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sqgl@beehaw.org 4 weeks agoI’m biased towards paragraphs.
Otherwise, good point: understanding the other side is a good way to somehow being able to work together.
Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions
sqgl@beehaw.org 4 weeks agoI’m biased towards paragraphs.
Otherwise, good point: understanding the other side is a good way to somehow being able to work together.
exocrinous@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
Also, I’m a soulist. I recognise that all parts of our experiential reality are subjective and socially constructed. And right now, that reality is defined by the rich and powerful. You cannot fight a war while believing that your enemy’s weapons are natural and immutable. You cannot fight the rich from inside a reality they control and win. Even if you kill them all, you’ll still live in the world they created. You need to take power over reality for the people. That’s the only way anyone can ever be free.
sqgl@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor.
Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name, liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names, liberty and tyranny.
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty.
Quoted from Abraham Lincoln
exocrinous@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
WTF does the sheep’s colour have to go with liberty? Do black sheep taste better? I thought their colour only mattered to humans because humans like to dye their woolen garments. A wolf doesn’t need to dye clothes.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 4 weeks ago
“Black sheep” I took to be in the sense of, you can throw a bunch of criticism at the person you’re oppressing and make it clear they’re an outlier from humanity and make it more palatable that you’re doing that and change the subject.
“You shouldn’t be killing Gazan children on an industrial scale” “But they’re monsters, look at how terrible was Hamas’s attack on our music festival!” Things like that.
sqgl@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
He probably was drawing the analogy with the landowners exploiting black people.