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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Which of the two isn't a classical liberal party?
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Social democrats (e.g. Nordic model) are left of center, but aren't MLs or communists. Anarchists (e.g. Kropotkin) are left of center but aren't MLs or communists. There's plenty of room between the center and Marxist Leninis
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
I'd be thrilled to have the right correctly differentiate between the democrats and leftists. Using the right terms would be a useful start to having some dialogs.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Not really? The democratic and republican parties are both classical liberal parties, invested in business and capital as the standard and correct way to organize a society. Classical liberalism is a center-right ideology, globally. Show
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
The Left Right dichotomy is a fairly broad set of political ideas, especially globally. The Left typically includes socialists, communists, anarchists, labor movements, syndicalists, and social democrats. Typically, these movements are coll
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Burlington Vermont might be close.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
It's widely regarded as a slur.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Is he not?
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Why would they engage with you? If they are safe, there's zero need for them to give you the time of day. How do you propose moderating someone who can tell you to fuck off with impunity?
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
This is one area leftists and right wingers can agree on -- gun control doesn't work, it punishes minority communities, it targets the wrong things, and it's written in ways that aren't backed by data. Leftists want to be arm
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Thank you. It's astonishing to me how few people remember the text of this movie -- it is so clearly saying dumb people are breeding, smart people are not.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Does "other people do it worse" mean we do it well? Because I only put forward the claim that the US does it poorly. Whether others do it worse seems to have no bearing on whether we should strive to improve or not...
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Sort of. They got the outcomes pretty close, but the movie was based on a premise of eugenics and equating poverty with low intelligence.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Read some of the items here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42611374
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
I'd argue neither political party is helping people with disabilities, and both are pretty strongly neglecting them. I don't think any of the current slate of politicians care at all. Bush I was a generation ago.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
I made no claims about other countries. I forwarded only the claim that the U.S. treats disability as a failing. Let's start with various cognitive disabilities -- depression, for instance, is heavily stigmatized. Seeking medication an
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
I work in accessibility. The ADA is barely acknowledged. Every automatic door, curb cut, and accommodation is still a tough fight.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
The US is not particularly safe. Various indices put it well below other countries -- in the top half, for sure, but it's hardly a safe place. You'll have to supply evidence that the US is safe, as that's not self evident.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
People learn, change, and grow. People experience things and change their perspectives. The person I am at 45 is not the person I was at 25. Also, some folks believe crime has root causes in systems outside the self -- poverty, violence, co
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
More or less, yeah, you got it.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
20% of the world's prisoners are housed in America. Interactions with police and arrests are very common here.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
I'm ok with this, as long as it's systemic. Otherwise it's just another way for people with means to get a leg up on people without means. If it's, "we delete all crime stories after N years", then fine, especi
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Packaging and commodifying Black and queer cultures for sale to people, while not actually engaging or giving back to those cultures is a pretty time worn tradition, tbh. Of course, it ain't right now and it weren't right then, bu
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Plenty of independent, valid reasons to dislike the guy. Some of them are purely political. Some have nothing to do with politics. You might not agree or value these, but that isn't the same as them being invalid : 1) he's an a
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
I think it's an information diet thing. Once you accept Fox News as being truthful, you move on to at least giving some thought to what folks like Alex Jones are saying. And the first thing fringe folks tell you is, "you are right
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I was also around then, and even then it had a reputation of being trash, not really anarchist, and probably dangerously poorly put together.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
The rocket equation doesn't participate in capitalism -- moving mass to orbit takes delta-v and that takes fuel. If you are going to imagine a hypothetical future where starship has made technological leaps forward sufficient to be the

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