Message-ID: <6688973f@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <6BlhO.3136$vdRc.1100@fx09.iad> <40dc3717-9748-fb74-562d-96e7fb7071a2@example.net> <0567e036-6ad8-92a2-d28c-1cbfe214d908@example.net> <0ee63ea0-0a70-6e06-a9ac-7897b0763eb1@example.net> User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 6 Jul 2024 11:00:47 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 48 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Bytes: 3472 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2024-07-05, D wrote: >> On Fri, 5 Jul 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>> Socialists are the ultimate cat-bellers. Full of solutions that cannot be >>> implemented or won't work if they are. >>> >>> And sadly that became the game of the Tories too, which is why they have been >>> given the finger. All mouth and no trousers. >> >> This is true. Socialism has been refuted historically (it has never >> worked), logically (it is self-contradictory) and scientifically (it has >> been proven by economists not to work). Yet, the masses insist on believing it. >> >> The reason is that it is a religion where the leaders promise heaven on >> earth, here and now, and workers who don't like their lives, hope that >> this time it will be different, which of course it never is. > > Unfortunately, this is true of demagogues on both the left and the right. > Take a look at the United States today, for instance. In fact, if you > replace "socialism" with "unbridled capitalism", you've pretty much > covered the whole spectrum (aside from us radical moderates sitting > in the middle, watching the chaos unfold on both sides). It's an inevitability of politics since people are generally too willing to believe in easy utopian promises. When you look at minor policical parties it's even worse, because they never get enough power to implement their misconceived schemes and therefore grow their own imaginary world where "because we'll solve a with b, we can fix c with d...". The major parties love to inflate the potential of their schemes as well, but eventually they actually achieve power and frequently fail to implement them or find they're ineffective, so their policies get flushed out and start again at the next election/revolution. To try and get closer to topic, imagine it as a stack in a computer. Then if the majors make a particular habit of filling their stack with rubbish between each flush, a radical minor party might get elected and unleash their huge full stack of ideas. Then that soon gets flushed out in a stream of failure and infeasibility, so the new party is forced to realign itself along some other course while still trying to hold on to the support it won for its original vision. They often turn to frantic nationalism at that point. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#