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- Comment on If you consider yourself a Christian and act in self-defence, you don’t truly believe 1 week ago:
Christian tradition teaches that we are the hands of God; that God gets things done in the world through the instrumentality of human action. When you do an act of kindness for your neighbor, you are instantiating God’s kindness; when you defend your neighbor from harm or oppression, you are instantiating God’s protection.
One of the big differences between Martin Luther King Jr.'s ideology of nonviolence and Mahatma Gandhi’s ideology of nonviolence is that King accepted self-defense while Gandhi rejected it. Dr. King carried a pistol in his early career, and was later defended by armed bodyguards; while Gandhi called for oppressed people to surrender to their oppressors. So empirically, rejection of self-defense is less Christian and more Hindu.
- Comment on Almost every heterosexual has more often pleased someone of their own gender than the opposite one 1 week ago:
Heterosexuality and homosexuality are subsets of allosexuality (sexual attraction and behavior towards others). Autosexual acts such as masturbation are not allosexual and so do not contribute to heterosexual or homosexual identity.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Feudalism, where economic power comes from control of the land and familial connection to the conquerors of the land, was broadly supplanted by capitalism, where economic power comes from control of commercial and industrial capital, which are traded openly in capital markets.
Capitalism has several features that feudalism does not:
- The most productive property in capitalism is industrial and commercial capital: the means of industrial production and trade. While land remains profitable, it is no longer the center of economic productivity; and ownership of the land does not convey the sort of dominion over its use that it did in feudalism. (Nobody thinks it’s weird to build a factory on leased land, for instance: the ownership of the industrial capital does not follow the ownership of the underlying land.)
- Shares of productive property (capital) can be freely bought and sold in capital markets. In feudalism, productive property (land) changes hands through warfare, political processes such as the elevation of new lords by a king, and familial processes such as marriage and inheritance.
- Contract law becomes supremely important in capitalism, as the productive entities (firms) are largely creatures of contract law rather than traditional rights.
- The capitalist managerial class by and large does not arise out of the families of the feudal aristocracy, and does not conduct itself according to the social rituals of the feudal aristocracy. For instance, corporate mergers are not arranged through marriage of the heirs of CEOs.
- Although this is not fully true of early capitalism, in modern capitalism workers are typically free to leave their jobs, and employers are broadly free to fire them if they are not productive. In most forms of feudalism, serfs are bound to the land and may not lawfully leave their lord’s service.
On that last point — Capitalism emerged out of colonialism. Many of the first firms traded on capital markets were colonial enterprises such as the Dutch East India Company (VOC). These firms employed slave labor and enjoyed legal monopolies on trade. This puts the lie to the libertarian claim that capitalism requires free labor and free trade. Capitalism is perfectly compatible with slavery and monopoly. For later examples see the United Fruit Company and other American colonial ventures.
- Comment on You have been in a prison of bone for your entire life 4 weeks ago:
Your body is not a life-support system for your mind. Rather, your mind is a guidance system for your body. Bodies were first; and developed minds to be better at doing body stuff.
- Comment on Having to manage cables is a very 80s thing that we still have to do in 2025. 4 weeks ago:
I once worked in an office where the IT people would go around and zip-tie the cables to the furniture in the conference rooms, in ways that invariably led to the cables coming under tension and eventually fraying and breaking. (Especially some of the pricier laptop charging cables.)
I’d snip the offending zip-ties (selectively) when I noticed, but they went through a lot of expensive charging cables because someone thought slack cables looked messy.
- Comment on The fact that some dogs are used to the groomers and some aren't is wild. 5 weeks ago:
On the other hand, there are plenty of humans who like just about any dog more than they like other humans.
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- Comment on European-Americans need better leadership role models to show them that education and hard work — not violence, promiscuity, and criminality — are the right ways to get ahead. 5 weeks ago:
It’s about Trump, dude. Not Trump as politician, but Trump as model for what a “successful” white dude looks like: a sleazebag who cheats on his wives, cheats at business, commits crime on top of crime, uses violence and threats to get his way, etc.
(It’s also a parody of the racist shit people used to say about Black Americans and bad role-models like gangsta rappers.)
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 17 comments
- Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief? 1 month ago:
Marathon’s Security Officer already had the green armor and shiny mask.
- Comment on It always seems like its time to move to linux 2 months ago:
Remember when a “pop-up blocker” was a browser plug-in because the browsers didn’t yet consider it a competitive feature?
(Well, okay, Opera and iCab did.)
- Comment on It always seems like its time to move to linux 2 months ago:
Number of ads my OS shows me: 0
- Comment on Heck is just "hell" and "fuck" combined 2 months ago:
Mother mother duck
- Comment on Heck is just "hell" and "fuck" combined 2 months ago:
Oh, shove it up your heck!
- Comment on From a purely political perspective, if you oppose the US tariffs as a US resident, should you buy or avoid buying products subject to tariffs? 2 months ago:
As an individual? Don’t worry about it; show up at your local protest on the 19th.
- Comment on What are people from Moscow and Versailles called? 2 months ago:
Musks and Verses?
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 2 months ago:
To be clear, network costs represent a tiny fraction of WMF’s expenses. Much of WMF’s budget goes to social programs, not technical upkeep.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 2 months ago:
It was found in alum, so it should really have been alumium all along.
- Comment on You must take a long road trip with Donald Trump and no one else in the car. Security is everywhere; no one is in danger. You drive and control the radio, but can only play music. What's the playlist? 2 months ago:
They Might Be Giants, “Your Racist Friend”
- Comment on Video game characters should swear when they get hurt 2 months ago:
Ever play Q*bert?
- Comment on Explicit or educational: Is Big Tech censoring women's health? 3 months ago:
This goes back to the days of AOL chat rooms, where they shut down forums for breast cancer survivors because they said “breast”.
- Comment on 🦆 - 🚗The fuck is bigger than the car. 3 months ago:
🦊
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 3 months ago:
Fascists lie.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 3 months ago:
As a reminder, Eich was turfed from Mozilla for joining an anti-LGBT hate campaign; and his So Brave browser pushed NFTs and stole money via referral fraud.
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code 4 months ago:
Congratulations … you’ve trained a generation of junior product managers.
- Comment on Meta confirms ‘Project Waterworth,’ a global subsea cable project spanning 50,000 kilometers 4 months ago:
First step: Find a country with a navy competent to defend your undersea cables.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 4 months ago:
Stone two birds with one hit.
- Comment on Chicago Transit Authority deactivates X social media accounts 5 months ago:
I trust my city government a hell of a lot more than I trust the incoming federal administration.
- Comment on Chicago Transit Authority deactivates X social media accounts 5 months ago:
If it’s unified under the federal government, then an asshole president can mess with it.
If it’s distributed, with states and major cities having their own instances, then it’s more asshole-resistant.
- Comment on Did "Party time! Excellent!" come from Wayne's World or Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Did one copy the other? 7 months ago:
Bill & Ted is “Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes!”