How come every time a white woman has her CitiBike stolen by a black man, or confronts a birdwatcher in Central Park—the whole planet knows her name and she gets fired. But when “literal Nazis” show up waving flags, it’s a complete mystery who they are. And the media never tries to find out. Weird.

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[–]MagicMike 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I agree with your post. Most people don’t realize how much the Fascists were admired by American and British elites. Smedley Butler (google him) was offered to be dictator, at the bottom of the Great Depression, for ex. Many policies of the Nazis were adopted here after WWII.

As IQs drop around the world, government by force and surveillance will become ever more popular (Oswald Spengler), until civilization collapses in about 200 years (Spengler).

[–]binaryblob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I am not so sure civilization will collapse, although it seems the idea to leave resource management to the free market completely will result in complete chaos at some point.

A functioning government would figure out how to get every element in the periodic table, even if it required expensive nuclear fusion research. Perhaps the US DoE does such things (and to be fair, they do meaningful research), but I am not seeing the EU do anything of interest besides spending money on ridiculous projects like ITER. ITER's time to construct is just too long (resulting in magnets being available that are much more powerful, which would allow for a smaller design to work). Any nuclear fusion reactor that you can't construct in a year, is probably too complicated anyway. I'd not be surprised if the engineering discipline at ITER is virtually non-existent and that it's just a bunch of scientists that needed a hobby.

[–]R51 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

just a bunch of scientists that need a hobby

describes pretty much everything we have free access to right now as well

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Name something that is free except for the heat from the Sun involving scientists.

[–]R51 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If you want to go that route then the sun isn't free either lol! How about instead of free we go with access to. Or even more, easy access to. We have the internet, linux, glasses, transistors, e=mc², mozart, language, etc. Most of all the cool stuff we are even aware of is the aggregate of people being bored.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree.