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Yliaster

@ Yliaster @lemmy.world

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  • People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies

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  • This is still a fallacious analogy because it's clearly exaggerated/fictitious and nobody argues like this. If it was instead:

    A: We should torture indigenous people by killing their offspring in front of them.

    B: You are acting in bad faith

    Is totally acceptable - anyone arguing something like point A is most certainly not engaging in a ''good faith'' discussion, it's plain common sense that they aren't.

    If you want to argue in terms of strict ''logic'', ''faith'' isn't even something that would ever ''follow'' from a statement anyway, so to say that following a statement with ''you're acting in bad faith'' is a ''non-sequitur'' is a meaningless statement. Unless you're reducing bad faith actors to people coming up and saying, ''hey everyone, I'm acting in bad faith!'' (which the vast majority of bad faith actors do not do) - which is ridiculous.

  • Current events dictate that I post this.

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  • People in asia seem to have an infatuation with Russia even before the palestine issue became prominent. It's sickening.

    The only good thing about it I see is that it's a necessary counter-balance against the US and its imperialism, perhaps.

  • Current events dictate that I post this.

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  • I'm glad it's better over there, because in my [limited] friend group and family, nobody is pro-ukraine.

  • Current events dictate that I post this.

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  • Ah so the people there are still ethnically brazillian/argentinian right? i.e. the people are indigenous themselves, just not the rulers? or are the majority of people of european descent too?

  • The problem with socialism

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  • Then the only way for the rich to keep getting richer is to degrade labour conditions, but that's unpopular so you need to blame a scapegoat and enact a repressive regime to enforce it.

    I didn't get this part. Please explain?

  • Current events dictate that I post this.

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  • Argentina and Brazil are colonial entities? Please elaborate, haven't heard before.

    Edit: How the hell do people deal with Israel given its Samson option??

  • Current events dictate that I post this.

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  • I'm glad I'm finally seeing someone else that's actually both pro-palestine AND pro-ukraine for once. It's usually mutually exclusive — I don't understand why. Literally every single pro-palestine person I've seen otherwise has been pretty vocally anti-Ukraine.

  • Trump Says He's 'Entitled' to Illegal Third Term as Allies Draft Voter Suppression Decree

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  • Yeah but him adding "your country probably sucks" was weird.

  • Trump Says He's 'Entitled' to Illegal Third Term as Allies Draft Voter Suppression Decree

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  • If he's literally fucked without consent, what makes people think he wouldn't figuratively fuck the people collectively without it too?

  • People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies

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  • The analogy you're providing is fallacious because unlike nonsensical singular statements about ducks (an ethically neutral statement), what we're actually getting is people consistently defending various forms of hate that endangers minorities and marginalized people. They rarely, if ever - and it is my opinion that this almost never occurs - respond to reason. People being purposefully obtuse and heartless within discussions do not really deserve logical vigour or effort. You could try, but it's a waste of time and energy, and it'll just put one in a bad mood.

  • People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies

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  • I think it's fair to assume those when people openly support a movement that visibly takes away the rights of marginalized groups and kills innocent people.

  • I'm just trying to search for a website...

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  • I'm a bit distrustful of the current french political scene and macron's involvement in their phasing out of American tech (which is in principle good but it's the actors here that are sus).

  • People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies

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  • Fair.

  • People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies

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  • Even with MAGAts and the wave of red that's ever-present online?

  • Republican Lawmakers' Bid to Execute Tennessee Abortion Patients Slammed as 'Christofascism'

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  • Oh, you just summarized america in a sentence.

  • Republican Lawmakers' Bid to Execute Tennessee Abortion Patients Slammed as 'Christofascism'

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  • Gotcha.

    But why just the state specifically? Isn't murder just... bad regardless of who's doing it?

  • I'm just trying to search for a website...

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  • How's Qwant in terms of search results and privacy/AI?

    I've been using startpage (it's an improvement over Mojeek, that was kinda unusable).

  • People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies

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  • How do you determine what's not in good faith?

    I would imagine this would tie to values, but do those become the unquestionable object, then?

  • People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies

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  • You say should, but that's a judgment; judgments are subjective.

  • Second Article in this week's Economist. The Economist is "Centre-Left" According to MBFC.

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  • redistributes wealth from minority to majority

    political power is concentrated to an even smaller group.

    Sense you don't make.

  • Privacy @sopuli.xyz
    Yliaster @lemmy.world

    What are private image browsing alternatives to X/Insta?

  • Privacy & Security UK @feddit.uk
    Yliaster @lemmy.world

    What are private image browsing alternatives to X/Insta?

  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    Yliaster @lemmy.world

    What are private image browsing alternatives to X/Insta?

  • privacy @lemmy.ca
    Yliaster @lemmy.world

    What are private image browsing alternatives to X/Insta?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    Yliaster @lemmy.world

    Private image browsing apps?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    Yliaster @lemmy.world

    Proton has ties to Israel. What's a safe alternative?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    Yliaster @lemmy.world

    Countersocial doesn't work for me.