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shneancy@lemmy.world 1 week agoi genuinely cannot see how this improves anything. if they want to keep them kids in the dark about sexual stuff - how is pushing them to be exposed to most likely hardcore bdsm on the front page assuring that?
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Making more people criminals. Ayn Rand wasn’t a pleasant person and her writing is worse than even mine, but she was entirely correct about this motivation.
Also getting leverage on services that should be checked against regulations. Doesn’t matter if they are going to host any porn. The check itself is pressure.
Getting funding.
Creating posts with small power, subordinate to posts with bigger power. It’s like bullshit jobs in an authoritarian country, people who are dependent on the regime for their wage and are not very qualified, except it’s higher rank.
Making the legislative apparatus busy with that instead of something real.
Stuffing rules harmless taken alone into the law, as a preparation for another time.
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
even though it made me a little depressed - thank you for the explanation, this really sucks no matter how you look at it doesn’t it, ehhh
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well, they are working to gain power. We are not working to stop them, just voting from time to time. Of course they are gaining more.
That’s why I was at some point enthusiastic about Soviet system (not USSR, but what it initially pretended to build, hence the name of “Soviet socialist republics”), because it maximizes rotation and participation, except for voting replaced with sortition, because otherwise the majority vote through a few iterations kills every minority position (that’s how it quickly turned into USSR, yes, Stalin was voted in too, everybody somehow forgets that, but he was, through his oratory skills ; another good orator who was voted in and became dictator is kinda more known). So that there were no appointed administrators with power, only citizens randomly put to fulfill a duty just barely good enough.
Because in such a system wide participation with effort is encouraged and normalized. I mean, I’m in … Russia, but in some randomly taken Western country of more than 10 mln population - provided I’m a citizen, - how do I put my name on the ballot? How do I participate provided I have time? How much does the effort converted to money cost?
Participation should be free and easy. If it’s not, it’s not a democracy.
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
yeah democracy as it is most common today has its issues, sadly, and propaganda is easier to spread than ever. and the soviet system of rotating positions also ensured people that were easy to control because they were new to the job. i do wonder if there is any system that could work for us humans
i hope you stay safe in Russia, you sound highly aware of the motions in politics, and as you surely know the intelligence is often targeted first when a dictator wants to dictate without being questioned