@kdfrawg Pursuant to our earlier discussion, here's an interesting take on the current predicament:
https://sandala.org/we-shall-overcome/
// @hazardwarning @indigo @gtwilson
@indigo We're closer to it than I ever believed I'd see in my lifetime.
// @kdfrawg @gtwilson
@gtwilson I increasingly feel like a relic in today's world. I continue to believe in absolute racial and gender equality, an international outlook, the basic ability of science to make our lives better, and the triumph of reason over superstition.
If this makes me responsible for the ills of the world, I challenge those opposed to do any better. They can't, and they won't.
// @indigo @kdfrawg
@indigo I also visited Yugoslavia when it was united and peaceful. It was a shock to see it turn into a fragmented war zone, complete with genocidal atrocities, a few years later.
// @gtwilson @kdfrawg
@gtwilson The thing is that symbols have meaning. Otherwise, they wouldn't exist.
From my perspective, it seems to me that I've spent at least the last 30 years watching a small group of people plot to destroy our educational system, establish a partisan press, and overturn every social advance and every bit of the social safety net that we've established in the last 100 years. Now that we have a substantially misinformed and ill-educated electorate, they're getting their wishes fulfilled.
I'm a white guy, with a Nordic name, and I'm going to be spared the worst of what's coming, but I'm not wealthy except in the global sense, and if these people get their way I'm likely to have an impoverished old age, while the kleptocrats we just elected rob the nation blind, and that both worries me and pisses me off. It also pisses me off that my friends who have brown skin or non-Christian beliefs are going to be in the crosshairs.
Meanwhile, we're being told that we have to understand the people who are making this all possible. While that may be true to a certain extent, I'll be damned if I'll bend over backwards to excuse their ignorance and shortsightedness. Since the electoral college makes their vote count for more than mine, I'd argue they have just as big a responsibility to understand all of us annoying secular coastal people with college degrees.
Finally, both parties got us here, by pandering to the wealthy (yes, even the Democrats), ignoring what's left of the middle and working classes, and ignoring the warning signs of what was coming. A pox on all their houses.
// @kdfrawg @indigo
@thrrgilag When companies make it impossible for people to do things the right way, they can hardly be surprised when their employees find other ways to do those things.
@thrrgilag That's an excellent way to ensure that employees take their confidential business-related communications to an external platform where there is no corporate supervision. Fantastic.
@phoneboy I find that if I'm craving something sweet, eating something salty removes the craving. Don't know why that is.
// @matigo