I'll use two examples, one that's more leftward, and one that's more rightward.
Rightward, I've been a hard hard atheist all my life. Not only do I not believe in God, but I didn't see religion as something worth wasting any time on at all. Recently, through some seriously good arguments about the history and the philosophy of Christianity, I've come to realize that regardless of the existence of God, Christianity is an important part of the philosophical framework of the west, and a source of some of the values I personally hold important, including the justification for ultimately abolishing slavery and the slave trade. Whereas I would have previously taught my son to avoid religion altogether, I now read from his kids bible every weekend and bought him a nice leatherbound bible alongside the Confucius and Aristotle and other more traditionally philosophical philosophy.
Leftward (sort of, politics makes for strange bedfellows), I didn't really see any point to supporting either side in the war in Ukraine. It's literally on the other side of the planet from me, and it really looks like an ambiguous conflict in general between two powers neither of which seem to really deserve any support. The world leaders calling for it are unpersuasive at this moment, because it seems like they're mostly appealing to their own authority or the authority of the world rules, and the west just finished destroying that argument by breaking all our own rules. The argument that changed my mind somewhat was an analysis of history showing that times of peace came about in large part because players didn't feel like there was any benefit to going to war. So without any regard for the exact players in a given war, there's a moral argument for making it as hard as possible to make the aggressor in any war that breaks out hurt as badly as possible because once one aggressor makes significant gains in war without major consequence, it's probable that we'll start to see all kinds of wars and that won't be good for the common man anywhere.
Rightward, I've been a hard hard atheist all my life. Not only do I not believe in God, but I didn't see religion as something worth wasting any time on at all. Recently, through some seriously good arguments about the history and the philosophy of Christianity, I've come to realize that regardless of the existence of God, Christianity is an important part of the philosophical framework of the west, and a source of some of the values I personally hold important, including the justification for ultimately abolishing slavery and the slave trade. Whereas I would have previously taught my son to avoid religion altogether, I now read from his kids bible every weekend and bought him a nice leatherbound bible alongside the Confucius and Aristotle and other more traditionally philosophical philosophy.
Leftward (sort of, politics makes for strange bedfellows), I didn't really see any point to supporting either side in the war in Ukraine. It's literally on the other side of the planet from me, and it really looks like an ambiguous conflict in general between two powers neither of which seem to really deserve any support. The world leaders calling for it are unpersuasive at this moment, because it seems like they're mostly appealing to their own authority or the authority of the world rules, and the west just finished destroying that argument by breaking all our own rules. The argument that changed my mind somewhat was an analysis of history showing that times of peace came about in large part because players didn't feel like there was any benefit to going to war. So without any regard for the exact players in a given war, there's a moral argument for making it as hard as possible to make the aggressor in any war that breaks out hurt as badly as possible because once one aggressor makes significant gains in war without major consequence, it's probable that we'll start to see all kinds of wars and that won't be good for the common man anywhere.
John mastodon is a pretty cool guy. He runs the mastodon website and doesn't afraid of nothing
I like to be proven wrong, and to have my thinking changed. I'm happy to have found a lot of people who are capable of doing that in the last few years.
You have to be very careful though, because skepticism needs to be applied at all times as well. There are lots of people out there whose sole purpose is to try to deceive you into thinking in a way that's useful for them. Therefore, you should be supple enough to be open to new ideas and new information, but strong enough to push back against blindly and stupidly believing anything that's presented to you without question.
You have to be very careful though, because skepticism needs to be applied at all times as well. There are lots of people out there whose sole purpose is to try to deceive you into thinking in a way that's useful for them. Therefore, you should be supple enough to be open to new ideas and new information, but strong enough to push back against blindly and stupidly believing anything that's presented to you without question.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-VZJnLZvIQ
This is a great video by a guy from Ontario Canada that reviews a lot of the primary sources and analyses thing from a number of different viewpoints.
This is a great video by a guy from Ontario Canada that reviews a lot of the primary sources and analyses thing from a number of different viewpoints.
Your CRTC mandated cancon!
This image needed to exist. I didn't create it, I found it within the pixels, like Michelangelo finding David within the chunk of marble.
This image needed to exist. I didn't create it, I found it within the pixels, like Michelangelo finding David within the chunk of marble.
[admin mode] Ok, FBXL Social is now running off the reBased back-end. Not sure there's a huge difference, but with the fediverse growing the way it is, we really need to make sure we're keeping up with this stuff because peak traffic times are hammering the hardware pretty hard now. Love to see it, but it does mean keeping up with things will be increasingly important.
World War 2 became the new founding myth of the boomer generation, and in particular the American empire's boomer generation. Prior to that, I'm sure they'd accuse you of being a satan worshipper, it's a catch-all for "bad person" rather than anything meaningful.
I use personally use Nazi imagery as a shorthand for the same reason -- everyone knows Adolf Hitler wasn't a very nice chap, he was an authoritarian dictator who did some pretty bad things a lot of people went out and fought against, and certain world leaders are not very nice chaps who are out there doing some very bad things. I agree that you can't compare national socialism to anything we have at the moment except through vague historical similies.
One thing I think is really important is that a lot of those young men who are now our grandfathers and great grandfathers went out and fought for a freedom we obviously are seeing deteriorate in many western countries. I keep the fact that my grandfather became very disillusioned as he watched what happened right up until he died close to my heart.
https://video.fbxl.net/w/6VVndpjSF1jKya4o6Yd4tA
I use personally use Nazi imagery as a shorthand for the same reason -- everyone knows Adolf Hitler wasn't a very nice chap, he was an authoritarian dictator who did some pretty bad things a lot of people went out and fought against, and certain world leaders are not very nice chaps who are out there doing some very bad things. I agree that you can't compare national socialism to anything we have at the moment except through vague historical similies.
One thing I think is really important is that a lot of those young men who are now our grandfathers and great grandfathers went out and fought for a freedom we obviously are seeing deteriorate in many western countries. I keep the fact that my grandfather became very disillusioned as he watched what happened right up until he died close to my heart.
https://video.fbxl.net/w/6VVndpjSF1jKya4o6Yd4tA
That's absolutely true. The only difference is that one group claims it's morally wrong and does it anyway, the other group at least claims they think they're doing the right thing.
It's ironic, the American left is always going on about cultural imperialism, but they are always always trying to impose their values on other cultures around the world.
Peertube 5.0.0 is out, I just upgraded FBXL video. Short videos seem to be working much better in particular. For those with peertube instances, there's some configuration changes you'll need to make in order to keep running, and some scripts you'll have to run.
I'm not mindless about it, but I'm definitely a strong free speech guy. I want people I disagree with and people I agree with to be able to speak. Doxxing is definitely one example that might be a tougher question, particularly where the intent is to harm someone by making the internet into your personal army.
Made a big post about it on wolfballs. Ultimately there's a lot of discussion to be had.
The thing is, no matter what if there's a rule it needs to be one rule for everyone applied equally. Not one rule for democrats and one rule for republicans or one rule for populists and one rule for elitists.
Made a big post about it on wolfballs. Ultimately there's a lot of discussion to be had.
The thing is, no matter what if there's a rule it needs to be one rule for everyone applied equally. Not one rule for democrats and one rule for republicans or one rule for populists and one rule for elitists.
Posted a bunch of thoughts on this here. You'll see it on narwhal.city if you're subbed to freeforum there
https://lotide.fbxl.net/posts/17835
https://lotide.fbxl.net/posts/17835
Well that makes sense. In the revolutionary war we didn't have a global communications Network where one bad actor could expose the private information of someone who wished to stay anonymous to a global audience. The world was a lot more local, so journalism was generally a lot more local. A journalist could potentially dig up the personal information of an individual, but the scale was completely different. They couldn't immediately and basically for free get a whole bunch of personal information that was acquired unlawfully, and if they did, they couldn't instantly broadcast that information for free around the world instantly, and even if they did, it wasn't really a mechanism for somebody on the other side of the planet to basically for free start harassing someone else's contacts such as businesses they work with or work for.
If the press was banned from twitter for doxxing, it's overdue imo.
Twitter made up rules in order to keep the son of a former vice president who was found to be likely selling influence safe, but was strangely silent when my personal details were leaked to the press because I anonymously donated to the trucker convoy.
Had establishment press scum emailing me for days. Twitter was totally ok with that. As was the press.
Twitter made up rules in order to keep the son of a former vice president who was found to be likely selling influence safe, but was strangely silent when my personal details were leaked to the press because I anonymously donated to the trucker convoy.
Had establishment press scum emailing me for days. Twitter was totally ok with that. As was the press.