evacideQ&A from a talk I gave last week.
Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?"
A: Fascism. It's fascism.
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Martin Ruskov@Homoevolutis0 @evacide but is it fascism or just plain egoism and greed that takes advantage of fascist sentiments? Or maybe the difference doesn't matter?
Violet Madder@mapto @Homoevolutis0 @evacide
What difference?
Aaron@violetmadder @mapto @Homoevolutis0 @evacide Fascism is literally what happens when you take greed and egoism to a form of government. All the isms and phobias, racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, nationalism -- you name it! They are all egoism and greed. The belief that people like yourself are special and deserve to take from other people whatever you want, even their lives.
xinit β@mapto isn't "taking advantage of fascist sentiments" not basically just fascism? @Homoevolutis0 @evacide
Tiago Hackbarth@xinit @mapto @Homoevolutis0 @evacide
This question makes me remember this quote:
"Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore."
A. R. Moxon
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@mapto @Homoevolutis0 @evacide It's the same thing. We tend to think of fascism as purely the ideology behind it, but fascism can only be sustained by some form of elites profiting off of it. Hitlers top-tier people were filthy rich and had their desires of seemingly infinite power fulfilled. In the US it's Trump and the oligarchs around him, just like in Russia right now. He is doing similar things that Putin did back in the day.
Pete Alex Harrisπ¦‘πΈοΈπ²/βπͺβ«@celeste_42bit @mapto @Homoevolutis0 @evacide
Yeah it's not so much an ideology as a modus operandi for nation-scale robbery.
Yeah it's not so much an ideology as a modus operandi for nation-scale robbery.
sleepfreeparent@mapto @Homoevolutis0 @evacide dude, they already have death camps and plans for more, they've already threatened to annex our nearest neighbors and implemented furherprinzip by executive order, fucker did 2 literal Nazi salutes at the inauguration just so you'd know it's no accident.
And you're STILL like but are they really Nazis tho? Yes. Yes they are Nazis
And you're STILL like but are they really Nazis tho? Yes. Yes they are Nazis
Urban Hermit@sleepfreeparent @mapto @Homoevolutis0 @evacide people are like, "don't pay attention to this, it is just a ploy to get your attention!"
I can pay attention to both their stupidity and their evil at the same time. Pointing out their evil is for us, pointing out their stupidity is for the people who might admire their tactics or their ruthlessness, and it gives the rest of us a laugh.