Am Mi, 1. Sep 2021, um 02:53, schrieb spudboy...@aol.com: > https://www.fantasticfiction.com/v/vernor-vinge/true-names-and-other-dangers.htm > > > To be honest using one's true name was something I was paranoid about for a > long time, and yeah, that shows in my character and writing. I believe it is > naïve unless one is on a professional venue to not use a nom' de guerre. As > this society polarizes and splits in two, (US) it becomes increasingly > unlikely that we'll respect each others boundaries. > > For Europeans involved as Nato countries, I wish the best of fortune and > would urge planning for a an EU defense that is independent on a now > unreliable USA.
Both Merkel and Macron could see the writing on the wall during the Trump presidency. This is more likely to happen in the post-Brexit EU. The UK was the main actor blocking it. But before that, we will have to deal with yet another wave of refugees created by US military interventions. And while we deal with it, I am sure that US populist pundits will once again at the same time criticize us for doing it, crying about "the fall of Europe" and spreading "news" about the streets of Copenhagen being awash in brown men raping blond women, etc ad nauseam. European populist pundits usually join the party, but this time they might not, given how much of a shit-show Brexit (a direct consequence of such "news") has been. Telmo > Yes, another area to bicker about, but policy changes, when not well planned > or executed do cause disorder. Definitively not the Scandinavian model, that. > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.net> > To: Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Tue, Aug 31, 2021 10:38 am > Subject: Re: The American Taliban > > > Am Di, 31. Aug 2021, um 13:10, schrieb John Clark: >> [...] >> >> Hmm.... that would explain why you refuse to sign your real name to your >> screeds, in a way I can sympathize, if I held your opinions I'd be ashamed >> of them too. > > John, I mostly agree with you on this ongoing (and rather boring for a > non-American) debate over US politics. > > That being said, I think that the old Internet tradition of using pseudonyms > is a good thing. There are many reasons for not using your real name beyond > shame over your opinions. Maybe you are a non-believer in a strongly > religious environment, and disclosing this could put your life in jeopardy. > Maybe you need some job to surive, and you know you could get into trouble if > your real opinions were known to your employer, and so on and so forth. Maybe > spud has his reasons, that's none of our business. > > There is a relentless push toward "real identities" that, I think, started > with facebook. Their incentive here is probably mostly about increasing the > quality of the data that they mine for their advertisement algorithms, but it > has the side effect of magnifying the chilling effect on public discourse. It > is better to remain silent than to say something that might get you into > trouble. It certainly helps the status quo (whatever the status quo is in > your country). Hummm... > > I guess I was influenced by the times when the Internet was young and full of > promise as a technology that could amplify human agency and freedom instead > of curtailing them. I now know that that was pretty idealistic and naive, but > I will still resist anonymity-shaming until my last breath. People who want > us to force us to use our real identity no matter what are usually the same > people who wish to control us, and probably not with our best interests in > mind. > > I do sign with my real name here. Probably everywhere, maybe not. I won't > tell and nobody should ask. > > Telmo > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/e4c6d4c1-4097-4011-8844-4d3d29df2906%40www.fastmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/e4c6d4c1-4097-4011-8844-4d3d29df2906%40www.fastmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > > . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/8fac6aee-5291-4850-9144-a470aa102ce6%40www.fastmail.com.
