hotdogscout

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by hotdogscout 2y ago
>"Why bother, they won't do anything" has become a rather common phrase I've heard a lot in the past few years, from family to random retail workers, but I'm unsure if that sentiment is growing or not. What kind
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Suddenly, Chinese Spies Seem to Be Popping Up All over Europe(nytimes.com)
17 points by hotdogscout 2y ago|2 comments
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by hotdogscout 2y ago
It's easy to be confused when you keep changing your definitions when they're not consistent! "is that "white" isn't an ethnic group with an actual cultural or racial lineage". "The reason this group
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by hotdogscout 2y ago
The shift in labels and categories applies to all ethnicities, not just whites, even in the US. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule All of the definitions are contested and subject to localities, not just whi
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by hotdogscout 2y ago
Leftist activists circles have grievances with white people and this is a small token of revenge. Depersonifying white people. Asians don't get internally consistent treatment because of intersectionality. Are we really pretending it&#
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by hotdogscout 2y ago
>When you say "move on" it seems like you don't think it's wonderful. When you say "deviant nature" it also sounds like you don't think it's wonderful. This post was full of comments deriding the p
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
You mean 3b1b (three blue one brown)?
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
>Tell me what gives your life meaning and I can be similarly scornful Art. Just because I describe something without emotional involvement doesn't mean I'm against it. I love art. Most leftist movements are coalitions based on
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
I am not anti-art though, just like I'm not anti-narcissism. I think narcissism is a wonderful trait. I think art is a wonderful thing. Justice is frustrated vindictiveness and people have no free will but that doesn't mean I rage
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
The credentialism that permeates discussion in Bolshevik adjacent circles annoys me deeply. Famous political authors that sold a lot of books don't bring any more credentials to an idea than if I said something in a 4chan post. Argue w
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
Mediocre probably. I don't think biology is the bottleneck of great ideas. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_family
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
What product or service do people expect from a smart speaker? Mobile phones can be an investment if you don't have one but smart devices are for comfort and entertainment, not production.
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
Newton died a virgin, averages are defined by average people, don't stress on their anecdote and don't put your value in what women think of you.
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
>The heyday of the upper middle class Maoist was probably forty years ago. Going by social media/academia/big tech I'd say they're making a comeback.
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
No. Distilling societies to material conflicts between anarchist actors for their own good is how Marxism as a school of thought (historical materialism) distills colonialism, which is really close to realism. https://content.csb
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
That is my point. Violent colonization can have wildly different outcomes and there's a lot more to the success of a society than predation. That is a simplification that's often resting on emotional resentment to injustice but do
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
>A big part of what is perceived as "backwards" are long term effects of British colonial rule, from which they are still recovering. There's a lot of ink spilt studying how the systems which colonial powers set up get lef
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
Really poor countries will probably not have strong liberal institutions needed for free speech, just like they won't have the best pride parades or provocative comedians. But there's not much in the way of an authoritarian place
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
The same way you choose friends.
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
I like unions. I don't like socialism. Socialist countries ban unions, which I like. Unions need freedoms to operate, which need to be respected too. Unions have a lot of ideological affinity with socialist movements, usually downrigh
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
I know there's collusion between some police departments and far right protestors in the US, this is obvious. I say some because there are exceptions. But your point was "there's no problem [protesting for the right]" an
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
>racism is illogical and dependent on cognitive fallacy to be maintained. Can you explain why it's illogical and what fallacy it's maintained on? I don't think I can logically claim torturing babies is wrong without some a
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Duncan_Lemp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killings_of_Aaron_Danielson_... https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/1
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
"\1 komali2 asserting that Yu Jie @yujie89 has conflated leftist ideology with BLM is not equivilant to \2 komali2 conflating BLM with the Republican Party." I'm aware, I don't think komali2 thinks the Republican Party s
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
>Conflating leftist ideology with BLM when BLM is explicitly a movement against excessive police violence against black people is funny - kinda says the quiet part out loud about what conservatives represent. Would you conflate BLM with
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
>Shove fetus pictures into people's faces? No problem! Strap on swastikas and March through town? Police escort! If it's really no problem try doing it. You're not being realistic about the consequences of being disruptive
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
Iran's current government is socialist though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Socialist_Ba%27ath_Part... It's the most deadly conflict of the region and it's brushed off because it's the fault
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
I'm well aware there's nuance but it's still a problem. A country club is extremely biased towards conservatism even if there isn't an all encompassing authoritarian mind control scheme for it. Leftism is popular in Acad
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
I'm not American and I wasn't thinking of the US exclusively. I think it's a problem of democratic western academia, but there's no data outside the US as far as I know. If academic institutions of rich reputation champi
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by hotdogscout 3y ago
I wouldn't say unions are socialist at all. In fact unions are the first thing to go out the window under socialist governments. (The relevant part of the Wiki article is highlighted) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#

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