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if you could choose between learning to live with your emotions or burning the whole world down in an attempt to avoid them which would you pick?

I'm talking about houses that were sold, after anything like that expired.

bigotry isn't neurodivergence

rationality is neurotypicality

It is a fantastical ideal and a deeply harmful one

the forms of education that some people believe are necessary in order for people to develop Proper independent thought are forms of education designed to suppress independent thought through a claim of absolute authority over what may be permitted to qualify as Proper thought

I don't like it

there are two tragedies of the commons

the enclosure acts the upper classes imposed to steal them from us

and the victim blaming narrative that insists that that was actually the lesser evil because the masses were so incompetent and terrible

When intelligence is defined as logic disconnected from human experience then all code is intelligent

When technology is assumed to be ontologically Good then any criticism of any element must mean rejecting the whole

I can see how these conflations arise

They're still fucking annoying though

this is the main message I'm getting from most of the coverage about Farage's racism

that slurs are naughty but also the only form of racism that should actually be treated as a problem

you can believe yourself to be superior to the irrational Other and be bigoted

because that's what bigotry is

no

they're not irrationally emotional

they're primarily bigoted because they get materially rewarded for defending and perpetuating bigotry

because they inhabit a system built on bigotry

Can y'all do anything without calling something batshit insane & psychotic? You really can't, can you. And you're just going to get violent towards a mad person pointing out to you're slurring us. I pity your failure of imagination. Sad part is you do it to sound smart.

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the people who assume that everyone is meant to agree with them about everything all the time can never get along with each other for long because they'll always find something they don't agree with each other about

yes

they actively want that

because they believe they deserve to be at the top of it

how did that work out last time?

My own background was in the sciences, but I learned that the natural philosophy model that promised objectivity and certainty was outdated and that people now recognised that scientific knowledge is socially constructed.

Been quite disturbing to realise just how dominant that model still is.

yeah I've had that for a few days now

their version of normal is an incredibly fucked up place

you can assume that if you want

it's very predictable tbh

you're trying to make me totally personally responsible because you've assumed that's safer than blaming anyone with systemic power, and that your in group has been absolved of any responsibility for anything

and you don't get to decide what I think is ok

if you could choose between learning to live with your emotions or burning the whole world down in an attempt to avoid them which would you pick?

as if you've been absolved of sin and have the right to enjoy this, knowing it's not your fault

no it's a threat when you say something like

'if you don't vote for my candidate you will suffer and I won't care or try to help'

And I haven't made any attempt to persuade you to vote for anyone. You're projecting a lot here.

that sounds like a very simplistic and narrow measure of worth to society

short term thinking doesn't prevent long term collapse

it drives it

by what logic?

its like you can't even imagine not being an authoritarian

threatening people isn't going to make them like or agree with you

Yeah.

There were steps being taken to try and move away from these models, but there is now a concerted effort to reverse that.

as if they are an underclass obligated to pledge loyalty unconditionally

while the right must be catered to and accommodated at every turn

you said that in hindsight she would have lost either way

what else is that meant to mean?

My background is in physics so I struggle with the use of evidence grounded in hypotheticals, rather than evidence grounded in practical reality.

so you know they didn't make a difference but you need someone to blame and hate that you see as weaker than you