Ah, yeah, thanks.

Auto correct fucked me over…

I just don’t know how a grown up and educated human can still look for a leader in its life

I’m in favour of a primus inter pares concept, so I do get, that I give off responsibility in some parts of my life to people, who just do it better.
Like, I’m not really good with mechanical stuff, others are. So it’s better that they do it.
But I’m rather good with computer stuff, so we help each other out.

I just don’t see the need for a kindergartner in a society of grown ups.

Problem is, that we’re currently lacking education in quite some parts, so many people never really get to actually grow up and need to rely on other people, because they never knew better.
This sounds a bit derogatory, but that’s the only way I can image, why people want to have a “strong” leader above them - they just don’t want to take responsibility.

Yeah, I’m an Anarchist as well

So that’s what I basically described here ;⁠-⁠)
Or at least a form of it

I’m just fed up with the constant sensational shock fake news (usually of right wing parties), which only aim for fear, anger and hatred

Yeah, we all have problems and we need to work on that. That’s pretty much life - especially social life and much more (geo-) political life.

But I can’t stand the rhetoric anymore. From highschool bullies playbook to imitating Hitler’s rhetoric. I’m just too fed up with it.

I want fact based politics and crowd sourced solutions - from the people that are actually affected.
And not some idiot calling a whole group of people degenerates and worth shit.

In the late 90s with the “real” Internet still alive and all of the people starting to face global problems, I was really optimistic, that this would bring us all together.
To work on a global solution.
But nah, we need to have populistic simple “solutions” for complex problems, where seemingly every time it’s just the fault of some minority group or some foreigners.

This now just isn’t the world I wanted to live in and I naively hoped for so much better and more…

Edit: to make extend on that:
Society doesn’t need a rigid framework of rules to live in. So fuck social control - doesn’t matter if it comes from religion or from state.
The laws we live in should reflect the society we currently are. And not try to pressure society into some form of ideological picture.
And with that, fuck ideology as well.

Society is always changing and our rules to live by need to be as flexible as that.
But somehow people still long for a wannabe strongman leader, who only cares for himself.

We could just build our own society, with basic democracy, no real leaders, but maybe just elected representatives.
We don’t need anyone to tell us, how we should behave.
We hopefully are grown up enough to see the ethical correct way.

But people seem to prefer to be childs and just hand over responsibility…

Yeah, I thought it’s showing me the current voting already.
In another comment someone explained to me, that this is just the default position before the vote - which I find pretty intuitive unintuitive.
But maybe that’s just me…

Ah, ok!
Thanks!
Still a weird thing to show for an unvoted state

Sadly it’s not just Americans…

Seeing the same we-they pattern here in Austrian right wing communities/parties

Why is the fairness meter of the article “unfair left leaning”, when it just reports on something someone said?

I don’t see any opinion piece there, but pretty much just direct quoting

How can this be even left or right leaning? Oo

Yeah, exactly!

I don’t get how we can rely on foreign unlock codes (or kill switches if it’s the other way around), when it comes to our own countries.

That is just so much bullshit…

Yeah, because the Austrian military is a fucking joke
We seem to rely solely on neutrality, because “look at Switzerland during WW2!!”, but all of those idiots completely miss, that the Swiss were armed to the teeth to defend themselves.

While in Austria every form of building up self defense measures are always countered by neutrality claims, because as long as we aren’t a threat, no one will attack us

Yeah, that will work out great, when we get rolled over…
But if the FPÖ gets its way, we’ll probably already showing our bellies to the wannabe strong man in Moscow, because Russia will play a big part in supporting right wing parties and with that, they are happy to meet their master it seems.

Patriots…my ass

Yeah, seems quality of new releases are shit quite over the board - except for some lonely exceptions

Are the Eurofighter really good?
At least in the first years I’ve only read about problems and the ones in Austria couldn’t fly for most of the time
But that’s quite some years ago, so I can’t remember what the problems actually were - and have no idea, if those got finally resolved

Is there any comparison to relative modern MiGs (or whatever the correct counterpart would be)?

Edit: also I’ve read that the American jets have some kind of lock, where we need some unlock code from the USA. Is that correct?
Because that is quite some high level of trust into a foreign power to let ourselves defend our countries

Not sure, if we can completely replace US weapons, including jets and so on, already.

I guess, that much will be spend at European companies, but I’m pretty sure a bulk will go the the USA military industry
and maybe also other countries - I’m not really up-to-date with current military capabilities and production facilities in Europe or worldwide

Maybe someone more knowledgeable could chime in

Shockingly close to reality

Yeah, I needed to open the image in a new tab to actually read it (on mobile at least)

Why does it need to be hot?
Wouldn’t that be a safety concern?

Yeah, mixing with those filthy homo sapiens was a bad idea…

Doesn’t think that he/she is the boss, but much more the secretary of people doing the actual work.
He/she is reasonable to provide the people doing the actual work to provide them with the environment and resources they need

Not sure how good distilled water will burn…

Maybe it would be more of a rust bomb with that ingredients?

Exactly what the graffiti artist would say ;⁠-⁠)