I hate graphic depictions of sexual violence. Moves like "A Clockwork Orange", "The Accused", and "Requiem for a Dream" all have scenes that I wish I didn't remember.
Content warnings are information that allow media watchers to make informed decisions. People who are annoyed by them are just contrarian assholes with the teenage mentality that gore and cusswords are cool.
Seeing something objectionable in media is not a "growth through suffering". It is also not censorship. Nobody ever became a Nazi simply by reading Mien Kampf. (It's usually complaining about made up shit like cancel-culture that pushes the dim-whited into the far-right).
There should have been a content warning on this thread: graphic depictions of boomer philosophy.
I've dropped a couple of channels because I suspected the presenter was a choad. I once unsubed from a movie-review channel because the presenter made a joke about "games journalism".
Another popular channel had (has) amazing content about historical guns. I first got a bad taste in my mouth because he covered some shit from Rhodesia. But I decided to give the benefit of the doubt. I know that collecting Nazi artifacts doesn't imply politics. Then the channel decided to cover "anti-riot" "crowd control" type weapons during the George Floyd Summer protests. Nah, I'm out.
If you use it correctly, it's just about as private as you can get.
There are limits to keep in mind. The internet itself is an American military technology (as is TOR). So if you're hiding something more delicate than porn history I would get educated.
Absurdism is a kind of nihilism. And Nietzsche was not a nihilist.
Nihilism is one of those words that used to have a precise academic meaning, but that meaning has been hopelessly confused by common usage. Academics should make a new word for nihilism.
It's also a stereotype that nihilists are depressed. Because nihilists know that it doesn't matter that it doesn't matter.
Yea, but the Weavers moved to Idaho because of the right-wing Christian culture of the region. They were 'end of the world' type conspiracy people and moved to Ruby Ridge to live like settlers away from the Government.
It's ironic that the Government was waiting for them in Idaho.
How exactly would it boost moderates except in that once the extremes are eliminated, your vote goes to the moderate that you want rather than it failing to oppose the people you don’t want.
I think you've pretty much got it. Extreme candidates tend to get eliminated because they tend to be the least popular with other parties voters. RCV punishes this unpopularity. Also candidates with similar goals can work together, this advantage is obviously is going to be unavailable for people running from the fringe.
Just imagine a New York primary where two weak moderates were running against a progressive. The two moderates are almost working together because it's likely that whoever looses will gift their votes to the other. Ranked choice candidates have often "teamed up", with ads asking their supporters to rank the other candidate 2nd.
I think lots of Democrats have been thinking about how the primary in New York could have been different and this is the answer to that question.
Ranked choice voting tends to boost moderate candidates. While this is valuable in a general election, during a party primary it protects the status quo.
It's hard for me to look at this as anything other than Schumer and Jefferies putting obstacles in the way of Progressives.
Argument and debate don't work because they're a terrible way to spread, express, and defend ideals.
The ironic thing about "Enlightenment" philosophy is that people cling to it's methods and orthodoxy despite all evidence of their own lived experience. The truth doesn't care about your logic.
Communism is old, and young. The principals of communal living are the oldest form of human organization. It's also the most common form today if you count small groups like family.
But as an organizing principal for government, it's a baby. The Communist Manifesto was published in 1848. The Bolshevik revolution was in 1917. So the whole idea of communism is < 150-200yo. Compare to capitalism at this age and it's all slavery and settler colonialism; the most massive redistribution of wealth through theft in history.
The logic that communism is a bad system because the Soviet Union should also condemn capitalism because the Dutch East India Company.
I hate graphic depictions of sexual violence. Moves like "A Clockwork Orange", "The Accused", and "Requiem for a Dream" all have scenes that I wish I didn't remember.
Content warnings are information that allow media watchers to make informed decisions. People who are annoyed by them are just contrarian assholes with the teenage mentality that gore and cusswords are cool.