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by cloudfifty 5y ago
To deny that race is a social construct by word salads full of "left-wing victim-hood" etc is even more deluded than your "the news is a union conspiracy" posts.
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> They're an actual mode of labour. You can find analogies in the past. Well, indeed, day labouring and precarious work nothing new under the sun. And the past experience with those is why societies have laws that limits them to var
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> Is it really so impossible to create new labour laws, agreements or whatever we need that actually take into account the existence of app-based casual labour realities of our time? What's the point of having labour laws if all tha
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
It's already self-evident that Go manages that just fine. That's just weird dogma.
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
I'm not so sure it will be an overall win. Will it be nice with generics for carefully crafted and cherry-picked use-cases? Absolutely. Will it make the average large codebase less readable after a dozen coders have been doing their ow
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
I've told you about two countries where this have actually been tried, I would expect you to dig into those to support your claim? I'm also swedish so I'm talking about the debate going on here. If you want swedish sources to
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> There is exactly zero evidence to support your thesis I have even answered to you directly on this topic before, but maybe you missed it? Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28831893
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
It seems a bit uncharitable to dismiss Russell on a very superficial one-line quote and implicitly associating him with what became of the USSR and their Communism, when he staunchly saw it as a path to a more democratic society, not less
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> Just look at sweden for example Lucky for me I happen to be Swedish and can call you out on that absolute garbage FUD post that doesn't in the slightest reflect the general Swedish opinion of the parental leave system. Du borde sk
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
But this doesn't seem to be happening. Very well off people in the US still have very very modest vacations and parental leave, very expensive day care etc. What's even the upside if you're just trading universal tax to payin
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
Why's that? You're still not getting those benefits with an above average salary.
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Alright, since you can't even come up with a single one it's pointless to spend any effort on extraordinary claims that have no backing beyond your own strange imagination. And no, a single social spending figure doesn't cons
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
Extra ordinary claims require extra ordinary evidence to warrant the effort. A single generic social spending figure doesn't meet that. Why won't you just provide a single respectable, non-lobbyist, historian/economists that
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
Please find a single respectable historian of economy or similar that shares the view that the current era is the era of social democracy rather than neoliberalism and large scale privatizations of formerly social democratic mixed economies
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
It's been a disaster in the few places it's been tried. Chile (since abolished) and currently in Sweden. It very obviously causes the school corps to cut costs by various means that have a negative societal impact. For example by
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
Vouchers with for-profit school corps?
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> Do you think they invented his quotes? There's usually room for a fruitful discussion if you want one. No. But do I think that their "interpretation" is even close to charitable and that there's a even faintest cha
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> They were introduced because the existing school system was in decline Not true at all. Why are you making shit up? They were introduced to "give choice". And marketed - by the right-wing government at that time btw - like sm
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> At what point am I allowed to connect the dots that democracy and socialism are inherently incompatible, as nice as they sound on paper? When what's tried is not fundamentally (authoritarian vs democratic) different from the start
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What a ridiculously biased Fox News level link. Clearly no room for a fruitful discussion here.
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> School Vouchers which are used in Sweden That has been a disaster in Sweden. With increased segregation, corruption, and inflation in grades to please "customers".
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Didn't you get the hint with Chomsky being both a socialist and anti-authoritarian may mean that socialism is not just those regimes? I'll assume you're just being willfully obtuse at this point (and given your comment histor
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
Still not true.
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
Your image of socialism is so tainted by state and soviet-style socialism that I think you need to dig a bit deeper into the history of socialism before assuming so much as you do. Bertrand Russell's "The Practice and Theory of Bo
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
> every instance of attempts at building socialist governments have been tied at the waist to authoritarianism Hence the fierce insistence from large parts of the socialist movement throughout history that it must be radically democratic
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That's luckily easy for anyone to discover is incorrect by a half-arsed google search and a somewhat honest attitude to learning.
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No it's not. "Leads to" signifies that something turns into it. The regimes that are commonly referred to never turned authoritarian, they started authoritarian - much to Chomsky's and other libertarian socialists
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That's not some objective fact. Furthermore you realise that Hayek himself wasn't a democrat?
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> it's a deluded fantasy which 100 years of disastrous policy catastrophes have disproved It's disrespectful to throw Chomsky in together with something that he's spent his entire life to very prolifically oppose, namely a
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by cloudfifty 5y ago
There's a fundamental political/ideological divide here that's hidden by framing everything in economic jargon. It's basically like this: Degrowthers, like e.g. Jason Hickel, generally want a more equal society, perhaps

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