alphanerd4

Ya aigh fair enough

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Counterpoint. It’s not a strawman. The US is is an authoritarian state. If you disagree too loudly I will instaban you. also Why are you here?

alphanerd4 @lemmy.world 1y ago

Again it's not because there's not serious parallels between American style race-based chattel slavery and the modern forced labor system that we use to enslave people.

They muddy the waters because they are Confederates they are ye old fascists their entire f****** bit is to play with reality. These people genuinely believe that they are scientifically better at being human and that they can prove it with their bones.

Frankly, I think the slavery systems that the US has the most in common with is not even its own historical chattel slavery. Just normal forced labor systems historically that were not multigenerational. Like multi-generational race-based slavery is basically unique in world history and frankly every single example I've ever seen of historical parallels or or like any sort of historical precedent for any kind of practice even remotely similar to race-based chattle slavery basically is just an exercise in examining our own biases because they don't f****** have them. Race is from chattel slavery race as a concept in the English language is from chattel slavery . Most human societies throughout history and most languages even are not going to have concepts of race as opposed to just normal ethnicity because you don't even have enough of a range to realize that's a thing that happens. It's like being aware that there are people in the world with these other characteristics, and half the time it's in the same sort of breath or sentence as here there be dragons and freaking people with their heads on backwards who walk shuffling or whatever. Like it's it's actually basically impossible to both not give someone hope that their life or any of their children's lives could ever improve and also maintain that situation with any sort of permanence . Modern empires modern science modern pseudoscience is an integral part of that kind of system functioning and it the keys just didn't exist more than 400 years ago all at the same time.

Like some of the best evidence I've ever seen for why the slave trade stopped in the first place is just they realized how many f****** people were dying and enough of the different human links in that economic chain just noped the f*** out of it within 200 years.

F*** I had a bad day

alphanerd4 @lemmy.world 1y ago

Hey I mean I fully agree with the sentiment you present and I run a space called USAuthoritarianism about it :/

alphanerd4 @lemmy.world 1y ago

I just wanted to see if you could do that :( I’d never tried b4

alphanerd4 @lemmy.world 1y ago

I mean.

Thanks for the sources 👍

Think it’s fair to say there might have been a little something between 1873 and 1968 that’d warrant resetting that first.

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alphanerd4 @lemmy.world 1y ago

We are not beating the, "white people are obsessed with cheese" allegations.

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alphanerd4 @lemmy.world 1y ago

I mean, if there was a male relative who wanted it or a jilted ex or just somebody who clocked it, yeah, that was a real possibility. Also - Conservatorship, Garden Variety Elder Abuse. You can find enough anecdotes of this happening just in the last 18 months to drive yourself insane.

Like, yeah. Yeah. Horrific absolutely terrible abuses are happening all the time and have been this entire time. That is that is the context like like have you never heard the phrase your regulations are written in blood??

I mean frankly if you’re asking me, I would say the only reason you don’t get drowned by horrific anecdotes exactly like situations like widows losing all their money 24 seven every day of the week isn’t because it’s not happening. It’s the only reason we get horrific anecdotes 24 seven in the first place at all is because if you do that for criminal shit it makes it really really comfortable and easy for society to justify continuing as is and also the racism

alphanerd4 @lemmy.world 1y ago

This Post Got My Reddit Temp Banned :(

alphanerd4 @lemmy.world 1y ago

Truly, from the depths of the algorithm.

alphanerd4 @lemmy.world 1y ago

No but this is what I mean. The republicans just won this election and Biden welcomed him back into the white house. This is the system. Welcome to the real silent majority: None.

alphanerd4 @lemmy.world 1y ago

Huh. 🤔 . They do of course. https://militarybases.com/alaska I also see 9. :T well that’s annoying. Now that I look closer I do see Closed military bases on this list and the scale is absolutely horrendous. Decidedly not effective for communicating information specifically, but great for reaffirming the general you know like the US has a bunch of them and it operates troops and such out of them

alphanerd4 @lemmy.world 1y ago

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alphanerd4 @lemmy.world 1y ago

Well no, it saved less than a minute, and ya I agree that would usually mean less engagement, but fascinatingly by pointing it out and making that criticism real it adds complexity to the post and actually increases engagement.

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alphanerd4 @lemmy.world 1y ago

No, ais “learning” is modeled off of how people think, and there’s a lot of overlap between what looks like ai and what is actually a tired and stressed person trying to both do the right thing and finish anything ., at 5 am. The morning before the election.

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alphanerd4 @lemmy.world 1y ago

Adjusted the title.

I’ve been doing daily posts for a year now, acquired 5200 subscribers across 3 platforms and Il b honest I am now deeply sympathetic to how the current media landscape got to where it is