Appreciate this.

Trump’s political supporters say and do enough batshit, immoral things that we don’t need to be lying just to make our points.

The documentation on how China “solved” homelessness exists, mostly thanks to previous citizens that left.

Unfortunately, reliable modern information is scarce, because that’s what you get with an authoritarian regime obsessed with information control and social engineering.

The goal of keeping children naive towards sexual acts is to make them vulnerable and attractive to pedophiles. The Albertan government is working to infantilize children so that they better appeal to pedophiles.

The same can be said of America’s culturally in groups.

Unfortunately, thanks to authoritarian control of the media, it’s hard to tell exactly how many labour camps filled with “totally not homeless” people are propping up China’s economy.

It’s a little sad when our collective culture has convinced us that any woman being unapologetically horny online must be a bot.

I’ve definitely seen humans “behave like this.” Spend 15 seconds on any short-form social media, and it’s thirst post after thirst trap post, ad infinitum. We have had posters here in Lemmy that pretty perpetually post boomer-humor style content that aimlessly sexualizes women. But a woman goes “fuck it, I want to do that,” and it must be a bot, because that’s the culture we’ve built.

Women aren’t really different from men. Men act up being horny all the time. Women are like that too; we just look down on them when they do. It’s about time we stop claiming to be beyond petty sexism while continuing to seperate the genders so unabashedly.

They really need to stop devaluing the meaning of the word “racism.”

Equating the life of individual privilege that the leader of an autocratic nation lives with an oppressed minority is despicable. Even from the (completely dishonest) position that leaders like Kim Jong Un are actively making their countries better, there’s no perspective that allows one to depict someone in such a position of power as suffering akin to the murdered and marginalized communities that genuine victims of racism have to suffer through.

We hate Kim Jong Un because he’s a fascist, narcissistic piece of shit, warping the narrative in his own country to justify living a life of luxury while his people suffer. Race has nothing to do with it.

Thank you.

I reread it like 3 times wondering who thinks Trump is getting smarter, and why we’re worried about that.

Depends on if you place value on eroding progressive values or not. Say what you want about this Trump presidency, but he’s emboldened bigots to act on their values, and you can’t take that away from him.

Unironically, exactly right.

This is the same reason they see homosexuality as a sinful choice, and take issue with homosexuals just simply being alive. They struggled so hard to suppress their homosexual urges, and now these people are flaunting theirs, openly? And the rest of the world wants to celebrate this moral failure, despite it being something that everyone struggles with? I mean the mental gymnastics required to succeed in choosing to be heterosexual, while celebrating someone else who failed to do so is just absolutely insane.

You can see how this all logics together if you assume everyone feels the way you do, and you’re fighting an urge to do something you see as morally wrong. Obviously, abusing your teenage daughters trust to give yourself a mild sexual release is morally wrong, but the point stands. These people play the moral high ground card because they struggle with these thoughts every single day.

Ha, no, fuck off, OpenAI.

And how many times have you flagged someone for “furtherance of violent activities” that DIDN’T go forward to shoot up a school, or do much of anything you should intervene in? ChatGPT can’t even brainstorm multiple choice questions on a short story without hallucinating bullshit, and you want us to believe it’d be effective as the thought police?

This is a cherry-picked argument being used to begin legitimizing AI for more serious uses, such as making legal decisions. This is not Minority Report; AI can fuck off with charging people with pre-crime.

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.”

The political dichotomy is a myth.

I said in another post that I’m less familiar with Aristotle, but I thought that was the main divide between them, and was under the impression that Aristotle took the whole “I’m going to make own school” approach to their disagreements. Whereas Plato believed in the rule of the supposed phiosopher-king, Aristotle argued for the value of a more open democracy.

That’s because he is their guy. Remember every time he speaks: he is what Conservatives are asking for.

I misspoke in my original post and brain dead said Aristotle when I meant Plato, a mix-up which would have offended both of them.

Our governmental system is not built on Socrates’ philosophies, neither in practice, nor on paper.

Alhough I am admittedly less familiar with his work, Aristotle is closer to our current (on paper) system, but I never intended to claim he was pro merit-based leadership; Socrates, as depicted through Plato, was. That’s a problem, because whoever determines what “merit” is leads to unapologetic, authoritarian, often fascist, rule.

Socrates and Aristotle Plato also believed rule should be imposed by philospher-kings. They believed in rule by merit, a core right-wing philosophy. The difference between them and modern right-wingers is that the modern ones believe wealth is an indicator of merit.

Edit - Offended two dead philosophers by mixing them up with their rival.

Y’know, Yog, it’s not very often I see a post by you and happily read it, let alone upvote it, but I’m glad we can both be happy to see world leaders telling Trump’s government to go fuck itself.

Insinuating that everyone always performs perfectly at the Olympics? I just watched a woman cry because she only landed a double-spin instead of a triple during the figure skating competiton. I supposed she didn’t land her jump on purpose too?

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t believe he accidentally touched the rock, but I am shocked you find it so unbelievable that someone could be so focused on where their rock is going that they didn’t pay enough attention to how their hand was positioned after they let go of the rock. High pressure situations create surprising mistakes.

Fair enough. I realize now that I spoke with more confidence on the reality of the situation than I intended. Any avid curler I’ve spoken with regarding this in the last couple days swears up and down that the level of interaction that supposidly occurred between the curler and the rock is genuinely a non-factor. I do not know from any level of personal experience, hence why I stated that I trust whatever Olympic panel exists. I merely wanted to counter the poor argument that “the rule wouldn’t exist if it can’t impact the rock,” as the rule can absolutely exist for the purpose of more clear cut cases.

Armchair analysis is rarely worth taking seriously. I suspect that neither of us actually know from experience, but maybe you’re a professional curler.

Because extreme cases can impact the rock. Barely touching the rock in the way caught on film realistically isn’t impacting the rock, but the rule needs to exist to prevent someone from actively pushing the rock after letting go.

But again, these guys know better and have had the time and resources to train better.