Waaaaagh.
I know this one is as old as broadband internet, but it will never stop making me laugh. So just sharing again.
Wow. You're like my polar opposite. Code is a sign of rising depression for me. When I start working on my projets, it's time to worry because it means I've lost all taste for human interaction, or food, or.. sleep.
It was, but actually, gatekeeping as you defined it fits the kind of situation I broadly wanted to refer too. This example is a little extreme, but yeah. Thanks for the definition, btw!
My pleasure, really! Ruth Morris and Kaba are, for me, the two insisting the most on the link between first nations practices of restauration and possible ways to start an abolitionniste strain from there, if you're interested in these..
As for the movement in general, it started to grow in the 60's. Mainly driven by professors of law and critical criminology, on the one side, prisoners movements and unions on the other side. A great deal of anarchists, a lot of religious people, a few moral radicalists. Many had a common experience of nazi camps. That may be too simple of an explanation, but some of them explicitly state that to account for their interest in prison and hatred for the penal system.
I don't know the word "gatekeeping" well but maybe that's it. I was specifically thinking about a situation I had to witness. Two men, one of them being my friend, celebrating about a political action that went well. Except one of the group, a woman, got caught and was facing prison charges. The two men started to rejoice about how the trial would be a great place for her to claim their ideas in front of the judges and the press, make it a political trial. All this time, the woman was literally trembling for a very good reason : she was afraid of going to jail, she didn't want that.
This scene made me realize if there's some kind of collective emancipation to be find somewhere it's not in this kind of act of purety. People should do what they want and can at a certain point in their lives. Not me forced into becoming the martyrs they don't want to be because it's a good thing to do "for the cause".
Wait what does libertarian mean in English. Because with use two words, "libertaire" and "" libertarian" in French and although I'd gladly identify as the first, I have nothing but contempt for the second.
Among penal abolitionist, there are minimalists and maximalists. To better understand how some abolitionists can think that in some residual cases, a segregative solution may be used, one needs to keep in mind that penal abolitionism wants the abolition of the penal system, i.e. a special form of cooperation between police, courts and prison.
Some others would disagree, though. I would personally disagree, but with fellow abolitionist, I try to keep an open mind and understand we basically strive for the same thing.
One important thing : it is commonly accepted among abolitionists that one is stuck with what tools are at their disposition to seek justice. As such, no abolitionist will ever tell a victim what he or she should do. Even one of the most radical contemporary one, like Mariam Kaba, seeks to set up transformative justice devices for people who don't want to engage with the penal system for various reasons (for example, secondary victimization)
I would suggest this article as an introduction to penal abolition.
But, to sum some common abolitionist answers, I would say :
- Replace the penal system with an appropriately modified version of civil law (Hulsmann)
- Transformative justice (focus on the needs of the victim, apply peer pressure and other non segregative means of social control on the perpetrator, while taking in account the needs of said perpetrator) (Ruth Morris, Mariam Kana)
- Community mediation with a fallback segregative solution (Christie)
- Tackling the needs of the population to reduce violent crime (all of them)
- The list goes on and on! I can point you to other resources if you're interested.
- Anyone who says 'science doesn't care about your feelings' likely has a very limited understand of science
- There should be no prison but no penal system altogether
- Vote, don't vote, do whatever the hell you want but don't shove it into people's face
- Aiming to be politically 100% pure and judging those who can't be as pure boils down to chasing political activism cookies/elo. The only useful thing is doing one's best.
I just realized that feelings are, in fact, facts. On what level, that would need to be determined.
I think, if it was a random XIXth personality, I'd have thought "well yes, typical XIXth century dude".
But Hugo... I've been taught so much about Hugo being a national treasure that the trip back to reality was brutal.
Oh, not them. I suppose they meant among non-right wingers. I always found quite explicit they aren't welcome here. Not today, not ever.
I tried to find a translated version but didn't found one. Being told how great a humanist Hugo was, I was genuinely angry no one told me until univ about his views on colonization and racism.
It's not the average XIXth century politician vaguely colonial and racist prejudices. He's one of the main advocates of colonialism, even among his peers.
You can try to translate his Discourse on Africa to get an idea of where he stands. Here's a mtl excerpt :
"What a land this Africa is! Asia has its history, America has its history, Australia itself has its history; Africa has no history; a sort of vast and obscure legend envelops it. [...]
Already, the two colonizing peoples, who are two great free peoples, France and England, have seized Africa; France holds it by the west and the north; England holds it by the east and the south. Now Italy accepts its share of this colossal task. America joins its efforts to ours; for the unity of peoples is revealed in everything. Africa matters to the universe. [I] limit myself, and this will be my last word, to noting this detail, which is only a detail, but which is immense: in the nineteenth century, the white man made a man of the black man; in the twentieth century, Europe will make a world of Africa. [...] Come on, Peoples! Seize this land. Take it. From whom? From no one. "
PSA : Victor Hugo was a huge PoS. And it saddens me because boy do I use to love his writings.
Well yes, sadly, we can't embrace a cosmic perspective, because it's not ours. We can have a human perspective though.
What the..am I reading? Lemmy truly is a beautiful place.
I think you're too extreme. We need to be reasonable if we're to be taken seriously. 17 for religious educated is better suited.
One could argue France is getting notably worst about these. But well, other European countries too, it seems.
Being uneducated is one thing, being rude is clearly another, indeed. I'm sorry you went through this.
As a quite uneducated person on this question, I suppose some people have a very bad understanding of what "being trans" means... or are fascists...
Or both. Actually maybe both.
What's the underrated quote that will stick with you for life?
Even better if you can provide your own understanding of its meaning.
Mine would be :
"Nothing kills a man as much as being forced to represent a country" (and err considering the context, I must stress it has nothing to do with the current US shitshow), by a WW1 soldier, illustrator and writer named Jacques Vaché.
For me it just means being forced into representing a group (national, of course, but maybe also social, racial, sexual, professional, any kind of group) or defining one's identity only by reference to a group is to be avoided at all costs.
Note : Its not the same, imho, as engaging in a collective struggle or defense against a common oppression.
How about you?
As I turn 40 in a few days...
... I realize sure, some things are good, some aren't, struggles are here, and I'm even not one of those having it the worst.
But I just wanted to write something down for all those of you that are younger : I can't, sadly, know when or how it ends, or even if it will at all in certain cases, but you know all this self-criticism, self-flagellation, constant lack of self-confidence?
Well, there may be a time when it all ends. Completely, totally, entirely, and just like that, you realize you're free from it, probably forever.
It doesn't make everything ok, doesn't heal everything and won't change anything to your denied need for justice and anger against subservience or all the evils people, or you, live through.
But this whole thing about self harming, physically or psychologically? THIS may end. It ended for me like 6 or 7 years ago, probably to never come back. Nothing particular happened, you know. Stuff just healed. It took time but it did happen in the end.
And I dearly w
Is it weird to try to behave perfectly?
Alright, so, something I've been talking about with my therapist a lot, but I thoughts folks out here could have interesting povs.
To sum it up, I'm constantly trying to act like a saint (figuratively, I'm an atheist). There's one exception to this, people holding power and making others miserable in any way.
But basically, you know, this whole mentality of banishing anger, jealousy, egoism, selfishness, greed, desire for power and authority and all that? That's me.
I don't mean I manage to do so constantly, but that's what I strive for.
One could think, and I did think, it was a desire for social praise. But really, when I get praised, which happen a lot, I don't care and that's more awkward that anything (like : woa dude, it's not the Oscars or something, chill out). And little by little, I started to think it didn't have much to do with being praised, that's just striving to live as I think it's better to live. To live a life I'll me content with when the grim reaper will come a
On prison abolition
You're a prison abolitionist. You're in a high stakes discussion where you have to answer seriously and be convincing.
Someone asks you : "yeah, but what are we to do with people breaking the law, then? What will you replace prisons with ?"
What will you answer?
Edit : Thanks a lot for your answer, they were very interesting and reflecting different ways to frame a world without prisons.
Except from one or two edgelord hot takes, of course.
A story beside
Today, I'd like to recommend everyone who likes a deep and tragic story to take a look at A Story Beside.
As a disclaimer, I am not affiliated at all with the studio or promo. None of that. I don't even have a yt channel to promote.
I just happened to play this game 2 years ago and it still haunts me with both joy and sadness.
To make it clear how much I loved it : I played it on the high seas, finished it, knew I was never going to play it again (for me, that's the kind of story based/narrative game you only play once), and still bought it on Steam the day after and bought it for a few friends.
While the gameplay is simple and the gfx are nothing to write home about (rpg maker, my first game of the kind), the story is superb and highly emotional. It has a simple point and click interface (definitely NOT my type of games), choices with heavy consequences and mostly non genderlocked romance, IIRC.
But what cracked my heart the most us the VA. It's beautiful behind words, haunting a
What are your thoughts on inner martial arts?
Hello everyone I am an avid practitioners of martial arts. Started with Judo and Jiu Jitsu. Then my health and phisical condition degraded due to external causes. I switched to Aikido for three years and now Tai chi chuan, which I am now strongly committing to.
Aside from obvious positive effects (balance and agility) I wonder what you all think about inner martial arts.
I tend to ingest as little taoist folklore as I can, not because I think it's not interesting, but I want to avoid the exotic sounding mysticism tailored to impress westerners as a kind of new age marketing strategy. Fortunately, my teacher is a medical doctor working in the field of work related injuries.
I know I love Tai Chi Chuan and I truly mean to get better at it, but I can't ignore all the... weird stuff connected to it (no, Mr. Grand Master, I refuse to think that you single handedly pushed 10 people by the power of chi mastery). At the same time, I've been impressed by how, sometimes, finding adequate bala
NSA and Ghidra
Do people trust Ghidra? How come it's been developed by the NSA? From an outsider perspective, that sounds so weird!
Thanks in advance to anyone able to enlighten me!
Erb election battle
Omg, I suppose ERB was producing their Biden VS Trump rematch video when the democratic nominee changed. That means we may not get an electoral battle this cycle. My day is ruined.
TW : The most vicious crime
Why do it seems that pedophilia is, nowadays, percieved as the most vicious crime, along with terrorism? Why not, for example, sexual assault?
I mean it as an actual question, but first I should clarify my intent :
-I'm not advocating for normalizing pedophilia
-I have been a victim of it myself. Luckily, I've mostly recovered from it and live a happy life.
-Because of my political commitments, which are totally unrelated to this question, I've met some old people from the 70s who advocated for the depenalization of consensual sex between minors and adults (if such a thing exist, which can legitimately be doubted).
-I'm friend with one of them but I could never understand how that idea came to their minds. She knows I oppose the very idea. But it got me curious.
What I want to ask is, what, in contemporary history, contributed to make pedophilia the #1 vicious crime, surpassing rape in most consciences (if I'm not mistaken), in your opinion?
Feel free to delete this if that's
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Feature Request : Mark as read on scroll, Hide read posts
As per title. This is such a great feature, included by Eternity, Sync, Connect and a few others. A very nice QoL which a few users desperately want in their app. I'm one of them! Good luck with the development of Boost!
About Spinoza and his practical philosophy
A community for those interested in ethics and particularly about the work on Spinoza. Anyone is welcome, you don't need a degree. Gatekeeping is not allowed.
If you are curious or want to share you examples, memes, discussions about how Spinoza's Ethics are relevant to you, of if you're curious and just want to learn a thing or two about it, come and discuss!
A certain conception of atheism
I've been thinking about writing this following a discussion on atheistmemes because it gave me a lot to think about.
The idea is quite simple. I acknowledge there are multiple visions of atheism but never really took the opportunity to discuss it with people.
So here are the main cornerstones of my vision of atheism. Do you share them or reject them ?
-Gods, as religions define it, do not exist. There might be some kind of metaphysical supreme entity, but it would be more akin to an abstraction.
-Spiritual beliefs, per se, are not a good or bad thing. I admire quite a lot of religious minded people. Abolitionist quakers, anarchist christians, muslim thinkers, poets, activists fighting for emancipation from colonial/theocratic rule, etc. That being said, I believe I'll live and die as an atheist.
-Religious institutions are quasi-inherently evil. I write "quasi-" because I don't know enough about all beliefs system. What about animist/pantheist institutions ? I don't know. I come
Feature request: Option to hide read posts on scroll
Well ironically, sorry if it has been posted already (and I think so), because I'm currently using an app which allows to hide posts on scroll. That's the only important feature liftoff is missing imo and I hope you'll consider it !
That being said, the app is wonderful. Good job !