Winston Churchill: Let's not let Argentina be a power, because it will drag all of Latin America behind it... The strategy is to weaken and corrupt Argentina from within. Destroy their industries, their armed forces, foment internal divisions by supporting sides on the right and left, attack their culture in all media, impose political leaders who respond to our Empire. This will be achieved thanks to the apathy of its people and a controllable democracy, where its representatives will raise their hands en masse in servile submission. Argentina must be humiliated. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Meridel Le Sueur: The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Sophie Scholl: How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action? wordsmith.social/protestation/…
So the root thing behind this that we only relatively recently figured out is that much of it comes from us having value based identities (as opposed to organization/association based identities).
Allistics tend to have much more fluid relationships to their values, because while important, their values aren't fundamentally who they are. Instead their identities are based off of their social structures (think things like "team spirit", "hometown pride", etc). Their values shift based on whether people are watching and how their actions relate to the groups they associate themselves with.
We on the other hand typically root our value purely in our values: the choices and actions we make. We're consistent regardless of whether someone is watching, as well as whether or not the thing impacts groups we're a part of. (things like "If it can be destroyed by the truth then it should be")
So of course we're angered by injustice... it's people and groups around us betraying their own values constantly. And so often one of our key values is "stand up against oppression", so we'd be betraying ourselves if we didn't get infuriated.
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I might actually end up using Signal.
My issue has always been how it takes over your phone number...
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Signal’s New Usernames Help Keep the Cops Out of Your Data
Ephemeral usernames instead of phone numbers safeguard privacy — and makes the Signal messenger app even harder to subpoena.Micah Lee (The Intercept)
Any usage of "AI" detection is trash and accomplishes nothing but hurting innocent people.
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