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by leftyted 7y ago
The reason why Americans deny that they are fed propaganda is because the kind of propaganda that exists in America is subtle. It doesn't involve jailing or killing dissidents. Your post (and the parent post) omitted that distinction
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Killing one person is not as bad as killing one hundred people. Saying "both countries did something horrific" is denying your ability to draw distinctions between things which is the same thing as denying your ability to think.
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by leftyted 7y ago
The gulag hosted ~20 million people. How many people went through rendition? Your attempt to equate these things is frankly shocking.
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by leftyted 7y ago
There's a huge difference between "manufacture of consent" type propaganda, in which the citizenry is complicit in its own indoctrination, and Soviet-style propaganda where there was no free press and people were killed and j
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by leftyted 7y ago
Progress lies in the fact that everyone has access to these ideas. It isn't surprising that the best ideas are old. Any idea that has survived for thousands of years has to be good.
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by leftyted 7y ago
> I could be gravely mistaken and be a victim of living in a filter bubble. Of course. Sounds that way to me. Fertility goes down when women enter the workforce and have access to contraceptives. This is also when countries become prosp
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by leftyted 7y ago
I clicked on their twitter and I'd think twice before hiring them unless the interview went really well.
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by leftyted 7y ago
> In general, this is a reactionary movement from the elite class of society(straight, white, cis people) to keep a death grip on the social and systemic power they see being taken from them in the form of diversity, equality, feminism,
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by leftyted 7y ago
Pay does not necessarily have anything to do with money; it can mean "give" or "bestow upon". This is what's wrong with applications of Sapir-Whorf -- it's always used to argue for evidence of some preexisting
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by leftyted 7y ago
1a is the definition of violence. The other definitions are metaphors.
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by leftyted 7y ago
> And my point is, that shame is a form of violence (not all violence is physical). Yes, it can be justified on occasions. If you dislike the word violence (in this context), then consider *intentionally making someone suffer". All
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by leftyted 7y ago
> The suicide rate for trans people is as high as it is almost ENTIRELY because of shame It's not clear to me how you can confidently state something like this. The difficulty of coping with gender dysphoria could just as easily ex
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by leftyted 7y ago
Shame was how I learned to behave when I was a child, it was my parents' go-to method, and I expect that's true for most parents. The fact that I was shamed into brushing my teeth, washing my hands, not lying, and generally actin
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by leftyted 7y ago
Human reproduction is based on choices made by individual men and women. "Corporate setting" or not, no central authority is selecting us for mating based on some characteristic. With domesticated animals, often a stud is selecte
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by leftyted 7y ago
I think you're making a good point but I don't think it has to do with status (as understood by the author of this article). Status games aren't necessarily zero-sum. "Facilitators" can accrue status without being
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by leftyted 7y ago
"Productivity" grants status, which is why people care about it.
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by leftyted 7y ago
> There is a philosophical conundrum at the root of all this: morality requires we maintain a safety net at the bottom that catches everyone—the alternative is simply inhumane—but we also need an aspirational target at the top, so as to
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by leftyted 7y ago
> The greatest invention of civilization is trade, which makes status obsolete. In a society that upholds property rights of everyone, even low-status "omegas" can get ahead without ever being seen as superior or excellent. Jus
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by leftyted 7y ago
> That said, is building a community where one class of gender is prioritized over another healthy? How is it better than a MenMake? The theory is that providing encouragement specifically to women will help women "get their foot in
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by leftyted 7y ago
This is the main way people deal with modernity: hobbies that mimic the surface characteristics of "the old ways".
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by leftyted 7y ago
There is a difference between being a slave i.e. being owned and being a "wage slave" i.e. operating under significant coercion. We are all coerced to some degree; that's part of being an organism (coerced by nature) and l
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by leftyted 7y ago
> Responsibility, and its sister concept blame, are distractions from solving problems. Responsibility and blame put the focus on finding who was responsible for the problem and blaming them, which then leads to the logical conclusion of
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by leftyted 7y ago
> There's a lot of people that seem to think that Midway would have been a disaster for the US if they lost, but there's not much reason behind this. The only thing the US was really risking that had a significant strategic imp
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by leftyted 7y ago
I have a fantasy of Paris as a city of beautiful, elegant people, effortlessly fashionable who walk from outdoor cafe to outdoor cafe where they order espresso and croissants while carrying baguettes under their arms. So when I read the or
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by leftyted 7y ago
I assumed that comment had to do with fashion (or attractiveness). It could be referring to race, but the fact that you "can't imagine" what else it could refer to says a lot about you and nothing at all about the original po
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by leftyted 7y ago
> Facebook spokesperson Lisa Stratton said: "This piece is purely editorial. We pitched this to Teen Vogue and worked with their team on the piece over the past few months." (Companies' communication teams will sometimes p
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by leftyted 7y ago
You're far too credulous. This guy seems like an absolute loon to me. I find his claims of "secret prisons" and widespread corruption extremely dubious. You have an anti-US bias ("I'm not exactly a fan of the USA
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by leftyted 7y ago
I would say that the antagonism between politics and truth-seeking goes back to Plato and Aristotle, and people who specialize in one tend to hold the other in contempt (or at least suspicion). Science is about being right and politics is a
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by leftyted 7y ago
> In this day and age, feeding into the narrative that science is just another competitive team sport where people compete with whatever means necessary is downright dangerous. I think that narrative is correct. We can't fix the pr
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by leftyted 7y ago
I agree with you that being right about these things isn't possible. As you say, values are not deduced. But being in agreement with yourself is possible and that's really the whole point. Some people may intuitively fall into

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