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1mo ago
meaningful political force
I can only shrug.
Guess we'll see who wins...
if mild progressive nerds the likes of this are already fascism
Oh, no idea. I was just quoting the doctrine.
(I'm pretty sure the real progressives like Gebru just enjoy hurting people. More the merrier, so why limit yourself?)
Eh? Is he a transhumanist? I mostly only noticed all the blogging.
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1mo ago
Transhumanism is the chief ideology of TESCREAL fascists and extremely right-wing and problematic.
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1mo ago
and soccons wouldn't accept it, if they did
I mean, alienating people who also don't like social conservatives, don't care how you dress, and don't care who you fuck, seems like a good way to make those questions more difficult.
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1mo ago
who have not explicitly rejected that label
This seems irrelevant?
And once that is accepted, I think it would also be bad style to police the conduct of trans-women more restrictively.
Men are, of course, welcome to have whatever (legal) hobbies their hearts desire.
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1mo ago
I am laughing as we speak. (And JK Rowling is posting as we speak. The windmills, the windmills are calling...)
(I admit "entirely voluntary eugenics program" was not on my Bingo card.)
How do you teach them to actually understand the difference?
You don't? But I'm not sure why you'd want to. Watching the last wave realize that the next wave is really a wall of autistic guys who took "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" as an honest description of reality has been fairly funny.
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1mo ago
feds aren't welcome in California.
I feel like Newsome isn't stupid enough to call for a second Civil War, but you could be right.
... I'm not sure how that relates?
I'm asking why the contemporary Democrats would expect that to work in the first place. I think you've restated your first post?
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1mo ago
Isn't that like the Republicans saying "vote for us or the Democrats will ban abortion?"
I think feminists use the word "woman" instead of "female" to somewhat soften their policy positions.
Feminists use the word "women" because "females" makes you sound like you've watched too many Star Trek episodes.
And saying that "males are trash" would be a lot more obviously hateful than "men are trash"
"Reverse-sexism is as much a contradiction in terms as reverse-racism."
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2mo ago
I primarily care about how this issue affects that demographic.
Might want to consider how alienating half your friends and then starting a war with JK Rowling affects that demographic.
"The second coming of Gamergate—this time with more media support!" isn't actually a long-term sustainable (survivable?) position.
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3mo ago
It’s a position of inconsistency.
"Hardcore fiscal conservatism deeply unserious" looks fairly consistent to me. Maybe they've just lost control of the party and nobody cares.
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3mo ago
America's reaction to 9/11 may be currently crashing the country into a giant wall...
We've just spent a little under two decades chanting "jews are white! jews are white! jews are white!" while also establishing that anyone can call anyone "Nazi" for any reason they feel like. "RETVRN" becomes harder with every passing day.
(Actually doing something about that might be advisable at this point.) (Further validating "racism is right-wing so we can't be anti-Semitic by definition" would be a very bad "something.") (Hint: there are secular people here. Who used to be friends.)
Doesn't seem to be much pro-tariff writing visible at the moment, presumably because the usual suspects hate Trump more than they love accusing "free trade" of being the libertarian equivalent of crystalline Lisp pyramids.
Here are a few pieces I found lying around:
Michael Pettis, Foreign Affairs
Matt Stoller, newsletter
Not necessarily endorsed. Though I don't necessarily regard global efficiency as desirable when it's under somebody else's control, long run.
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3mo ago
Would take a massive culture shift. Default response in tech industry spaces to "we need a defense industry" is "die fascist, you don't belong in this world!" Those guys almost never get moderated either. Kids grow up reading this stuff everywhere and take it for social truth.
The appropriate response to "people like you" is talking about "you" (collective). Not shutting up on that one.
Retracted pending choir invisible.
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3mo ago
On a practical level I think that sort of thinking is gone from almost all modern education
This seems more like an argument for the dissolution of the monasteries than a defense.
And while the impacts of not noticing from medicine are higher, I'm not sure we should be held to a higher standard than anyone else
Of course not—the sea pouring in certainly won't be confined to just medicine.
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3mo ago
"The mental state of people in medicine isn't related to whether they were warned about what they were normalizing."
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3mo ago
I really don't think that is true.
You really don't think it's true that people were warned? That's really not a question of mental state.
I hope you understand why people like me hold people like you responsible for the economic devastation of Trump's tariffs.
I sincerely doubt your capacity to hold anyone responsible for anything. Too many essays about the merits of complicity and sitting quietly.
Eh. We've heard enough about neckbeards, pick-me's, and incels not to buy that line.
Nobody's being honest here. Just waving the old carrot and hoping it's not rotten...
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