Cabinet Derg @Motodrachen@awoo.space

if your Big Data person does NOT know what this picture means, get rid of them

I have some sympathy for liberals, in the sense that I understand change can be scary

However, liberals have HAD the power to make the world demonstrably better,

on SEVERAL occasions,

WITHOUT EVEN HAVING TO DO ANYTHING REVOLUTIONARY,

and they simply chose not to

Government, last month: It is your PATRIOTIC DUTY to Go To The Pub and we're giving you Government Approved Discounts on Going To The Pub and Going To The Pub isn't affected by bans on visiting other households you should totally Go To The Pub

Government, now: What the fuck were you thinking? Why did you Go To The Pub now we have to shut the pubs again this is all your fault you fools.

One thing Bob Altemeyer wrote about in The Authoritarians (link: https://www.theauthoritarians.org/) was that people who scored moderately to low on the "right-wing authoritarian" (RWA) scale, when asked how they'd prefer to scale, had a preference to be low. But people high on the scale said they'd prefer to score in the middle.

Altemeyer talks about how that's because a driving force of high-RWA people is to be average, a regular person.

I think about this a lot, especially because it seems a lot of self-described centrists tend to hold a lot of right-wing views.

"They say the Soviet proletariat dictatorship will guarantee equal material conditions for the people, but without freedom what difference is there between such equality and a prison where every prisoner gets equal rations? Humanity must of course be equal, but they must also be guaranteed freedom on top of equality. Whether called a struggle for independence or revolution, what value is there in a movement that lacks this crucial condition?"

- Lee Hoe-yeong, Korean anarchist and independence fighter. His family, one of the richest in #Korea at the time, used their entire wealth for the independence struggle. Five of the six brothers, including Hoe-yeong, died resisting Japanese rule. #history #anticolonialism #politics

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