By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/05/2026In other words, the paradigm of democracy is that all of us are capable of both wise self-governance and self-rationalized misgovernance, and each of us has a useful perspective to contribute. 18/ 1113
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/05/2026The fascist paradigm is that we can't be trusted to rule ourselves, and only the people who are born with "good blood" are capable of directing our lives: pluralistic.net/2025/05/20/b... 19/pluralistic.netPluralistic: The meritocracy to eugenics pipeline (20 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 3161
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/05/2026This is the theory behind "race realism" and "human diversity" and all the other polite names the modern fascist uses to obscure the fact that they're reviving eugenics. 20/ 2133
Vania @dawookie.bsky.social · 12/05/2026yes, and PAINFULLY reinforced by patriarchal religions, which stand BETWEEN human brains and the reality of God (which is that we're dual-natured in the sense that we're TWO people, psychologically -- our Self (ego, survival) AND Other (infinite empathy). God = infinite empathy = our conscience) 000
Julia Moon Child @trimdog.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Good blood is a hardware ideology, hardware ideologies are DOA because software ideologies are always operationally superior, even hardware ideologies taken to the logical conclusion are about optimizing for blank slateism, optimizing software envs, it’s the software stupid 021
