@Humpleupagus @heidegger14 HOAK HOGAN! YOU THINK DA VACCINE IS BAD I'LL FIGHT YOU AT WRESTLEMANIA 37 AND WE'LL SEE WHO IS CORRECT!!! ME THE VALOUROUS VACCINATED VERSUS YOU THE UNVAXXED UNTERMENSCH!
The queen sitting alone at the funeral of her husband of 70 years. Alone.
Meanwhile, the people who are actually in power have a sexy party elsewhere.
Imagine being someone who personally fought the Nazis and this is one of your final days on this earth.
Meanwhile, the people who are actually in power have a sexy party elsewhere.
Imagine being someone who personally fought the Nazis and this is one of your final days on this earth.
There's wide reaching debate these days about political correctness, whether it's good or bad.
I think the term political correctness is a bad one. I think the term suggests that there's a right answer and a wrong answer, I think I prefer the term political acceptability. The question then becomes not whether the individual using the words is correct politically, but whether what they are saying is acceptable.
At this moment in time, a lot of people think that the political correctness is synonymous with correctness, and I'm going to get back to that in a moment except right now to push back on the idea that something that is politically acceptable is correct.
In 1918, it was not politically acceptable to be divorced, and certainly not a divorced woman. In 1938, it was politically acceptable to round up Jews and send them to concentration camps. In 1958 Jim Crow was considered politically acceptable. Segregation was considered acceptable. In 1968, the naming and shaming of people found in gay bars was considered politically acceptable. Throughout history there are a lot of people who would act in ways that are considered politically acceptable and today we look back on them and realize they were abhorrent.
People today think that political correctness is synonymous with being on the right side of history, I would argue that if you take off the Rose colored glasses and look at what is considered politically acceptable through a critical eye, I think it's safe to say in 50 years people will look back on this time as a dark age. The infantilizing philosophies towards people of color or other minorities are absolutely terrible, but they are fully politically acceptable by the dominant left.
So given that the question is often "should people always be politically correct", and given my changing of the question, the answer is clearly no, absolute deference to political acceptability is obviously unacceptable. As free individuals we must decide how to act not based solely on what society tells us, but on our own reasoned decisions taking social acceptability into account as just one of many things.
I think the term political correctness is a bad one. I think the term suggests that there's a right answer and a wrong answer, I think I prefer the term political acceptability. The question then becomes not whether the individual using the words is correct politically, but whether what they are saying is acceptable.
At this moment in time, a lot of people think that the political correctness is synonymous with correctness, and I'm going to get back to that in a moment except right now to push back on the idea that something that is politically acceptable is correct.
In 1918, it was not politically acceptable to be divorced, and certainly not a divorced woman. In 1938, it was politically acceptable to round up Jews and send them to concentration camps. In 1958 Jim Crow was considered politically acceptable. Segregation was considered acceptable. In 1968, the naming and shaming of people found in gay bars was considered politically acceptable. Throughout history there are a lot of people who would act in ways that are considered politically acceptable and today we look back on them and realize they were abhorrent.
People today think that political correctness is synonymous with being on the right side of history, I would argue that if you take off the Rose colored glasses and look at what is considered politically acceptable through a critical eye, I think it's safe to say in 50 years people will look back on this time as a dark age. The infantilizing philosophies towards people of color or other minorities are absolutely terrible, but they are fully politically acceptable by the dominant left.
So given that the question is often "should people always be politically correct", and given my changing of the question, the answer is clearly no, absolute deference to political acceptability is obviously unacceptable. As free individuals we must decide how to act not based solely on what society tells us, but on our own reasoned decisions taking social acceptability into account as just one of many things.
Covid-19 was created and leaked by the Globalist American Empire to steal the 2020 election, facilitate the largest transfer of wealth and power in human history, and to usher in totalitarian global communism.
Guess gab isn't the only place you can say it. Checkmate, atheists!
Guess gab isn't the only place you can say it. Checkmate, atheists!
What does it really matter what CEOs make?
A few hundred or maybe a few thousand CEOs have managed to convince their board of directors to pay them absurd amounts of money. Some of them managed to convince the board of directors to give them "performance bonuses" structured in such a way that even if the company is doing terribly.
In some ways it's a magic trick: They're distracting you with CEO pay of a few million dollars so you don't realize the tens of trillions of dollars of your money being funneled into their businesses. The biggest companies on the planet got there in part because the government chose those winners, and we just sit back and ignore that so we can focus on who gets paid what when it's irrelevant.
A few hundred or maybe a few thousand CEOs have managed to convince their board of directors to pay them absurd amounts of money. Some of them managed to convince the board of directors to give them "performance bonuses" structured in such a way that even if the company is doing terribly.
In some ways it's a magic trick: They're distracting you with CEO pay of a few million dollars so you don't realize the tens of trillions of dollars of your money being funneled into their businesses. The biggest companies on the planet got there in part because the government chose those winners, and we just sit back and ignore that so we can focus on who gets paid what when it's irrelevant.
@AnotherStag I find it hilarious that he's whining about the KKK while using the anti-Semitic trope of "The Big Lie".
Once you realize that it was Adolf Hitler who first popularized the phrase, you can't unsee it.
Once you realize that it was Adolf Hitler who first popularized the phrase, you can't unsee it.
@Hyolobrika @lain I didn't mean like publishing moves to the blockchain, more like keeping track of which paid cards you own on blockchain so games can be peer 2 peer instead of through a central server.
@lain For once, that'd be a really good use of blockchain. You could have it so the game is played online through the blockchain and you don't need central servers to keep it running.
@Hyolobrika They're trying to convince them to code. The key to me is that they want someone else to do the thing instead of just doing the thing themselves.
Every time I hear an interview with one of these women the answer is "<scoff> well *I* don't want to code, I'm more of a people person; but I want to make sure more women get into coding!"
Every time I hear an interview with one of these women the answer is "<scoff> well *I* don't want to code, I'm more of a people person; but I want to make sure more women get into coding!"
@TechNews It's been a while since I've been really excited about a new android version. Not that there's anything wrong with android, but that's the problem -- it's been really good for a long time so much that who cares?
I'm more interested in watching standard linux distributions as they grow on mobile. I think that's where the future of cool stuff will be.
I'm more interested in watching standard linux distributions as they grow on mobile. I think that's where the future of cool stuff will be.
@hn100 I wore an n95 mask everywhere for the first part of the pandemic before we knew what was going on. Some places wanted me to take it off. In particular, when I went to the hospital they required a surgical mask and would not accept an n95 mask.
@TechNews PC shipments represent like 99% of the market, so it takes a lot fewer sales to grow a lot.
@wowaname I don't want to say this is the reason why systemic censorship has exploded in the past few years, but this is the reason why systemic censorship has exploded in the past few years.
@AlexJones "Not believing my constantly changing kaleidoscope of positions is just crazy!"
@jeffcliff Unfortunately, politicians refuse to accept that there are inherently trade-offs in choosing one decision over another, so they want to pretend that they can be all things to all people.
One of my biggest criticisms of any given policy discussion is that people pretend it's pure good vs. pure evil rather than trying to stack a bunch of sometimes inclusive sometimes exclusive goals in a delicate house of cards balancing different priorities.
One of my biggest criticisms of any given policy discussion is that people pretend it's pure good vs. pure evil rather than trying to stack a bunch of sometimes inclusive sometimes exclusive goals in a delicate house of cards balancing different priorities.