‘All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning.’
Another passage:
‘All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.’
There’s a difference. It wasn’t a Tucker question, in my opinion. They were asking for a time reference, because, while bad either way, knowing chronological context makes a huge difference in understanding the whole.
Your favorite Nazi: “and I was just living day-to-day calling for the death of minorities. Then one day on lemmy someone thought to ask, ‘which variety of racism do you suscribe?’ That right there changed everything for me. Someone really wanted to understand why I have murderous rage. I still have that murdous rage but I got to talk about it too! So remember everyone, my ideas deserve your consideration.”
There’s a time and place to discuss what the NAZIs truly believe, a clan meeting maybe? Instigating them in the public square only gives them a platform to be awful and seed their insidious rhetoric.
Bullshit. Walling off parts of history and the beliefs that informed them as some kind of forbidden knowledge is never going to end well. Bad ideas die in the light of clear-sighted intellectual scrutiny, not in the darkness of an imposed blackout.
It’s OK to admit that you are mistaken. There’s no shame in it and in fact, to the contrary, it will redound to your credit.
You are thinking way too far into this… it wasn’t even a gotcha question. Like if he was asking something like “Do we have any proof that X happened?” I’d be on your side… but a question about understanding the mindset of a fascist authoritarian is extremely useful information. Especially right now.
And yeah, Lemmy is none of those things, but it shouldn’t have to be. It’s literally a place for discussion.
You might know something is bad, but the more you can articulate why, the better chance you have to change someone’s mind. Shutting down discussions about bad things just makes you come off as a frightened, tribalistic child.
Talking about Nazism does not equal platforming Nazis.
In this case I responded because the person was getting downvoted and they edited their comment to ask why. They wanted to know, I told them. They sound like a Nazi to me.
You’re getting downvoted, but I’m not picking up the “just asking questions” vibe.
In context that quote is about race mixing. I had never read the book until I searched for that quote, and the author is, essentially, claiming human achievement is the result of a few hyper capable people, and everyone else is simply benefiting from their ideas.
Leading up to that quote the author is saying “species” (and I’m assuming in earlier chapters the claim is made that humans are not a single species) shouldn’t interbread because one is always better than the other, and therefore the offspring won’t be as “good” as the better parent.
So in context this is essentially saying the death of every culture happened because less “quality” humans started breading with the “quality” humans.
Which is hilarious, because after reading a handful of pages from this book I can only assume Hitler is the dumbest mother fucker whose ever existed.
Yes I was asking because there is this supposed connection between Hitlers’ ideas and Occultism, especially Blavatsky’s ideas. Theosophy has this concept of root races, basically superior humans from lost civilizations (like Atlantis), so when I saw the quote I thought it could be interpreted both ways, the normal racist way, that white people are superior, yada yada, or the occultist racist way that these lost races that had basically superpowers were losing them because of mixing with “normal” inferior humans.
I only know the basics of both of these authors, so I asked because maybe there would be someone more versed in the subject. But apparently just the mere thought of exploring the historical figure of Hitler makes you a nazi.
Dumb people say dumb things. My guess is there are a lot less dumb people now than there ever has been. But dumb people will always exist.
I’ve never read any of those authors. Sociology has never really interested me, but good for you for learning history and studying what interests you.
Like, if you’re looking to engender yourself to someone common hatred is surprisingly effective. People inherently trust others who agree with them, and shouting loudly you hate Nazis is a cheap and easy way to gain points to the crowd they’re trying to gain favor with.
My take is if you’re so unconfident in your ability to discuss you resort to shouting you hate Nazis, you’re probably a moron. It’s like saying “I disagree with anyone who even SUGGESTS drinking rat poison.”
Damn, he was spot-on about lying, as Trump has amply demonstrated. Although the first time I can remember thinking “they’d never lie about something that big” was when they were trying to sell the Iraq war. I was pretty naive back then.
That’s why reading most of the stuff from Hitler is sooo backwards and upside down. The dude had no grasp on history or anything frankly. Such a flipped and frankly ignorant spoutings all the time. Almost really directly relatable to the orange one himself when you get down to brass tacks.
Or they’re worried he will accidentally dislodge the mask and interfere with the proper administration of nitrogen. There is no actual danger to breathing nitrogen - the air we breathe is mostly nitrogen - we just need oxygen mixed in. It’s all a stage play for delaying his execution.
I’m not in favor of execution, but this is the most humane method we have available. So until we can stop executing people, it would be good not to fuck with doing it in this way.
It’s confusing because in interviews the priest is saying he was asked to sign it, but is leaving out that he already did.
But if you read the whole article, you’d have seen this bit buried below
The form, which Hood signed in order to attend Smith’s execution, gave an overview on the risk of nitrogen gas. It stated that in the “highly unlikely event that the hose supplying breathing gas to the mask were to detach, an area of free-flowing nitrogen gas could result, creating a small area of risk (approximately two feet) from the outflow.”
If he hasn’t signed it, they could proceed without him.
So he signed it, and now the lawsuit is happening to stall the execution.
Seems to me the waiver is a completely separate issue anyway if the lawsuit is about whether he can properly do the ministry without touching the guy, not actually him accepting the risks of being around.
Put the preist in SCBA gear (thing firefighters). Might as well turn this primitive practice (capital executions and preists) and go full on distopian clown show.
Humane, in these types of circumstances, are not just for the victim, but for the witnesses and executioners as well.
The internet legend that created the suicide helmet is likely the way I’d want to go given the choice. But it would not be a pleasant thing to witness.
FTR: I’m fully against the death penalty. It is a barbaric practise. But I still feel that those who participate in this horrible exercise shouldn’t be traumatized either.
Uh what, brain damage can cause major issues like seizures and migraines. Having debilitating seizures or migraines for weeks or months till they can reschedule the execution sounds pretty bad.
There's no need for rescheduling, just crank up the nitrogen and keep going.
I mean, if you really really want to imagine a scenario where the execution fails and the victim is left in pain for an extended period, you can do that with any method. You could imagine a scenario where the subject is strapped to a nuclear bomb that still ends up surviving with misery and pain. But you have to go to extremely unlikely outcomes with something as utterly dead simple as "flood the lungs with nitrogen".
All the advances in execution methods haven’t been made to make it more humane to the victim - they’ve been made so it seems more humane to everyone else.
AFAIK, statistics-wise, the execution method with the lowest quota of horrible mishaps is the guillotine. A sufficiently fast 4t weight to the head would probably be even quicker for the brain to go, although it’d also require more cleanup.
(Yes, even overdosing on narcotics has more mishaps - and there are little to no narcotics abailable for executions, because the producers don’t want them to be used for that.)
All of the more reliable methods are… grisly, and civilisation doesn’t want grisly. We want to press a button and the victim goes to sleep to never wake up, because that makes it easier on us.
Groceries really are the problem. I lived comfortably up until about a year ago. Now the checking account gets pretty low every couple weeks. And that’s with decent raises for me and my wife. I don’t even care about gas prices except in how they add to the cost of everything that gets shipped. Food prices are killing us.
Yeah I went from not having to really check prices when I shopped to having to be careful so I don’t accidentally spend $200/week.
A bag of ruffles, which I swear is only a tiny bit bigger than the size that used to exist between the snack size bags and the regular bags, was something like $6.75. It’s legitimately cheaper to get the gourmet kettle cooked chips.
Real question is what the fuck am I supposed to do about it?
Burning the place down hardly helps and our elected officials don’t give much of a shit, at least around here.
I’m well paid, so it doesn’t matter too much for my family just yet, but there are people for whom this means food insecurity.
I’m still pissed though, because I think people deserve to eat.
One thing is… it’s expensive to save money.
Buying in bulk isn’t as bad, but someone living paycheck to paycheck can’t afford that.
I have a vacuum machine, the space to store things, freezers, etc.
I can spend more money upfront to save on food in the long run, but not everyone can do this and it hits them even harder.
You’re describing the poverty trap. Its very real. I’m wealthy now as well, but I remember a time when I took the subway 90 mins round trip to my job, and the fare cost almost an hour’s pay. So I’d put in 9.5 hours to work an 8 hour shift and my takehome pay was for 7 hours.
He mentioned quantity of food, I mentioned quality.
You don’t have to eat less if you’re eating food that is overpriced or using scam services like doordash. Just buy more-affordable food and cook your own meals.
But some people think they’re “too good” for that and try to conflate needs with wants. I assume you’re one of them but won’t admit it.
Your evidence-free case made by just guessing about someone based on two very short replies on an internet forum? I’m glad you’re resting it because you’re making yourself sound like a fool.
Believe it or not, saying there is a middle ground between eating nothing but peanut butter sandwiches and ordering DoorDash- which is the post I responded to- does not make me conflate needs with wants.
Although I admit that you don’t need to eat anything but beans and vegetables. That doesn’t mean I think anyone deserves to live on nothing but beans and vegetables. That’s a miserable way to live. Do you think people deserve to live that way?
I still think you will conflate needs with wants even if in this specific discussion you chose to concede and admit people don’t need to eat more than vegetables and beans.
And, of course, it’s not in any way possible that I was ever poor enough to have to live on nothing but that for weeks at a time myself.
Of course, I did use spices. And I didn’t need spices, so I’m conflating want and need. Unless I have beans and vegetables that are already spoiled which I dug out of the dumpster in cloudy water with no spices, I don’t know the difference between need and want.
Jesus fucking Christ. Have you ever even had to live like that for an extended period of time? It’s absolutely awful. It’s torture.
But I don’t know the difference between needs and wants because I didn’t get down to the absolute basest way a human being can survive.
The country I live in at least pretends to respect worker right so no DoorDash. And if I wanted to eat cheap I wouldn’t go for peanut butter sandwiches. But rather like lentils, rice, beans, potatoes. Which, you know what? I do.
Panera should go ahead and put prominent warning labels on it. Call it The lemonade so charged it killed [name of latest victim]. It might double sales of the product.
“After prayerful thought and talking with my family, I have decided not to run for re-election…"
WTF, why do these people always blame God when they get caught? God wasn’t responsible for your own shady shit, and he’s not responsible for you cuttin’-and-runnin’.
How in the hell are there no criminal charges in this case? He died of dehydration in a jail that also denied him access to medical care. The coroner ruled it a homicide. People need to be charged in this death.
I get that the DoJ just opened their probe, but the death happened in Feb 2022 and there’s no indication the sheriff opened any kind of investigation into the homicide.
Because the state and county don’t give a shit about black people. If anything, they’re on board with it. That’s why the feds are stepping in with a civil rights case now.
I know that’s the actual reason, I just want it to be said. I doubt the feds are going to actually charge anyone. Their civil rights probes usually just tell local officials to do better. There’s never accountability.
I love that the picture they chose was of him standing between DeSantis and the very stupidest Trump offspring (which is a hell of an achievement!) just to rub it in how the GOP has absolutely no standards beyond dollar amounts!
Miller couldn’t comment specifically on Cure’s death but said he has represented dozens of people convicted of crimes who were later exonerated.
“Even when they’re free, they always struggled with the concern, the fear that they’ll be convicted and incarcerated again for something they didn’t do,” he said.
Totally understandable. I would imagine that’s kind of traumatic.
(He was incarcerated in FL and killed in GA btw)
Assuming this wasn’t execution…
Cops are taught Killilogy. I gather they’re trained to protect their own life at all costs and that the public is out to kill them. Also deep seated racism^1 means they fear black men more. So they shoot at the drop of a hat (or for no reason at all).
We really need to disarm the goddamn cops if they can’t be trained to de-escalate and control a situation without murdering civilians all the time.
Did you know that early 1900s crime “statistics” were heavily biased against black people? These “statistics” established a bullshit racist narrative that black people are more prone to commit crime, which persists to this day, influencing government policies, more than a century later? (Source: The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad)
I won’t suspect an intent where a regular assholeness applies.
That said, they feel like they own the streets. Not only scared, but drunk on the lack of consequencies. That double-wrong story and recent accident when a cop raced after a suspect and slammed into an uninvolved car killing two shows how everything is wrong with their current position and thinking. Act now, think later - as their motto. It’s not what these public servants are supposed to do, not ones with guns and tanks.
ACAB, because to be this one good cop, you need to actively and implicitly avoid using this given power to do fuck all. This system and their union enables them to act like shit by default. When you order something by delivery, you don’t think about how a character of a delivery guy affects the state of a package, you complain if they give you a box of feces. Why cops aren’t judged like that when they put feces whenever they like, and are free to do so, with lethal consequencies.
There might be a ton of awesome cops in my town, but the SPOG - seattle police officer’s guild - is constructed to defend the worst and maximize the force’s overtime grift. So fuck.
You can’t exploit it. I know some people won’t like to hear this, but Chinese expats are a security risk if they have any family still in China. It’s well known at this point that the Chinese gov threatens family members to pressure and blackmail residents abroad to perform espionage.
100%. How many instances were there where they just straight up stole resources/IP? CCP backed Industrial sabotage and IP theft is very much a concern.
My old company started a collaboration with a Chinese government subsidiary to get market access. When they announced it at a company meeting they almost literally said, “yes, we know they are trying to steal our IP”
Not here for this xenophobia. The people leaving are the people who don’t particularly like the government.
It’s a little ridiculous we have to keep saying that it’s not OK to say “all X people can not be trusted.” Even if the X is Chinese people, I know China is today’s boogeyman. When X was Japanese people we got internment camps.
You’re not really refuting the point though. It’s not that ‘Chinese people are untrustworthy’. It’s ‘Immigrants from China are vulnerable to blackmail and extortion by the CCP’.
The point as written in their comment is that we can’t use smart Chinese immigrants at all. Quote “Chinese expats are a security risk.” No nuance.
Anyone can be vulnerable to blackmail. People with gambling debts, people with credit card debt, business entanglements, money problems of any kind, cheaters, people who request to stay in a Russian suite once visited by Obama just to have prostitutes pee on the bed. Could be anyone.
In positions where blackmail is a concern, we have vetting procedures. So we can do better than just blanket saying Chinese people can’t be trusted.
I do get your point, but everyone is right here. The difference between “Chinese expats” and “people with family in China” is really splitting hairs. And it IS going to lead to xenophobia, especially in tech.
They don’t have to particularly like the government in order to engage in espionage. Like the commenter above said, they just have to have family still in China. Just within the last few months, there were two separate cases of USN sailors, both from China but naturalized citizens, who turned over classified information to the Chinese government following family pressure from the Mainland.
We should never engage in the sort of blind discrimination that resulted in internment camps. The associated risk of having family/ties in China just needs to be properly evaluated when placing people with family in/ties to China in positions of trust. The vast majority of Chinese people will never engage in espionage. And they should also never be unduly punished for the actions of the very few among them who do.
Careful if you don’t think Chinese people are mindless CCP drones with no independent thought you’ll be down voted. Really disappointed with Lemmy’s community so far it’s just as bad as reddit.
People are definitely more reactionary here (imo). The ‘downvote train’ can be just as powerful as reddit if other commenters don’t like what you say.
You’re being hyperbolic though if you’re referring to my comment in particular, I never said Chinese people are mindless CCP drones. I said that Chinese expats with family still in China are a security risk. I hoped that anyone reading that sentence would extrapolate from it that I meant in relation to military / national security roles, and there was not a need to directly specify that I didn’t mean every Chinese person is a security risk. Reading it back though I can see how it wasn’t very clear.
Yes I meant to be hyperbolic because that’s the general sentiment I see in the post and community. Not trying to call you out in particular. Though I would like to see some more sources for “Chinese gov threatens family members to pressure and blackmail residents abroad to perform espionage” because the main source I see from searching for it is from the FBI director himself.
Not to mention the recent string of hacking groups that have clearly had internal information.
They accessed an air-gapped system at Microsoft because they knew who to target.
They stole an expired cert out of a stacktrace that was moved from the air-gapped system to a compromised developer machine. They then were able to use this expired cert as part of an exploit chain.
lost subscribers to their no password sharing policy.
What, we’re just gonna gloss over how absolutely dogshit their in-house “Netflix Originals” media has become?
It’s also because their current shows suck, and because any shows that are actually good get shitcanned after season 2, because Netflix sees less consumer growth after two seasons.
Their saving grace is stuff like Black Mirror but to be fair that didn’t start out as a Netflix original and Charlie Brooker has tight control over his property.
When they started Netflix Originals, they knocked a bunch of them out of the park, now they just make weak trash with bad CGI, costumes, and makeup.
Stuff like 13 Reasons Why or The Witcher are just straight up irredeemable trash.
It’s also because their current shows suck, and because any shows that are actually good get shitcanned after season 2, because Netflix sees less consumer growth after two seasons.
I’m always surprised at how often other people (not you) will defend this practice from Netflix. It’s classic case of following the data in a stupid way. If their data shows that interest drops off after two seasons, I don’t doubt it.
But… that comes with a cost. They have built a reputation as a company that doesn’t properly finish shows that they start, that will leave viewers hanging. That makes it harder to get people invested in a new series, even one that’s well reviewed. Why get interested in something you know will end on a cliffhanger?
That kind of secondary order impact from their decision isn’t going to show up in data. Doesn’t change that it happens all the same.
Just gotta say you fucking nailed it. The long-term knock-on effect of people not wanting to start a new Netflix show only to like it and for it to be cancelled is too real.
That’s sad because it’s absolutely trash. Writing is trash, sets are trash, costumes are trash, makeup is trash, CGI is trash.
Also, super unpopular opinion: Cavill wasn’t a very good Geralt, yet everyone wants to jerk him off like he’s the only saving grace of the show. Nah, he fucking sucks, too.
I’m upvoting you for contributing to the discussion but I have to disagree. I think they did get a lot right with that show. Many of the things you mentioned. That said, the most important stuff, like the story itself, the pacing, the characters failed to hold up. The show started great and didn’t know where to go from there.
I’ll cop to part of that, it definitely had a good start in a lot of ways. CGI and effects in first season were far better, to be sure. Costumes were absolutely panned and changed due to how badly they were panned.
Honestly the first season gets a pass from me cause Henry cavill did a spectacular job even with lacklustre writing. That second season was a step back in every way and after finding out that they’ll continue the series after cavill leaves because the writers are sh*tying on the ip, I just haven’t bothered watching the 3rd season. Nothing their to keep me invested anymore.
Why did it get approved? Because his son is senior manager of unscripted originals!
Also, they have a documentary on the “Blue Zones” where people supposedly live to 100 regularly. This is pseudoscience that has been exposed as poor record keeping for years.
I mean, they employ people who are clearly completely out of touch and don’t give a shit about anything but making money. They don’t care about controversy as long as people are just talking about it and not suing them or bringing legal charges against them.
Ryan Murphy apparently can’t figure out that since nobody wants to talk to him about this that maybe it was a bad idea to begin with. Pretty much all the families and friends of victims thought the whole thing was in incredibly poor taste. Apparently all of them rejecting being involved wasn’t enough to clue Ryan Murphy into this being incredibly offensive to them.
But Netflix doesn’t care about anything but money.
Like when they removed an episode Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj’s show in Saudi Arabia because they didn’t want to offend anyone.
“We’re not in the news business,” Hastings said at the New York Times’ DealBook conference, per Variety, of the decision to remove the episode after Saudi Arabia threatened legal action. “We’re not trying to do ‘truth to power.’ We’re trying to entertain…We don’t feel bad about that at all.”
Same reason they consulted with suicide prevention organizations on 13 Reasons Why: got told that this show would increase copycat suicides and it was written in a way that glorified suicide, but fuck it, who cares, let’s make some money and throw this up on Netflix!
I’m worried it will end up like Game of Thrones and slowly go off the rails as the series goes on, ending sooner than the original series and botching the ending.
I say this as someone not particularly invested in One Piece, but I know lots of folks who are, and it would be genuinely shitty for the live action to undermine the original. I agree, I hope the quality manages to keep up to the fans expectations and in this instance, they don’t flub it.
Thankfully, the difference is that One Piece is still releasing new chapters regularly, and is apparently in its final arc. So, if nothing changes, the live action will almost certainly not finish before the manga does.
Okay. You could say that if three people left and 8 million could have signed up. It’d be factually true. So?
The comment I replied to was claiming the price hike is because they lost subs because of the password changes. That implies the loss was big enough to reduce their income to the point they needed more. It’s not.
They actually got more subs (in most countries), its just that theyre bloating up, and compeition is happening which atm is making for a better or worse depending on how you look at it, situation for the consumer.
Whenever businesses try to ‘pin’ raising prices of an already profitable product on anything, we know the real justification is this:
“We know people are going to pay it and it will make us more money. That’s why we do it. We’re just saying it’s something else for the useful idiots who think businesses are their friends.”
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