Babalugats
@Babalugats@feddit.uk
- Comment on California’s billionaires pour cash into elections as big tech seeks new allies 3 days ago:
Your points? You haven’t been making any! All you’ve been doing is treating the assertions that democracy is susceptible to corruption and anarchism less so as almost axiomatic, backing it with little more than “look at how bad things are!” (while ignoring all other factors that created the current state of things) and a need for an alternative, while being dishonest about what democracy is.
My point remains the same. Democracy. Is. Not working. It’s not working. You can dress it up, blame all sorts of external factors and claim that others are being dishonest all you want. It’s not working. We need to look at options.
All forms of governance, with no exceptions, require delegation. But as soon as you delegate, there is room for corruption, and therefore a need to prevent it. In other words, there is always going to be a minority of people mandated with authority and a need for mechanisms to ensure that they don’t abuse that authority. And any system of accountability that involves fewer people than the public, is going to be more corruptible than one that does involve the public.
All forms require delegation. That’s obvious without pointing to something like a dictatorship. Also obvious that delegating leads to opening up room for corruption, that is why I used the term ‘agreement’ when referring to anarchism as one possible solution to look at. There is not always going to be a minority of people mandated with authority. I am assuming that you are referring to the people who police those rules? They follow the instructions. Then you repeat yourself and continue to describe democracy.
Even anarchism would, without a democratic core, inevitably decay into a dictatorship in all but name. By insisting that anarchism is distinct from democracy, you’re contributing to undermining the very thing you’re trying to achieve.If you’re trying to say that there are some very fundamental problems with current implementations of democracy, I wholeheartedly agree. But do put it that way, then. Democracy is entirely too important to be reduced to a lure for replies.
No, you are just theorising and comparing anarchy with democracy too much. It has a democratic core, sure, but only in the sense that the majority rule (of everyone, not a small majority) decides on issues.
I never stated that anarchy was the solution…I said it is one possibility to look at. Neither am I stating that there is one universal solution. I am simply putting it that your beloved democracy is not working. Not now. Not in its current form. An overhaul is badly needed, solutions should be looked at and not ignored. The flaws are being ignored by those benefiting from it.
It’s not working.
- Comment on California’s billionaires pour cash into elections as big tech seeks new allies 1 week ago:
Again, you have skipped over the principal point or points that i am making.
Democracy is not working. An important difference to distinguish between anarchism and democracy is how easy it is to coerce and/or corrupt the central body in charge. That is what is happening now on a massive scale, it was always happening on a large scale we can assume, but now it’s leaps and bounds above anything that we have seen before, just look at what is happening in South America as a result, for example.
My main point is still that democracy is not working now, and ANY alternative could help, if not least, to reset the whole thing.
A governing body made up of a very small minority easily corrupt with many career political families only benefits those already with the power and money.
- Comment on California’s billionaires pour cash into elections as big tech seeks new allies 1 week ago:
Come back where? To text at somebody stuck in their ways? Why would I do that?
- Comment on California’s billionaires pour cash into elections as big tech seeks new allies 1 week ago:
We do know it doesn’t work.
Look up arrows impossibility theorem.
Anarchism is one of many, and while it is in some ways similar to democracy, it is less open to corruption and it doesn’t have a handful of people deciding everything for us because they got the most votes based on a minority number of issues that they (at the time) claim they will fix.
That you want to stick with democracy and aren’t willing to even be open to the suggestions of anything else, but surely that in itself goes against your beloved democracy, by just assuming that democracy is the best option. Many have thought that their ‘solutions’ were the best option for them in centuries gone by. Feel free to look up quite a few religions for example.
- Comment on California’s billionaires pour cash into elections as big tech seeks new allies 1 week ago:
India is still holding remnants of feudalism since their independence, which can be seen in certain areas and way of thinking throughout India. India is also a far, far poorer country than USA, per capita especially, there’s no competition.
Poorer countries are easier to corrupt and India will find it very hard to dig itself out of the hole it’s in without outside interference and a lot of prosecutions.
But, corruption exists in (I would argue) every democratic country. They make up stats and skew them in their own favour in an attempt to hide it, but the people on the street aren’t blind to what is happening and are very much aware of the corruption regardless of any statistics.
- Comment on California’s billionaires pour cash into elections as big tech seeks new allies 1 week ago:
But we already know that democracy doesn’t work. What it sounds like you are describing in much of that post is anarchism (yes, I know I have mentioned it a few times, before I read your post), and with technology, which we heavily already rely on, I see no reason to attempt to try it again. Obviously on a much smaller scale so that we can easily see where lies flaws and boundaries, but we should also be doing that with democracy on a daily basis.
- Comment on California’s billionaires pour cash into elections as big tech seeks new allies 1 week ago:
I would definitely suggest trying them, along with anarchy. Democracy is ripe for making corruption easy, not to mention how crazy it is to have a handful of people voting on just about everything in our lives because a few of their alleged policies at the time of their campaign we able to convince people to vote for them (without much alternatives). The truth is that nobody would ever agree with everybody’s policies and they put the important ones on the long finger to use in the next election citing how much they’ve done.
- Comment on California’s billionaires pour cash into elections as big tech seeks new allies 1 week ago:
But it’s the biggest, and look how corrupt it has become. You think that those big techs are stopping at the U.S.?
- Comment on California’s billionaires pour cash into elections as big tech seeks new allies 1 week ago:
Which hasn’t been proven. But what has been proven, is that democracy doesn’t work. Mathematically or otherwise.
- Comment on California’s billionaires pour cash into elections as big tech seeks new allies 1 week ago:
Democracy in action on a grand scale.
Time to change, as already proven, democracy doesn’t work.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 1 week ago:
I think Zulip and Kahla do, not sure about which others, but a quick visit to each site should let you know whatever you need.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 1 week ago:
In no particular order, and not all are EU or FOSS But most are FOSS. I think only the first 6 are both EU and FOSS clients. I may not have marked all of the Self Hosted ones, but I think I did.
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fluxer.app (self hosted)
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sharkord.com (self hosted)
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stoat.chat (self hosted)
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 1 week ago:
Yeah, but if accounts are made on mumble for example, the migration will happen there quicker. Then if that doesn’t suit many, others are an option. I’m guessing whichever platform benefits from this will happily make any changes that are currently missing.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 1 week ago:
The problem with steam is that it will eventually go the same way.
At the moment the internet is being used by big tech similar to a sheepdog rounding up sheep. Hopefully most will refuse this and move platform, that platform will eventually attempted to be broken down and register a few more users etc. If you have younger siblings or kids, they’re fucked. Unless you educate them about their privacy and how important it is.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 1 week ago:
Worried about the children while protecting thousands of paedophiles that raped children. (The governments, not discord)
Regardless, fuck discord and instead of “threatening” an exodus, why doesn’t everybody register when xmpp or mumble and figure it out from there. Crazy staying on discord from here on.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 week ago:
A few mentioned here, with them recommending mumble
- Comment on An oopsie occured 2 weeks ago:
Seeing as everything else in the notification seems to be about money, I’m guessing 0.3 dollars.
Surprised they didn’t suggest getting another delivery driver for half price to bring it the rest of the way.
- Comment on Schlip schlop 3 weeks ago:
What?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Christ, Badenoch doesn’t do too badly on that. It must pay to be stupid.
- Comment on Say no to Palantir in the NHS 1 month ago:
I find it incredible how it seems that Keir Starmer’s government seem to have the same collusion’s and ideas as Trumps government, just having a more low-key way of going about it. Starmers slow(er) graduation into a form of authoritarianism and backing of Israeli companies or Israeli backed companies is all too much to be a coincidence.
BTW and FWIW - This is probably a good time to mention that Peter Thiel is a massive investor in Brave browser. If you have it, lose it.
- Comment on Swiss government urges people to ditch Microsoft 365 and others due to lack of proper encryption 2 months ago:
Windscribe are a bit late to the game -https://x.com/windscribecom/status/1995619967996494334
They are twittering today quoting an article that was published 3+ months ago.
Proton is moving out of Switzerland because of their new surveillance laws. So much for Switzerland being some bastion of privacy huh? That makes Canada a better place for a VPN. Stop drinking the marketing koolaid.
Judging by the direction that Switzerland seems to be going, I am guessing (I could be wayyyy wrong) that Swiss privacy companies are going to be still effective for people outside of Switzerland, soon to be completely free from US big tech spying. Canada are in the 5 eyes, whereas Switzerland aren’t even mentioned in the 14 eyes.
As for Canada being a better place for the Privacy or a VPN, I think Windscribe need to stop drinking their own nonsense.
- Comment on Swiss government urges people to ditch Microsoft 365 and others due to lack of proper encryption 2 months ago:
What’s happening in Switzerland? Flipping and flopping for the past year. I welcome this latest news, and the similar news yesterday, hopefully it is infectious to the rest of Europe but it completely contradicts things that have been proposed for the last few months, then the sudden change. I wonder did Trump push too hard:
May 14 2025 - Proposed Swiss surveillance law ‘identical to Russia’
June 13 2025 - “A war against online anonymity” – why Switzerland wants to change its surveillance law and what’s at stake
September 11 2025 - Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance
November 15 2025 - Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US
November 27 2025 - Switzerland: Data Protection Officers Recommend Broad Cloud Ban for Authorities
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- Comment on happy buy nothing day to those who celebrate 2 months ago:
Black Friday isn’t even a thing in Europe, yet I’ve been seeing adverts for for almost a month now, with two week long “sales” to generously allow us not to miss out.
- Comment on Your job is going to fire you for an unexcused absence. So you send them a pic to prove that you are in the hospital 2 months ago:
- Comment on YouTube to give banned creators a 'second chance' after rule rollback 4 months ago:
I wonder what their motivation is. Just a good old change of heart, giving everyone a 2nd chance or possibly something else?
- Comment on YSK When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation 4 months ago:
Giraffe-ic Interchange Format.
- Comment on Salmon farmer accused of blocking UK investigations into alleged animal rights breaches 4 months ago:
That just means whatever he is doing, it’s working. They’ll have to start banning copycats. Probably would have been better for them if they 🤐
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 4 months ago:
One of the main points about chat control is that it forces software developers to break their own encryption or face whatever the penalties will be. It is ridiculous and will hopefully be stopped in it’s tracks, unfortunately not enough people know about it, and even of the ones that do, not enough of them understand what it is and how dangerous it is. Basically, the governments have seen how lucrative it has been for the big techs, and how advantageous it can be to control our data. They have seen what the Israeli’s have been able to do with that information and tech. They want in. It has nothing to do with child protection. If it passes, all politicians better be squeakier and cleaner than squeaky clean. With their data not being scanned, we will likely have to watch them ourselves.
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 4 months ago:
Watch the insurance payouts drop dramatically if these go through. Access to all of your medical history… Insane. Still nothing compared to the proposed EU Chat Control.
- Comment on Polanski apologises over claim he can increase women’s breast sizes with his mind 5 months ago:
He still can’t do it with his mind
