#legitimacy

[suliqyre]

If someone imposes an ultimatum on you, you immediately feel annoyed. They are threatening you with a bad outcome in an attempt to force you to do what they want. Even if you want the same thing as they do, you're frustrated because you believe you could have easily reached an amicable agreement. But now you feel like you're being coerced.

Every time an authority demands you do something, you are being given an ultimatum. You will comply with the authority because you feel the consequences of noncompliance would be too much to bear. You know you're being coerced, but you feel there's no real alternative. If you don't feel this way, then the authority is not actually an authority. It is you who is the authority, for you agree with it and you would do what you are being told to do anyway.

To reject the authority is to reject the ultimatum. It is to declare that you will make your own choice freely, and that you will not bow to pressure.

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[thebongomediaempire]

This is cruel.

I asked for it.

I happen to be losing my sight, and my hands tremble so much that I can no longer draw. Before this started ruining my life, I was a cartofrost and a celebrated graphic artist.

Without AI, I wouldn't be able to do a lot of the things I can do now. It has given me a new lease on my creative abilities, and has managed to bring a little bit of light back to my life.

Before you condemn AI, please tink about this... Sure, If your abilities are good or even so so, Then you can draw or paint or create easily. Some of us don't have that ability anymore.

Don't take it out on us, just because something that someone posted about AI Or something that has been created with AI smacks you as cheating. Is believe me - I wish I didn't have to use it too... But at least it's there for me. We should be able to share our vision, too.

After all, Stephen Hawking wrote some of his best work when he couldn't move anymore. And no one ever can accuse him of cheating... even though he had help from AI.

- Charles "Bongo" Garrett

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[sarinisanta]

Modern society has instilled in the brains of human beings all around the world that the externalization of violence is alweays bad.

You can get emotionally abused by others, but don't dare have a physical response to that.

Society may suck you dry of your will to live, but protest peacefully.

You might feel great inner turmoil at points in your life, but if you start punching or throwing objects around your house you will lose the goodwill that could have been put in you.

Depression might make you spend 4 to 5 days just rotting on bed which will have negative effects to your mental health, but self harming is the thing that will get others worried.

I'm not trying to justify with this every externalization of violence, or even pretend they are justified responses, in an absolute sense. Just that is interesting how much we have demonized the idea of pyisical violence.

Nowadays, phyisical violence is always unresonable unless it's in response to more phyisical violence.

The only exception of this being the legitimate phyisical violence that the state has the monopoly off, legitimate because they legitimitaze it themselves to be clear.

[thepoliticalvulcan]

Questions for democracy

Many self described liberals and leftists who have not taken the coconut pill are grousing about the Dems being undemocratic. I see a series of much more profound questions.

Biden running despite massive unpopularity and having an incredibly safe primary is “undemocratic.” I agree! So how do you not do that in a democracy?

Biden dropping out and transferring his campaign assets to a designated beneficiary (Harris) with no consequences or friction is potentially undemocratic but I think this illegitimacy is a consequence of having faced a largely bloodless primary and voters not taking Vice Presidents seriously.

The primary aspect is an establishment issue: the risks of being a contrarian and running against an incumbent should be lesser and in normal times they probably would be but we live in an era of high stakes and tight margins. Risk aversion has become the Democratic political religion at the same time the GOP have become feral except when it comes to directly challenging Trump.

Not taking VPs seriously is a luxury that we have enjoyed since before many of us were born. It’s been a minute since we had to seriously consider removal from office by natural causes, assassination, or resignation. No President since Nixon has been cowed by threats of removal and the bipartisan will hasn’t existed in that long.

We should no longer permit ourselves to pretend the VP isn’t a heartbeat away from the Oval Office.

If we don’t like these things about our political culture and system, then what? Grousing about legitimacy should come with introspection.

[patrickbrianmooney]

'There's a thing that happens,' Avasarala said, 'when unthinkable things become thinkable. We're in a moment of chaos. Everything's up for grabs. Legitimacy itself is up for grabs. That's where we are now.'

James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games, ch. 50

[hennethgalad]

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