MnemonicBump comments on The problem with socialism

[–] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 8 months ago (5 children)

That word only exists in English? That's weird, I wonder then how so many people from non-Engliah speaking countries learned about it then?

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Yeah I was being facetious.
But a better way to say that is - Not everyone has the time to subscribe to all such things, no matter how widespread it is. And I am saying this as one that literally has "Socialist" in the constitution of my country.

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[–] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Then, I don't know what to say to you. Having conversations with low information people with yield low information results. That is in no way relevant to what we're talking about. You might as well have said "Yeah, but lots of people I know have never even heard the word 'fission' before" while in a thread talking about nuclear science.

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

Exactly my point.
People can have low/no information about your domain and still be helpful people.

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[–] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

Please go back and read the several different times I say exactly that in my previous comments. We don't disagree about that. We just seem to disagree that people who do use "-ism" labels can also be helpful people.

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 8 months ago

people who do use “-ism” labels can also be helpful people.

I don't disagree about that either.

What I am saying is that (now again having to reiterate what I said before) if you use a *-ism extensively without properly defining it, you end up giving power to a phenomenon you don't get to control. And someone with the ability to control it, can come in and use it for nefarious purposes, as stated in previous comments.

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