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 12:31:27 +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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="8323328-1877575773-1720261889=:17764" Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2341033"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:56684 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323328-1877575773-1720261889=:17764 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Fri, 5 Jul 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 05/07/2024 18:15, D wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, 5 Jul 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> >>> On 05/07/2024 11:29, D wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, 5 Jul 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>>> >>>>>> I see this quite often in my line of work, this condescension towards >>>>>> the uneducated, that people only vote a particular way because of >>>>>> ignorance of fear.  Worse, is that this mentality is now promoted and >>>>>> coddled, workplaces now champion themselves as promoters of a "social >>>>>> good", which gives those who work there an even bigger head. >>>>> >>>>> The only people who vote for delusion are the champagne socialists with >>>>> their Art degrees and their moral 'issues' >>>> >>>> This is the truth! Most extreme tech-socialists I've met live in houses, >>>> have at least 2 cars, and are generally very well off. Often they do >>>> have big public sector customers who help them fund their life styles. >>>> >>>> It is also completely impossible to discuss why their politics is >>>> irrational and damaging to society at large, because they are such huge >>>> winners of the current system. >>>> >>>> However... and here is where it gets interesting! >>>> >>>> I know one socialist from a working class background, and he is the only >>>> socialist I know who it is actually possible to discuss politics with! >>>> Needless to say, we've ended up in the agree to disagree box quite >>>> often, but from time to time we actually do agree on something. >>> >>> A late friend was a rampant sort of lower middle class Scottish raving >>> socialist of the red union sort. He became a local councillor, and said >>> that 'the only people who ever got things done were the Tory squirearchy. >>> >>> And yet he was overjoyed when Blair got in. >>> >>> I finally realised that what appealed was the ideology. The fact that >>> Labour never has and never will solve a single social problem it >>> identifies as 'crucial' meant nothing to him >>> It was the thought, that counted. >>> >>> Virtue signalling, not practical politics. >>> >>> 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. >> >> But who knows? Maybe humanity will learn one day? > Socialism is essentially paternalistic slavery. Everyone works for the > gummint, and the gummint tells them what to think do and say and 'sees them > right'. > Except somehow it never does... Amen! --8323328-1877575773-1720261889=:17764--