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Sure, but what you're describing isn't freedom of speech; freedom of speech is the prohibition against the government taking action for the contents of the opinions you express. It has nothing to do with what a non-government platform allows or disallows.
A platform that allows Nazis is a Nazi platform, plain and simple.
I realize you're probably a dishonest pos, so this is for the benefit of whoever else reads it.
I'm basically indifferent to Instagram (IDK what it's about) and I've hated Twitter since I first learned about its high concept. Twitter makes people stupid.
The fact that the company that manages TikTok is insisting on maintaining the power structure that allows for influence by the CCP makes that claim incredibly suspicious.
First, that's materially different. Second, yes; I think Facebook giving the government our information without a fight is bad. What, did you think I would suddenly think the dissolution of our privacy was good because it was an American company?
I use the inverse of this strategy; whenever I figure out that I'm wrong about something, I immediately admit I was mistaken and change my position. All I have to do is make sure my logic is impeccable and I'll almost always win an argument.
It's a skill. The better you are at logic and the more you interrogate your philosophical foundations, the more of a leg-up you have. I got lucky by being born as a stereotypically logical autistic person and growing up as an incredibly introspective child. Thinking a lot about why you think what you do, what you might be wrong about, and planning out the kinds of responses that you should have if you get new information really help. It also helps to have a profoundly strong belief that you are able to change your mind easily; simply believing that makes it more likely to be true.
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I'm a man, and I agree. Humans are more dangerous than bears, and bears are less likely to hurt you so long as you know what you're doing, when compared to a malicious human.
Arguing against voting for Biden is a pro-genocide tactic because it increases the probability of more genocide. Anti-voting activism is an inviable strategy.
Yeah, I'm re-assessing my thoughts on Cuba. I was under the vague impression that they didn't have the same rot at the core of the CCP and USSR. Maybe they don't and this is a particular low point. Either way, bad look.
It wasn't too long ago that's you saw fit to lecture me about how ML projects were the only long-term large-scale socialist projects to be "successful". Maybe consider reading more thoroughly on history before making such declarations, and don't restrict your information to sources from a personality cult.
mostly still the most successful ones we ever had despite their problems.
If your only metric for success is how long something lasts, then an even more successful leftist project is the Republic of Venice. If you're thinking "But the republic of Venice isn't leftist!" yes, that's my point.
I guess you've never heard of trade unions, or you're under some insane impression that they're illegitimate (typical of ML sophistry, so I wouldn't be surprised). The teamsters have existed since 1903 and in that time have demonstrated themselves to be resistant to corruption, able to recover from corruption after it takes hold, positively affected the working conditions of workers that interact with every sector and industry in an entire country and they've never committed a genocide, nor betrayed Anarchists in a war against fascism. Frankly, MLs ain't got a thing on teamsters.
Yeah, because that's what happens when a society weighed down by decades of stunted development due to mismanagement industrializes; a brief period of rapid growth as the economy catches up to the rest of the world. Incidentally, this period of rapid growth was then followed by a long period of stagnation and decline, with some sectors reaching or occasionally exceeding parity with the United States while others lagged behind. Leninism's unique contributions to the prosperity of Russia is vastly overstated.
It's true that China has fared far better than the remains of the USSR, but even the CCP is starting to falter from the rot of corruption. China's infrastructure and housing are literally falling to pieces under a reign of state capitalism; construction firms are selling houses of sand because people are purchasing property as a form of investment. Considering that China is the most successful Leninist experiment, and the PRC has existed for less than a century, the record is rather abysmal.
[trade unions] are central to our strategy
Then why did Lenin abolish them? I'm glad you think highly of trade unions, but if you didn't, you'd be neither the first, second, nor third ML that I've conversed with who said they were bourgeois institutions that preserved capitalism. Putting that aside, Lenin also clearly didn't think much about democracy either, since he overthrew the duly-elected menshiviks.
socialism is desireable. no capitalists making decisions solely for themselves.
> MLism isn't a good example of socialism.
"Ah, but have you considered that capitalism is bad?"
painful and dangerous revolution
The October Revolution had 0 deaths on either side. It worked because the government fell to pieces instantly and there was no resistance.
this one is simply untrue [...] western media smearing of china, be careful about it since we are in the middle of a cold war.
I'm marking that down on my bingo card.
they overbuilt housing and infrastructure on purpose
"No, making empty houses was all a part of Daddy Xi's 7D Chess game!" 🤣
This sounds like tankie media lionizing China. Be careful of that,
because literally all of them have always been entirely unreliable.
throughout the entire existence of the USSR
Wow, I didn't realize the USSR ended in 1919. I'll have to tell my friends.
central to the ML strategy
Wow, I never realized that fascists playing "we're socialists actually" stepping directly on worker's necks was required. I always thought it was incidental.
MLs aren't socialists. You are not a socialist. Marx specifically warned against people who would use revolutionary language to subvert and infiltrate, and that's tankie creeps like you.
I can understand that. Constantly needing to justify your existence or preferences is exhausting, especially when there's a stereotype that people are using to project.
Put simply, promoting veganism won't stop people from reducing, but promoting reducetarianism will stop people from going vegan
This is either brain rot written by someone who doesn't understand propaganda or a psy-op and I can't tell which. So if it is a psy-op, congratulations on making an effective one.
Okay, I'll be serious for a moment because logical consistency is important to me.
I am responding to the image above. The image above is making the suggestion that higher rates of veganism means that cows will get to live. I am not arguing here in any capacity that we should only care about cows, I am making the statement that the premise suggested in the image, that there are cows that would be alive if there were more vegans is flawed at best.
I'm not really concerned with whether animals are being exploited by humans anymore than I am the same of plants or fungi. I do think animals shouldn't suffer because I consider pain to be of negative utility even when experienced by non-persons. With that said, I don't think the goal of reducing or eliminating animal suffering is better-served by the total elimination of livestock than by ensuring humane farming practice. On the off-chance it wasn't obvious, I don't think the utility calculation is clear-cut because of the aforementioned problem of wild animals suffering.
reduction may make the transition more difficult in the long term.
This is the only part that isn't obviously true. Of course, this is a question of fact to be decided by evidence, but here's my speculation:
Given the size of the population, it's clear that there will be some people who fall in either direction. Some people will find a gradual transition easier, some will be hindered by the possibility. I'm inclined to believe that it'd make things easier for more people than harder, but I have no basis of evidence to make that claim. It occurs to me that a general push to reduce meat consumption will also likely move the Overton window towards veganism, which would make large-scale vegan goals easier to achieve.
Generally, when society at large is as far removed from a position as it is with veganism, advocating for a half-measure will tend to help the cause rather than hurt it. Veganism requires changing the minds of the entire world, and getting people acclimated to the idea that we eat too much meat will likely help with that.
LMK if I wasn't able to answer your question, or if you want to ask another one.
Maybe you should look into why it's bad to be ableist, asshole. I'm autistic, not psychopathic; I use logic when approaching abstract ethical problems. Fuck you.
It's a bullshit complaint for many reasons, but one of them is that they already stated that they won't participate in an easy activity to help mitigate genocide.
I'm glad that you're taking direct action and using your time to affect positive change. With that said, voting in Texas is particularly important, since the GOP's margin in the state has been thinning every year. Furthermore, if Trump gets elected, there's a decent chance that sanctuary cities could cease to be, and so I again encourage you to vote; it doesn't take very long and can make a literal world of difference. At the very least, you should stop discouraging other people from voting, because that runs counter to our shared stated goal, and is apparently wasting your precious time.
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