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1yr ago
Worldnews is more interested in bullshit and propaganda than predictions.
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1yr ago
I wouldn't read that book because reading is much harder than watching a TV series but I do get your point. GoT is worsened by its bad ending, how can I argue it's not. I'm just saying it's not completely ruined and that I'll rewatch it no problem.
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1yr ago
This is just Jordan Peterson's idea of what Marxism is, based, apparently, on reading a political pamphlet. Marxism is a critique of political economy, or an analysis of capitalism. One of the intermediate conclusions is indeed that capitalism requires a class division (or, that it is constituted in a social division of ownership). Further conclusions are that this actually limits productive capacity for example, and should be abandoned for the sake of scientific planning of the economy.
This is of course wrong, I'm just pointing out that wrongly interpreting a relatively small part of his ideas, abstracting it away from its foundamentally economic context into a completely generic "oppressor-oppressed" framework, is intellectually lazy and plain wrong. It is wrong because the moralistic dimension is unimportant to the actual intellectual content, and this approach is what set Marx apart from the myriad of other socialists at the time or before him.
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1yr ago
I'm not even familiar with that. Only know it in terms of settlements, e.g. company v. union under third party (the arbiter). Guessing it's "price arbitrage" meaning profiting off price discrepancies. But not sure how it relates to betting under the circumstances OP described, maybe it's the same thing.
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1yr ago
What's the economic cost of torturing 100 disabled, net-cost people? If it's second-order effects of normalizing such practices, good luck reasoning about a concrete number...
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1yr ago
Imma be real I have no idea what VTubers are. Virtual YouTubers? Strong suspicion that it's all media invention. Have never seen literally anyone mention them irl. And people here follow streamers.
Besides, how are they related to VR?
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1yr ago
I'm blaming Peterson for popularizing a very shallow reading of Marx, not the concept of cultural Marxism.
Alright, makes sense. I guess I'm just one of those people who doesn't form romantic bonds. Completely alien to me.
But I will note this reads a bit like ideology in that it conflates a useful social technology of monogamy with something natural and true. It seems like throughout history and today, powerful men had no issues with such bonding, and in fact one of the main motivators for men is access to a variety of women. Their goals aren't to faithfully commit to a single one.
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