Do you believe in an Optimal population for countries and the planet? I know climate is a big factor in it, for instance countries or regions that face almost routine natural disasters (drought,flooding,heatwaves,etc) should probably not be home to millions of people simply for economic gain.
>2017 >Being concerned about things fixed by us terraforming Mars
A common talking point that comes up in the healthcare debate is that having a right to healthcare is a right to the labor of another person. That you can compel a healthcare professional (shorthanded to “doctor”) to act without compensation for their labor.
This is fundamentally wrong. Rights can only compel inaction, not action.
To draw a parallel: you have the right to a gun (second amendment, yay). Does that mean that you are owed a gun? That gun manufacturers must make you a rifle? No. It doesn’t. It’s a laughable claim to make and it stands contrary to hundreds of years of American history. Having a right doesn’t compel others to action, at best it compels them to inaction.
The right to not be assaulted means you don’t get to punch me.
The right to self-defense means you don’t get to jail me for protecting myself.
The right to control my labor means you don’t get to enslave me.
The right to have kids means you don’t get to force me to have an abortion.
State’s rights compel the inaction of the federal government.
The state of a country to its internal politics compels the inaction of its neighbors from interfering with its domestic politics.
The right to a lawyer doesn’t compel people with law degrees to give you free legal representation.
Anyone trying to represent a right as the ability to force action is either a fool or a liar.
The right to free association means you can’t force my business to- OH WAIT LOL
the right to tell your free association meme to fuck off means you can’t discriminate against an entire race
Except that the right to a lawyer DOES compel the state to provide you a public defender if you can’t afford your own. That’s been the accepted interpretation for centuries.
it compels the state to provide you with a lawyer but not to force this specific lawyer to defend you for free
Why, that almost sounds like the state hiring doctors, who can leave the profession or emigrate, to perform medical services.
Unfortunately the actual reason there is such confusion is that rights theory is false, but under Consequentialism it’s quite acceptable for the state to procure healthcare for citizens if it does a good enough job at it. Man, it would be so nice to save 5% of the GDP.
In the year 2028, Hipsters use curved LCD technology to recreate the old Cathode Ray Tube style monitors and televisions, only with bulky, laughably light-weight empty plastic housing. 90s-punk becomes a hit style for a few years.
the discourse around this Testosterone Rex book has been deeply irritating in its stupidity; I mean how many hours must be lost to arguing over whether it’s even theoretically possible for a man to sire more than one child a year.
perhaps we’ll look back on this as the high watermark for sex-does-not-exist smugness.
You clearly haven’t heard of my plan to use surrogates to have three dozen genetic children simultaneously. Other people, well… they just lack ambition.
“The Postmodern Symbolism of Predatory Birds in Post-Rationalist Mythology”
@mitigatedchaos, with excerpts from WP:ForestWander, WP:Stemonitis, et al. Tumblr Journal of Sociology, 31 Mar 2017. (CC-BY-SA)
Anarcho-Capitalism and hardcore Libertarianism both assume the political and cultural conditions under which they can be created and maintained. If some other group comes along that can undermine the cultural support for their ideals over the long term, or better unite to use force, they will inevitably be dethroned and replaced with something else.
New Alt-Right Browser Extension Replaces “Liberal” With “Cuck” How America’s New Nazis Wrap Themselves in Layers of Right-Wing Delusion
But hey, what if we made one that removed all the Fnords?
You run into the scunthorpe problem with commies complaining about neoCUCKism, which is meant as an insult against centrists, not lefties. Apply honey CUCKly to the glazed ham! Breitbart complains about the ilCUCK left in social justice.
I’m not sure whether we’ll see an increase in it under the Trump Administration.
Nationalism and Social Centrism are both more defensible than Bush and Obama-era American Conservatism, which is part of why we’re seeing them rise, although they’re not calling it Social Centrism yet. A less jingoistic Nationalism is also a better counter to the Globalism popular among the Left, more capable of exploiting the holes in modern Multiculturalism that have been made vulnerable by the increased stress on the system, but it seemed that for a long time the Jingoism was all we got.
The existence of Google is a moral blight across humanity, but my pet socialist dictator is a benevolent anti-Imperialist advancing the cause of workers around the world.
Concept: A text-replacer extension which corrects “pandering to [group]” to “being enjoyable for people who are not me.”
This was actually the best idea:
We were upset by people claiming we only wanted to make things suck for them because we can’t stand it when other people are having fun in ways we don’t like, so we created a browser extension that replaces their speech with a straw man version, part 5/?
OP should be careful, since this also bites the other direction. How many articles are about “pandering to mandudegamebros” but with a different phrasing? Implicitly, this extension suggests that making a game that doesn’t care one whit about SJ is of the same value.
When did 4Channers and Redditors get so bad at setting up honeypots?
Does it matter? If a bad honeypot still works when it is so obviously a honeypot, it becomes easier to point and laugh and harder to defend those who fall for it.
Like Nigerian scammers, by making the bait so blatantly obvious they actually increase the odds of success by hooking morons.
Society isn’t safe for the truly unintelligent and the willfully clueless. I think it might have been safer for them some years ago.
while some extremist blogs are an endless source of entertainment I’m feeling a bit uneasy about contributing to possible dogpiles and trust that people won’t send them anonymous obnoxious shit; if you’re not willing to put your own name on something it’s probably best not to send it in the first place.
Endorsed, more or less. As a matter of public record, don’t send mean anons to people I’m arguing with.
If gender refers to a complex web of internal associations specific to a given individual’s life history and mental model of the world then this is essentially incommunicable.
If gender refers to the external categorisation assigned by one’s peers then really I should be asking you.
you can only either be completely okay with capitalism as it stands currently or be an unironic gulag jokes-making communist because these are the only two genders
tfw you can only have the ability to develop policies that will help workers but not the will to enact them, or the will to enact policies intended to benefit workers but not the ability to design actually-good ones
it doesn’t sit well with me that “emotional labor” in it’s original context was Arlie Hochschild talking very specifically about how taxing face to face service industry jobs are for people (namely women) with this very nuanced context and is now used in everything from “i had to explain something to someone on twitter” or heavily in contexts of romantic relationships. not all emotional management and exchange is labor! to insert the idea of “labor” excessively into interpersonal relationships creates a system of “i performed ____ and now you OWE me for exerting ____” and it’s not healthy or what the term is for.
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But bambam what if I believe in Relationship Anarcho-Capitalism
it doesn’t sit well with me that “emotional labor” in it’s original context was Arlie Hochschild talking very specifically about how taxing face to face service industry jobs are for people (namely women) with this very nuanced context and is now used in everything from “i had to explain something to someone on twitter” or heavily in contexts of romantic relationships. not all emotional management and exchange is labor! to insert the idea of “labor” excessively into interpersonal relationships creates a system of “i performed ____ and now you OWE me for exerting ____” and it’s not healthy or what the term is for.
I disagree with this so strongly! fair enough I guess if you wanna say it’s been removed from it’s original context but the latter part of this paragraph has construed discussions around emotional labor very dishonestly. I have no idea how you could read women’s discussions around emotional labor and walk away from it thinking it’s women who have created an unhealthy system or are keeping manipulative mental scorecards. that’s not even remotely close to the truth. women use emotional labor to describe specific sexist power dynamics in their relationships with men, where they are expected to perform an unreasonable amount of emotional work because they are women. saying that women are demonstrating unhealthy behaviour by discussing this oppression is pretty next level!
I understand this may not be the original intention behind the term, but it’s pretty clear there was a gap where women didn’t have the language to describe this oppressive dynamic, and ‘emotional labor’ filled that gap.
“women are oppressed in consensual romantic relationships they can quit at any point because they experience emotions.”
“men also experience emotions”
“actually, men are meat robots who feel no emotion whatsoever except for the desire to subsume, but nice try”
I explained emotional labor to you in three sentences, don’t thank me.
Ranma, why do you even follow people who are either so negative about human interaction or just blatant trolls? Like you find a troll, identify trolling correctly, and troll back?
Such is life in the Russian Federation.
The system of rulership and social status of post-Communist Russia is based on a hierarchy of internet trolling, and therefore Russians (such as @ranma-official) must constantly engage in acts of internet trolling to protect their status and advance.
The greatest troll is then made leader of the country.
people (very briefly) wrote about Bannon as if he was this erudite mastermind of fascist strategy, but I think the narrative will collapse faster than his attempts at passing legislation.
Dubya’s cronies had been kicking around in Washington for decades and had far more institutional experience and they were still a clumsy pack of ideocrats; you wouldn’t expect Bannon to be even on their level.
mitigatedchaos said: Yeah, I’m going to dredge all the fascist panic up and shove it in peoples’ faces in 4 years at this rate, probably.
“don’t worry, we survived Donald Trump didn’t we?”
“this is different! if you vote for Chelsea Clinton people will die!”
Not everyone is going to survive any given Presidency. Lots of people didn’t survive the Obama Presidency, for instance.
Rather, the specific complaint in this case was that Trump was Fascist and would somehow turn the US into some sort of authoritarian state far exceeding the existing level of wasteful authority.
I’m confident that isn’t going to happen. Trump is not going to be a military dictator or three-term President.
I’ve been rather annoyed with it, along with the claims of Xism leveled at all opponents, the no-platforming, the enthusiasm for punching ‘Nazis’ that inevitably ends up pepper-spraying bitcoin enthusiasts and cheering physical violence against Libertarians, the racism itself…
Thanks to this healthcare debacle I’m feeling slightly vindicated in my feeling from last year that while Trump might be unprecedented in some ways as a presidential candidate let alone president, the sheer institutional inertia of the state and the gloriously recalcitrant nature of American politics would stymie his ability to radically reshape the nation. I mean it’s still early days, but yeah.
“I’m against immortality, no matter how far into the future it is, because it will be distributed only to millionaires, which is bad” actually says “we’ll literally solve mortality before anyone makes communism work”, but I’m not sure they realize it yet.
can someone please explain to me what the heck is going down in Russiatown
1) Small-time opposition politician Navalny spends years campaigning against corruption. No one cares. Politician is written off, albeit harried by frivolous cases.
2) Navalny uncovers a massive corruption and theft scheme Medvedev (premier and party leader) is involved in, shows his wineries and castles. Billions are stolen from the budget. Makes a documentary and a webpage. It goes viral.
3) Navalny organizes protests. Protests are banned almost everywhere in the country.
4) At least a hundred thousand people goes out into the streets to a complete media silence. Some are arrested.
This is on Putin’s anniversary (inauguration on 27 March 00)
5) Navalny gets arrested again, police immediately caught in making fraudulent documents.
6) People are openly discussing this in the street. Pictures go viral. The Streisand effect kicks into gear.
The revolution will not be televised. It will be snapchatted live.
> The revolution will not be televised. It will be snapchatted live.
It pleases me to see frivolous American social media technology put to some kind of actually-meaningful use. It makes me feel like maybe we’re not just burning big piles of cash for no reason.
Why does my theory of gender need to explain camgirls? Unless I'm operating on a different definition of that term.
Why is camgirl a viable career? Why are there so many camgirls? Why are there so few camgirls? Why are there almost no camboys, and those that do exist are mostly patronised by gay men? What are the demographics of camgirls and their customers, and why? And so on.
What do people think of the “Trump Humiliated By Health Care Failure” and “Health Care Rejection Shows Trump Is Already Lame Duck” and “Paul Ryan: Worst Speaker Of All Time?” discourse?
Most people I trust seem to think the health care bill was crap. Blaming people for writing a crappy health care bill seems fair enough.
But there seems to be more of an element of picking on them for being too weak to pass the bill, as if now they’re losers and we can never respect them again.
Can we just say something like “Elected officials should propose bills that they and their constituents want, give the rest of the country a chance to weigh in, and if the rest of the country says no, that means democracy is working and they should come back with something better”?
Like, this is complicated because I don’t want Republicans to pass a health care bill right now. But if this were actually important legislation, I would want the government to say “Good thing the American people made their voices heard,” roll up their sleeves, and then write a better bill.
Whereas now it seems like the incentive is to never propose anything that doesn’t have a 100% chance of getting passed the first time. And the other incentive is to desperately try to steamroll your legislation over everyone’s opposition and never admit you’re wrong, because if it fails (even for good reason) everyone will make fun of you.
Or am I missing something important here?
Bro, it’s the Orange Capitalism Man. Anything that can be used to verbally attack him will be.
Why are you expecting good faith or actually caring about long-term incentives on the meta? Neglecting long-term incentives on the meta is how we got here in the first place.
Why does my theory of gender need to explain camgirls? Unless I'm operating on a different definition of that term.
Why is camgirl a viable career? Why are there so many camgirls? Why are there so few camgirls? Why are there almost no camboys, and those that do exist are mostly patronised by gay men? What are the demographics of camgirls and their customers, and why? And so on.
just wanna clarify, i am susanr this is just a sideblog because i dont want all of the clown-names stuff on my main for cleanliness,
i’ll start from when i first met roxy (owner of clown names) because itll give you a better idea of my opinion of her
the first incident i remember with her is her using greentext arrows, ironically or not it was in a public group chat and it made people uncomfortable, and when people asked her to stop she kept doing it. this issue still hasnt been resolved and even though its minor it pretty much sums up roxy as a whole
a couple of people and i have actually confronted roxy in my public server, which has been archived and screenshotted, if you want i’ll give you links to both. basically it all boils down to: Roxy does bad thing -> doesnt apologize -> us telling her about it -> her still refusing to apologize and her pretty much… exaggerating what were doing, ie she says that theres a “witchhunt” or that were “attacking” her, this is still before clown-names by the way, which is saying something.
ever since that dragon maid anime came out her and her friends have been obsessed with it, and when people told them its bad, they pretty much blew it off, even though the show has major themes of pedophilia in it, and even her friend/mod of her server otend turned out to be pretty bad, i dont really know much of the details myself because i never joined her server, but that situation itself is a whole other story.
this is very broad and not very detailed but i hope it gives you an idea
ok maybe the owner is just an asshole….so what?
Making a call out post because someone is ‘mean’ to you is very petty- by your approach in life people might as well write hundreds of call out posts towards assholes they have interacted with
Is there any proof that she’s an actual pedophile sympathizer because from the information i’ve gathered thus far all I see is claims and not actual evidence.
this too
first incident i remember with her is her using greentext arrows, ironically or not
joke: calling out people for doing serious crimes like abuse
woke: calling out people for greentexting and liking dragon maid
Hey remember when people insisted that anyone who said callout culture is bad was just a guilt ridden apologist
How does using > get you in trouble anyway. That standard comes from email.
Normies have found out about it and are putting it in their videos and talking about it online. The fad is done. Choking is out. It’s over. It’s so 2016.
Alright, so here’s the new thing:
So during the middle of sex, you are going to pick up your girlfriend (or hookup partner), okay, lift her over your head, and throw her.
She’ll never see it coming, and the glorious rippling of your manly muscles as she falls from your show of brute strength will turn her on even more and help establish your masculine dominance.
“Look, all transhumanists want is Mercy but for real, and I’m pretty sure YOUR dream is to date Tracer so you can’t talk”—(via rationalists-out-of-context)
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Like many here, I am followed by pornbots because I post quality content.
Now I know some of you are thinking, reading this, “Miti, honey-dear, baby-darling, pornbots don’t follow people for their outspoken Nationalism.” And you know, I know that.
