#MargaretThatcher was a #Vogon.

https://doctorow.medium.com/there-is-always-an-alternative-e55fd414d1fd

#AbandonHopeAllYeWhoEnterHere #ResistanceIsFutile #ThereIsNoAlternative

* "group size and the need to represent diversity":

https://www.nicolas.claidiere.fr/wp-content/uploads/DiscussionCrowds-Mercier-2021.pdf

* "pressures for conformity and concerns for epistemic reputation":

https://academic.oup.com/princeton-scholarship-online/book/30811

Realism is a demand dressed up as an observation. Realists like #MargaretThatcher insisted "#ThereIsNoAlternative" to #neoliberalism, but what she meant was "stop trying to think of an alternative."

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That's why they're so invested in the idea that - as #MargaretThatcher endlessly repeated - "#ThereIsNoAlternative":

https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/08/tina-v-tapas/#its-pronounced-tape-ass

#Inevitabilism is a cheap rhetorical trick. "There is no alternative" is a demand disguised as a truth. It really means "Stop trying to think of an alternative."

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III. Pro-twiddling laws for users: Interoperability (both mandatory and adversarial - AKA #CompetitiveCompatibility or #ComCom):

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/05/time-for-some-game-theory/#massholes

Monopolists and their handmaidens - witting and unwitting - want you to believe that their dominance is inevitable (shades of #Thatcher's "#ThereIsNoAlternative"), because the great forces of history, the technical characteristics of digital technology, and the sorcerous mind-control of dopamine-hackers.

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Margeret Thatcher's highlightings from her reading of Fukuyama's notorious End of History paper. #hubris #thereisnoalternative I believe yer man has since back-peddled a bit. :-)

"#Benches were removed from stations to prevent the #homeless from sleeping on them."

It's bad enough that #capitalism creates the homeless, then it tries to make them #suffer more. This is supposed to be the best #system in the world? This is the way things must be because #ThereIsNoAlternative? Seems defenders of capitalism have just redefined #failure as #success.

https://old.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/zewpr2/lets_inconvenience_everyone_including_the_homeless/

#Lordon, toujours aussi affuté.

https://blog.mondediplo.net/there-is-no-alternative

également une conférence à Lausanne qui peut venir en complément de cet article de blog:

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=l-yHD8hwukc

#TINA: #ThereIsNoAlternative

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