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[–] rah@feddit.uk 10 points 2 months ago

Pre-civilized societies didn’t let power-hungry individuals take over.

Pre-civilized societies were small.

The real question isn't whether bad actors exist. It's how we choose to deal with them. Do we build systems that make it harder for them to dominate others, or ones that practically roll out the red carpet?

This seems like a misunderstanding to me. The people don't build systems. The people are subjected to systems built by dominating bad actors.

[–] rah@feddit.uk 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

repeating you think our courts and legal system is fascist

That's not what I said. I said being a safe pair of hands in the UK legal system is close to fascism and then that the UK legal system is a tool of oppression and control a la fascism. Please don't put words in my mouth or misrepresent what I say.

[–] rah@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

that

Curious that you've referred to some "that" which implies a specific thing but all I said was the UK legal system in action which is very general. I wonder what the specific thing is in your mind.

You are out of your mind and extremely sheltered if you think that is anything even close to fascism.

I'd echo that back. If you think the UK legal system is any way just and not a tool of oppression and control (a la fascism) then you must be extremely sheltered.

[–] rah@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

Close to fascism, are you crazy?

Are you? Have you seen the UK legal system in action? ROFL

[–] rah@feddit.uk 15 points 2 months ago

That's because the important bit is the "gave £330 million to Palantir" and not the "NHS data platform". Palantir execs are laughing, NHS managers are paying their mortgages, all is well. Where's the problem?

[–] rah@feddit.uk 0 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Having a legal system = fascist now

That's not what I said.

Being a safe pair of hands in the UK's legal system.. close to fascism. Starmer in particular, facism.

[–] rah@feddit.uk 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (14 children)

tack to fascism

Uhh.. Sir Starmer, ex-Director of Public Prosecutions cannot tack to facism because he's already there and has been since long before he came to power.

[–] rah@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This mis-allocation of innovative capacity isn't an accident.

It isn't mis-allocation, it's the correct allocation but those doing the allocating aren't the ones the author thinks they are.

It's the predictable outcome of allowing market forces alone to direct technological development.

Here's the essential flaw with this article: the people are not the ones with the power to allow or disallow. The author thinks that with the right number of votes, democratic institutions will correct the direction of technological development. This is not the case. Instead, those with power and money dictate the direction of technological development for their ends. Which includes ensuring the ineffectiveness of said democratic institutions.

It's the result of specific choices about how we organize our economy

It's not "our" economy.

[–] rah@feddit.uk 12 points 3 months ago

What should I improve?

Your communication about what you're selling. You're selling hosting services. Please make that clear up front.

[–] rah@feddit.uk 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It’s not like people, especially anarchists, somehow didn’t notice that people can sometimes be awful to each other.

In my experience, many people who follow an ideology or who have some deluded conception of reality or humanity believe that people will cease being awful to each other when some specific better future comes about. Communists with the revolution, Christians with the return of Jesus, deluded "spiritual" people with the New Earth or "new age" people with the Age of Aquarius and even, dare I say, some anarchists with non-hierarchical society.

[–] rah@feddit.uk -1 points 3 months ago

You came to the anarchist instance to tell people that mutual aid isn't believable?

No that's not anything like what I said.

[–] rah@feddit.uk 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

The existence of mutual aid behaviours doesn't mean much, in any animals but particularly human beings in the context of anarchism. Humans can cooperate when it's beneficial and also stab each other in the back and step on one another when it's beneficial. The behaviours aren't mutually exclusive. Anarchists should expect negative behaviour along with mutual aid.

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