hit harder and have to work harder than someone who is average, watched TV throughout their younger years, and lived a relatively safer and more comfortable life, with stable relationships and such. As I get older, the more I realize it is not just about who is willing to work 'harder', it's a lot more about positioning and "where you already fit" socially and economically in life that gives you opportunities in America. Vivek doesn't understand America, imho.

Ok...rant over.... :p
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Read rant to my mother. She said “I like it because it is true,”
 
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So, this comes to a head because there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell that the USA could ever have something equivalent to the GDPR.

Sigh,
Ian
 
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