• sexyskinnybitch@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Religion, because they all believe that they are the only ones who are right, and everyone else needs to believe what they believe, or else something bad will come of it.

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    Well, Islam is definitely up there - and you only need to look at the Middle East for evidence. What makes it particularly dangerous, in my view, is the doctrine itself - especially the parts concerning treatment of women, martyrdom and hatred of infidels.

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      As someone who escaped Islam - 100%. Unlike other religions that take original texts as interpretations Islam takes the original texts as literal words of God and is essentially stuck. It’s a dead religion that exists only through force.

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        Yeah, my understanding is that the interpretation of the Qur’an and Hadiths doesn’t allow for the same kind of flexibility or reform that the Bible does, for example. Of course, that doesn’t mean someone can’t practice a non-fundamentalist version of Islam - and many do - but it’s much harder to justify when you’re going against what’s considered the literal word of God.

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    Its not necessarily an ideology but all the worst ideologies have at root a lack of empathy and active methods to extinguish any trace of it. So lack of empathy or the violent suppression of it root and stem

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    Neoliberalism. The belief that owners of corporations should be able to do whatever the fuck they want, because corporations always create the best outcome possible for society.

    The result is stuff like the US Opioid Crisis. Purdue Pharma knew that opioid pharmaceuticals were extremely addictive. For decades, they lied and said it was not addictive. In private, they laughed about their victims.

    They bribed doctors and dentists to overprescribe it:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/health/purdue-opioids-oxycontin.html

    https://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/

    They also paid think-tanks to defend them and aggressively challenged negative media coverage:

    https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-purdue-pharma-media-playbook-how-it-planted-the-opioid-anti-story

    The tobacco companies used the same techniques before western governments cracked down on them.

    In the 90s, they tried to prevent governments from acting by bribing politicians:

    An NPR review of McConnell’s relationship with the tobacco industry over the decades has found that McConnell repeatedly cast doubt on the health consequences of smoking, repeated industry talking points word-for-word, attacked federal regulators at the industry’s request and opposed bipartisan tobacco regulations going back decades.

    Soon after McConnell won a U.S. Senate seat, he was invited to the Tobacco Institute’s boardroom to give a speech in January 1985. The documents also reveal that McConnell and his Senate office frequently accepted gifts from tobacco industry lobbyists

    The gifts included tickets to NFL and NBA games, a production of Dostoevsky’s Crime And Punishment, a Ringo Starr concert, “top-quality brandy,” and what McConnell called a “beautiful ham.”

    When McConnell has sought re-election, tobacco company employees and PACs have typically donated to McConnell more than to any other member of Congress, according to data from the Center For Responsive Politics. Since 1989, he has received at least $650,000

    One of the most striking episodes revealed in the tobacco industry documents came in October 1998. Just a few months earlier, McConnell helped defeat major tobacco legislation championed by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

    The McCain bill would have ratified and strengthened the proposed settlement between the tobacco industry and attorneys general from most of the states. It would have also allowed FDA regulation of nicotine and penalized companies that failed to reduce teen smoking.

    McConnell, who had repeatedly clashed with McCain over campaign finance legislation, helped lead the opposition. “We know, of course, that only 2% of smokers are teenagers,” McConnell said.

    (In fact, nearly 90% of all smokers begin before they turn 18 years old.)

    “That to me is the most egregious incident that I have seen about the appearance of corruption since I have been a member of the United States Senate,” McCain later said of McConnell

    https://www.npr.org/2019/06/17/730496066/tobaccos-special-friend-what-internal-documents-say-about-mitch-mcconnell

    In many countries, tobacco corporations are still using mafia methods:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/12/big-tobacco-dirty-war-africa-market

    For neoliberals, the corporations should decide what is acceptable or not. If there is a profitable market for something, then it means it should be legal. Period. They don’t give a shit about selling addictive poison to kids, destroying the environment or underpaying workers. Corporate profits are their religion.

    Neoliberals believe citizens or lawmakers should never try to fix injustice, because corporations can’t create injustice. And if they want to be involved and threaten corporate profits, you have to punch them in the nose.

    In 1951, Jacobo Árbenz was democratically elected President of Guatemala. He wanted to tax rich banana companies and ensure they didn’t own all the land. So the United Fruit Company lobbied the CIA to overthrow him. Allen Dulles, the director of the CIA, accepted immediately. His brother, wealthy businessman John Foster Dulles, was chairman of United Fruits International. So the President Árbenz was violently overthrowed. At least 9000 people were killed.

    That’s extreme neoliberalism.

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    Nazism seem to be the worst since it’s an awful mix of nationalism, imperialism, totalitarianism, state racism, eugenics.

    A nazi state basically invades its neighbors and genocide their inhabitants based on race, community or health condition.

    So far, only the Third Reich applied it, leading to World War II and the Holocaust, but Japan applied some similar behavior in Asia during WWII.

    Bonus point: it doesn’t even oppose capitalism, so rich people can still greed.

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      Nazism wasn’t particularly pro- or anti-capitalist as an ideology. Free markets, international finance, and trade weren’t embraced, and private property and businesses were only allowed as long as they aligned with the goals of the state. The government largely dictated production and would nationalize, heavily fine, or even destroy companies that didn’t serve its interests.

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      This is surely the correct answer and for the reason you give.

      If we’re honest (and informed - a big ask, here) then we should concede that capitalism has been generally good for our species. A quadrupling of human population at the same time as a doubling in longevity - the numbers don’t lie and they perfectly track the victory of capitalism as the world’s economic system. Leftists don’t want to hear it, but it’s clearly true.

      But whatever this ideology did for humanity, it has been a complete disaster for all the other forms of life that we share our planet with. And that fact is going to catch up with us soon enough.

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        I think capitalism was a great and necessary thing to get humanity to it’s current post-scarcity state. As you said, production and innovation were really aided by capitalism in the early days of man, but now that we have all the shit we need to survive, all it does is deprive those without.

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    Islam. A combination of misogyny, oppressive laws, puritanical beliefs, child mutilation, condemnation of curiosity, and a particular focus on growth of numbers by both birth and conversion. Other religions are close behind though.

    Edit: Didn’t realise the OP was called Allah, lol

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      yeah that’s my middle name, i don’t think i can change your mind but i will say this that majority of followers of islam have bad beliefs

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    TESCREAL

    It ends in either replacing humans with AGI or massive atrocities in an attempt to achieve it.

    And there are people in positions of real power who believe in this stuff and act on it.

    Andreessen posted a manifesto where he said that deliberately delaying AGI is basically mass murder and should be treated as such.

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    Isaac Asimov famously said, “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”.

    The idea that any idea is worth listening to because someone believes in it.

    Show me the proof.

  • yesman@lemmy.world
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    misogyny. I’m not saying it causes the most death and harm (though it may), just that I’ve never met or heard of any dangerous ideology where misogyny wasn’t a core element.

    Feminism inoculates against fascism.

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    Look out for number one. Selfishness is at the root of most dangers to humanity.

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    Fascism. It makes people loose their humanity. Fascists endure anything as long as people outside their group are suffering.