Re: Distros specifically designed for children

On 04/06/2025 11:45, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
 

On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 21:57:34 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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If the Liberals are somehow dominating in that field, then that points
to some innate inferiority among Convervatives themselves, that they are
not capable of doing the same.

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Two words -- Brendan Eich.  Liberals are somewhat like Africanized bees;
they swarm and attack.

 Silly comment.
 

Well yes, The polarisation between so called 'left' and 'right' is getting a bit beyond the pale so to speak.
But maybe a slightly more remote perspective will help.
The Left are very big on doing the right thing in a moral sense
The Right just prefer to do the pragmatic thing - that works, and not get involved in moral arguments
The Left think humans are fallible, and need to be told what's what and what's right and have the State look after them because they cant look after themselves. The paradox that the state is itself composed of fallible humans is glossed over because they think they are in fact superior and to be trusted with enormous power. They tend towards fascism and totalitarianism as a result, They know best and people should just hand their pay checks over and the state will 'see them right'
The right are only to aware of the fallibility of humans, and so they have democracies, so that if fascists turn up, they can be got rid of without a civil war or a military coup.
The left think the state should control everything otherwise big companies will control everything
The right think that free markets are the lesser evil and prefer to let people vote with the money that they haven't taxed off them
Many fascists pretend to be anti fascist or right wing. They aren't., They are just left wing really.
Donald Trump is not right wing or conservative. He is just as ideological as any Libral. He appeals to emotions as they do, not common sense.
It's just different emotions.
He is on a par with Hitler, a national *socialist*.
I dont think there is much left of pragmatism in US politics right now, Its a hot bed of deliberately induced emotional outrage.  And both sides are to blame and are, as George Galloway puts it 'Two cheeks of the same arse'.
The tragedy is that they have between then cornered d the market and there is no third party to vote for.
America has been trapped into an *agenda*. The agenda of moral and ideological politics. There are those that propose, and those that oppose.
There are none who say:
"Fuck moral politics, cant we just get on with running the country properly'"

Jan. 6.
 

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Richard Lindzen