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by rexpop 3y ago
Presidents rise on a tide of sentiment, not the other way around. That's my model, at any rate.
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by rexpop 3y ago
I worry that the mediation of reality for billions by a vanishingly small minority of monopolistic IP holders via editorial oversight of astronomically leveraged language models might diminish the average human being's ability and oppo
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by rexpop 3y ago
Do you think its kyriarch's ideas that drive oppression? The corporate egregore hungers for profit, and will squeeze every ounce of value from the world that's not nailed down, ie consciously resisted. The man has already heard of
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by rexpop 3y ago
> literally killing the spirit There's no material evidence for "spirit".
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by rexpop 3y ago
It's shocking to me that you think yourself even remotely powerful enough to have prevented his suicide. It "takes a village" to fulfill a human's social needs. No one's brother can, on their own, fulfill all anothe
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by rexpop 3y ago
Providing rationales for your beliefs is hard work, but it's worth it. I'm not saying you deserve to be bullied, but I have no trouble saying what I think online, and supporting my positions with evidence—admittedly, behind a pseu
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by rexpop 3y ago
> Dialogue cannot be carried on in a climate of hopelessness. If the dialoguers expect nothing to come of their efforts, their encounter will be empty and sterile, bureaucratic and tedious. Paulo Freire [0] 0. Pedagogy of the Oppressed -
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by rexpop 3y ago
I can't understand this perspective! Even now, just flipping through random pages looking for a quote, I keep getting sucked back in! > He thanked her, with the simplicity of one who does not look behind the offer for the offer&#x27
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by rexpop 3y ago
> Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur. Seems somewhat at odds with your call for "mutual trust."
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by rexpop 3y ago
Have we been in decline for 2,500 years?[0] 0. https://historyhustle.com/2500-years-of-people-complaining-a...
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by rexpop 3y ago
This is how you sound, to me: "Sometimes, I wonder if it took the collective organs to defeat one pathogen perhaps they were superior to all other organisms." If we must, there are other rubrics by which to judge "superiority
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by rexpop 3y ago
"video platforms" compress or delete most nonverbal channels of communication, and the resulting culture is filtered down to a thin broth.
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by rexpop 3y ago
Generally, I believe in the right to the pursuit of happiness.
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by rexpop 3y ago
> cheaper than I could make... as a single man cooking for one I don't understand. Why should economies of scale ever expire?
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by rexpop 3y ago
> I don't really feel the need to "have fun" with coworkers What are we talking about, here? Having fun? I'm talking about social affirmation, collaboration, feedback, and community memory. There are a thousand social
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by rexpop 3y ago
> That’s only the case if you solely rely on co-workers for friendships. Wow, way to exaggerate. I have a social life outside of work, but I'm working ~40 hours a week. Why should those be lonely, isolated, unsocial hours? They&#x2
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by rexpop 3y ago
I appreciate your remark. Perhaps you agree that part of what's missing from the worst of immigration (including settler colonialism) is humility and reverence for the land?
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by rexpop 3y ago
> The border is not just a wall. It’s not just a line on a map. It’s not any particular physical location. It’s a power structure, a system of control. The border is everywhere that people live in fear of deportation, everywhere migrants
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by rexpop 3y ago
Apparently both categories have been growing since at least 1990.* 1. https://bostonagentmagazine.com/2018/07/11/young-adults-choo...
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by rexpop 3y ago
> Myspace is a favela. You've ever been to a Brazilian favela? It basically, politically, represents the structure of Myspace. You've got this remote, distant, old-school Brazilian tyrant. Anti-democratic, wicked mogul, pays no
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by rexpop 3y ago
> Biodiversity does not directly benefit everyone Just a bonkers nonsense statement, I am stunned by this perspective. Do you think you could live in an antiseptic paper envelope? Biodiversity doesn't "benefit" anyone so m
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by rexpop 3y ago
> [If] they are predetermined to, the decision to rob the bank happened in their head. That's nonsense. If they're predetermined, then the decision happened _outside_ their head. You might otherwise describe a river as its own
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by rexpop 3y ago
Bring more people from where? Somewhere the train doesn't go? If you want passenger capacity, why not drive a minivan?
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by rexpop 3y ago
> humans are a blight and scourge upon the earth We call this ideology "ecofascism." > The prioritization of a white supremacist conceptualization of a pristine and dichotomous “Nature” [note: ie "the earth"] over
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by rexpop 3y ago
The left? Any leftists worth their salt understands capital accumulation justifies itself.
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by rexpop 3y ago
Everyone has thresholds behind which they store fanaticism. I am sure you would like to see cencored the location and combination to your home safe, your bank balance and passwords, etc. Why? Because distribution of this knowledge might pot
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by rexpop 3y ago
Plus, "getting shot" doesn't happen in a vacuum. It's the fatal tip of a discrimination iceberg.
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by rexpop 3y ago
The unhappy feeling caused by "keeping up with the Joneses" in a society rife with "conspicuous consumption" is not the fault of an individual, but rather the result of a complex interaction between personal, social, an
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by rexpop 3y ago
People are down voting me, but I am really enjoying the answers.
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by rexpop 3y ago
To avoid violating my egalitarian principles, I choose to read ">" as "depends on."

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