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2024-08-27 17:17:55

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The ultimate problem with all censorship advocacy is that it assumes the existence of a One True Definition of what should be censored. One absolute set of criteria which can be used with every person and in all situations to separate speech that is "unacceptable" from that which is permissible under their limited definition of "free speech". Without that definition, it just becomes a collection of crybabies with varying degrees of fragility bringing down the authoritarian hammer on things they don't like.
And the people who want to determine the One True Definition are the same people who think truth is relative, morals are situational, and logic should give way to emotions whenever you might hurt someone's feelings.

2024-08-27 15:55:10

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We backend developers do.

2024-06-20 21:40:27

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The liberal values that are actually worth fighting for. Before statism and marxism replaced liberalism as the driving force on the left.

2024-06-19 17:36:32

Telling a leftist that the State is harmful is like telling a Christian that God is fallible. The message won't get through no matter how much evidence you present, and you'll just make them angry for reasons they won't be able to articulate.

2024-06-16 20:49:33

The greatest achievement of 21st century propaganda is to make the world deathly afraid of the common cold.

2024-05-14 02:41:29

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I get where you're coming from, but that's not quite true.
The primary output of every progressive movement has been the shifting of the Overton window. And in that, you have to admit they have had some success.

2024-05-13 17:11:50

Socialist sales pitches like UBI always promote how you, the common plebeian, will have more money. They seldom address where that money will come from. Even when they do, it's a base appeal to envy about taking it by force from people richer than you. This is easy to sell because a smart person with the luck to be in the right place and time can make a lot of money under a *capitalist* system.
But it's unworkable, because under the *socialist* system being proposed, they never could have become that wealthy in the first place. Anyone who becomes the slightest bit wealthy will have it taken away by the system. The incentive to succeed is thus eliminated.
Therefore, the money necessary to keep the system moving - money created under capitalism - would never have been created in socialism.
Worse, what socialists never address is *who* will be the ones taking that money by force. All redistribution schemes require someone to do the redistributing. When pressed, the socialists will wave their hands and say "the state", but in the end, there's always a person. No matter who is selected for that job, it is human nature that the position will, given time, be filled by someone corrupt and power-mad.

2024-05-04 17:07:58

My position on $FOREIGN_WAR
1) Fuck every government involved
2) The people are the victiims
3) The politicians and their puppetmasters are the perpetrators
4) Following on 2 and 3, the people should stop fighting each other and look toward their real enemies.
5) The USA should not be involved and needs to butt out.
6) I can't argue specifics. I'm not there, and don't have all the information.
7) Neither do you.
8) Fuck every government involved.