Post #1786765
2026-04-29 10:48 UTC
Replies (6)
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@RamenJunkie@midwest.social 2026-04-29 12:03
Its a bit off topic, but its really amusing in that Isaac Asimov article how he talks about the Spain thing where Socialists, Communists, and Anarchists were at odds. Basically, the left righting amongst themselves. The more things change…
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@djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-29 14:59
The guy fought Nazi supplied Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. This take is nuts, he almost died for the CNT-FAI. He’s not a Nazi sympathizer.
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@itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-30 06:47
ohh hell nah they made a tanky conservapedia 💀
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@parentesis@lemmy.world 2026-04-30 08:32
The great Orwellian contribution to future technology is that the television set is two-way, and that the people who are forced to hear and see the television screen can themselves be heard and seen at all times and are under constant supervision even while sleeping or in the bathroom. Hence, the meaning of the phrase ‘Big Brother is watching you’. This is an extraordinarily inefficient system of keeping everyone under control. To have a person being watched at all times means that some other person must be doing the watching at all times (at least in the Orwellian society) and must be doing so very narrowly, for there is a great development of the art of interpreting gesture and facial expression. Interesting that someone like Asimov has not seen how technology would make this possible, like it’s right now
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@_Cid_@lemmy.world 2026-04-30 11:17
“I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler. Ever since he came to power—till then, like nearly everyone, I had been deceived into thinking that he did not matter—I have reflected that I would certainly kill him if I could get within reach of him, but that I could feel no personal animosity.” I think the first sentence was taken a bit out of context. In the second he says would kill him if got the chance to. I think he’s just trying to say that Hitler was charismatic.
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@Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2026-04-30 17:30
Didn’t he also call Indians “yellow-faced animals?”