Stefferi
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Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
11mo ago
The Silicon Valley seems to be swinging rightwards in general (a combination of ideological percolation of various ideologies familiar to the forum and tech queasiness with AI regulation and like), so no wonder the most visible tech barons are following the course.
Also, hasn't Adams always been a centrist for a New York Dem?
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
11mo ago
I've read documents from/describing the Communist Party of Finland in the 1960s, when a lot of academics entered it (for the first time in basically, well, ever), and the general feeling was that while they welcomed the influx they were also quite suspicious of the new recruits and constantly worried that this would eventually draw the party away from the working-class base (the fears were correct, as it turns out to be). The specific strategy of orthodox Marxism has always been based specifically organizing the working class as working class.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
11mo ago
Do you think that the British cult-of-NHS stuff sometimes mocked by contrarians is about government trying to "pay in appreciation" to make up for things that can't be paid for in real money due to constant cost control?
Stefferi
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11mo ago
Yeah, I've seen it said that American lefties dream about Euro-style health care system because they think that such a system will dole out treatments at will and for asking, basically, when that is generally not the case at all.
Stefferi
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11mo ago
Perhaps one could parlay it into an unique quirk - "I'm the sort of a free thinker that is so detached from norms that I even wear a suit to a tech job!"
Stefferi
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11mo ago
Was the Dutch Revolt against the Habsburgs an example of “civic nationalism”, or was it “ethnic consciousness”?
An example of Protestant religiousness, surely, in large part?
Stefferi
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11mo ago
If someone is described as being "anprim", then yes, I'm going to expect finding anarchism and primitivism in his latest statements on social media, which do not demonstrate that, indeed in many ways the opposite.
A lot of smart people of this variety read Kaczynski as a sort of a brain candy, "look at how avant-garde I am by giving the time of the day to a terrorist" kind of way. I know I've done so, certainly.
Stefferi
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11mo ago
Stefferi
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11mo ago
Same with me, Twitter search shows a few disparate BLM posts but no major interest from lefty accounts otherwise.
Mangione's Twitter (wonder if they'll scrub it) makes him seem like a centrist techlib quoting Harari and Haidt, maybe centre-right since he also reposts some right-wing stuff about immigration and so on. Basically the furthest thing from either anprim or populist one can imagine. An ACX poster, maybe even a Motte poster. Quoting Ted Kaczynski would then be more in the "look at this interesting and radical way of thinking" sense than an expression of any true agreement.
Stefferi
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11mo ago
There's a mention within the webpage for this study (the study itself does not give definite total numbers) saying that 'As of December 2022, approximately five million Iraqi nationals have returned from abroad', though that may include refugees from near abroad (other Middle Eastern countries, that is), and some number of them have probably emigrated again.
Stefferi
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11mo ago
The entire European project is based on obeying signed treaties, protocols and contracts. There's little concrete beyond this mutual structure to hold it together (after all, it doesn't have a military). If countries start to renege on them, the fear is that the whole project starts crashing.
Stefferi
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11mo ago
Pretty big achievement for any leader to survive politically for 13 years, no?
Stefferi
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11mo ago
Countries don't generally pull 180° switcheroos like that simply because it would make all their other allies go "Hey, wait a minute...", especially when it would mean backing a losing horse like here.
Stefferi
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11mo ago
It's still possible that Assad can pull off a rabbit from the hat and save his skin, but I just have to say that this whole process makes the whole "Lion of Damascus / Can't Mossad the Assad / Curse of Assad" memery seem, after the fact, rather cringe and, dare I say, Reddit (sure, a lot of it was jokes, but a lot of it wasn't). The great opthalmologist of Syria was, after all, just a paper tiger with little evident support beyond the minority demographics, if that, and a modest amount of pressure from a faction led by a guy who (unconvincigly) refers to Acemoglu on media makes the whole apparatus collapse like a house of cards.
Doesn't really look very good for the general pro-Russian camp that a major ally/prop of Russia would go out ingnomiously like this - kind of like Yanokovych, in the ends, forgotten by everyone basically the moment he left Ukraine, without support even among the antimaidan militants that Strelkov would later use as tinder for his Greater-Russia project.
Stefferi
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11mo ago
I didn't say anything about anything being illegal or Holocaust denial, I just noted it was quite misleading to state that Georgescu was only being criticized for praising Antonescu when your own sources also mentioned Codreanu.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
11mo ago
Not only that, but it's pretty odd to say "Calin Georgescu's "Holocaust Revisionism" amounts to praise for Romania's WWII wartime leader Ion Antonescu" when it's followed by a quote indicating that Georgescu also praised Corneliu Codreanu, whose antisemitism was absolutely under zero doubt by any standards.
Stefferi
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11mo ago
They have fanatically cheered on WWIII in Ukraine with maximalist war aims
The left-liberals in the West are surely not pacifist, but those in charge like Biden have not "fanatically cheered on WWIII" and have, if anything, been criticized a fair bit recently for taking a long time to do things like allowing long-range missile strikes and other similar decisions by the actual war fanatics.
Interesting choice to reference Lorenz here, since she is against assisted suicide and its legalization, and has been posting a fair bit in Twitter (and presumably Bluesky) about the recent British legalization of assisted suicide (see eg. this tweet and this tweet).
Of course, this isn't particularly surprising if you consider that both Lorenz's COVID diehard soapboxing and this sort of opposition to assisted suicide spring from same source, or are at least justified with references to same rhetoric - disability activism and ableism. There's been quite a fracas in left-wing Twitter generally since the election about whether left-wing movements should continue with COVID precautions like masking (see comments and retweets to this tweet, for instance), with the masking advocates (who are considerably in the minority, to be noted) primarily justifying the practice as a way of solidarity towards disabled people and COVID risk groups.
The same anti-ableism advocates have been also generally very critical of euthanasia and the burgeoning euthanasia culture including, presumably, ads like the one linked. This is probably a large reason why the recently passed assisted British law had a considerable contigent of left-wingers voting against it in the Parliament (147 against 234 within Labour), with - as far as I know - specifically the left wing of Labour being more likely to vote against it.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
11mo ago
It was my understanding that, at least among more casual strategy gamers, it's always been specifically III that's considered the stone-cold classic and the definitive entry in HoMM series, no? Olden Era seems to specifically harken to HoMM III.
To answer the original question, while not completely the same, Civ III tends to be considered one of the weaker iterations of Civilization, with Civ IV better appraised.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
11mo ago
Within Finland (and as far as I know, other Nordic countries as well) there's a persistent pattern of women with high education having higher fertility rates than those with low education, which at least somewhat challenges the idea of education being universally disruptive to fertility. (Of course all these segments have fertility rates below replacement, but still, just limiting university education would not solve anything here, and there must be other factors keeping TFR low for those with lower education.)
The economic vibes have been weird in Europe for 15 years now.
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