Modern feminism is not compatible with Nazism. This is because Nazi ideology has baked in discrimination.
You are right that it did coexist in the past.
I think the term’s roots are misogynistic and the meaning is a militant feminist. So no actual Nazi ideology.
Why shouldn’t we use biometrics for security?
Because you can’t change them once they are compromised. It breaks so many rules for security it isn’t funny.
Why are companies/government pushing for this?
It is not about security, it is about tracking. This is the opposite of security and if we continue to allow it we will have severe consequences in our future.
They have an entirely different use case.
No it was photography.
William S. Burroughs called photography “obscene and sinister”, while many 19th-century critics dismissed it as a “mechanical” activity lacking soul or a refuge for “failed painters”
Edvard Munch Dismissed the medium by stating, “The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell”.
Susan Sontag described photography as “soft murder” and a form of voyeurism, asserting it turns people into possessed objects.
And lastly
“This industry, by invading the territory of art, has become art’s most mortal enemy.” - Quote from 1859 about photography.
Strange, as the above quote sure sounds like it is about AI.
I am sorry, but our AIs are just not compatible.
I would like to go out, but I need to brush my AIs hair.
Sorry, I already have an AI friend.
You are like an AI to me.
Unbrexit
These modern translations are complete garbage.
You will get it if you live as long as I have. It is bittersweet as you got to experience their love and then lose them. The number of people you lose invariably grows exponentially the older you are.
You either die young or live long enough for everyone you care and love about to pass away.
Fascism comes in many flavors and in varying degrees and the US has lead the way evolving corporatism into its logical conclusion the corportocracy. Think the military industrial complex itself lobbying for military action or proliferation. A sick partnership ensuring future death.
The fact that I can be critical does not mean I don’t recognize some of the good things. The US did help prevent spreading of disease in countries despite overthrowing 70 plus countries and killing uncounted millions of civilians.
China has raised close to a billion people out of abject poverty even if its policies killed millions of its own citizens.
The British Empire did bring modern technology to the colonies they brutally oppressed. Always look on the bright side of life?
I have to disagree with hand waving away what the US has done. Certainly you might compare it to history, but this isn’t ancient history with the Mongols or the Romans.
These are modern times and intent matters in culpability. The propaganda used to draw people to the Americas is another great example of the knowledge of what is right. The founding fathers of America loved to write about their virtues.
Is it fair to hold them to a higher standard? As I said we get to look at all this from a modern lense. The answer in unequivocally yes. We debated and decided on genocide. It was not a happenstance or an unfortunate externality.
Hitler was inspired by the genocide of the Native Americans and modeled his eventual extermination of the Jews after it. Ford and other wealthy US industrialists helped bankroll the Nazi Empire.
When Hitler approached other nations to take the Jews in the US refused and these wealthy lobbyists made sure to stroke anti-jew sentiment throughout Europe to ensure no one else would.
Nowhere to go the Jews were sent to the ghettos only the Nazi didn’t have a way to track them effectively. None other than IBM comes to the rescue and develops a census system that was used for those cool looking WWII arm tattoos.
IBM then helped with the computing power to figure out just how many Jews to load onto the trains per day so the deaths camps wouldn’t back up. You know, just typical logistical stuff.
That is another genocide the US participated in. That is what makes all the pro US WWII propaganda so ridiculous. Fascism was never defeated, a chapter was just closed for the moment.
As I stated the ruling class that calls the shots for the US are unlike anything before and they are not just what anyone would do. I am sure some people would describe it as evil and I think it was and is criminal in nature.
Playing both sides of conflicts and eventually turning this apparatus against US citizens in a third genocide known as The War on Drugs. Resulting in no less a third of all US citizens having some sort of criminal conviction, millions of families destroyed and millions of lives lost and still going strong to this day.
Almost everyone in America has lost a loved one to addiction. Crazy amounts of people overdose because the government tries to criminalize them in its genocidal efforts.
Out of control gun violence. I know several people in my lifetime that have been shot and killed. Being shot and killed is the number one child killer in America. It really does boggle the mind to realize there are more guns than people in the US.
It is not normal, I am trying to explain this to you. US technology has been unbelievably devastating to the world and has ushered in our AI apocalypse of mismanaged dysfunction.
US is responsible for so much suffering just through their technology alone. From the extremes like the Nuclear technology to the environmentally devastating like leaded gasoline. Just leaded gasoline alone has killed hundreds of millions of people and was estimated to still kill five million per year.a couple of years ago.
I don’t think anyone can truly comprehend the destruction that the the US has brought. Insane things like poisoning every human on the planet with both forever chemicals and plastics.
Back in the 1950s petroleum scientist knew about global warming. The US have fought tooth and nail to discredit the information they knew from the start. This purposeful campaign to deny or minimize reality will lead to the inaction that will displace a billion people with no plan which will likely become the greatest loss of life from a man made event in history.
It will be in the billions of dead before it is all said and done and that is if we don’t face total annihilation with the possibility of a nuclear winter.
This is not the future that humanity deserves. The list goes on and on and no matter what horrors you learn about, there are several more afoot. More research reveals more atrocities that would all take a lifetime to truly research.
I really wasn’t looking for a counterpoint to everything I said. Thanks for the effort though.
Absolutely bizarre thing to say. The first liberation of women in the US was 1837 when women were allowed to control their own property. The second big liberation was securing the right to vote in 1920.
The issue with what you say is how women were treated after the “boys” came home. As other responses pointed out Women have always worked. The change was the type of work.
They were forced out of their new roles. This was not liberating at all. In fact, it was quite the opposite know your place kind of adjustment.
I suppose you could make an argument that this created an eventual backlash where the first women won the right to equal pay in 1961-2.
You have a point about more women working after this time, but it was not equal as they were forced into “pink” color jobs. I would argue the war really lead to more exploitation of women.
Hitler’s murder crusade inadvertently lead to women being exploited even more than they were before by US capitalism. I suppose it did prove that women could do the job of men, even if their society didn’t respect them.
I can’t really speak to other countries but from my understanding the entire world is varying degrees of fascism at this point.
The US is exceptional, just not in the way most people think. No nation comes close to the suffering the US has caused and will cause in the future.
You can see parallels to modern US imperialism like with Britain costing countless lives in places like India. Also, a little further in the past with the Spanish treatment of Native Americans which the US then repeated.
We of course have the privilege of looking at this through a modern lense. What really strikes me is the level of enlightenment in Europe in regards to native rights and the practice of slavery before the US was formed.
It is clear that people knew better at this point and this shows the malfeasance that defines America. The people that went on to found America knew better than to do what they did. This animus against humans is what makes people in the US arguably unique. A kind of modern day barbarian if you will bringing back what was supposed to be lost.
The heart of the US is a republic founded on deception, terrorism, greed, and murder. Even our first President was a murderous land baron well on his way to becoming the world’s first billionaire adjusted for inflation.
I think your point centers around if anyone else would have done it the way these depraved manipulators did. I really don’t think so. The ruling class of the US are really in a league of their own.
Exceptionally depraved, cruel, and greedy amongst their peers around the world with near limitless resources at their finger tips. Imagine any single European country having access to the empty landmass that is the United States.
This is the real reason behind the myth of American Exceptionalism. It is like having near limitless wealth compared to everyone else who has a fixed income. The US is the equivalent of a trust fund baby. A psychotic mass murdering nepo baby that spread its shit all over the world.
Remember all that land, well you see it wasn’t really empty. Que the first genocide which the US still carries out to this day with boarding schools. There was of course plenty of room for the Native Americans and the whites to coexist. Hell, most of the US is still pretty damned empty to this day.
It was never even about the land. It was about a desire for systematic extermination. This ties in with your point about chimpanzees and also back to your original point that anyone else would have done the same thing.
Have you ever heard of the bonobos? They are another Chimpanzee that doesn’t fight and kill each other. If a male gets too aggressive the females hold him down and have sex with him until he chills.
Cool, now we can add global extortion to cryptocurrency benefits.
Cool, now other countries can steal China’s IP and thus the circle of knowledge continues on.
This is great advice for Lemmy.
I like what you have to say, but I will be honest. Hate radio is what started this journey for me back in the 1980s and there was no mythical time you could have a polite conversation in the US about politics. The whole politics ruining Thanksgiving has been going on since the Vietnam War and the concept probably dates back to before the Revolutionary War in the US.
Before Vietnam the US literally purged everyone that was too left with McCarthyism. Before engagement algorithms there was constant propaganda on all TV channels, radio, and print designed to do everything from break up unions to reinforce the Christian Nationalist movement. Think adding In God We Trust to all money in 1955.
I see where you are coming from as I was once there long ago. When you unravel the propaganda/lies you begin to see the bigger picture and understand why the forces that control us work so hard to misinform and create an alternative reality where America is the good guy.
The reckoning of what the US has done and continues to do is truly insurmountable for a typical human being. Mutual understanding easily becomes a tool of oppression where we are expected to forget all of history and culture to compromise with people who are selfish and misinformed.
You can give someone who wants to destroy you all the respect in the world and it won’t change that they want to destroy you and will given the chance. This is the reality we face and harkening back to an imagined time of mutual respect is not the panacea we would like to think it is.
If you wanna be my lover,
you gotta to be explicit.
Make it plain as day,
I can’t take a hint.
If you wanna be my lover,
you have to directly tell me.
Don’t beat around the bush,
Because I will never get it.
It really is a huge liability plus the optics are game ending for the public using their service. Can you imagine, “The government doesn’t require us to scan your conversations anymore, but we still do it anyways and sell it to whoever”.
Translation: It is good at finding bugs that the NSA doesn’t want people to know about.
Wow, that is some next level dumb propaganda they come up with in Russia. I guess whatever works.