If you’ve never watched it, it’s a surprisingly emotional story about the horrors of war, and the power of cooperation. Yes, really.

What do you know? You have no way of seeing how hot the other bunnies are.

Twozopia

I dropped this /s

It’s called a dialectic.

Amelie for sure. The scene with the blind man made me cry just from how heart warming it was.

Really more of an anti-substance, ain’t it?

I’ve been led to understand that Trix are, exclusively, for children. Is that correct?

Mixture of experts is the future of AI. Breakthroughs won’t come from bigger models, it’ll come from better coordinated conversations between models.

I don’t think “fascist” or “utopia” are accurate descriptions. With Heinlein, his political settings are less “the world should be like this” than “hey what if the world was like this?”. Again, he wrote it in the middle of writing SiaSL, which demonstrates basically the polar opposite worldview. To interpret ST as fascist propaganda seems a bit myopic.

I think “propaganda” is less accurate than “thought experiment”. Heinlein centered his books around a lot of different political backdrops. Pretty sure he wrote Starship Troopers in the middle of writing the free-love-hippie-commune “propaganda” Stranger in a Strange Land.

Still, probably best not to try to hide subtle critique in something that looks like propaganda.

You said people were using the word wrong. I asked you what the word means. You said it means the definition, so I provided the definition. You still have not provided a meaning that demonstrates that the word is being used incorrectly.

We’re not calling people fascists because we don’t like them, we don’t like them because they fit the definition of a fascist. You have cause and effect reversed.

Again, if you would like to provide a definition for “fascism” that supports your claim, feel free to do so. Until then, the rest of us will continue to refer to the dictionary definition, and call the people who meet that definition “fascists”.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica definition?

“Although fascist parties and movements differed significantly from one another, they had many characteristics in common, including extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (German: “people’s community”), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation.”

Or maybe the Webster’s Dictionary definition?

"a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition”

Because by those definitions “fascism” is not being used incorrectly.

If you have an alternate definition which supports your claim, you’ll need to provide it yourself.

That is not what I asked. You’re saying it’s being used incorrectly, which means you have a definition in mind which isn’t being met. What is that definition?

What do you think “fascism” means?