Keegs

Men's rights absolutely vary by state! The big one that comes to mind is definitions of rape

Bleak!

Lost by about 30 in Arkansas though: and what's wrong about his understanding?

I'll read a little more on how they managed to do that while also believing in magic, but as to your second point: those are technically coherent! (because you can not believe in God, engage in Jewish practices, but believe in a different religion)

Sure: I'm using my definition, which may not align with what they use. Categories in general are not universally agreed upon, so this doesn't bother me much

I'm not that familiar with LaVeyan Satanism, I thought they believed in magic? But yeah I would say those people are culturally Jewish, and people I've met who are like that have referred to themselves as such

Comparing how people are treated by society and the law

Insofar as making something legally-binding creates meaning, sure! But that seems very different from religion. Like weddings can ofc have religious aspects, but actually lawfully binding people is not at all the same.

Sounds like you're accepting that on faith 😉

What religion lacks the supernatural?

Is "rituals creating meaning" the same as "rituals being meaningful"? Because then I agree, a lot of that stuff is just meaningful.
There's definitely real reasons to have birthday parties: it's a convenient and sensible time to celebrate a person getting older

For sure, I've talked to both normies who go to Church every Sunday and that's about it, and people basically in cults

Making stuff up about me might make you feel better, but it's still not true

All of my deep conversations with religious people have convinced me this is not true. It's not universal I'm sure, but religious people just tend to think and go about their lives very differently than I (as an atheist) do

I mean any unprovable assumptions should be on the level of meta-ethics at least, and to that point there's a big difference between "God is real" and "we ought to act how an ideal observer would act"

Like, what sort of non-religious rituals that create meaning are you thinking of?

I have never heard religion defined this way, and idk why you would want to define it this way. Ofc we all have rituals and we all have views of the world, but I'm not so sure about that "create meaning" part

Justice is very real, and even if there's no general quantifiable measure of it, we can still make objective statements about it

"'perfect' competition means indeed the absence of all competitive activities" 🔥🔥

There's some bad price theory here, but otherwise I like this piece:
competitionandappropriation.econ.ucla.edu/wp-content/u...

Swedish 2010s macroeconomic history explained in meme format:

I want to win power to save millions of lives

Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time
From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.

I think we can still stay coherent around a core set of policies (universal free school lunch, raising taxes on the rich, raising the minimum wage, making Roe v. Wade law, protecting Social Security)

I think it's good to keep small businesses with a few employees around (individuals being able to start businesses is a useful thing to allow, even if the law goes too easy on them rn). But it shouldn't be possible to own/control businesses of a significant size.

The Dramatic Rise of Public Ownership in Midcentury Sweden Sweden's experience provides hope for the social wealth fund idea.

On democratic ownership (and remember this doesn't include consumer co-ops):
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/10/08/t...

Keegs 🧮🏗️ on X: "The joint agreement between the Swedish LO and SAF here still showed resistance to too much state involvement. People argue that Sweden often took a hands-off approach to the economy in certain ways: this is what they mean. Union confederations were often policy-makers instead. https://t.co/CfxCrLN9Wm" / X The joint agreement between the Swedish LO and SAF here still showed resistance to too much state involvement. People argue that Sweden often took a hands-off approach to the economy in certain ways: this is what they mean. Union confederations were often policy-makers instead. https://t.co/CfxCrLN9Wm

Some stuff on Swedish union confederations:
x.com/LittleKeegs0...
x.com/LittleKeegs0...
And full employment:
x.com/LittleKeegs0...
And both are discussed here:
medium.com/@jacobmkeega...

"where confederated sectoral unions largely set wages across the country, with full employment and generous UI" was just Sweden in the 70's and 80's, and they got close to "an economy dominated by democratic ownership" too! And 2 countries decriminalized sex work (New Zealand and Belgium).