nymnympseudonym

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Piefed is more like Slide or one of the other alternative Reddit clients

More privacy, cleaner Python code anyone can help improve, less weird rightwing science denialism

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 34 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Wait maybe he ever had a roommate whose friend's second cousin was trans

That's a pretty obvious antifa emergency worthy of sending in the troops... right?

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Trump using Putin's playbook. Expect defenestrations, car crashes , poison

DUI hire gonna DUI

Yes, this. I certainly didn't come up with the phrase, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetic_warfare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_warfare https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2013&context=jss

Listen. This is important. We are in WWIII

I hope democracy and rule-of-law overcome religious autocracy. It's touch-and-go.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social -5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Conservatives don’t care about small government.

I see this often from (presumably) liberals.

I came from a conservative family and held conservative / libertarian beliefs most of my life. These people really, really do want small government. Saying that they don't makes it impossible to understand their motives -- and we really do have to understand where people are coming from.

To complain that their political leaders sell out those ideals for the sake of buying votes is fair, but only if you admit that same set of perverse incentives is not unique to any party.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They both make propositions that could be true or false. They are not non-overlappping.

The whole idea of "personal truth" must become socially unacceptable.

It's government control which MAGAS equate with "commie"

Ya gotta meet people where they are

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social -2 points 5 days ago (9 children)

It's smart messaging

Trump is Statist, which is something loathed by both conservatives and libertarians

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The root of the problem is faith ; in other words, belief without evidence

That is the root of the problem.

All of us need to understand beliefs as being on a scale that never gets all the way to 0% nor to 100%

All our beliefs have priors, based on the evidence so far, which then get updated as we take in new evidence. This is how scientists and modern philosophers are trained to think.

This is what needs to displace faith.

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