Plebcouncilman

Tried to get it working but never could. Not that I tried very hard. But Immy iPad would connect to my Mac and I would see is a black screen.

I know people are morons and I’m a contrarian so I will almost always assume the least popular thing is better, but less convenient somehow

The founders sold it, it’s not like they were put a gun to their heads to sell.

I mean. Why exactly does this website need so many employees? You could probably run the website with less than a 100

Make Actual arguments with claims. Not attacking people simply because you don’t like their view.

It applies to ideologies in general I guess is my point.

I don’t agree with MAGA on almost anything but it was not an anecdotal observation since I’m not really on board with the online progressive agenda either (which is disjointed and nonsensical). It was an observation of how left communities tend to ban almost immediately after some dissent is expressed right leaning communities allow dissent. Not universal though, there are communities like r/conservative (which I’m not even sure has real people anymore) who will ban if you even dare to contradict even blatantly wrong things.

It this is all based on observation, I go to both red and left communities to see how the conversation revolves around issues.

I agree with the eleven demands except with the final one. I’m sorry but the more people are involved in decision making the worse a company runs. That’s also true of governments but in governments that’s kind of a feature not a bug.

I actually end up agreeing with most of this although I know we might disagree when discussing the particulars of the more subjective things in the list. The one thing I fully disagree with is rising the minimum wage. It really doesn’t make a difference in the end unless youre basically price controlling everything else (which is also not good), and it hurts small businesses the most. I think there are better solutions like pegging it to inflation and regional cost of living.

I’m also very suspicious of UBS and UBI type of arrangements. Contrary to popular belief some of these are not socialist policies but rather neoliberal policies. Not in all cases, like healthcare and education are good examples of stuff that should be funded publicly. But childcare for example is very iffy to me, I’d rather have the government pay a salary to one of the parents (or even both?) until the kids are of school age than have government funded child care so that the parents can spend all day working. Seems like enabling the worst parts of capitalism.

The problem is lumping all libertarians together as if they are all the same thing. Are all socialists the same thing? Should I lump tankies with social democrats?

Libertarianism is simply being aware that the government will exploit their authority over the individual, so it is best that it has as little capacity to do so as possible. That says nothing about the economical system in which a state operates. Although in my idea, yes it is still capitalistic (though with greater worker ownership, social nets and some wealth redistribution) because imo capitalism is not inherently bad, it’s a tool and we can wield it to our benefit. For proof look how easily it adapts to all conditions: it works when there’s totalitarianism, in democracies, in monarchies and even in anarchy and in collapsed states.

But one can argue for curbing state power over the individual while at the same time advocating for the interest of the individual (which so often are the interest of the collective ) above corporate interests. You’ll find few sane libertarians who think we should let corporations dump toxic waste everywhere, just to give an example.

I don’t think that’s a problem per se. From what I know about people who voted for Trump most of them are well aware of that, the thing is you only have two choices in a bipartisan system, so you have to choose the one that better aligns with your view. For many people it was Trump for reasons that go beyond “oh they’re racists or ignorant or fascists”.

I respect and always will respect people who are ideologically consistent, even and especially when they are personally harmed by their position. Far too many people base their politics on nothing more than convenience or tribalism rather than true conviction, and I find that disgusting.

I also hope she gets deported because she deserves it. I also hope she stays consistent then (probably won’t).

If you could back that up with an actual argument, we can cook something.

I for one don’t really care where on the spectrum I’m perceived to be, generally I think I’m dead center simply because I like to look at what nets the greatest benefit instead of asking myself whether the policy aligns better with right or left wing discourse. I happen to believe that the government having the least amount of power needed to fulfill their role is a good thing and that curbing the vices of capitalism is also a good thing. So left libertarian is the best label for me.

Uh no. There’s such a thing as left libertarians. People who recognize that the government can never be of the people from the people, therefore the governments power should be limited as much as possible. Before you say that’s anarchism, anarchists are imo a different breed because of their “end game”, though I might convert to anarchism once one of them comes up with a description of what a classless stateless society looks like and how it will be different than what chimps have right now.