NostraDavid

College degrees just ensure we’re specialized.

Or becoming better just ensures you get more work done, and thus more work shoved onto your plate.

I know a guy who was smart enough to go to University, but went to a basic college instead (or rather, a Dutch equivalent). “I don’t want to do all that” is his defence in not going to Uni.

Libertarians hate minorities, Liberals love Nazis? That’s what I gather from the background-colouring anyway. I wonder that the Communists and Monarchists think.

I think that’s just a “happy little accident”.

Step 1: Get rid of these generational names.

Europe doesn’t have them. The USA only has them because whoever comes up with one gets invited to talk about what defines that generation, and with that a lot of money.

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In Dutch it’s “Paardenbloem” (horses’ flower).

What point is this even trying to make?

How do we stop the Monk from letting those scorpions loose in the village? He is undermining the village, and must be stopped!

That story is ridiculous.

All classic stories are, which makes them great IMO.

ground chattering

That does not mean what you think it means.

Also, you’re sexist.

I don’t understand the “stolen land” idea - The colonists were simply the latest conquerors (and some bough land from the locals, like NYC, so that’s safe to live, I guess?), because certain tribes were hella conquerors.

Oh no, equality! How horrific!

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ew, neoliberals

It depends on the lens you’re using to look at the situation:

Would you argue that the Dems are not Progressive Liberals?

They are leftist depending on the definition. Classic left-wing was simply anti-monarch, pro-republic. In that regard the Dems are left wing. Are they Communists/Socialist though? lmao, absolutely not. They are WAY too focussed on social issues, in general.

I used to believe in a woman’s right to choose.

So eh, what did that entail? You have the right to choose, therefore you must choose?

I have the right to vote, while still having the option to not vote at all, if I so want. Forcing people to vote would just be tyranny.

Has there ever been a country without a government that did well in the long run?

I’m pretty sure that’s an awful idea.

In Communism “property” gets split by function:

There is “personal property” - your clothes, toothbrush, phone, bike, house, car, etc.

“Private property” means any asset that produces something that can be used to extract profit. Think of factories, warehouses, rentals, mines, ships, servers, patents, etc.

“Common property” are things like community gardens, a public fishery (like a lake).

“Public/Social property” are usually state-owned, like public roads, the railway, the power grid (usually), etc.

“State property” also state-owned, but not publicly accessible, like the office buildings where government officials work.

“If you own a chair and sit on it, that is personal property. If you own a factory and other people work in it while you collect the profit, that is private property.”

My problem with these definitions is that my personal computer is also my private computer. I can use it to make money, but it’s also deeply personal. Then again, Marx could not have anticipated this issue.

the Nazis were explicitly Christian.

Eh, publicly Christian 100%, but there were plenty of anti-Christian views from Goebbels, and then there’s the Occultism in Nazism as well.

That being said, Positive Christianity was 100% a tool to manipulate the people into doing the State’s will, trying to eject Catholicism from Germany.

so I pivoted into druidism

I think we need a secular form of spirituality (be it heathenism, druidism, paganism, etc), so people can still be spiritually fulfilled, while not following some large-ass church that gets corrupted over time, every damn time.

It helps that most people in “the west” are becoming more and more secular (as far as I can tell).