They evaluate reality with other priorities. To them it seems like they are doing good.

Almost all cruelties are committed for the greater good. People just disagree on what is good.

This explains the ignorance of global warming perfectly.

Brazil: Robert De Niro

Too real

I think it could help to approach the game differently.

There is the anecdote about chess in which two kings are about to lead their armies into battle, but they play a game of chess first and start to appreciate their opponent and end up not fighting the battle.

There is the entire history of colonialism that suggests otherwise, but I think that capitalism is more than a means to oppress the masses. The masses are oppressed to achieve cultural progress. There is no need for our current form of capitalism if we find a way to create progress in another way.

State capitalism was not bad, but I think it is a dead end. We should try to come up with, and try other ways.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_African-American_population

Alabama has the highest support but only 1/4 identify as black. Republicans need 68% of the remaining votes.

Overall, 12.4% identify as black. That’s not much.

Das dürfte sich auf das Gespräch von Weidel mit Musk beziehen, wo Weidel erklärt hat, dass die AfD wegen ihrer (neoliberalen) Wirtschaftspolitik keine Nazis sein können.

Der Teil wurde gar nicht genug genutzt, denn Neoliberal können AfD Wähler eigentlich nicht wollen.

That’s how you end up with a population who agree with the leader even if he tells them the sky is green.

Or you are in Japan, maybe even North Korea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue–green_distinction_in_language

He should have watched “The Great Dictator”.

True if used in production. But it’s used to store value. If I know gold will be worth 50% next year, I am not willing to pay full price today if I want to resell it then.

if it were the same, you wouldn’t have been allowed to make this comment.

It works both ways. Is OP allowed to make the comment because he is more priviliged or because he has less power and is less of a threat?

Remember the McCarthy era. There can be more restrictions if needed.

Developed by Xerox and Canon in the mid-1980s, the existence of these tracking codes became public only in 2004.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

To prevent the first cat from having fun

The proprietary backdoors come with spies doing much more gymnastics to gain access to those who know the secrets to access those backdoors.

It is no secret that a large proportion of the wealth accumulated by Dubai merchants comes from smuggling gold bullion (mostly from Britain), Swiss watches and Japanese cloth into Pakistan and…

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/1970/06/06/golden-dubai

Gold flown from London’s bullion houses like Johnson Matthey and Samuel Montagu to the The British Bank of the Middle East and the First national Bank in Dubai played a significant part in making Dubai what it is today. Shipped out by Arabs, Pakistanis and Indians in dhows to Bombay and other ports like Kutch and Calicut in western India, it brought much wealth to the merchants and the larger business community of expatriates who had made Dubai, home. The narrative of oil in the Persian Gulf has largely overshadowed that of gold and underplayed its significance in linking Dubai to the international economy.

https://mei.nus.edu.sg/think_in/gold-smuggling-between-dubai-and-bombay/

Does that taste like avocado?

Nachdem er seinen Fund, dem Hosting-Provider der Datenbank mitteilte, sperrte der den öffentlichen Zugang, weigerte sich jedoch den Namen seines Kunden zu nennen. Wer genau die Daten zu welchem Zweck wie gesammelt hat, ist folglich unklar.

Das wars? Bei aller Überwachung muss doch eine staatliche Stelle aktiv werden und dem nachgehen.

Das ist gut. Kann jemand einen Bot bauen, der zu jedem Post das passende Dokument als Diskussionsgrundlage verlinkt?

States bomb their own population, but nuclear self destruction is a bit too much. I don’t see the link to what I suggested.

I am talking about things in the mind, about attitudes. If changing that already leads to anhilation, what is then left but acceptance of the current situation?

If the price of gold plunges one day, it should already plunge today. In other words, the probability for success of those mining operations is low.

Without the expectation of being taken serious I want to double down.

In feudal times, peasants were controlled by the sword. They didn’t have access to swords and couldn’t change their situation.

Capitalism has the militarized police, but the main weapon is the control of the markets. Profits are made with the prices that the peasants are willing to pay.

At least in theory, it’s within reach of the peasants to influence those prices because those prices are living in their heads.