Science and technology are tools. Like means of production, they are used to serve the class that owns them. If the owner class wants "democracy", sure, they are interlinked. If they want to torture some folks, technology can be used to that end too.

Tweet being by Greta is irrelevant, an 18 year-old activist can have bad takes time to time. I saw this type of take a lot, and seeing it get liked 150k on twitter made me post it here. Disregard Indian chuds under the tweet: https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1358056887204384770

  • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    How is democracy like science? Well they both claim to be broadly accessible but are in reality paywalled.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Both claim to be open to everyone equally, but a cohort of old white men end up being in charge in both.

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Linking science to personal freedoms, in particular freedom of speech, doesn't seem like a good idea.

  • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Man, Hindu nationalists are fucking wild. Pathetic sordid bunch to be mocked and scorned lmao

    Edit: I feel like this is the one cohort I am prejudiced against. And I don’t know whether to feel bad or not. Hindu nationalists like raping women, killing Muslims, attacking farmers, and rabidly stanning modi on twitter

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Science is also fundamentally undemocratic because no amount of popular opinion can create or overturn a result.

  • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Do liberals really think the politicians serving the energy industry really don't believe in geology and chemistry?

    This is a power struggle and they think it's a fucking debate.

  • Mouhamed_McYggdrasil [they/them,any]
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    4 years ago

    I'd say technology certainly is, but I don't really think science is a tool, at least anymore than say set theory is a tool, or the decimal expansion of τ (or 2π ≈ 6.283180) is a tool.

  • jabrd [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I’m pro science. I’m pro the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism