KillingTimeItself
Yes. 🤦 Jfc, “asking me not to use a slur against disabled people is a slippery slope to asking me not to tell people to kill themselves.” Fucking, good!
how many times do i have to explain that im not using it against disabled people.
that's true, but i would prefer they be upfront about it. If you're advertising something, and i'm not getting it, that's not great advertising.
If you're telling me i get unlimited bandwidth on a 1gb connection, and you don't give me that exact thing in return, it's false advertising. Soft limit it if you want, just be honest about it. The solution here is a bandwidth limited plan, and one that isn't.
To which I say that is not an excuse. People were anti-racist back then too, and people had been calling out police violence against people of color since the 19th century and the white supremacist origins of the modern american militarized police. Also we’re talking moreso 60 years of continual support for these institutions, not merely 20 years ago.
it's not an excuse, depending on what it was as well as the fact that things can change, someone may have had a negative view at a certain point, but that can change. Unless of course doing a single bad action is always constituted as a negative thing, which doesn't seem beneficial for society to me.
Yes, and liberalism has historically resisted fascist takeovers so well.
fascist governments are opportunistic by design, and liberal democracies don't necessarily have native defenses against them, it's one of the biggest challenges in a democracy.
Neoliberalism prioritizes the mass hoarding of wealth of the capitalist ruling class above everything else. Neoliberalism has been the dominant ideology of western electoral democracy since the time of Ronald Reagan. This is especially true of America and Great Britain. Neoliberalism does not create a functional government.
if you operate on your definition of neoliberalism sure, but i'm not a neoliberal. The irony could be that these problems are inherent to any capitalist society, arguably any society ever, because inflation is a removed. The only trivial way to work against it is population increase, in which the US has stagnated heavily.
But the mere fact that you have phrased it as a “functional model of government” is absolutely indicative of your own ignorance as to what workers rights even are and what leftism is. There are many extent leftist nations today. Social Democracy is a leftist ideology, and I find it pretty unlikely that you view the Social Democracies of Scandinavia in a negative light.
yeah, and a lot of the existing left leaning governments are based on liberalism, even china to some degree has a significant amount of liberalism. It's just that they're mostly authoritarian. You can implement leftist ideologies in a liberal government. It's not hard or even impossible. Most of these places are already using some form of liberal government, that or authoritarian, which is less popular.
the USSR was really only successful during it's period of industrialization, past that they didn't advance much and really only coasted on oil until that started to crash and basically killed them. Stalin also had some, interesting ideas of leadership.
China is an authoritarian state, has been for a long time, mao was, arguably one of the worst leaders ever. Created a massive famine that killed millions just so he could make a single nuclear bomb.
I'm not particularly familiar with the rest, so i can't really comment. I guess you could argue that the US has done bad things, but so has basically every super power. It's not really anything new. The primary thing is that the US still exists, china also does, but they're also having domestic issues as well.
the biggest argument here is the global anti-incumbency sentiment. Likely due to covid.
i almost never delete things i post on the internet, i'm a firm believer in sillyposting because the nothing is sacred.
IDK, call it a character badge or whatever you want. It's just how i am.
bro it's lemmy, i'm not the government, it's just my opinion.
i'm not an example lmao, i'm a retard on the internet. If i was leading by example i would be a successful politician, not here yapping with people.
yes? Legally hate speech is not protected under the first amendment, so by definition something must be classified as hate speech, racism for example. Generally hate speech. I don't know if this word specifically would be.
I guess you could subjectively classify it as hate speech, but there is a lot of hateful speech out there, so that might get redundant pretty quick.
i think the biggest problem is that it's a less effective use of time, you could spend that time on something more productive, like building a better community, or improving support for marginalized groups, but no we're hear yelling about joe rogan being stupid instead.
At the end of the day, i just don't think it's very productive.