DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
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DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
11d ago
That's a wild ride. Thanks for letting me know the idea's been done before; I'd never heard of that other IP before.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
12d ago
Idea for future Harry Potter ratfics: House Elf is not a lowered subspecies of human, but rather a magically uplifted captive tribe of naked mole rats.
- Eusocial, going mad if they’re not allowed to serve a master.
- NMRs are kept in line by their hive’s queen by physical abuse, and House Elf masters liberally smack them about.
- Feel most at home when covered in the smells of their hive’s bodily wastes.
- Naked, or mostly.
- Dobby of the Malfoys might have been more independence-seeking as one of the few breeding studs of the House Elf Queen. Winky, however, was a typical worker and became quite distraught once she was no longer allowed to clean the Crouch family home.
This is pretty much the only way I could think of to make House Elves scientific, rather than just a metaphor for the British servant class/caste.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
16d ago
but why Westerners care is the strange thing.
Because the news says it. Because that’s the oil region of the world. Because it’s The Holy Land. Because The Jews. Because we want sensemakers to explain how bad people aren’t bad, actually. Pick a reason, there are dozens more.
Here’s one I just thought of. A world full of govts has taken the place of God in our lives, and the Middle East is its theodicy: if Civilization is all-powerful, why does evil still exist in the Middle East?
Either Civilization is not all-powerful (which bodes poorly for socialists) or is not all-good (even more poorly), or Israel/Islam is the dualist enemy of Civilization, as powerful as all good governments put together, insidiously worming its way into each and corrupting it (which is too prevalent a conclusion).
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
25d ago
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If they’re really super-geniuses, they can learn socialization from a curriculum and limited practice. Two years of Toastmasters did more for me than twelve years of public school, though I’m autistic smart, not ground-breaking physics smart.
I recommend the club structure and original public speaking curriculum of Toastmasters founder Ralph Smedley, which is in the public domain.
There is a case for segregation by tested mind-type, but untested individuals segregated by stereotypes would be more societally harmful than the gain.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
29d ago
The main reason the “right wing” has so many diverse policy viewpoints is that the left has a rolling omnicause, and anyone kicked out of the left will thenceforth be described as right-wing.
Reddit is firmly convinced JK Rowling is a “right-wing nut job” because she disagrees with trans ideology, despite holding fast to every other piece of the left’s policy platform. They believe famous Monty Python comedian John Cleese is now a right-winger because he's outspoken against Muslim migration to Britain.
Really, there are three axes, and you can only be a left-winger if they say you’re on the left side of all three: anti-patriarchy, anti-colonialism, and socialism. The Kochs are for unbounded immigration, which is anti-colonial, but not socialism.
Aha! The misuse of the play face might be why evil clowns are terrifying: a betraying and malicious violation of the group safety mechanism. (And that mechanism misfiring or being overly precise might be why even the most benign clowns are creepy to some people.)
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