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[–] silence7 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Which means that it takes bottom-up organizing to force politicians to address climate.

[–] silence7 42 points 4 days ago (8 children)

This is seriously messed up:

He then concluded that the “best humane alternative to genocide” is to “virtualize” these people: Imprison them in “permanent solitary confinement” where, to avoid making them insane, they would be connected to an “immersive virtual-reality interface” so they could “experience a rich, fulfilling life in a completely imaginary world.”

Yarvin’s disturbing manifestos have earned him influential followers, chief among them: tech billionaire Peter Thiel and his onetime Silicon Valley protégé Senator J.D. Vance

[–] silence7 30 points 4 days ago

The average donation was about $91.

I'd say that it's a broad swath of the middle class kicking in.

[–] silence7 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

One American has been very interested:

Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.

[–] silence7 5 points 3 days ago
[–] silence7 1 points 2 days ago

There is a history channel, but they tend to be focused on stuff like racist conspiracy theories claiming that the people who actually lived in various places long ago didn't do what they actually did, but that it was extraterrestrials instead.

Netflix did a decent documentary on the rise of Hitler recently.

[–] silence7 1 points 2 days ago

They need peoples' votes. Get even fairly modest numbers of people organized, and they pay attention.

[–] silence7 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Basically:

  • Canada has a lot of boreal forest
  • The scale of fires in boreal forests have increased sharply due to higher temperatures (including indirect effects, such as by enabling bark beetles to survive the winter)
[–] silence7 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They apparently set up a checkpoint and asked people if they were Jewish, presumably to beat up or kill those who acknowledged their religion

[–] silence7 23 points 5 days ago

Pretty much. She was one of the first to call for a Green New Deal.

[–] silence7 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Pretty much "Science fiction warns us of the evils of building the Torment Nexus. Let's tell people why a Torment Nexus is really great and build one!"

[–] silence7 1 points 2 days ago
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The "extortion scheme" that got somebody's quote removed from the article was putting a severed finger in food.

 

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