Another Russian shill. Damn this place is infested.
Another Russian shill. Damn this place is infested.
Now I know you’re a Russian shill. What an insane claim.
In the US, maybe. But that’s considered a flawed democracy and getting worse all the time. Only 8% of the nations on earth are full democracies, a number that continues to fall because of the pessimism and stupidity promulgated by authoritarian regimes.
Exactly. There’s plenty is salad available, but that’s not what I choose. And what is this fantasy that it’s expensive to eat healthy? Legumes are literally 1/1000th the cost of beef per calorie. Yet people choose meat, because it’s delicious. Then they die of chronic illness. Instead of making fun of ourselves for being totally predictable dumb apes, we write these ridiculous articles.
Damn, we are living the meme in real time!
Hello, fellow morons. Left and right libertarians are natural allies. If your edification reflected even the tiniest fraction of the intensity of your convictions, you’d already know this. Yet here we are — at the mercy of authoritarians, because of hypothetical disagreements about owning the means of production. Joke’s on us. While anarcho-capitalists and anarcho-socialists quibble over theory, the Religious authoritarians and the Tankies are building gulags.
Books banned, women and children forced to give birth against their will, total depredation of the environment, oligopoly, corruption, conspiracy theories, propaganda, and fascism. But sure, let’s argue about how libertarians are the true enemy. Fucking dumb-dumbs.
I don’t think that’s quite right, because there’s no instruction associated with spreading lies about someone. You don’t have to say “you should attack this person based on this [random lie]” to be guilty of libel. The lie itself causes the bad consequences that now make you guilty.
“As a German, I find myself groaning when I see this discussion come up. Conspiracy theorists are not rational. If fascists could be swayed by facts and reason, they would not believe what even the most minor bit of fact checking would disprove. Allowing them to spew their nonsense freely or join a coalition won’t disabuse them of their notions; it will help them seek and build echo-chambers and become further radicalized.We see the echo chamber effect on every online platform. Whether or not the holocaust happened, for example, is not a matter of opinion, it is a matter of fact. You’re entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts. Making up your own facts is called lying. And when your lies are so malicious and harmful that they actually pose a threat to other people or the nation itself, then yes, that should absolutely be punishable. It’s no different than slander or libel.
“What value is there to allowing holocaust denial? Serious question. And I don’t mean appealing to the slippery slope of how it leads to other worse prohibitions. There’s a lot of arguing for Free Speech for its own sake - that Free Speech is the highest virtue in and of itself that must never, ever be compromised, for any reason, and that this should be self-evident. But I ask, what’s the harm in not allowing holocaust denial, specifically? What is the benefit in allowing it? There is none. Nothing good will ever come out of someone spewing holocaust denial. Ever. You won’t get a thoughtful debate beneficial to both parties. They’re wrong, simple as that. The “best” outcome you’ll get out of it is that you can convince a denier or someone on the fence that they’re wrong. Great. The best outcome involves suppressing it. There are, however, a hell of a lot potentially bad consequences in that their stupidity can infect others and shift the Overton window their way.
“The reason that the majority of modern Germans look at the Nazi flag and feel nothing but revulsion whereas a sizable portion of US southerners actually fly the confederate flag and defend it (Heritage, not hate, or It was about states’ rights, not slavery, or Slaves weren’t treated so bad) is that Germans were forbidden from telling each other comforting lies about their past."
— quote I stole from unknown redditor
What a lying sack of shit. Go ask a Chinese person about Carl Marx.
China’s economic system is authoritarian capitalism. Why are you defending them with CCP propaganda?
Are you aware that Carl Marx and socialist literature is censored and banned in China?
I’m going to choose to believe you’re a bot and just block you now. Thanks.
How is a family spending their money on an apartment they now won’t receive “a millionaire that is not a billionaire”? Not to mention, China loves billionaires. They have more of them than the US. It’s a fascistic shithole.
Why are you obsessed with the color of people’s skin and indifferent to their humanity? Should children be beaten, abused, mutilated, sold off to be married just because their parents are part of some abrahamic cult?
Daily reminder that religion is a monstrous evil.
No offense, but Intel has been shit for a decade. Far too much power draw for marginal gains. Their whole schtick is terrible for the planet and comically anti-innovation. Why would anyone have an Intel processor? It’s totally irrational.
It will actually change a lot. There’s a famous saying in physics: “Science makes progress one funeral at a time.”
Specifically, according to Max Planck: “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
Obviously, politics is much more biased than physics, so deaths will have an even more progressive impact. Boomers (and Gen X) are ideologically bankrupt with views radically divergent from those of younger generations and scientists generally. The reasons are obvious: culture, wealth, lead poisoning, etc.
Capitalism is like any other ideology. You can’t defeat it by convincing your opponents, but by waiting for them to die and gradually changing the status quo. Authoritarian-capitalist regimes like China, Russia, and (increasingly) the US, are shitty, so unbiased young people will have a tendency to reject them as model societies. I.e., an objective observer would tend to prefer Taiwan over China, and Norway over Russia, so there will be a gradual ideological shift leftward. This is an oversimplification, but it’s also fairly easy to observe in practice. Indeed, it’s one of the main reasons that Russia and China are so aggressively anti-democracy: it’s a direct threat to their system by counter-example! Democracy anywhere is a threat to autocracy everywhere.
Everything except the last sentence is factually and ethically incorrect.
When did political violence get such a bad rap? Our whole society is based on violence.
Found the Trump supporter.
Why? Get him to pick an awesome VP and then kick the bucket. Sounds awesome.
To the extent that ADHD represents an actual physical pathology? Yes, absolutely. But as for the symptoms? No. Not at all.
And idk if you’re aware, but symptoms are about the only diagnostic tool we have available at the moment.
Russian disinformation bots do express opinions I guess, so you have a point.