Foni

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[–] Foni@lemmy.zip 3 points 16 hours ago
[–] Foni@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Foundation. I am a big fan of Asimov's books and the series is rare, slow and in my opinion does not understand the material of origin or the themes it deals with

[–] Foni@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

Again, I'm European so I can't be sure about this, but I think some of those issues are worse because of the scale, not the thing itself. The entire healthcare system is private—if all prisons were too, I think that would be much worse than the healthcare situation.

As for politicians, up until this election cycle, they at least had the decency to pretend. From now on, we'll see what happens.

[–] Foni@lemmy.zip 15 points 5 days ago

In the Southeast of America a judge was fairly recently convicted of sending underage boys to a private prison in exchange for kickbacks from that prison. He had been doing it for over a decade. And that’s just one that made the news.

It is obvious that something like this would happen. You cannot create a system with perverse incentives and expect the good faith of those who participate to keep it clean. It is exactly the opposite of the spirit of the American revolution (and the rest of democratic revolutions)

[–] Foni@lemmy.zip 66 points 5 days ago (7 children)

As a European, I wonder what kind of dystopia the concept of a "private prison" fits into. I don't understand how anyone could have imagined that this would end well.

[–] Foni@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

I'm equally excited and scared about the news about the series based on Mass Effect.

[–] Foni@lemmy.zip 15 points 6 days ago

Not always. I'm from Spain, and you can read about how our dictator Francisco Franco ended his life (spoiler alert: his regime lasted from 1939 to 1977).

Unfortunately, the real world is not like a movie where wars are always won by those who defend the most just cause.

[–] Foni@lemmy.zip 26 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I would like to leave this here as a warning, because it seems relevant to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

[–] Foni@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

By overcompensating for the past, Germany is siding with the genocidaires. And the problem is that it's dragging the Union down, preventing a joint response.

[–] Foni@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

The fascist is the one who contains people in arrest fields. The hyper capitalist who closes food programs for the poorest

[–] Foni@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

From essentially always. The Eastern Indies Company may be the first clear example. Ultra capitalists squeeze the State whenever they can preach that others should prevent the smallest subsidy

[–] Foni@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This could lead us to a complex discussion about ideology but I believe that Musk is rather an ultra capitalist (what we call ultra liberal in Europe) the repression of the State cares for shit, it only wants tax reduction and disappearance of regulations to the maximum. Trump is a more classic fascist, he wants repression and total control by the State (as long as he is the one who controls the State, obviously). The clash was inevitable, as I said before, reviewing the story will give you the answer

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