What liberal position would?
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What liberal position would?
Did you just read the first line of what I said?
I’m not a big fan of the legitimizing violence, personally.
I think the identification of the problem as liberalism’s impossible position between the oppressor and oppressed is spot on. But, rather than giving into endless violence, I’m prefer extending the precepts of liberalism without exception.
Liberals always make exceptions. For them, only the worthy poor deserve help, worthiness being arbitrarily determined by some pseudo-philanthropist laundering their savage public image through charity, for example. In the public sphere, we’ve been convinced that means-testing is an efficient way to distribute goods and resources, never mind the arbitrary power administrators have over those they administrate. Always exceptions.
So, just…get rid of exceptions.
Oh snap! I’ve been pronouncing ma-caw since forever. Where did I get that?!
The title looks like it could be read Mac-ac and Cheese
That’s not exactly wrong, but it’s not the only reason. I’ve never been particularly interested LGBTQ+ issues, and Contrapoints’s transition first was kinda like, “K, I’m glad I’m learning about this stuff, I guess, but I have other interests.” After all, what drew me to both in the first place were their philosophical analyses and how they applied it to social issues. They were important to me for how they showed me how philosophy can be used, as opposed to DarkMatter5555 (I think that’s his name. Also, add him to the list), who I also used to watch, but that dude never grew out of the same stale template of animating god and the angel and regurgitating the most basic atheistic ideas.
So, my purpose in watching them was to learn how to apply principles to reality with a little learning along the way. But when they started focusing in on their transition, I just dropped off.
Yes. As a black man, America has produced a long very involved legacy of which I’m proud being my heritage.
Sure, it was absolutely founded on treating people like as sub-human, and there are people today that are trying to return me to that state, but fuck them as they’ve been fucked for the last century and a half. I’ll be damned if I let them represent America.
It’s interesting to me that, as conservatives and Republicans gain more political power, people are generally increasingly upset by the state of the union. But their perceptions of responsibility hinge on who controls Congress and the presidency rather than how the government works. So, they’re blind to how conservatives and Republican ruin everything good under the sun.
So, even as the Supreme Court undermines the FDA and NLRB, Americans will tend to blame the wrong party for it until they’re knee deep in literal shit.
Contrapoints and PhilosophyTube were two big ones. I’d still watch Carlos Maza if he produced anything, but he hasn’t in like two years, so…I’ll include him, too.
From Kagan’s dissenting opinion:
In recent years, this Court has too often taken for itself decision-making authority Congress assigned to agencies. The Court has substituted its own judgment on workplace health for that of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; its own judgment on climate change for that of the Environmental Protection Agency; and its own judgment on student loans for that of the Department of Education. See, e.g., National Federation of Independent Business v. OSHA, 595 U. S. 109 (2022); West Virginia v. EPA, 597 U. S. 697 (2022); Biden v. Nebraska, 600 U. S. 477 (2023). But evidently that was, for this Court, all too piecemeal. In one fell swoop, the majority today gives itself exclusive power over every open issue—no matter how expertise-driven or policy-laden—involving the meaning of regulatory law. As if it did not have enough on its plate, the majority turns itself into the country’s administrative czar. It defends that move as one (suddenly) required by the (nearly 80-year-old) Administrative Procedure Act. But the Act makes no such demand. Today’s decision is not one Congress directed. It is entirely the majority’s choice.
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The majority disdains restraint, and grasps for power.
What do you need Project 2025 for when you have the unaccountable conservative majority on the Supreme Court?
Yes, as someone that got into photography many years ago:
As for your photo, at a glance, I can’t really tell it’s shot as such as high ISO. But once you zoom in, you can see the fuzziness. Still though, I think it’s kinda clear why you took the picture. It looks you’re focusing on several interacting subjects (the bunny, the butterfly, the turquoise fence with the bunny outline) that all framed really well by the wooden house and the negative space at the top and right edges of the frame. I, for one, like it a lot!
Anyway, have fun! Photography is one of the hobbies I’m happiest to have. I hope it ends up being as fulfilling for you!
The “solutions” to this are called theodicy and are definitely a fascinating rabbit hole. They’re all unsatisfying, but philosophically interesting
Still the both sides thing?
Biden is demonstrably better on policy. For example, he has them.
Trump doesn’t have any at all.
No one wants to hear about issues. They want to hear promises on issues, but they don’t care to actually know, let alone understand, the policy.
That’s because long ago America was in fighting shape against internal threats to democracy. Mike Tyson hit on the jaw isn’t going down the first, second, or even 10th time. But each punch wears down Tyson’s form, so too do the unconstitutional attacks against America. Trump’s administration made America stumble on the edge of the ring, holding onto our institutions like the only ropes between us and losing.
A hit like that again will knock America out cold. Guaranteed.
Probably the same people Barry Goldwater warned us of:
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them
Falling fertility rates have long been a concern for economists
Fuck economists and their concerns. That’s why we’re in the situation in thy first place.
That study is so old! It’s even worse now!
Who doesn’t want peace? Not many.
One of the most difficult things for me to learn was that some people really prefer violence over more peaceful alternatives. I still haven’t quite wrapped my head around it, but I accept it.
I’ve engaged with the articles core argument about the legitimatization of violence, but the only answer is more violence for some of you people.
Fight fire with fire and watch the whole world burn. Just like it is because of the oppressor’s violence.