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libera te tutemet ex machina, and shitpost~~

  • Can someone change my mind about CRT and DEI?

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  • You’re right, but one thing I’d like to point out about nature of voting in a democracy (and this isn’t about immigration itself): voter turnout is never 100% for anything, and winners are often decided by a handful (local elections) or couple of thousands of votes (state, federal).

  • Can someone change my mind about CRT and DEI?

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  • Do you think that if leftists completely dropped any support for DEI and CRT that their opponents would suddenly support programs that aggressively attack wealth inequality?

    No, but US wealth inequality is going to worsen now because of the US Dept. of Education being gutted, which is worse than DEI going away. I think education and welfare programs will make easier policies for majority of voters to vote for. More of the US population is poor than a minority of some kind. The danger I was alarmed by (admittedly a knee jerk reaction) is that increasing polarization is going to be used by authoritarians to win and install their own preferred systems. Poverty reducing efforts like in the Nordic model will be popular, but also something some types of politicians cannot favor because of their prior party stance.

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  • You’re right, that’s why Title VII and VIII were written to address those aspects

  • Can someone change my mind about CRT and DEI?

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  • I meant politicians will abuse the intention of these policies to gain favor from poor white voters, and that nation state actors will cause polarization by highlighting the growing discontent in various ways.

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  • I think policies in the Nordic model are more along those lines, tbh.

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  • I am not angry about anything, and I didn’t look them up now, tbh. The issue I find is that well-meaning and useful policies are painted as something they’re not, or used by others to create polarization. So, my pov is that leftists and progressives are better off focusing on poverty alleviation. If minorities face generational wealth issues (they do) then poverty alleviation policies that don’t single them out in particular will be harder to attack by political opponents.

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  • Okay, so about immigration I’ll just make this point, from another thread:

    So, let’s say a democratic country favors pro-choice policies, but then has an influx of immigrants who are anti-abortion, and now that population is greater. That’s a change of values because the population shifted to a majority opinion which favors a different view point. If a country has an idealized view of how it wants to be, then I think it’s fair to expect immigrants to integrate and assimilate. I don’t think that has anything to do with xenophobia or not excluding different cultures, as long as the core values of a country are maintained. For example, if a country wants to maintain a democratic socialist society, and a greater population of capitalists immigrate to it, then I think that socialist society would want to restrict immigration as well.

    The above point is to demonstrate how democracies are fragile, and that not all immigration policies are necessarily xenophobic or racist.

  • Can someone change my mind about CRT and DEI?

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  • I added it.

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  • Okay, I’ll add those.

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  • It’s in the OP.

  • Can someone change my mind about CRT and DEI?

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  • Look, if I am wrong I want to know. I said I won’t respond to those posts because it’s not meant to be an argument.

  • Can someone change my mind about CRT and DEI?

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  • It’s shared in the OP.

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    Can someone change my mind about CRT and DEI?

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    Cat

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    Messy

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  • lol

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  • I don’t think there’s a legitimate Marxist plot per se, but some people who believe in these ideas are the same and want the same things, and they’re just as authoritarian as any right wing fascist.

    Also fuck off with calling me a bigot. Your extremism has killed off your capacity to think, that’s not my fault.

    Edit here’s the post on crt and dei, what a shit show to be harassed by someone who just wants to make snap judgements https://lemmy.world/comment/14908431

  • Elon Musk installs illegal server to seize all federal workers’ data

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  • People are setting up some processes to respond to all of this. Not everything is worth reacting to as it’s a distraction.

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    Eww

  • Resident Philosopher for AI Ethics

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  • It is, but that’s not the premise I was challenging. I was challenging the premise that this company did nothing new, or that open source is always ethical tech.

  • Resident Philosopher for AI Ethics

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  • Kropotkin is wrong, the data existed but it was made usable in a new way by methods which would not have existed without this company.

    Secondly, open source is not the only ethical form of technology, that’s an inherently biased and simplistic way to think. In fact, having access to some types of tech or information can make the world less safe or more unethical.

    Edit corrected sentence, and lol @ downvoters constantly butthurt that their Marxist pov is challenged

  • Don’t Believe Him

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  • That’s a bold prediction, but I really don’t think this is a body count type of situation. I think they’re trying to deter new illegal immigrants from coming in by scaring them about jailing them. At the very least, I hope all countries involved do the responsible adult thing, and help out the poor people who effectively dont have a home.

    If it turns into a body count type of situation, that’s inviting civil war, and I don’t think anyone wants that. Whatever it is, at the end of it Republicans and Democrats are pro-America and pro-Americans.

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  • I shared the article because I saw some nuggets of constitutional checks working, like the judge saying he couldn’t end birth right citizenship. I hate the idea of people getting worked up the same way J6ers did and think the world is ending.

    The lack of information and flurry of information together could create a bad situation like J6, I sincerely hope it doesn’t come to that or worse.

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    Don’t Believe Him

    www.nytimes.com /2025/02/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-trump-column-read.html

  • Two sides of the same shit coin

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  • Liberalism is centrism.

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    Two sides of the same shit coin

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    They need a dog to chase them down?

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    Ah, memories

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    Relatable

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    Mittens

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    They are

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    New commandment just dropped

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    Average monarch

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    Supertroopers

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    It’s gonna get worse

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    Enthusiasts

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    What a pal

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    New year, new stfu

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    Manic void says

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    Happy little trade