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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] ugh@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

But... bathrooms!!! With the children!!! /s

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of that is just unavoidable lookism sadly, maybe I'm too doomer

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

At the individuated level, it likely plays a part, but it's got nothing to do with the systemic institutional hatred

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Socialism/Communism/Anarchism. Barely anyone who actually understands them and the theory supporting them hates them, but tons of people have been fed Red Scare propaganda on the matter.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Historians studying them don't hate, true, but we also don't hate plague or dog shit on the road.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a bit of a non-answer, isn't it? I'm clearly referring to implementing leftist structures today, not historically.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never tried for real, I see.

Why would one hate right ideas then, of the libertarian kind.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Read my other comment, it absolutely has been tried. If your point is that the relatively few historical examples are a sufficient sampling of data to determine that people sharing tools can never work, then I'm afraid you don't understand numbers, nor historical analysis.

You can learn from what has and has not worked, and analyze structures. It's possible! You just have to do it.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If your point is ...

You know, of course, that the answer to that "if" is usually "no", and this is called a strawman argument.

... then I’m afraid ...

No reason to be afraid! Sing and dance and hug your family, friends and house animals.

... relatively few historical examples ... people sharing tools ...

People have been sharing tools since eating less fortunate breeds of people, the optimal architecture of that is the point of contention.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More dodging, great! What's your point?

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've literally finished my comment with it.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You pretended you had a point, but left it open.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Leaving it open is a valid political position of making efficiency more important than ideology.

I don't know which architectures may be invented in the future to work, I'm not against them coming from leftist premises, but I've met fewer leftists interested in even imagining them than libertarians or even conservatives.

When most leftists are too busy with hating on groups of people and thinking about what others own, it's really hard to talk to them about anything real.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Efficiency is more important than ideology, correct. That's why I'm a leftist.

Don't worry, leftists aren't hating on groups of people (except fascists), just inefficient and failing systems. It's the right that hates on groups of people.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Leftist ideologies include dogmatic statements. Just like all other ideologies. Otherwise we wouldn't use the word "ideology" at all.

If this were true, you'd say that left ideas are the closest to your expectation of what's best and that'd be fine, and not call yourself leftist. Now it's as if you are putting ideology above practice.

Which would be the same as me always feeling as if I were lying while, say, saying that I'm a libertarian or a distributist, because I have no permanent attachment to any ideology, just these seem sane now. So I rarely say that and feel bad when I do.

Which efficient and not failing systems does your kind of leftists propose?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's entirely stupid. Ideologies aren't about dogmatism, but about coherent groups of conclusions based on underlying analysis.

It's pretty telling that you out yourself as a Libertarian though, lmao.

I propose worker ownership of the Means of Production.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 year ago

Ideologies aren’t about dogmatism, but about coherent groups of conclusions based on underlying analysis.

This sentence translates to choosing a model and then trying to hammer the reality to fit under it. Which is obviously dogmatism.

The funniest part is that leftist pseudointellectualism, where there is no actual discussion happening, but a leftist thinks there is because of the tone they use. Also hints at them acting this way in other situations, that is, being used to dogmatism.

Without dogmatism people change models like tools, each one for its own job. They don't call themselves any kind of -ist.

It’s pretty telling that you out yourself as a Libertarian though, lmao.

Literally the opposite of what I've said, lmao. Reading comprehension skills on par with your self-identification.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Women.

Misogyny is extremely widespread and socially acceptable.

[–] puppy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Add men to the list.

Misandry is also extremely widespread and socially acceptable.

IMHO both groups have bad apples. In conservative societies, women are often mistreated. In modern/contemporary societies men are often misstreated.