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This is the problem with Positive Rights (right to have an action performed by someone else).
Negative Rights (right to not have actions performed on you by someone else) don't have this problem.
This is the difference between "rights" as in Bill of Rights, that have a lot of "shall not"s (negative)
and "rights" as in free healthcare/education/internet, as paid for involuntarily by everyone else.
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Noam Chomsky describing postmodernism as an instrument of power:
"It sounds very radical, and it's extremely convenient,
you can beat people over the head with perfect self-confidence because there's no reality anyway,
and it's just their narrative, and your narrative."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwTfHv5dpPw
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@nepfag @sim
Not even the -literal- Nazis arrested Tor Borg in 1941 in Finland for teaching his dog to raise it's paw in reaction to the word "Hitler". They interrogated him, attempted to sabotage his business, but ultimately dropped it without pressing charges.
But now in current year:
"More Fascist than Fascists"
https://youtu.be/WnRWLlQ9Yx4
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@monsterbater
"Welcome to Reddit.
Come for the cats, stay for the empathy."
is what prompted this post, but my reaction to it was "here too?"
I first saw it like 2 years ago, but now researching it, it turns out it's become a marketing buzzword. Can't wait (deep sarcasm) for political marketing to get ahold of it.
By weaponization, I mean using the word 'empathy' and associating it with your brand, purely for emotional manipulation purposes.
It also bugs me because by emphasizing that 'empathy' is why a brand stands out, it implies that the other brands lack empathy, or to construe it another way, are sociopathic.
Meanwhile, what is more sociopathic than weaponizing the idea of empathy?
In Reddit's case, though, I read that 'empathy' as receiving confirmation bias from echo chambers and bots.
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@animeirl
>im being lied to by Ben Shapiro about Ben Shapiro?
He frequently speaks against identity politics, so [Citation Needed]? When did he express hatred of other races?
>Nazis are white supremacists.
With the square/rectangle thing I mean that ALL squares are rectangles, but NOT ALL rectangles are squares.
All nazis are humans. Not all humans are nazis.
Yeah, the nazis were bad. Do you know why? White supremacism was part of it, but not a very big part of it. The jews were a scapegoat, it really could have been anyone. The racism was a means to gain power and control, not an end in itself. It gave german people an enemy to unite against. An enemy where they could tell friend or foe without much thinking. An enemy to be excommunicated, for their very words were poison. Any enemy toward whom doing any evil was actually doing good. This creation of an enemy was used by Hitler to gain political power.
The use of "jews" in 1930s germany and the use of "nazis" of the present day, are the same strategy in practice.
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@mono I think of it as a Sokal Affair for MSM. Expose vacuousness by pushing it to the far side of Poe's Law, until it becomes obvious to everyone the emperor has no clothes.
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Government corruption involving multiple colluding individuals should be referred to as organized crime.
Because it is. Somehow people are willing to accept corruption,
maybe due to vagueness and not indicating a specific solvable situation,
maybe it implies moral weakness of a single individual,
maybe it implies disconnected isolated cases.
I bet there would be a lot more public and political will to fight corruption if it were referred to as organized crime. People don't want mafias forming within their government. It sounds more dangerous, because it is.
I hate that the names things are labeled as matters.
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When a person says
"people are stupid",
they typically mean
"people other than me and you are stupid"
and usually follow it with the proposition of a conspiracy to abuse the stupid people.
I don't understand why this flippant un-personing of majorities of the population is so agreeable. To me it is more telling of the worldview of the speaker, than it is intelligence of the stupid people.
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Much of the suffering in this world is inflicted by actions that are reasoned with the premise "people are stupid, so..."
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@mangeurdenuage @moonman @awg I think filter bubbles yield attitudes in people that don't know how to agree to disagree. Agreeing to disagree, and coexisting while disagreeing, to me, is what tolerance is.
Their filter-bubbles make them intolerant to the point when being on the same platform (because familial ties) makes it a shitshow. Something to disagree with is something to dogpile on, and in their experience within the bubble, dogpiling is a working and appealing strategy.
I fear that this will increasingly result in physical violence, because again, the filter bubble.
Their experience in the bubble online will not square with the views they encounter IRL.
Which is right? Well the bubble online is comforting and confirms their bias, so they take that blue pill. Those people IRL? Monsters.
That's why the Trump movement was shocking and disturbing to them, their bubble told them those people didn't exist. So it must have been Russia.
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@dolus
Watching this, and whoa. Just Whoa. The W3C has become thoroughly corrupt and sold out to DRM. Every meaningful statement that the W3C made, when checked into, turned out to be a lie.
It sounds like the USSR.
Aven
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