Laneus

joined 1 year ago
[–] Laneus@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

My Friendly Neighbor hood is mascot horror, but played entirely straight. It's resident evil 4, but with all of the zombies replaced with puppets.

[–] Laneus@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

People should be called out for being intolerant, and you can restrict intolerant behaviors, but still have to let participate free in discourse, because other wise intolerance never gets confronted, and you end up with a bunch of intolerant people who feel like they to lie and be secretive about their opinions to participate in society

[–] Laneus@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think it takes all kinds, we'd be better off without assholes, but so long as we have assholes, we need to figure out a way to handle them, because if we just try getting rid of them, we end up with a bunch of sneaky assholes who are aligned against the rest of society.

[–] Laneus@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I've always said that you should tolerate intolerance, but not accept it.

 

Obviously we shouldn't let assholes have unchecked power, and we shouldn't give liars positions of trust, or pedophiles unmonitored access to children, but I think even the shittiest person is still a person and they deserve a base line standard of comfort and respect, and therefore society is morally obligated to at least try and meet that standard.

A lot of people would agree with me that far, but say this approach breaks down in real world scenarios where we have limited time and resources, and I have a hard time disagreeing. But I recently came across a Fredrick Douglass quote that crystalized an idea for me:

"The American people have this lesson to learn: That where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons or property will be safe." - April 1865

Even if a group isn't oppressed, the mere fact that they feel oppressed is, in and of itself, a problem. That problem gets worse if it is generally socially acceptable to publicly degrade that group, and powerful people who think they are oppressed can be incredibly dangerous

And it's not just people who fall into those groups neatly, any one who has to worry that they might be part of one of these groups will be effected by this. It's part of why the angriest homophobes have a history of being gay. Or how, very few people in America will ever starve to death in the streets, but the fact that so many of us have to worry about that scenario is not healthy for our society, and drives people to desperate measures.

If we just made sure that everyone was guaranteed a safe place to stay, and enough food to not die, then we wouldn't all be trapped in this high stakes game of survival, and we could focus on just being better people, rather then weeding out the bad ones.

(Also, what ever standard of living we eventually decide is the baseline, all nationally elected politicians should have to live under it)

[–] Laneus@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and those who support trump must spread it everywhere to raise funds for his legal fees and or campaigning

[–] Laneus@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

But of course, if an employee pocketed $20 from the register, the police will get involved immediately. funny how that works

[–] Laneus@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Everything you just said is more or less true, but I think you're underestimating the complexity of the right wing ideologies and social dynamics. The psychology of a right wing politician or media head is very different from your typical right wing shit poster, or average republican voter, and you should be careful lumping them all in together as a vague "they."

[–] Laneus@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

unfortunately no, just a large group who's convinced that the fascism is just democrat smear campaign

[–] Laneus@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Talking about all republicans as a single entity, I think I would agree with you. But that view ignores all of the internal politics, and is ultimately unhelpful when talking to actual individual republican voters.

[–] Laneus@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For starters, a lot of them are convinced that the democrats are even worse, and they are just voting for the lesser of two evils. Our democracy doesn't do a great job of reflecting the peoples values

[–] Laneus@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That definitely true for a significant percentage of republicans (especially their politicians and media personalities) but like any large group, republicans are internally diverse, and it's unhelpful, and potentially dangerous, to think of them as a cultural monolith with identical values.

 

That's right! Abe and JFK, are making Macon make Jamaican Bacon Pancakes!

[–] Laneus@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I'm still using it for now, but I've started using other platforms as well to ease the the inevitable transition

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