As a non-native english speaker, your first real sentence very much broke my brain. Good point, tho

Geez, your story is heartbreaking. I wish you and your sister all the best. Also, have you ever thought about emmigrating? I know that many countries do currently experience similar shifts, but I guess the US is leading the polls right now when it comes to living a toxic life under constant pressure. I really wonder why there arent more US americans grabbing all their stuff and their loved ones and leave for a better life. The biggest struggle would be the language barrier, but NZ, AU or CA should still be possible.

Never thought about it this way… especially in the context of slave ownership. Thanks for the new perspective.

Thats a brilliant question. I might be in the minority here, but one thing I’ve always wrestled with is whether ACAB is best understood as a critique of an institution or as a judgment of every individual within that group.

Personally for me, the strongest argument has always been the institutional one. I have deep criticisms or even hatred of how police power is (ab)used, of the historical role in protecting existing power structures, and of the ways in which accountability regularly fails.

At the same time, I’m less convinced that every individual who wears a badge is equally malicious or equally committed to those structures. Some actively reinforce them, some passively uphold them, and some try, with varying degrees of success, to mitigate harm from within. My best friends father is serving as a police officer here in Germany, and he is as left as it gets. He became a cop bc “that’s where the change needs to happen”. He’s openly anti-racist, supports refugees, is active in labor and union issues, has privately attended demonstrations against far-right groups, and has never been shy about criticizing police misconduct, especially if it’s about his very own colleagues.

That’s why the Edward Snowden question is interesting. If someone works within a coercive state institution, but then exposes wrongdoing at enormous personal cost, what does that tell us about the institution? What about the individual?

So I’d say: the police is one of the biggest problems of our societies. Comes right after the fight against climate change and the fight against capitalism. But IMO it’s wrong to say ACAB, because the problem is too complex for such a simple solution. Philosophy says it’s every individuals own action that should decide over their fate. Feel free to argue with me, since I’m open to changing my mind.

Edit: typo

Im with you. And i think social media didnt stop being social by accident. Once a platform becomes expected to grow forever:

• People stop being the product’s purpose and become a resource to extract value from
• Communities become audiences
• Conversations become content
• Hobbies become enshittified engagement metrics

Id argue that the internet didnt suddenly forget how to be social, but that it was purposfully optimized not to be.

The nazis did the same. They denied science like physics and instead created “their own” physics that pleased their agenda. I’m just waiting for the day when fake science is adopted to US curriculum.

If you are into fantasy, then I need to recommend you the books of Brandon Sanderson, especially the Stormlight Archive series. It’s so epic, nothing else comes close

Not a single day without a scandal

Yeah, I kind of agree with you. Bad example from my side.

First of all: great thing that you found something that you can be passionate about. Thats worth a lot.

On topic: I am not a native english speaker, so when reading english literature, I prefer sentences that are grammatically and syntactically somewhat well-structured. It becomes much easier for me to read when authors do not rely too heavily on context, but instead ensure that each sentence contains a clear subject, verb, and the necessary objects. Thats the main thing bothering me in your texts The downside is that this can make the writing sound somewhat formal or scientific, which might not be to your liking. So maybe don’t listen to me at all :D

Also, I know many people on here dont like AI, but text handling is exactly what it was made for. With the right prompts, you could analyse your work and look for low-quality-sentences and manually overthink them. Just as an idea.

So your takeaway from a woman murdering her children is that monogamy is the problem? Hol’up

If one person becomes possessive in a relationship, then by your standard:

Every employment is slavery because some bosses are abusive.

Every democracy is a tyranny because some politicians are corrupt.

Any parenting whatsoever is ownership because some parents are controlling.

Every friendship is coercion because some friends are manipulative.

Human designed systems can be abused. That does not mean the systems only exist to abuse people.

Likewise, the concept of marriage may be a legal framework for shared property, inheritance, medical stuff, etc, but it exists because people frequently fall in love with each other and lust for options to make their love somewhat official. And maybe humans discovered that stable cooperative units somehow reduce chaos, or so.

Also, why calling marriage ‘legal enslavement’ while simultaneously saying ‘family is family’? So many contradictions. That is like seeing famine and concluding agriculture was the mistake.

You’re not critiquing monogamy here, but stapling unrelated ideological grievances onto a murder case. It is misery we should be outraged by, not merely the behavior of the miserable.

Bribery?

I dont know If you can LARP it, but the Stormlight Archive is a pretty cool fandom. Highly recommend

1. It’s a politico article. The same company that ownes the German Axel Springer and Welt, and some other European right-wing media outlets. They have an agenda of polarizing people, directly contributing to the rise of new alt-right/nazi parties like the AfD in Germany. AfD is now leading in all polls, and I’d say thats partly the fault of media outlets like politico. Keep that in mind. Dont click, dont share. Always fact-check.

2. I doubt the Iran war will be over anytime soon. The cost of war for Iran to block the strait is ridiculously low. The cost for the invading US was, is, and will stay very high. I am convinced that the strait wont open ever again without Iran installing some kind of profit-maschine there. So the US either accepts strategic defeat and shows the world, that their military power is only a husk of what it once was, or it will continue depleting it’s stockpiles. Either way, I don’t see an invasion of Cuba coming. However, the blockade itself is an act of aggression and needs to end asap.

How is this even possible? How can an autocratic admin simply except itself from justice? What happened to checks/balances? What happened to “We the people”?

Nice answer. TY for the in-depth explanation.

Link doesn’t work.

How trustworthy is the source? Never heard of that adress.

Mhm, I think this is more complicated than it looks. The LF today isn’t a direct Linux kernel funding body and more an umbrella for open-source governance (infrastructure, events, certification, security work, to name a few). So the other 97% are not necessarily wasted. Also, many kernel developers are paid outside of the LF by companies like Red Hat, Google, AMD, SUSE, Microsoft. So in reality there is alot more cash flowing towards Linux kernel development. A better/sharper criticism would be that the LF has become an industry consortium for “enterprise open source” or so, rather than a Linux-centered foundation. The counterpoint on the other Hand is that this founded infrastructure is exactly what allows large-scale open-source projects to function in the first place.

I think there are many right answers, and in the end it’s dependent on your personal likings. I am self-hosting using Fedora, and I couldn’t be happier.

Real wages have been stagnant since the 1970s, while the supposedly “free market” has become increasingly sophisticated at extracting every last cent from consumers. At the same time, the state no longer represents those consumers’ interests, as political decisions tend to follow the influence of those with the deepest pockets.

I understand the distress these people feel. They are cornered, like animals, and experience a growing sense of pressure. It is a tragedy that, in such shootings, this anger is directed at innocent people rather than being channeled toward the structures and actors they hold responsible.