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Shutting it does shut you out though, at least until you unshut it.

Huh, surprising to hear that at least "officially" SD's gotten slightly less… well, nazi.

Also, love the Stafford Beer quote 😀 Honestly "the purpose of the system is what it does" is an excellent heuristic.

Yeah but that's exactly it though: they're not very moderate if they really have no qualms about collaborating with the likes of SD.

It's the same here in Finland too, the "moderate" and "fiscally conservative" National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) is suddenly pretty much indistinguishable from the far right Finns Party (Perussuomalaiset) now that they're in a 100% right wing government. They're eg. loosening the punishment for denying the Holocaust, blocking the progress of a law that would ban "conversion therapy" (ie. psychological violence to turn people straight), their MPs are now openly racist, and so on.

Feels like "moderate" conservatives are just waiting for an excuse to drop their masks. One of my former acquaintances who is supposedly a moderate KOK voter told me straight up that the world would be a better place if gender minorities (like me…) didn't exist.

I've always found it a bit funny that one of the Swedish conservative parties is called the Moderates. They pretend they're "centre right" like every fucking conservative seems to, because for whatever baffling reason they lack the spine to call themselves right wing. "Nooo you can't call me right wing, that hurts my feelings – I'm centre right and a moderate! But anyhow, Hitler was right and trans people and leftists should be put in death camps, and here's some Russian propaganda for you that proves all this"

Oh don't worry, we're working on fixing that. There may be life on Earth, but no intelligent life.

Oh I wish it was. Eg. here in Finland sharing movies etc. among friends or downloading them off the internet used to be legal as long as you weren't doing it for profit or distributing stuff to a huge audience, but that changed in 2006 because the new EU Copyright Directive required it, and that directive was hugely influenced by the likes of WIPO.

Governments rarely realize anything related to IP that the copyright mafia doesn't spoon-feed them, unfortunately.

The inconsequential typo really wasn't what elicited my comment

Conservative masculinity:

Honestly the fact that anybody is attracted to men proves sexuality is not a choice

people still constantly bring him up, and even say his political views aren’t “that bad” on lichess during random broadcasts

Gee I wonder what kind of people would say that 🤔