--- Want any of my Constitutional rights?, ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
I come from a time and a place where I judge people by the content of their character; I don't give a damn if you are tall or short; gay or straight; Jew or Gentile; White, Black, Brown or Green; Conservative or Liberal. -- Note to mods: if you are going to infract me have the decency to post the reason, and expect to hold everyone else to the same standard.
--- Want any of my Constitutional rights?, ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
I come from a time and a place where I judge people by the content of their character; I don't give a damn if you are tall or short; gay or straight; Jew or Gentile; White, Black, Brown or Green; Conservative or Liberal. -- Note to mods: if you are going to infract me have the decency to post the reason, and expect to hold everyone else to the same standard.
No. You would simply not like the system. The system would not be inferior because you don't like it. That's your problem. You're confusing "What I like" with "what works". Your positive or negative disposition towards the is completely meaningless. Systems that promote certain outcomes produce superior socities. There's a reason inclusive egalitarian societies are so much more successful than ones that are not. And it has ZERO to do with how much people "like them".
Human progress isn't measured by industry. It's measured by the value you place on a life.
Just, be kind.
This ironically is the progressive left view of why Trump won.
I'm normally on their side on most things but it is kind of bullshit. If it were true then they would have turned out more in the Democrat primaries and agitated for Sanders. Or maybe some other candidate.
The problem with Trump-as-saviour-of-the-working-class is that it is such obvious bullshit. He's a corporatist and globalist. He has been the face of corporatism in the US for my entire life-he's the poster boy for big business. It makes absolutely no sense for someone who has been exploiting people's labour all his life and his businesses in multiple countries to suddenly turn around and help the working class.
I always find it kind of funny how people talk down about "leftists limiting free speech" for groups like neo-nazis or white supremacists whose inherent goal is to limit free speech and the rights of others.
Isn't that the whole "you have to tolerate our intolerance" sentiment?
If you want to argue that the people the leftists are "repressing" aren't neo-nazis or white supremacists, they should probably distance themselves from them, instead of tacitly allowing them to stand with them.
I mean, this sentiment comes from the same people saying that muslims can't be trusted because they don't think they denounce ISIS enough. But suddenly "well the white supremacists and neo-nazis showing up to support these rallies don't really stand for everyone there!"
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“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
Why do you give @Connal the benefit of the doubt when you don't give that same benefit to others? I mean, is it not possible that a lot of other people are just wrong instead of hateful?
But what @Freighter is saying is objectively true, we cannot state there is a perfect ideology with any objective certainty.
On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.
I mean people like you who are forever finding some bullshit reason to defend those accused of racism whether it is unintentional, marginal or just straight out fucking obvious.
For a long while I used to give people like you the benefit of the doubt but not after Charlottesville. Any one who is doing anything other than condemning actual gun toting nazis taking over a fucking town is far right scum of the worst kind.
And the system SJWs advocate for where the outgroup that they arbitrarily define and ascribe people to is subjected to violent repression is your preferred system with a 'superior' outcome?
You realize there are some nutjobs on this forum (like Elba, Mall Security, etc...) who genuinely think every single person not on their left is a fascist/fascist sympathizer and violence should be committed against them? And I say their left since they hand out the label fascist to even other leftists for merely disagreeing with antifa violence.