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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fascism is literally all about doing what's best for the IN Crowd, in other words Cronyism, the very opposite of Merit.

If your selection criteria for people supposed to manage anything is who is mates with whom, what's their skin color, what's their gender and what's their sexual orientation, rather than, you know, managerial qualities, it's only natural that they suck at managing things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

The obvious Apple fanboy is the kind of person who sings praises to every single new version of every Apple product even when it barelly differs from the last one, never criticizes their products and goes to a queue outside an Apple store the evening of the day before a new release of an Apple product to be one of the first to buy it next morning when the store opens.

I've personally came across a couple of people just like that over the years.

(Granted, they were more common a decade or so ago)

Every single person here doggedly defending Apple's choice whose argument boils down to "it's fine it's as I like it" (whilst ignoring that everybody else has their own likes and dislikes) to justify Apple only having a closed-down environment without an open environment as another option, is probably a fanboy.

"I love it the way it is" isn't logical, it's emotional, and there really isn't a natural human tendency (in most people) to want to have their choices taken away, so something else is at play when somebody defends nobody having any options with Apple other than Apple, with the argument that "I like it like that", since logically, having the option of an open system won't take away the option of the closed system for those who like it.

That said, an alternative explanation for such behaviour is that they're just self-centred people who are extremely used to a specific environment and couldn't imagine why anybody would want it to be different, a posture which is often associated with fanboyism of the brand which makes that environment, but not always.

Also another explanation is paid sockpuppet.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Curiously, thanks to Trump Gold has been breaking record after record on the upside since January - you see, Gold is the ultimate "oh, shit" form of wealth storage because it's its own "currency" (so if traditional currencies lose value gold just goes up in those currencies) so people flock to it in situations of high Economic uncertainty, and Economic uncertainty is the only achievement of Trump's Administration.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We leave our little donkeys to graze on the fields and grow up to become big donkeys.

We certainly don't stick them with knives and forks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

There is a ton of fanboyism around Apple, same as there was for Musk some years ago.

I love BRAND is just another form of tribalism and one that Apple cultivated for themselves for decades.

(Curiously, going down the thread I saw fewer Apple fanboys that one would find in, say, Reddit)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I didn't know that.

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

They're playing tic-tac-toe and losing even though there is a ~~full~~ fool-proof strategy to never lose at it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Putin's favorite modern Russian Political Philosopher has written about Russia extending from Vladivostok to Lisbon and this has been repeated by various Russia politicians.

No doubt there will be some parts of Europe that would not be worth it for Russia even if they could invade them.

The thing protecting the rest of Europe from Putin's ambitions is Russia's military incompetence, Ukranian military competence, invetiveness and even their lives, and the superiority of European military hardware versus Russian hardware and the latter is severelly hindered by under investment and low levels of production.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm sorry but you're way overextrapolating from a sample of 1.

What the guy did was wrong (quite literally the crime of Assault). At the same time, to go all the way from that to conclude this shows a systemic problem such as "erosion of basic human rights specifically of the female nature" is you filling-in the blanks (which is is almost all of the space in "systemic erosion of female human rights" when all you have is "1 case of mild assault of a young female by a coach") with your own pre-conceptions.

Maybe there is an "erosion of basic human rights specifically of the female nature" (above all in the US), but this one case of one guy and one girl in a country of 340 million people by itself is nowhere statistically significant enough to support a theory about a society-wide problem.

Not even disputing that ultimatelly your expectation might end up proven (hope it's not, but Fascists will Fascist and any kind of equal rights are one of their dislikes), just disputing that this case by itself and in the absence of frequent news of such cases is in any way enough to jump to that conclusion.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

He had punishment options other than Assault: for example he could have kicked her out to the showers, kicked her out of the team, possibly even all the way to getting her kicked out of the school.

You know, normal tools for coaches and teachers in highschools to deal with serious pupil misbehaviour.

This ain't the 1920s and physical punishment isn't acceptable in schools anymore.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Merely firing him is far too soft: he should be facing a criminal charge for Assault.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

"Reducing a major tax for US tech companies while cutting disability benefits and public sector jobs" sound a lot more like ultra-submissive boot-liking or just plain selling off to foreign fatcast that anything anywhere as mild as "appeasing".

By European political standards, New Labour isn't Left, isn't Center-Left, it even isn't Center-Right: it's Hard-Right, specifically Neoliberal Hard-Right.

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