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DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
8mo ago
Having seen B4C without knowing Michael Moore back in the day, I’d agree with how the vibe/humor of this film is a rough analogue.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
8mo ago
Regarding the fictions you described, I think you’ve rediscovered a dynamic that Ayn Rand and C.S. Lewis observed from different perspectives:
- The trope of “the wisdom of the collective versus the evil of the individual”, a necessary prelude to a society readied for Communism.
- Treating evil as an illness to be cured, a behavior to be modified, or some other analogue of a possessing demon to be cast out, instead of a choice to be argued out of.
DuplexFields
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8mo ago
Userbase and moderation, yes. The_Donald branched out to be a multi-subreddit diaspora site, with KotakuInAction and the QAnon sub migrating there… along with genuine Nazis, genuine white supremacists, etc.
DuplexFields
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8mo ago
I’ve noted elsewhere the incredible coincidence that Maxwell’s father was the man ostensibly responsible for privatizing science journals, and reddit wunderkind programmer Aaron Swartz killed himself awaiting trial for trying to pirate all of JSTOR. I appear to be the only person who thinks this could be the seed of a conspiracy theory that /u/AaronSw was “convinced” to kill himself by /u/maxwellhill.
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8mo ago
“I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.” - Gen. Ripper
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Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
8mo ago
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
9mo ago
· Edited 9mo ago
I don’t know of any atheists out there saying a Mormon state is the end-goal of American Christianity, which is what would garner the equivalent response, “The Church of Mormon is a conspiracy theory.”
It would be easy, actually, to point out how the LDS church is a major driver of conservative culture, trying to match the Roman Catholic Church in cultural power through new media (Angel Studios, Glenn Beck, The Blaze, etc.). Now, build up a conspiracy theory of a group of influential and wealthy Mormons trying to bring about the White Horse Prophecy. Then check the funding of conservative candidates and PACs by Mormons, and you’ll see “evidence” for the theory everywhere you look. Easily disproved, of course, but now you’ve got the mind-worm whispering to you every time you see a Mormon involved in the culture war. (It works because of the successful othering of Mormons since their beginning, the American equivalent of the perpetually-othered Ashkenazi Jews of Europe complete with pogroms.)
But all that aside, the reason “Cultural Marxism” is denied is because most people have no clue what actual Cultural Marxism was/is. The progressive movement’s economic policy wing is rolling along on the momentum of bog-standard envy-driven collectivism, same as it ever was, grabbing and using new terminology by opportunity, not by design.
DuplexFields
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9mo ago
“Might work” only in the limited scope that reply chain was talking about. There are innumerable reasons for private citizens to remain armed, as you’ve enumerated with excellence.
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9mo ago
As long as the magical wish could also prevent any government agent from having a successful shooting of an innocent, that might work. Of course, it would also lead to police just “firing” into crowds and whoever’s not “innocent” gets shot. All sorts of dystopia come into play there.
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9mo ago
I remember an episode of CSI where someone mounted an ammo box’s worth of rounds to a plastic printed sheet on a wood board, connected all the rounds to electric triggers, and used these ammo-board guns to turn people into goop in a single moment. Still using existing ammo but it opened my eyes to what makes a “gun”.
DuplexFields
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9mo ago
Okay, now I want a zombie movie where uninfected dogs help human zombies find living humans, and while the zombie eats the brains, the dog eats the rest.
DuplexFields
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9mo ago
Agreed it is a bad example. You’re in the edge case for dog culture: a well-paved city, the concrete jungle, where woofers wouldn’t tread were they human-less.
In the country, working dogs are worth their weight in silver. In the suburbs, they’re indeed a superstimulus for friendship/childrearing, but also induce friendliness betwixt dog people, and function as alarm systems.
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9mo ago
Agreed it would take at least a decade of permanent citizen firearm disarmament for American politicians to turn full tyrant.
But I bet in that time, the combined rage and innovation of the new “guncels” will come up with a ranged weapon which is deadlier or safer, or both. I’m guessing phasers with stun and kill.
I’m betting on Elon’s STEM minions finding the end-run around the gun ban.
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9mo ago
every privately owned gun
“Looks like tyranny’s back on the menu, boys!” - American politicians, bad cops, the 80,000 new armed IRS agents, etc.
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9mo ago
· Edited 9mo ago
My Triessentialist classifications into What, How, and Why has the potential to give insight into comparative rankings of value amongst people-groups.
- I expect physically intuitive people (biggest groups: men and the red tribe) to value enjoyment and agency higher than esteem and utility.
- I expect emotionally intuitive people (biggest groups: women and the blue tribe) to value esteem and agency higher than enjoyment and utility.
- I expect logically intuitive people (biggest groups: the grey tribe and people on the autism spectrum) to value utility and agency higher than esteem and enjoyment.
Now, that’s not to say that people don’t value their group’s “outvalues”! Everyone values all four values in most situations. That’s just human, or perhaps I should say, mammalian.
I’m saying that when one value is weighed as the cost of another value, such as giving up tasty food to lose weight, gain status, and retain health (gain utility and agency), people who categorically prefer one value will devalue the others in their economic calculations.
They’re also more likely to see agency in terms of their preferred value: enjoyment, esteem, or utility being the true end for which agency exists as a means.
DuplexFields
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9mo ago
Linkback to a new Triessentialism post: An Ontology of Values
TLDR: the four qualities or axes of value are Agency, Utility, Experience, and Esteem.
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9mo ago
Problems can be classified on this four-axis model by how much or little they remove these four qualities of value from anything of value, or introduce the negative values. This is a step toward the creation of my universal problem-solving project.
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9mo ago
If it is true that “God makes no mistakes” he has some very serious explaining to do in regards to why he engineers certain pregnancies to result in a fetus with half a brain, or with no lungs.
Creationists say there would be no such mistakes were Adam not to have eaten a specific delicious fruit. There would be no mutations, humans would live a thousand years even without eating the fruit of the tree of life, and T-Rexes would still be vegan to this day.
Christian evolutionists have a much simpler answer: God used the death-churn of evolution to make us, so we should have no complaints about the problem of evil/suffering.
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9mo ago
Any moral system that insists you have some obligation to black crack babies across the country is trivially extendible to cover unfortunates all across the world and I suspect there's cognitive dissonance in not doing so.
I mean, if your god is anti-murderist, you’ve got an obligation to save your enemies from themselves. Save the babies and let God make them Republicans.
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9mo ago
I was at the UNM Lobos football opener, first game for their new coach.
A sudden windstorm blew a camera off the stadium roof and almost injured spectators in the crowd below, but one data cable held firm and didn’t snap. Someone on the second story pulled it inside safely.
We were ahead of the other team for all but thirty seconds of the game. Too bad it was the final thirty seconds. On the way out of the stadium, we heard some hate-watchers saying they knew it all along that the new coach was never going to cut it, and he should just quit now.
So, business as usual for the Lobos.
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9mo ago
Another difference is the amount and types of data to be processed by the driver/rider.
As a person with high-functioning autism, I’ve been blessed with a computer mind and very few sensory issues. I’m a car driver with no blemishes on my record and a good feel for safety.
However, I didn’t learn how to ride a bike until the age of 21 due to severe autism-related clumsiness. The person who taught me was surprised when I wasn’t able to do with my left side what I could do on my right. He said it was the first time he truly knew I had a disability.
I wouldn’t survive a week on the bike lanes and intersections of Albuquerque.
DuplexFields
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9mo ago
I had some plums from a Kroger store this week which were almost completely free of taste despite being the perfect softness to eat. Very offputting.
DuplexFields
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9mo ago
our institutions should require religious belief in a personal diety for high-level positions which require trust, without favoritism toward any one system of belief or denomination.
That’s what the Masons tried… and ended up accused of all sorts of evils.
That’s what the Boy Scouts tried… and ended up a skinsuit for the egregore.
DuplexFields
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9mo ago
Has any other natural-born citizen of America here ever spoken aloud the oath of allegiance required to obtain immigration citizenship? I did so once, alone in the dead of night, and it was a surprisingly powerful experience.
In contrast, and as an antidote, to the hostile brutalism shown here, I recommend the brutalist works of Antoine Predock of Albuquerque, NM, deceased earlier this year. When Ayn Rand praises the subtle lines of modernist buildings for uplifting the human spirit, it’s his buildings I think of. In particular, three public works and a private clinic:
His signature is the pour-holes in the concrete. Once you see them, you can't help but look for them in all of Predock's works.
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