You okay? I’m talking about behavior, and you’re making it about people’s abilities. If you want people to engage in critical analysis, don’t start by saying they’re unable to do it.

Fox news calling the US an empire is not new. How old do you all think the moniker “Empire State” is? It’s wild how it’s in our language but we just don’t think about it.

Could someone explain the joke to me? I’m not very smart.

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I’m sure if you keep calling those who do as LARPers, it will surely encourage such dialogue.

If attacking civilians is the mark of psychopathology then the US does a good job of arming such nations. What the Houthis are doing is not happening in a vacuum. They have a history of resisting regimes propped up by the US. Does that make them saints? No. But we’re not any better.

For most eras, how hard it was to make a good sandwich. And I’m not just talking about the past.

Not sure how Solipsism contradicts atheism or anything else for that matter… I see it more as punting the question. If my mind is the only way for me to know what exists, and my experience is such that atheism is true, then that’s the end of the discussion. Not sure why I am arguing with myself on this one. /S

From my point of view, the world is neither getting worse nor better.

Is the climate changing the human world for the worse, or isn’t it? Maybe you don’t deny that climate change is happening, but this comment seems to deny its impact.

Not if you loosely define “organized human society”. Imagine a bright future where you just live in your pod and be a happy meatbag that powers the Matrix. Hell, even corporations are “organized human society”.

Those ghouls are saying we should dim the sun instead of disinvestment in oil.

Weird that people insist climate change isn’t changing the world. Or at least not in a way that matters?

If we can’t say that our actions are making the world better or worse, then there really is no need to be involved in politics.

Are both sides ignorant of the history behind climate change?

A way of life is ending, but life will go on. Frankly I’m rooting for gas to be more expensive.

Love it. Often I’ll frame “better” in terms of individualism. Licking a boot as an individual is better than bargaining as a group I guess 🤷

Being pro-Open source is to be against the specialization of labor? That’s probably not what you mean, but I don’t get how having the option to participate negates specialized labor.

It does cover how larger industry would be coordinated, it is not advocating for communes. Feel like we’re reading two different things…

if you don’t believe that the ultimate power in any market is consumer choice

Because I believe in open source where I’m not a consumer, but a participant in it’s creation. The ultimate power in the market isn’t consumer choice, it’s the choice over what gets made and who gets paid.

I’m going through this one now, it’s framed as a thought experiment for a bottom up society: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/p-m-bolo-bolo

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In what world is a disabled person able to board a car on their own but not a bus or train? And in what world are those busses and trains not staffed with people to help? Are we talking self-driving busses and cars with wheelchair driving options as a standard?

Edit: Seems the response is for the disabled person to: JuSt SpEnD mOrE mOnEy ; but we couldn’t possibly be bothered to spend more on public transit to make it more accessible.