blaue_Fledermaus

A Tilley hat.

The problem with Communism is that if requires non greedy people.
The problem with Libertarianism is that it requires non greedy rich people.

@Prunebutt
China? Khmer Rouge in Cambodia?

I know the horseshoe theory is problematic, but it’s fact that some nominally “left” groups in practice resemble the “far right”; today’s China specially in practice resembles more Nazism than Communism.

@mhague
The problem with the US political system is that it’s so far skewed to the right that the moderate right Democrats are called “far left”, and by hearing “far left” people will associate it with Stalin and Mao…

@FenrirIII
That’s more like “center left”.

At least some definition of “Far Left” would be more: “we’re gonna get everyone’s basic needs meet by exterminating entire social groups because they’re impure”. It’s not the only one, but it’s the one that “centrists” would say it’s no different from the “far right”.

@pdqcp
Iguaçu Falls, on the border between Brazil and Argentina. Nearby you could also visit Itaipu Dam, formerly largest in the world.
Going a bit into the same Brazilian state of Paraná, there’s also the amazing Vila Velha park, with incredible sandstone formations.

Because it refers to economic liberalism.

Here in Brazil bolsonaro’s party is also called “Liberal Party”. Weirdly he was elected when in the Social Liberal Party.

Names don’t mean anything in political discourse.

Happiness is connected to contentment, feeling you have enough.
There are people living in their cars who are happy, and elon musk, with all the money in the world, very much doesn’t look like a happy person.

I read a story that once the US air force tried designing a pilot seat based on the average of the measurements of all their pilots and ended with something that was uncomfortable to all of them.

IIRC China does have elections, but people can only vote for local councils, and those elected then vote for higher positions; but there’s no parties, and it’s those currently in power that choose the candidates.

The driving school I went to would fail people that used the “handbrake start” on a hill.

And also fail people that tried to drive backwards by looking back instead of using the mirrors.

Abortion is sometimes the less monstrous alternative in a horrible situation, and it should never be seen as less than that.
Women should have enough social safety nets that abortion would never even cross their minds.
It is mostly Capitalism with its focus on productivity and selling youth and beauty that pressures women into it, women are “freeing” themselves into Capitalistic slavery.

From: “leftist” privileged cis het white guy, feel free to ignore or bash me

LLMs are just statistical models, all they know is how likely a text fragment is to appear near another text fragment.

If the wings are limbs, shouldn’t insects be considered to have 8-10?

Personally I prefer it starting on Sunday, but also here with Portuguese being the main language it only makes sense to start on Sunday, Monday to Friday are called second-fair, third-fair, fourth-fair, fifth-fair, and sixth-fair. Fair as in either market or festival.

What I know is that in medieval times gender roles were much more flexible and “undefined”, and it was Enlightenment that pushed for strict categorization and definition of these things.

If you are thinking about that letter from Paul, I won’t claim to know for sure, but it might have been a prohibition in a specific situation, as it’s a personal letter, and in another Paul highly praises many female leaderships in church.

Yes?
That’s what I meant.
And it became much worse after the justification of enlightened “reason”.

The Protestant Reformation is an odd case in that while Martin Luther may have been misogynist, it succeeded because there were a number of very strong female leaderships (specially his wife). These women were only pushed to the sidelines when the cultural Enlightenment pushed the church into a congealed orthodoxy.

It’s exactly about those that I’m talking about.

I’ll just partially disagree on the phrasing of “religious beliefs like racism and misogyny”. Yes, there was misogyny in the Church, but it was not so strong before. And racism was “invented” and retroactively connected afterwards.

It’s what I learned in school and through my life, but I don’t have sources on that.

The Enlightenment and Positivist narrative is problematic, even before there was Capitalism.
Many things that are blamed on previous times are actually products of the “enlightenment”, later like Capitalism may as well.
Like:
“Now that we don’t live in the darkness of superstition anymore and are enlightened by reason, we now know that a woman’s place is in the kitchen, and black people’s place is serving the white, until they are enlightened as well”.

Technically it’s a computer because it can compute something, it’s just not a universal computer.