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the post of the previous commenter was nuanced.
usually it is a good thing, but since the far-right is blatantly nazi, there are some risk with "nuance"
overall, the previous comment seems to be analyzing how this divide is happening.
my only complaint is that the comment doesn't make clear who are the fuckers who are dirving the social divide (spoilers: the right who is nostaligic about the post-war period and want to create a "new" post war period by, well, going full nazi)
As someone said on reddit they don't want a safe space for them.
what they want is to be enabled to shit on everyone else's food and smirk at us while we try to separate their shit from our beans.
It is a power dynamic where they want to force their shit upon us.
they already have their safe space on r/conservative where they go to circle jerk around "the left is bad".
They do get tired from that and there is no new "left is bad" if the entire political spectrum was composed of them.
Far right and conservative hate is a self cannibalizing movement.
Even if they killed all gay, black, hispanic, asian, autistic, disabled and any sort of "the other", then, they would need to find new "others" to start to hate and kill. Their fight is always inward, against the enemy within.
They will proceed to kill white people because either they are not white enough or that they are too white ("ginger" people which should've be considered the "correct type of white" if racism ever made any sense since they are paler than almost any other ethnicity).
So, they need an existing enemy and a platform that enables them to shit on us.
If they ever come to lemmy, the correct path is to ban as soon as they shou their true colors and start to throw shit around.
It only requires a few probing question to know if someone is in good or bad faith.
When the comment goes into 5 or more replies, it is almost always for sure that the conservative answering is in bad faith (only exception is if they clearly show that they are learning something with the discussion and adapting their viewpoints with each new comment)
I ask you to also be careful!
you don't need to feed the trolls to help them see the light.
Treat it like an authoritative (but not authoritarian) parent:
You don't let the kid do whatever inappropriate shit (that is a neglecting parent style), but you do state firmly the rules and give the consequence (authoritative) without making them fear you through spanking or other kinds of abuse (authoritarian).
I agree we should not be authoritarian.
But we should also not be neglectful!
Specific example:
If someone comes saying that trump did a roman salute, the authoritative answer is: "The nazi salute is a roman salute and both are used to promote fascism (link to wikipedia)".
Simply and blunt, yet "non-judgemental" answer
Now if they reply saying shit like how they are actually different, then just call their bullshit off by saying things like: "I see no reason for someone to defend a roman or nazi salute unless that someone is a nazi. I really hope you aren't a nazi, but if you are, know that you're in the wrong. Period."
Then stop any sort of further replies and start reporting if they keep harping on this (it would be similar to the time out that parents do to younger child).
In this thread:
A lot of men who didn't read the article and didn't got the satirical part of the act.
And given the last political polemic, I'm pretty sure these "men" are misrepresenting the article on purpose.
I kinda agree with you tho. It is way more realistically to have asteroid mining facilities before what I said in the previous comment
(And of course, earthly mining already exists and will get more efficient in the future anyways)
I really feel the urge to correct the "infinite power part" because it hurts my soul as a (wannabe) physicist.
There exist no thing like infinite energy generator because energy is always conserved (well, there are some weird corner cases this isn't true, but that is another lesson).
There are massive "transformators" of energy known as stars (like our Sun)which expel radiation in massive quantities thanks to its humongous size and will take billions of years until it grows into a giant red star and more billions of years until it explodes into a white dwarf (If I recall it correctly).
Billions or even "measly" millions of years is basically "infinite" for human lifespan, I agree.
But it still is finite.
Fusion won't be "infinite" (billions nor even millions of years) because it will be basically a "microscopic sun"
We'd need something a bit bigger than Jupiter to get something closer to a "infinite-red-dwarf-energy-generator".
And Jupiter's diameter is around 10 or 11 Earths diameter, so it is something that is already a big massive for humans to do.
I'd say that photovoltaic cells for solar energy would be easier to make "infinite energy" becuse we are copying what the best "infinite energy users" (also known as plants) have been doing for millions of years.
Also, Tony Hawk is a goddamn excellent game!
Dare I say that it was a pro skater too!
I'd even say that it would make it "easier" to generate elements that are rare on earth for aplication purposes.
The first example already sort of feasible is production (and storage) of Helium.
And if we master (in the far, far future) both fusion and fission, then we can make almost any element "with ease".
Basically we would be able to do what the alchemist dreamed and be able to "turn stones to gold".
But nowadays, one of our "new gold" are rare earth like Neodymium for making magnets
And there are other elements that are even rarer and would have massive applications only if they were little bit more abundant than they are now
Now, again, that would be only true in a far, far future if (and a big if) we can truly master both fusion and fission (what I actually want to mean is that my comment is basically an "hallucination" similar to those on r/futurology)
What if I bring treats? Or maybe 5 kg of raw meat? What is the probability that I win?
Trapping and feeding goes a long way too.
The saying "You catch more flies with honey than vinegar" isn't for nothing.
And don't underestimate the humans ability to pet the fuck out of everything!
Animals love receiving pets and we, humans, love petting animals.
Sorry, I wasn't aware it was a reference to jaws.
I'll retract my previous comment then.
Thanks for pointing it out :)