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becoming an enlightened adult is realizing you were actually right as a kid in thinking you didn't deserve to be treated and disciplined in the way you were
RenéWiersma
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🤦♂️ Software person from the Netherlands. C# .NET.
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GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺"Ik ben geschokt dat de Racistenpartij waarmee ik namens de Opportunistenpartij in een regering ben gaan zitten ook racistisch blijkt tegenover MIJ!"
Xavier 🌻I feel like Western countries are so far removed from fascism, coddled by modern society's comforts, and lucky enough to have avoided war on their soil, that the populations therein have legitimately forgotten what it's like to live in a world without democracy.
We take everything for granted. We forget that the ease with which we move through life is dependent upon complicated governmental/cultural/social/economic systems, which people before us spent entire generations developing so that we may bear their fruit.
Instead of honoring this gift with awareness and humility, we accept it as something inherent to our reality, unaware of the fact that it needs to be continually maintained, protected, and iterated upon.
ETA: Here's some direct quotes from Francis Fukuyama, whom I was essentially paraphrasing above: https://sunny.garden/@xavier_hm/113309816321436337
Xavier 🌻 (@[email protected])
The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama, pages 12-14: "It is quite legitimate to argue that modern governments have grown excessively large, and that they thereby limit economic growth and individual freedom. [...] But in the developed world, we take the existence of government so much for granted that we sometimes forget how important it is, and how difficult it was to create, and what the world would look like without certain basic political institutions. It is not only that we take democracy for granted; we also take for granted the fact that we have a state at all that can carry out certain basic functions. [...] Political institutions are necessary and cannot be taken for granted. A market economy and high levels of wealth don't magically appear when you "get government out of the way"; they rest on a hidden institutional foundation of property rights, rule of law, and basic political order. [...] The struggle to create modern political institutions was so long and so painful that people live in industrialized countries now suffer from a historical amnesia regarding how their societies came to that point in the first place." #uspol #politics
Gary BunkerBack in the days of Slashdot, I loved reading tech news. It was full of optimistic projects and interesting geekery. Now, it seems to be dystopian surveillance state crap, and complete vaporware being treated as if it is really going to come to market this time for sure.
🌹Roos Vonk ✅@[email protected] ik ook. Mijn alternatieve stelling: De meeste mensen zijn domme sufferds😅. https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/deugen-de-meeste-mensen
Hierna kan de pers, de media, de rechterlijke macht, en uiteindelijk het parlement buiten spel gezet worden. We zien het allemaal gebeuren. Sommigen zeggen dat het heus zo’n vaart niet zal lopen. Ik hoop het maar. Maar de kant waar het nu naartoe gaat is niet best. Nooit verwacht dat nog mee te maken.
De Filmende FietserTurning an unattractive, unlivable street into a livable and green city boulevard. This transformation of the Sint Josephlaan in #Utrecht was done in less than a year and can serve as an example for many car-sewers worldwide!
Jason GormanI know from experience that, in business, metrics are for the already-persuaded