Diva (she/her)

Where do the croc charms go? smh

“Hello I would like to mentally police myself for free so that people who want me dead might think I’m one of the good ones”

Tag NSFW images of human fecal matter pls

Frankly the whole trotskyist tradition can be a bit woo-woo-y when it comes to talking about global revolution, at baseline.

At some level it’s also a quasi-doomer meme to be like ‘okay nuke us already so the space comrades can save us’

I don’t buy the flying saucer stuff, it strikes me as at best creative speculation.

re:

And because scientific progress can be achieved through any of these economic systems*, we can’t just assume that extra terrestrials found themselves on our doorstep due to one particular economic model.

• At different rates obviously, but progress nonetheless.

My read on the passage related to this is that there’s always some inherent inefficiency when it comes to scientific production, due some combination of the economic system (and also the need for global collaboration vs national borders/defense concerns). For example if you were viewing technological development on different planets, all other things being equal but one has a fractured global government with hundreds of different defense concerns and intra-class conflicts sapping resources and scientific ability, vs a planet that has progressed beyond that, and is able to direct all resources towards a single purpose. One of those is going to be more effective in material terms. Maybe there’s some benefit to class competition when it comes to over-stepping what is sustainable within a given system, but I would say it’s debatable.

• I would actually point out that we have an extremely pressing example on our current planet where the endless-growth orientation of our economic system is de-terraforming our planet before we have demonstrated any ability to re-terraform it, when you’re looking at things on an interstellar timescale this starts to look like something self-defeating rather than a ticket to rapid development.

I would say that given the large scientific capabilities and organization, and commitment over time needed to meaningfully act on an interstellar scale, any systems which are not at a stable equilibrium will simply not exist long enough to actually have an impact.

My original statement was:

any interstellar species is going to have already necessarily passed far beyond our existing social structures, and would looks like communists to any earthly observer.

The rationale is essentially just that any system stable enough to actually sustain existence at those timescales across those distances would necessarily look different, and could not look like a system with constant boom and bust cycles, as eventually the technology gets the the point where the ‘bust’ is a self-annihilation. I guess I’m just not that confident that we’re on a trajectory which would result in us becoming an interstellar civilization without the need for major overhauls to our political economy first, and it makes it hard to envision aliens getting to that point while still also being tied up with internal ethnic strife and economic crises.

I have some thoughts, though I need to wait until I’m off my phone or it’s going to be a rambling mess

I am citing this work, it’s not my original thought.

There’s plenty of writing about what will happen when we encounter aliens because any interstellar species is going to have already necessarily passed far beyond our existing social structures, and would looks like communists to any earthly observer.

This even led to some speculating that in the event of nuclear exchange/winter it might serve as a warning to the space comrades (if they exist) that it’s time to intervene.

Anyway read Juan Posadas I guess.

Putin said he prefers Biden, so I guess as a Russian bot I have to write him in.

Putin actually is on the record that he prefers Biden as he’s more predictable.

Biden still owes me $600

Obama when there’s a hospital: “uh, let me bomb here”

Guess what, political violence goes both ways, the best place for a fascist is in the ground.

Don’t worry I consider you lot weird and uptight too, considering the reaction to mild criticism.

No need to project, I was just voicing dissent. I’m a removed but I didn’t even call you a fascist.

Part of the core function of the website is to post, if you’re tired of my shit stop responding

But can you honestly tell me that you think it’s sensible behavior from this other person to compare a completely random onlooker who’s trying to defuse this scene to a pedophile defending Nazi war criminals?

I’ve resigned myself to the fact that there’s just s lot of places on lemmy where “dark humor” and CSAM reign supreme, can’t say I blame others for having a stronger response.

I also really don’t understand what you’re trying to accomplish with these replies.

Just using the website, and when I’m on mobile I’m not going to type a multi paragraph essay to say one thing.

If you want to actually say something, take a moment and formulate your thoughts?

I wasn’t aware there was a limit on the number of posts we were allowed.

Maybe try being less defensive?

It’s in the same thread as the other comments, idk what to tell you.