The EU just signed large deals with Latin America and India, binding a sizable chunk of the world to its rules. ASEAN is on the docket, Japan, Canada and South Korea have been signed for a while now.
Make of that what you will. Power isn't always tanks and soldiers. Sometimes its bureaucracy and contracts.
I tend to agree. In this version of "neutrality" we'd have to believe that if MAGA is defeated in the not too distant future (whatever that means) that these people in Silicon Valley would flip to the other side. There's just no way.
> To be silent in the face of oppression isn't neutrality. It's implicitly siding with the oppressor.
That's the kind of "I took an edgy course in college" shit that makes people outside the progressive bubble think "society is getting too woke and everyday people are getting left behind."
You can draw a pretty straight line between "my uncle voted for the other guy so I disowned him" and the political/social dysfunction that led to Trump in the first place.
This article isn't for progressives. It's a plea for everyone else to realize what's happening is wrong. If you can't take the barbs out of your language, you're going to offend your audience before they'll even listen to what you're trying to say.
> That's the kind of "I took an edgy course in college" shit that makes people outside the progressive bubble think "society is getting too woke and everyday people are getting left behind."
Nah, that's the "I was raised in Austria and all my history classes where about driving that point home" take.
How did the Nazis ever come to power, one asks? Why didn't anybody stop them? It's because everybody stayed silent until it was too late.
Screw polite meekness. You're either against what's happening or you're a collaborator. It takes people actively speaking out to show others they aren't alone and that not everyone is okay with what is happening.
Collective guilt ( Kollektivschuld) was assigned to Germans after WWII. Meaning every German was labeled guilty of enabling the Nazi regime.Now everybody here can witness how it came about.
And that is why these articles get flagged time and again because the existing tech brow pretend they want no politics but what they want is no pushback.
Don't forget terrestrial observing from the ESO with ALMA, VLT, and the under construction ELT down in Chile.
Edit: If you watch the Euclid link above, please don't make the mistake I did and let the player auto select the crappy 720p50 version. Jump up to the 2160p version. It is more than worth it. But as advertised, if you are not impressed with Euclid's imagery after viewing the video, you must be dead.
Make of that what you will. Power isn't always tanks and soldiers. Sometimes its bureaucracy and contracts.
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