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GarbageShootAlt

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  • Being programmers and what not, are they supposed to be this gullible?

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  • Yeah, though just like physical fitness it's wildly easier to be high-performing if you start that process of training while you are a child rather than later in life.

  • Being programmers and what not, are they supposed to be this gullible?

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  • I wouldn't go that far. Intelligence is still a physical phenomenon produced by highly complex and somewhat varied systems. There's going to be different levels of intelligence, like there are different levels of empathy, of strength, of immunity, and so on. Strong evidence would be needed to counter this. That doesn't mean people don't exaggerate these differences, look at them too uncritically, or misunderstand both what they are and their origins (which are mostly in child-rearing).

    What is more likely bullshit is the concept of "general intelligence" or "G", which is basically an illusion of statistical question-begging that has been very useful to phrenologists and basically no one else.

  • I'm starting to dislike the "Reddit exodus"

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  • I think too many people get caught up on a consumer-identity mode of relating to these things. It's way more useful to have good fundamental understanding. For very early socialism, Engels provides an excellent summary in Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, since the bulk of pre-Marxist philosophers were put by Marx and Engels in the "utopian" category. Text. Audiobook.

    While I think Conquest of Bread is probably worth looking at for an economic skeptic of the idea of a classless, moneyless society, generally it seems to me to be the best strategy to prioritize looking at works that were associated with actual projects of socialist states, and the first person to lead such an endeavor that made it to the "actual nation-building" stage was Lenin.

  • Dispelling myths about Communism and Communists "supporting human rights violation"

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  • That was one case where I was really baffled by how stupid the anarcho-bidenists were, seeing literal "communism doesn't work in practice" people on the same side and not thinking "huh, maybe there's a problem with my position?"

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    BBC claims to be communicating in secret with three North Koreans living in the country.

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  • Love when real people in the DPRK spontaneously and with no other motivation want to have their country carpet-bombed by the US a second time. Good on the BBC for letting us know that the people of the DPRK yearn to be reduced to ash, since I know westerners are always so reticent about using their powerful military for that necessary task of promoting global good, for how great their responsibility is and how strict their rules of engagement are.

  • Is every news outlet a propaganda outlet, one way or another?

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  • Propaganda is not misinformation, it is "propagation" of an ideology. All news is propaganda, even news you like and agree with.

  • Lately

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  • Like all things, there is variance. We know it is unfair to conflate all MLs with "patsoc" or red/brown types. Even if we still disagree with them, let's have a little bit of charity for the good faith anarchists.

  • Beehaw admin is such a fucking liar wtf

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  • Considering how hard beehaw people agitated on the biggest instances to have us blocked, it isn't surprising.

  • Lately

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  • I think you're mistaken and reasoning backwards from the assumption that these are anarchists who re-adopted neoliberalism rather than liberalism who found anarchism to be the most appealing consumer-identity without really challenging most of their existing ideology or assumptions.

  • Dispelling myths about Communism and Communists "supporting human rights violation"

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  • Most socialist states use taxes, but the DPRK doesn't because industry is run by the state anyway, so "taxes" are essentially accounted for before the salary is even set. We aren't arguing for some far off hypothetical communism but for socialist states that currently and used to exist in a capitalist global order

  • Dispelling myths about Communism and Communists "supporting human rights violation"

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  • There were also neoliberals in there, on all the same subs as the anarcho-bidenists and arguing parallel to them as long as the anarcho-bidenists didn't ever mention a positive alternative. Really makes you think.

  • Dispelling myths about Communism and Communists "supporting human rights violation"

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  • To be fair, some of the liberal complaints are just dogshit demonizing of states as autocratic when they do have functioning democracies.

  • "Tanky" and the perception of Lemmy.

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  • If people chose a ‘red’ government, and they are chosen through continued fair elections with no disingenuous means or force, all the power to them.

    What would that look like? Specifically, let us imagine a world where it is true that Cuba or the DPRK or wherever does indeed hold free and fair elections on a regular basis, but that everything else about the world was exactly as you, I assume, admit it is (such as the vicious sanctioning and libel by western powers). From where you are sitting, what would the difference be? What sort of information would you be aware of, would you receive from where you are in the world and the media you consume, that was in any way different?

  • "Tanky" and the perception of Lemmy.

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  • I have some memory of you being reasonable when actually presented with arguments. I would strongly encourage you to try to actual talk to these people that you speak about in such strong pejoratives, perhaps by asking them non-presumptuous questions. I think you will find that they have more to say than you give them credit for.

    The people running beehaw are extremely dishonest about this issue, citing "hate speech" as a reason for defederation with platforms that aggressively ban and remove hate speech, including the only instance I know of that actually displays pronouns with the username (Hexbear.net , which they preemptively banned).

  • "Tanky" and the perception of Lemmy.

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  • The other person was calling them a supporter of fascism, no sense whining about them being "combative" when that's a serious accusation

  • "Tanky" and the perception of Lemmy.

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  • No I never implied that at all

    Emphasis mine

    It originally was used to describe Leftists supporting authoritarianism while claiming to be leftist.

    Get out of here with that bad faith nonsense

  • "Tanky" and the perception of Lemmy.

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  • The users from certain other instances are talking about it nonstop and trying to make it a wedge issue, so it's not surprising

  • I'm starting to dislike the "Reddit exodus"

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  • That's hard to say, since the meme began in China, but the widespread adoption in the US probably was connected to racist appeal

  • I'm starting to dislike the "Reddit exodus"

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  • Wow, that's pretty pathetic