this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2026
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😇 Be Nice!
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🏘️ Community Standards
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- Moderators have final say on what and what does not qualify as appropriate. Use common sense, and if need be, err on the side of caution.
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📽️ Credit Where Credit is Due
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✅ Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
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🏴☠️ Internationalization (i18n)
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Sí, por favor [Spanish/Español]
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Banned Artists
The following artists are banned from the community.
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You mistakenly think that the purpose is to reduce crime and improve people's lives.
People in power (and unfortunately most people not in power also) think that there is a "fair" order to things. Those deserving will be successful, and the undeserving will not (and should not and must not) get anything. The strength of the power of the police+law is to protect the deserving from the undeserving. Not to make a fair or just or happy society. There are many who would happily lobby to refuse all emergency services, rights, legal protections, healthcare, etc to those who are "undeserving".
That's the heart of conservatism: hierarchy
I go on about this a lot, but the book "Dying of Whiteness" has examples of that. One guy literally was dying but still didn't want those people to have free health care, even if it would save his life.
You say that as though Liberalism didn't immediately start with hierarchy. Liberalism literally said that power should be in the hands of the wealthy, not the hands of the hereditary aristocracy. Liberalism emerged precisely because merchants got super wealthy and then found that no matter how much money they had, the king decided if they got land. So Liberalism emerged as something to replace the hierarchy of the nobility with, specifically the hierarchy of wealth. All the "universal" equality shit of liberalism was invented to get the poor peasantry to agree. There was never a single day of liberalism anywhere on planet earth that saw an absence of hierarchy.
I think you were schooling me a few weeks ago on this subject, and I never responded. If that was you, thank you for your infomative response.
Voters think that though. Waking them up from the illusion may help.
Plus, honestly, most people drink their own kool aid so I wouldn't be surprised if our leaders did believe this despite all evidence. The desire to think of yourself as a good person can overpower most evidence.
If you're born into money, you have two options:
Either you believe you don't truly deserve all this money, and you live with the existential angst and dread this causes you until you slowly kill yourself through drugs and alcohol, or you give it all away and live as a poor nomad.
OR you believe you truly deserve all that money. And since you know you didn't actually DO anything to get it, it must be because you were BORN better than everyone else. Genetically superior.
Which do you think most people choose?
And if you're not born into money it's:
or
Which message would you choose?
Edit. And if you grew up rich and wanted to protect the system that put you in charge of a media company, which message would you choose to propagate?