That sentence had several aneurysms.
agressivelyPassive
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Using the Rabbit R1 instead of generic ML was too obvious.
Outside is colder than at night.
- famous German proverb.
Hitler was inspired by the US exterminating it's Native population and by the US reservation system.
Don't act like being American gives you some unique perspective. Wow, that looks stupid, right?
There's a clear difference between living in society and ruling that society.
Sure, but you're implying that not being part of the ruling class absolves you from any guilt or responsibility. And that is literally what all Germans said after the war. What was I supposed to do?
And you're living in a democracy.
Are you perhaps under the impression that all Americans in 1776 were Founders
Are you perhaps under the impression that us stupid Europeans don't know what you're talking about?
Comparing that to bystanders and voting and buying local and being complacent is absurd
Again, I'm German. I've heard that excuse before.
The Founders were among history's monsters and you need to stop trying to protect their legacy by painting us with their brush. Chattel slavery was a uniquely horrible institution and its end mattered.
Dude, I'm German. I know a thing or two about facing the past. So don't act like I'm defending anyone.
I didn't choose to enslave anyone and I have no power to free them.
As far as I know, only about a third of people in the US back then ever owned slaves. The other two thirds didn't choose that either. Yet most of them got complacent for a pretty long time.
Also, you do have a choice. You can buy clothes that are maybe not morally pure, but at least better. You could buy a Fairphone. You could become politically active or at least vote for the better candidates/parties. Sure, that won't turn the world into utopia over night, but at least you can make it a bit better.
We all have to face the fact that our actions and inactions cause suffering, and some of that is indeed not in our power to change. But your stance of essentially giving up and pointing at the other crime as ever worse is hypocritical.
As Adorno said: there's no right living in the wrong. And we are so wrong currently the slave population in this world is higher than ever in the US: https://www.un.org/en/delegate/50-million-people-modern-slavery-un-report
They also stated they won't attack Ukraine.
Of course it is. Today's slaves get raped and tortured as well. Just not by us directly.
Essentially we outsourced the cruelty so we can live in blissful ignorance.
We do too.
We just call it outsourced labor and are happy about cheap clothes.
It's fine, since we're also stored in countless private databases for advertisement purposes, and statistically speaking at least one of those is so insecure, that it's practically public knowledge anyway.
SSH, OpenSSL, LibreSSL, pf ...
There's not a single web server without some code from them. Every single phone, every Linux machine, and probably even Windows (citation needed) ships with some of these tools.
And you didn't hear a thing, because the OpenBSD guys just sport a smug smile and don't care about our plebian fame.
Or, people simply don't care anymore.
COVID became just another flu for most people, it's been a big deal three or four years ago, today hardly anyone cares.
The "real" flu is also dangerous and the vaccine is available and has hardly any side effects, yet somehow barely anyone takes it.