@StefanThinks @bigbelgianbopper I'll just hop in to suggest that news sites needing revenue should put together some kind of collective subscription service that gives readers access to (and ability to free-share) a certain number of articles-per-month across all of them.
This would be far more appealing than having to subscribe to a dozen different venues just to read a handful of articles from each every year or so -- and, of course, about a zillion times more appealing than having to deal with ads.
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A satirical editorial cartoon, that depicts the galloping Four Horses of the Apocalypse, and their hooded black cloaked riders; but there’s an extra fifth!?
From left to right:
1. War
2. Famine
3. Pestilence
4. Death - looking at the fifth horse rider says “AND YOU ARE?”
and
5. says looking at their mobile phone - “MISINFORMATION”
Red graduated background, galloping across a blackened terrain.
By BillBramhall: editorial cartoonist for the New York Daily
@brooke "I'll be backed up."
(Wow -- I saw that movie several times, having got it on VHS, but don't remember that actual scene. I could definitely use a service to remember things for me wholesale.)
@MichaelWhelan ...near Whitby, perchance? (There are probably a lot of ruined abbeys on coasts in England, but that's the one I know about.)
@brooke One of these days, I needs ta pick yer brain about setting up drive arrays.
(Don't worry; the process is largely painless. 🧛♀️)
@pzmyers Also, :queer100:% this:
We need to pull a few generals into a courts martial and explain to them that the president does not have the authority to unilaterally tell you to launch your missiles at civilian citizens of a country we are not at war with. You must first be informed by congress that you are at war, which is the minimal requirement before military action can be triggered. Learn to tell the president to shut the fuck up and get authorization first.
@pzmyers I mean, it makes sense if you're a fascist who doesn't give a crap about civilization and just wants control at any cost.
It's only us pathetic little people who insist on seeing things in terms of "problems" and "solutions". We are therefore weak, and need to be eliminated.
(To be clear: I am utterly opposed to this worldview. 🔥)
@artemis Maybe something like Substack (except Substack is evil, hence "something like") would help? Your thoughts are good.
Socialism is not a pyramid scheme nor does it require authoritarianism. It tends to work against authoritarianism, in fact, by diluting concentrations of power.
...unless you are defining "socialism" quite differently than I am -- perhaps you could share your definition? ...that is to say, what characteristics identify a system as "socialist"?
I guess you haven't been keeping up with the news? Yes, they have abducted many US citizens. Some are still in custody. Some have managed to get released, but with no compensation or any consequence to the abductors.
There was a young man from Peru
Whose limericks stopped at line two
@artemis In 1940, Heinlein predicted a theocracy that started with an election in 2012. fwiw.
@AlexanderVI @wdlindsy Re 2nd paragraph: yes, exactly -- that's why I think we need to offer a rational alternative.
(Nuance: some religions, even some branches of Christianity, aren't at all problematic in this way -- but I don't know of any that actively promote critical thinking.)
@JMMaok @wdlindsy I keep thinking there needs to be a "discipline of belief" -- like, we have all these religions that basically condition people to accept what they're told; we need something like that, which fills the need for ingroup-belonging and culture/ritual but which conditions people into habits of critical thinking.
@osma Yeah, I remember that. 1965 baby here. Some people just like violence, apparently. 🤯 😡