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Plebcouncilman

@ Plebcouncilman @sh.itjust.works

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  • Charlie Kirk's assassin may have been the only person to substantively change Charlie Kirk's mind on any issue

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  • This is hands down the most unhinged thing I’ve read in a long while. You really ought to go to touch grass or something my guy. I’ve never even seen someone say shit like this on 4chan, thats how absolutely unhinged you are dude,

  • Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem

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  • Port Forwarding: How does it work?

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  • Does your ISP allow port forwarding?

  • Are Street Racers "bad people"?

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  • I don’t think there’s a lot of bad people in the world as in people with bad intentions. I’d say they are ignorant and selfish.

  • Humanity has to change how we solve disputes every so often to avoid people gaming it

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  • Yes, that’s how systems perfect themselves. Once more Hegel is proven correct.

  • What's your opinion on divisive topics furthering working class division?

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  • What if the people never agree with you? What if you can never convince them that for example transgender women should be able to use the women’s bathroom? What if people elect officials that pass laws to make sure they can’t? Would you accept that outcome peacefully as part of the democratic process? Would you be content with what the people have chosen? Democracy can be as tyrannical as any other system, for progressives there is a moral imperative to not accept outcomes that hurt people even if it is done through the democratic process.

  • How are people in authoritarian countries supposed to feel "normal"? Shouldn't like half of the world be depressed?

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  • Misconception of how authoritarian governments work. Restaurants, parks, bars, etc all keep existing and working as normal. You have shows and music and books still. You even have internet and electronic devices. The difference is that you have to toe the line in what you say. The art is all controlled by the gorvernment and the internet is firewalled to be local only. If you are a very conformist person you might not even notice at all that you live in an authoritarian government. The average guy who wakes up, goes to work, gets home watches tv and during the weekend watches sports, maybe goes out with the family; the kind that never quite knows what’s going on in the economy or politics, he only knows things are expensive or cheap and that’s the extent of his capacity for political judgement; would downright be ok with the authoritarian government because he doesn’t realize that it is, and he doesn’t feel a difference whether it is or not.

    Apathy is the real enemy of democracy.

  • What's your opinion on divisive topics furthering working class division?

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  • If the best course of action is the only choice then there isn’t a choice at all.

    For example we might know that universal healthcare is better for society in almost every aspect, however people might feel that they prefer lower taxes regardless of the benefits that universal healthcare might provide and so they vote against a measure to establish universal healthcare. This is the people choosing out of their own free will to vote against their best interests, democracy is ok with bad outcomes that result out of collective choice. The progressive movement is not ok with negative outcomes, and as such will always choose the best course of action.

  • What's your opinion on divisive topics furthering working class division?

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  • The “progressive” movement in the US is without a doubt 100% the unaware foot soldiers of the elites. Every single thing the movement supports only helps to further entrench capital into power. The file and rank of the progressives are well intentioned, no doubt, and the goals are nobles. But because the idea is to solve problems from the top down instead of the bottom up, all it serves is to further create methods for capitalism to solve the internal contradictions that would otherwise result in its collapse. Furthermore it is not a democratic movement nor interested in democracy in any shape or form and saying so is as much newspeak as fascist saying the same thing. It is a technocratic movement that dismisses the wisdom of the masses for the wisdom of the experts, and I do not think that’s necessarily a problem in practice, the problem is that people, as stupid as they are, are smart enough to realize that either you believe in democracy or you believe in doing whatever is scientifically, statistically or mathematically is proven to be better but both things cannot be true at the same time. Honestly I feel like progressives would fare better if they actually had a mask off moment and actively campaigned on that.

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  • I find that it’s pretty much the same if not worse on here on certain topics. Like you might agree on the problem but if you disagree on the solution as generally accepted by whoever sets the agenda you are the enemy. I’m banned from some political instances because I have dared question the progressive’s positions/solutions on certain topics. Like apparently because your goal is morally “right” that justifies using stupid ass solutions instead of attempting to fix deeper rooted issues.

    Oh I’m also generally allowed to say retarded on here, but we’ll see if that’s true.

  • How Surveillance Firms Use ‘Democracy’ As a Cover for Serving ICE and Trump

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  • This sounds like fascist bug propaganda to me. Im gonna have to report this to my Democracy Officer.

  • POV you are rich

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  • I immediately thought about sovereign citizens too. They are what happens when basedness meets with absolute idiocy.

  • Just 200 more trillion

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  • 401ks, IRAs, Pensions etc.

    Oh you thought they were investing their own money? Hahahaha

  • Is this communism?

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  • Animals are not objects.

  • Why Won’t Farmers Rebel Against Trumponomics? Because They’re Rich.

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  • I’m generally against nationalization. Farming should 100% be nationalized.

  • (Controversial) Political parties are like bundled sales.

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  • Only in political systems that were not designed with partisanship in mind and thus became the worse partisan shithole to be conceived.

  • Referring to Fediverse services as "Alternatives" is bad marketing

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  • Common issue in bad marketing actually, for example you know those ads that compare one product to another? They usually boost awareness of the already better known product.

    I think the issue in this case though is deeper, because the design of the platforms themselves are copying the incumbents instead of bringing new ideas to the forefront.

    I think Digg realizes this, which is why they are not (at least for now) calling themselves a Reddit alternative in their revival.

  • YouTube will let users booted for 'repeated violations' of COVID, elections policies 'rejoin'

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  • It gave them the excuse to build their own platforms in which their ideas could spread uncontested and at the same time made them more alluring to the masses because “forbidden” knowledge is so alluring to humans that perhaps the most famous myth in history is about how our species lost the perfect existence because of it.

    You cannot make anything forbidden and expect that by doing so it won’t spread because it is forbidden. As long as there is a demand for it it will continue to spread and if the Streisand effect holds it will spread exponentially. This applies to ideas, drugs, guns, and pretty much everything. If the people want it they will get it. Alcohol is the perfect example: we tried to make it illegal and all it did was increase crime, violence and people kept drinking as much if not more than before. Fast forward to today people drink less than ever because they have learned the health effects of it. Give people the tools to tell right from wrong, correct from incorrect instead of trying to bubble wrap their world and then act surprised when they feel betrayed because someone told them there is another point of view (false as it may be). Let them see both point of views and let the very absurdity of the opposite view discredit itself.

    If we cannot trust that people can make the correct decisions why then would we insist on democracy?

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  • It’s not about the factuality of the information though, it’s about the subjectivity of the label. Harmful, hateful, etc are not objective measurable labels and so they can be used to shut down any sort of speech. The paternalistic position that we need to protect people from falsehoods or harmful ideas is frankly condescending. Like I said elsewhere if I cannot believe that people are capable of separating truth from fact, then I must also believe that they are fundamentally incapable of making decisions and therefore I need to take away any ability for them to make any kind of significant decision. I will not follow this line of thought in my life or politics, because then who gets to decide who is capable of making decisions? The experts in their ivory towers? The only experts with apodictic knowledge are physicists and mathematicians, everyone else operates on degrees of certainty, they can be wrong. And furthermore who decides who are the experts? This is a return to aristocracy or monarchy, but instead of divine authority it is credentialist.

    If we want to stop people from believing stupid shit the solution is not to attempt to bubble wrap their world as it were, but rather to give them the tools to discern good information from bad information.