What do you believe that most people of your political creed don't?
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How it's possible that the political movement that aim for the benefits of the 99% is unpopular by definition?
Identity politics may be unpopular by definition.
But the leftist movement is by definition a popular movement, and tons of alienation are needed to make people stop supporting themselves and support the 1%
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I don't like racism against white people or sexism against men. Do I think they're less urgent or worrying than bigotry directed at other groups? Sure. There's less hate against men and whites compared to other demographic groups, and bigotry against them simply doesn't have the same social or political impact due to current systemic racism and sexism being directed at other groups. But bigotry is still bigotry, and I don't like bigotry against anyone.
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China and DPRK strongly restrict immigration, whereas there are lots of neoliberals advocating immigration for free market reasons
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I'm a lefty artist (video) and pro-A.I. That is to say, I don't believe training generative models on any information constitutes copyright infringement when the model is sold. The abstraction to latent space is sufficiently transformative.
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He means who do you circlejerk with on tinternet
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you can't learn much about leftism from the USA
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The alternative is barter
No. Never has been.
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You still haven’t achieved that understanding. Ideology does not come about from ‘convincing’ or ‘swaying’ anyone. I once again suggest you to read Settlers to see why this thought process is flawed. I understand where you are coming from but the material precedes the immaterial
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Very well, I'll look at it.
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I don't like extreme leftists (they live in a bubble) but they've been right about everything and they are our best chance at resolving economic disparity
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Found the millennial or Gen Z
'my truth' doesn't exist: there is fact and not fact.
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Fair enough. I think you're right to question these things; people have very strong opinions with hard lines here, but I don't think there's always solid reasoning for why some things that may seem like an obvious hard line are considered one.
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Does that also apply to hypothetical martian settlements?
If people ever technically managed to live on mars.There's definitely no higher life on mars (or we would have already found it), and it's also unlikely that there's any life at all - not even microbial life (due to an absence of liquid water on the surface).
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people will sometimes make decisions that are so bad that we have a moral obligation to intervene in order to protect them from the most disastrous outcomes
in archaic times, due to the primordial habit of turning people into slaves if they couldn't repay their debts, people were legally forbidden from going into debt at all, except if they could prove that they were a reasonable person and it was economically likely that they could pay back the debt. that was in order to prevent them from the bad fates of slaves; which makes sense to me.
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counterpoint:
the labor market is a market, and as such regulated by the rule of Supply and demand. That implies: if the supply is increased, then the price is decreased. If the supply is decreased, then the price is increased.
In the context of the labor market, that means:
If there's fewer workers in the country (which comes naturally with a smaller population), then the price for labor (a.k.a. wages) goes higher. That increases the Quality Of Life for the people, and is therefore a socially good thing. -
I am progressive as heck, but wow the Republicans fixed the DMV here by running it like a business. Not every part of government is amenable to that (which is where they go wrong) but some departments really can.
Also I am pro choice very much so, but personally wouldn't have, and didn't have, any abortion, I don't like it, find it horrifying. Like, my personal choice was hell no. I understand that the consequences of prohibiting abortion are much, much more damaging than allowing them, and do also think the existing woman has more rights than the potential person so maybe that isn't a political difference.
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I think it's important to differentiate systemic racism from bigotry. There are some people who have a definition of "racism" that actually means "systemic racism," and they make a more compelling case that "racism against white people" doesn't exist.
I'm of the opinion that systemic racism against white people is pretty rare, but you can find it in niche communities, not as much society as a whole. I also think of systemic racism as being about inequity rather than inequality; but if you were to consider it as being about inequality instead of inequity, then you could make a case that e.g. affirmative action is systemic racism against white people.
A lot of this is semantics, which is a distraction from real problem solving.
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Transgender people in many states are probably not happy about the DMV. (I'm Canadian and cis so I may not understand this much.)
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DM me.
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Given that you don't organize, how many leftists do you know? The people I know ran quite the gamut before winding up coherently left.
I don't know why you'd be astonished at the term being used dismissively. Generally it's when someone is being white supremacist, racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, etc. They may not even realize it at first because it's normalized for them, but when they respond negatively to correction well guess who's digging in their heels about being shitty. That's exactly who you don't want to cater to. They will eat up all of your time and fight you the whole time because they have not developed basic humility.
