Comment by ClumsyPilot
3 years ago
I al hoping that one day American society will wake up to the fact that Tyranny can, and has been privatised. It is not only the state that you should be afraid of.
3 years ago
I al hoping that one day American society will wake up to the fact that Tyranny can, and has been privatised. It is not only the state that you should be afraid of.
Surveillance capitalism is several orders of fucked up, but to call it tyranny is pretty dismissive of the plight of people living under actual tyranny.
I understand Tyranny as abusing your power in a manner thats cruel, unreasonable, hypocritical and unaccountable.
Like you could have a tyranical father, it's not exclusive to Gulags
Maybe it's not dismissive. Both are evil on a spectrum. One does not negate the plightgs of the other.
> it's not dismissive. Both are evil on a spectrum. One does not negate the plightgs [sic] of the other.
There are generational labor camps in North Korea and a litany of horrible ongoing civil wars in Africa. They are evil. So is industry pushback against unleaded aviation fuel [1][2]. But comparing the evils of the civil war in Somalia to those of leaded avgas is, at best, pointless.
[1] https://news.sccgov.org/news-release/findings-county-commiss...
[2] https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/20/aviation-lead-fuel-...
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There’s a point where the difference disappears, we aren’t there yet, but in a way walking in that direction happy as sheep. Grass is green and there’s only a couple dogs around and they don’t bite, mostly, so all is fine.