Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2024 12:34:27 +0200 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <6BlhO.3136$vdRc.1100@fx09.iad> <40dc3717-9748-fb74-562d-96e7fb7071a2@example.net> <0567e036-6ad8-92a2-d28c-1cbfe214d908@example.net> <0ee63ea0-0a70-6e06-a9ac-7897b0763eb1@example.net> <6688973f@news.ausics.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2341310"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 In-Reply-To: <6688973f@news.ausics.net> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:56687 On Sat, 6 Jul 2024, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: > Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On 2024-07-05, D wrote: >>> On Fri, 5 Jul 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>>> Socialists are the ultimate cat-bellers. Full of solutions that cannot be >>>> implemented or won't work if they are. >>>> >>>> And sadly that became the game of the Tories too, which is why they have been >>>> given the finger. All mouth and no trousers. >>> >>> This is true. Socialism has been refuted historically (it has never >>> worked), logically (it is self-contradictory) and scientifically (it has >>> been proven by economists not to work). Yet, the masses insist on believing it. >>> >>> The reason is that it is a religion where the leaders promise heaven on >>> earth, here and now, and workers who don't like their lives, hope that >>> this time it will be different, which of course it never is. >> >> Unfortunately, this is true of demagogues on both the left and the right. >> Take a look at the United States today, for instance. In fact, if you >> replace "socialism" with "unbridled capitalism", you've pretty much >> covered the whole spectrum (aside from us radical moderates sitting >> in the middle, watching the chaos unfold on both sides). > > It's an inevitability of politics since people are generally too > willing to believe in easy utopian promises. When you look at minor > policical parties it's even worse, because they never get enough > power to implement their misconceived schemes and therefore grow > their own imaginary world where "because we'll solve a with b, we > can fix c with d...". > > The major parties love to inflate the potential of their schemes > as well, but eventually they actually achieve power and frequently > fail to implement them or find they're ineffective, so their > policies get flushed out and start again at the next > election/revolution. To try and get closer to topic, imagine it as > a stack in a computer. > > Then if the majors make a particular habit of filling their stack > with rubbish between each flush, a radical minor party might get > elected and unleash their huge full stack of ideas. Then that soon > gets flushed out in a stream of failure and infeasibility, so the > new party is forced to realign itself along some other course while > still trying to hold on to the support it won for its original > vision. They often turn to frantic nationalism at that point. Now for the next question... how would you fix this?