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- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 week ago:
How did you come to your understanding of anarchy if I may ask?
I’ve heard of specific cases of organization without leadership such as in the case of co-op companies but I’ve not heard it in the framework of anarchy really.
Personally, I feel there are some unique challenges with not having an organized government with representatives. I feel that a good system relies on having an educated populace to make decisions effectively; this is a current issue even in representative governments, like the US, since in many countries voters aren’t required to be educated to be making decisions.
Another issue is creating incentives to work and to strive for higher achievement. Big architectural projects may require people pooling resources even from those that would not personally benefit, as an example. Some people choose to what they do because they feel properly rewarded for the effort, I think having a minimum bar of care for everyone makes sense, but the people contributing more may want more in return if you’re going to try to sell them on your idea.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 week ago:
I’m not certain how you would classify that either. When I hear the word anarchy I think more ‘Wild West’ or ‘outlaw country’.
I’m pessimistic about good coming from anarchy in the long-run. To me it sounds like disorganized bands of communities. Without some sort of organizing or structure then I feel it makes it much more difficult to deal with natural disasters, famines, or antagonists.
I feel that in the case of Turkey I don’t know enough about the specifics of your country to comment on ways it could be improved politically to bring about good governance. I feel it’s still possible in my country, but from what I have heard Turkey leans more conservatively.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 week ago:
You’re describing Direct Democracy vs Representative Democracy. Direct Democracy is what we also saw in places like Athens or ancient Greece, where all of the individuals came together and voted collectively on making decisions.
Representative Democracy is what we have in the US today with elected officials.
Direct Democracy is a lot more difficult to implement unless countries become smaller imo, although in the digital age it could be made more possible. Plus there’s the matter of maintaining a militia, although maybe we just expand the current version of the UN’s military budget in that case.
I feel that under Direct Democracy you would still have the issue of bigots outnumbering you in certain areas but not so in others.
The issue with the US’ representative system is that we artificially capped the amount of seats for the House of Representatives and even the Senate so that land has more power than people. If the House was uncapped Federally, and the even the Senate, then people living in Blue/densely populated states would have more fair representation.
- Comment on Goodnight Video 2 weeks ago:
Let your memes be dreams <3
- Comment on Goodnight Video 2 weeks ago:
This is my type of shitpost to end the night on.
- Comment on If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is. 3 weeks ago:
I think it could be worth doing a class on the text of the Quran at some point. I’m aware of some small things such as a deeper focus on the rituals of prayer and worship, but I’m not aware of the specifics of the text.
They really should be, those writings attributed to Paul really go off base from what Jesus was teaching.
- Comment on If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is. 3 weeks ago:
Adam was made XY sex. Adam then chose to be male. Sorry for the confusion there.
- Comment on If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is. 3 weeks ago:
And it’s been woke the whole time! Lol
- Comment on If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is. 3 weeks ago:
That makes a lot of sense; I’m curious now what are some of the big differences between the Orthodox and Catholic versions of the Bible. I agree that the Bible can be viewed as a living document. Personally I believe more books could have been added on over the past 2,000 years.
That makes sense as well. Take the King James Version for example which removed references of criticism about the monarchy and papal authority. Although surprisingly was still centered on presenting the Bible with a religious or political lean one way or another.
- Comment on If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is. 3 weeks ago:
Even the Bible has been slightly altered by man though. For instance, a few of the books written in Paul’s name we know now were actually written by some of people under him from within the early church.
So the sections written about women not holding authority within the church may have been put in there to centralize power and make the church have a patriarchal structure.
There’s also the different translations of the Bible which can affect the meaning for some of the text. For instance the Adam and Eve story. Adam means earth in Hebrew, it was not a name. So the person we know as Adam, was created male and then personally chose to identify as male, rather than being given his gender by God. The same for Eve as well being the first woman, although IIRC Eve was her name. Still she chose to identity as the first woman.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 4 weeks ago:
[+3]! I must have come across a few of your before.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 4 weeks ago:
It took me awhile to even realize how it worked, but it tracks the total number of comments or posts that I’ve liked from another person. You’re number for me shows as [+1]!
At first I thought it was an instance based like system, incidentally I believe that would have been a cool serparate thing to track for how popular posts are based on others from your shared instance:
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 4 weeks ago:
[+2] next to you!
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 4 weeks ago:
[+3]! Thank you for the laugh
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 4 weeks ago:
It’d be kinda fun if the Fediverse made its own hybrid English dialect. At the very least it would create a unique niche that’s only on the Fediverse. That alone would draw in some users to participate.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 5 weeks ago:
You really notice how tight knit Lemmy is if you have user specific scores enabled or if you leave yourself tags for specific users. [+1] was already next to your comment for instance. Whenever I see double digits profiles I know those are usually regular posters.
- Comment on Relatable. 5 weeks ago:
The art style was stabbing my eyes back then. I could not do the thick line character outlines in the setting they chose. If they had a different background art style it could have worked for me but that was not happening.
- Comment on necessary read 5 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t say they’re necessarily tiny but they are a minority by far. 94/213 of the Democrats in the House are part progressive caucus for instance, which is 94/435 total seats in the House. Having 1/100 of the seats in the Senate by comparison.
Imo they just do what they can get away with. Which will continue for the foreseeable next three years at minimum.
For progressive change, it really needs to happen at the state level within Blue states. We need those programs passed at the state level and then we can sell how successful they are to the other states.
- Comment on necessary read 5 weeks ago:
I agree, that’s why I feel that having more countries willing to stand together on certain points matters as well. The more people coming together to say something and stand by that, the more that message gets through, even to those that have selfish goals.
- Comment on necessary read 5 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t say Americans are tricked, but a vote for positive change tends to be met with a vote for change nothing by someone on the other side of the aisle.
People’s best bets is really to focus on making their own states more progressive and pass those progressive programs at the state level. Banking on having the federal government pass the progressive programs people want is not going to work
People living in Purple and Red states are going to need to see Blue states thriving from progressive policies if they’re going to be convinced to change their voting habits. People living in Blue states should no longer be banking on doing the more caring option of passing progressive programs federally, instead Blue States should be willing to go into debt to fund these progressive programs.
- Comment on necessary read 5 weeks ago:
I believe that’s an overstatement, not all politicians are corrupt. There are many members of Congress that are working to make things better and pass progressive legislation. AOC and Bernie for instance haven’t been silenced and replaced by big corporations.
I agree with you that the US’ federal Congress is more pro-billionaire, but there are still people that want to make things better. The issue is that those people do not have the votes to pass progressive legislation. Lots of people are seemingly happy with the status quo given that half of the states predominantly vote Republican each election cycle.
- Comment on necessary read 5 weeks ago:
Even authoritarian governments can be swayed when money is on the line, imo. If countries enforce standards via an international trade deal, anyone that doesn’t play ball by the rules could be incentivized to change if they want a cut of the pie.
Take non-ethical working conditions for example. If every country said they will not do business with a country that doesn’t implement ethical working standards then that country could be incentivized to change. If there was a requirement for third party auditors to be able to regularly verify that those standards are being upheld then that could help ensure that those basic standards are being met even in authoritarian countries.
- Comment on You mean there's a better way‽ 1 month ago:
FFS, why have you been gatekeeping this from me for so long :(
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 1 month ago:
Australia probably has the best system in place for any country, but if you want an even better version of what they have, might I suggest STAR voting or Ranked Robin voting? Alternatively there is also Score voting which is similar, but based on scoring each individual candidate.
All of these three avoid some of the pitfalls that are still in most Ranked Choice voting.
- Comment on Funniest Exhibit at the Smithsonian 2 months ago:
This sounds like a humorous activity to try.
- Comment on Political discourse 2 months ago:
You’re not wrong. Many of them are exposed to propaganda on TikTok and it is a growing issue. Espionage is being done to divide the left and consolidate the right. Just because it’s not as noticeable as the propaganda from the right doesn’t mean that it’s not having subtle effects. If it gets people to disengage or not look out for their best interests then it is effective. All this to say, there is a way to bring about positive change that has to do with being involved locally.
- Comment on ‘You never want to leave:’ TikTok employees raise concerns about the app’s impact on teens in newly unsealed video 3 months ago:
Teaching them about logical fallacies and how to spot them may be the best defense against these types of personalities imo. Many influencers that you’re concerned about try to prey upon these fallacies, so teaching your kids to spot them can help them to realize those people are full of shit.
Curating their content a bit to include more people you want them to be like can help as well, at least then they can have good people to look up to.
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 3 months ago:
Some of it had to do with there not being admins to go around afaik. Lemm.ee for instance couldn’t find enough admins so they shut down. Moderating an instance seems like one of the hurdles that go along with running an instance. I could imagine some people dipped out of Lemmy for a little while if their server was deleted since they’re starting from scratch again. It took me a good month or so to make this account and ramp back up my own activity here for instance.
The admins across the servers do a good job of keeping bots out imo. If it ever becomes a problem the admins could look to adopt BlueSky’s moderation tools down the line, I feel. As BlueSky makes it easy to filter bots, misinformation spreaders, and have user level content controls.
- Comment on What is piefed? 4 months ago:
They really got to make this more well known. The top search results didn’t list those apps either for being PieFed integrated.
- Comment on What is piefed? 4 months ago:
What???
Wow, I’m surprised that’s not the top Google result or App Store result for PieFed.
I wrote my comment on the Voyager app too lmao.
