Compassion ~ Thought

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Cake day: October 24th, 2024
  • OpenStars@piefed.socialtoMap Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•Which Countries Are In The World Health OrganizationEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Tbf, (1) Republicans were the same as well, prior to Trump, so this was not a R vs. D issue so much as an anti-establishment vs. establishment one; and (2) the USA has literal actual nukes, making anarchism far less attractive in practice than it might naively sound in theory. Also, (3) people are just as uneducated this year compared to roughly one year ago, i.e. vulnerable AF, and (4) Mask owns everything now, so having to return to an era where not only do you lack satellites but this time the other side does have them, plus drones… is not a tiny wrinkle in an otherwise unstoppable plan. It’s more like an unedumacashiated rabble fighting with sticks and stones vs. computers with actual nukes. The uprising in Planet of the Apes was the real fantasy, whereas irl they would have zero chance, given today’s technology.

    Also note that wherever you are in the world, this is coming for you too, in some form or another. e.g. Brexit happened long before Trump was elected the second time (the first being more or less an accident?). Even Greenland has elements of people within it who for some reason seem to welcome the idea of becoming part of the USA. This is not a uniquely American phenomena: we only thought that WWII won against fascism, but in the end fascism may win out overall, world-wide.

    And until we figure out what the real enemy is, why trade off Trump for e.g. Musk to come save us? The idea that this hole that the USA has dug itself into is somehow “fixable” might be the real escapist fantasy, and all the more so when you consider the child-like populace. Edit: but of course if it were fixable, that would require enormous efforts, and not be just a casual endeavor.

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialtoCommunity Promo@lemmy.ca•Welcome to /c/Urbanism!English
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    11 months ago

    Yeah like to answer this question: should homeless people be allowed to simply take public space and turn it into their own private home (by placing a tent or string or some kind of divider, indicating “this is now MY area”, even though it was meant to be shared by everyone), and/or yelling and screaming at people (or singing? but in particular AT someone, like directed point-blank into their face) who simply want to walk down the street unmolested, who has the right to do what there? (I am presenting the more centrist view here, with respect to the USA norms, as the extremist views on either side are more well-known so I presume this is enough to convey most of the topic) - is that kind of post allowed?

    Probably I am overthinking it, definitely for the short term, but eventually this will come up, spurred on all the more quickly by it actually happening irl, and so people will want to talk about it.

    What made me think of it is seeing how on Reddit r/washingtondc rarely these days has posts such as “Sunset from Monument looking west” and “Any good October/Halloween 5ks?”, and instead that sub has been nearly completely subsumed by the events that are on everyone’s minds in that area. Understandably!!!

    And an example on the Threadiverse: the !AskUSA@discuss.online community, despite an explicit rule demanding no purely political posts, and where we even direct people to communities that explicitly welcome such (e.g. !politicaldiscussion/lemmy.world), nearly every single post there has become political. Hopefully that affects your community to a much smaller degree - the USA really is going through some stuff right now, but that is no reason to suspend all discussions around the world about every topic.

    You might even want to suspend all discussions about the USA period. Though other hotspots around the world may still offer political takes on urban planning, so you’ll have to decide what you are comfortable with.

    And some political discussions may legit be interesting - e.g. just how much should gentrification be allowed vs. denied, and if the latter, then by what mechanism to accomplish such?