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by lanfeust6 4y ago
> MCT Metacognitive Therapy. Effectively, when dealing with persistent unwanted thoughts, it teaches you to let them pass without judgement / evoking response, and to divert your attention elsewhere. I find that this complements CBT
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by lanfeust6 4y ago
I agree and would go so far as to say both individualism and looking out for your community (extending from the family unit to beyond) are crucial. I find the black-and-white rhetoric surrounding this to be dismaying. I'm not surprised
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by lanfeust6 4y ago
> common-sense appeal that practically bridges the gap between "is" and "ought." That intrigues me, because if there's one thing that is particularly tiresome about Socialists it's that they invoke Hegel to
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by lanfeust6 4y ago
According to a recent SA post here - https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/links-for-october-397?... , : "Wikimedia Foundation gets $100 million + dollars per year and only needs a single-digit million to keep Wiki
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by lanfeust6 4y ago
> And yes, people are absolutely buying more garbage than their parents Source please. 1 in 8 Americans are food insecure, cost of living has been climbing for decades, more than half say they live paycheck-to-paycheck and many say they&
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by lanfeust6 4y ago
There's absolutely nothing in there about the cost of those programs, which is why you didn't bother to quote it. What there is: talk about under-representation in those programs. That's it. It's puzzling why you won&#x2
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by lanfeust6 4y ago
> I'm not sure what's difficult to square away about that. What's contended is "the premise that all enterprise is exploitation", not reducing exploitation. > Most anti-Marxists just declare any transaction wi
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by lanfeust6 4y ago
It can be rephrased as: all enterprise is exploitation, to Communists.
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Not that I'm a fan of him, but that's the least generous interpretation of the negotiations for the crisis in Greece.
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by lanfeust6 5y ago
> a bourgeois-liberal perversion and appropriation of the energy of these movements Sounds like a deflection, and inaccurate. The issues don't arise "outside" of the movement, they spring inevitably when there is enough tr
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by lanfeust6 5y ago
You mentioned right wing. I suspect it would be owing to the politicization of meat consumption and advocacy for the carnivore diet.
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The mods had made this explicit: they are anti-Capitalist, and that is their mission. The unironic tolerance for Socialism/Communism in popular discussion is disturbing. EDIT: read the faq if you don't want to believe me, it'
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by lanfeust6 5y ago
"reform the police" is rather short. Not sufficient?
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by lanfeust6 5y ago
> If your "default" reading of any sociopolitical proposal is to assume it is an absolutist desire and not one more nuanced or practical under the hood, you have a wrong default. Why would anyone "assume nuance" from
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by lanfeust6 5y ago
According to the faq and the mods, the point is "anti-labor under Capitalism". You have a core user base of basically commies, but a larger chunk of participants just voicing grievances about labor conditions. This is by intention
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> For what it's worth, I think the main problem here is agricultural subsidies - they completely distort the market. Yep. In the discourse surrounding this there's a call to reduce or eliminate meat consumption, but simultaneou
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by lanfeust6 5y ago
Had read AR as a teen and while I have strong disagreements I do notice a pattern of shallow understanding when she's being discussed in Liberal sphere. It's easier for leftists to attack her character than critique her ideas in g
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by lanfeust6 5y ago
And at such polarized extremes. I see unironic communists post in worldnews about as often as any kind of conservative.