kayjay

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Marx’s view of communism doesn’t inherently ban religion. His view of religion was that it was a tool by the ruling classes to maintain the status quo against the oppressed, and that under communism religion wouldn’t hold any political power because, by his words, the conditions that allowed religion to hold political power such as inequality wouldn’t be present anymore. But he didn’t call for the abolition of religion or that religion couldn’t exist at all in a communist society, that was more of a Marxist-Leninist way of thinking.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Sam Altman doesn’t explain being fired and rehired by OpenAI" - The Verge

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

A broken clock is right twice a day

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Had MacArthur had his way, Hiroshima would look like a safe haven compared to Pyongyang. He suggested using nukes "tactically" in North Korea to take out strategic infrastructure like bridges and tunnels. But that’s kind of like bringing a cannon to hunt sparrows. This was the US’ most celebrated general at the time on account of his success in the Pacific Theatre during WW2 and enormous success defending South Korea; what he said could really only be overruled by the President, which is ultimately what happened.
The top brass didn’t care about civilian casualties. That much is obvious when they suggest using full-blown nukes just to take out bridges.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

.. duh.

One mans’ terrorist is another mans’ freedom figther.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The point of Congress is to be able to challenge the singular power of the head of state if they get too power-hungry… it doesn’t work if you can just disregard it whenever you feel it’s inconvinient. Do you want a (for now) democratically elected dictatorship where there is no challenge to the power of the president?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (17 children)

The concept of open borders for work and tourism works very well for the EU (imo) - I think this is a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Sources say it’s of Hindi origin, but when I actually checked the statistics, it says there’s only 130 people in India with the name, while there’s ~56 million in China. So it seems to be mostly a Chinese name. Although further googling seems to indicate that’s the Chinese name for "Mrs."… so it might be that these sources are reading the title field as the first name, lol.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

India, I assume.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)
  1. Maria 2. Nushi 3. Mohammed
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you’re the one defending genocide, perhaps you’re the fascist. Just sayin’.

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