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  • Right, and modern US liberalism isn’t general liberalism. Plus, those distinctly modern elements absent from general liberalism of active non-market interventions by the government to protect the market from failure, provide a safety net, provide access to education & healthcare, provide public services to reduce inequality, protect the environment, etc, are social departures from capitalism, are they not? That position aligns better with social democracy

    a social, economic, and political philosophy within socialism

    social democracy aims to strike a balance by advocating for a mixed market economy where capitalism is regulated to address inequalities through social welfare programs and supports private ownership with a strong emphasis on a well-regulated market

    If anything, modern US liberalism conflicts more with your earlier assertion that

    Liberalism is basically capitalism

    Whereas general liberalism is largely indifferent to economic system, modern US liberalism favors a form of socialism.



  • There are various kinds of socialism. Some “take care of themselves and neighbors” & some merely claim to.

    One of the merely claims types is authoritarian socialism, which includes Marxism–Leninism.

    Authoritarian socialism, or socialism from above, is an economic and political system supporting some form of socialist economics while rejecting political pluralism. As a term, it represents a set of economic-political systems describing themselves as “socialist” and rejecting the liberal-democratic concepts of multi-party politics, freedom of assembly, habeas corpus, and freedom of expression, either due to fear of counter-revolution or as a means to socialist ends.

    That ideology does not respect & protect inherent individual rights & liberties recognized since the Enlightenment. Authoritarian socialism is hated for abusing human rights, and it’s often incorrectly assumed that all socialism is authoritarian. That explains the hatred.

    Kinds of socialism that respect & protect human rights do exist, however, and they have a better claim to a system of self & mutual care. There’s little reason to hate those.





  • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHad to look this up
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    What is the first thing you said to me? You do not know what you are saying, but it feels right to you well that is because you are accusing people of things you are guilty of. You’re basic and transparent, try logic.

    Buddy, you need to look up ad hominem fallacy because there’s nothing to debate there. You’re just making a fool of yourself.

    So you are trying to ague they went to another country

    England is another country from England?

    active government building

    Filming permits?

    how detail oriented film makers are

    Do you need explained that different people aren’t the same person?

    the connection between the characters and their location

    A pre-existing building whose floor they used unmodified. Did they search every building in existence until they found one with a star on the floor? Implausible. Unless you have credible evidence, your claim is unsubstantiated speculation that you only accept due to motivated reasoning & confirmation bias.

    Furthermore, no link or references to shit to substantiate anything you wrote: ipse dixit fallacy. You were rightly criticized for lacking a valid argument and this is no different. Respect logic & argue better.


  • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHad to look this up
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    fuckwit. You are either incredibly stupid

    Again with the ad hominem fallacy: try logic.

    I don’t expect you to acknowledge when you are wrong.

    No, that’s definitely you. Your video has nothing to do with your particular claim that the star on the floor is a Star of David: digression fallacy.

    We aren’t talking about antisemitism, we’re talking about your insistence on that claim despite failure to substantiate it, disclosure that the design belongs to an actual building unrelated to Judaism, the implausibility that its appearance in the film is due to an author who didn’t direct the film & whose book likely didn’t specify that detail. It’s classic motivated reasoning & confirmation bias drawing hasty conclusions lacking adequate support.

    We aren’t disputing your other claims. We’re disputing this one & criticizing your poor reasoning & lack of integrity to admit it’s unsupported. Like the typical discourse at lemmy.




  • The more I read about state capitalism, the vaguer it seems.

    an economic system where the government plays a central role by managing key industries and manipulating market outcomes

    is the most coherent definition I can find. Examples

    • the centrally planned, command economy of the USSR with wage labor
    • the liberalized market economy of the PRC with some large state industries, a strong private sector, foreign investment, market-based trade
    • the Norwegian economy with state ownership of the oil industry & some companies and ownership stake in large, publicly traded companies
    • United States with its publicly funded bailouts & recent state ownership stake in some publicly traded companies.

    Some economists argued it’s merely state socialism & planned economy relabeled.

    Whatever it is, communist states like USSR & China have long claimed they’re transitional.

    Communism is by definition a stateless, classless society.

    No, that’s a communist society, a purely unsubstantiated, speculative, moneyless, post-scarcity utopia that has never once been realized & probably never will. Belongs in the realm of mythology.

    Communism is the ideology whose goal is the creation of a communist society. Much like Christianity with the 2nd coming of Christ, adherents insist it’ll happen someday inevitably. No possible way their great prophet Marx was wrong.

    A communist state (also known as a Marxist–Leninist state) is a government consisting of a socialist state following Marxist–Leninist political philosophy with a dictatorial ruling class that promises to achieve a communist society. Unfortunately, while belief systems like Judaism had the sense to warn adherents against trying to force their dream utopia prematurely, Marx lacked such sense to urge the crazies against it.

    Regardless, the overzealous failures here are some strain of communist: they follow the ideology.


  • They’re rarely here because they get quickly defederated.

    I think it has more to do with their not wanting to be here & online communities voluntarily segregating themselves into their respective ideologies[1].

    Defederation is not an effective control against the individuals you want to contain. As we can see with tankies, their annoying conduct rarely rises to the level to result in bans from the unblocked instances they join.

    As for spreading their poison, I don’t think people are mindless automatons who must become awful when exposed to offensive rhetoric all day. If mere exposure is all it takes, then they probably lacked decent principles. Sheltering a fragile position that disintegrates at the slightest challenge due to ignorance is a weak strategy that doesn’t build a firm, reliable foundation.

    A better solution is to develop a sturdier position on principles everyone is keenly familiar with to effectively defend. They acquire that familiarity through observed & practiced success to defeat challenges. The best answer to speech we dislike is better speech that condemns & challenges it. People need robust principles to do that & acquire them by doing so.


    1. a problem for civil engagement & deradicalization ↩︎


  • You’re a cunt.

    Are you an authority on cunts? Ad hominem fallacy.

    Answer the questions from before. My answers: it does not. Reddit stretched the concept of harassment to include public transparency, freedom of information, and nuisances[1] nowhere near legal standards for harassment, and no one should welcome misguided efforts to bring that shitty moderation culture[2] to lemmy.

    The fact is OP did not request any attacks by merely showing public information, the public is entitled to public information, OP is no more responsible for misconduct anyone else chooses to commit than the public hosts of the original information[3], reporting actual abuse is the proper way to handle such incidental misconduct, and you know that.

    Ergo, you’re trying to dismiss valid

    There is no valid suppression of public information or its references.

    they’re about a man

    That’s unfounded speculation & irrelevant.

    lynched

    Impossible to do with words over the internet. Overdramatic.

    Your double standards are as apparent as your gross misandry.

    No double standard[4]. Strawman fallacy.


    1. text on a screen we can all disregard ↩︎

    2. that spreads accountability unjustly beyond moral reason to bystanders reporting information anyone can see ↩︎

    3. if showing public information is wrong, then the original hosts are wrong, too, which they aren’t ↩︎

    4. There mere act of showing public information does not constitute abuse, and claiming it does leads to disastrous consequences. ↩︎


  • Have you asked OP to link the comment in the post text?

    Yes: that would certainly reveal the names.

    There’s gotta be a balance between accessibility and preventing harassment.

    Easy: don’t harass. There are better controls on harassment by others than breaking accessibility & all the other considerations (usability, web connectivity, authenticity, searchability, fault tolerance) like reporting abuses.

    Transcripts still break web connectivity (to explore context) & authenticity.

    Your approach requests OP conduct/sustain definite harm[1] to speculatively prevent indefinite harm someone else won’t necessarily perform. How is requesting definite harm to an uninvolved party nice or right?

    Everyone has moral agency to do the right thing here, and respecting that would be just.


    1. impairing access ↩︎


  • The disabled disagree with you.

    People overthink this: just linking the web as designed is not that hard & it doesn’t break everything like accessibility/usability, digging for context, etc.

    Why links?

    Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:

    • usability
      • we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
      • text search is unavailable
      • the system can’t
        • reflow text to varied screen sizes
        • vary presentation (size, contrast)
        • vary modality (audio, braille)
    • accessibility
      • lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
      • some users can’t read this due to lack of alt text
      • users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
      • systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices
    • web connectivity
      • we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
      • we can’t explore wider context of the original message
    • authenticity: we don’t know the image hasn’t been tampered
    • searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
    • fault tolerance: no text fallback if
      • image breaks
      • image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.

    Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.