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Re: Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab

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Post by pelliphant »

babesh wrote: post #448
pelliphant wrote: post #214

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Haven't China been the obvious world power for atleast 10 years now? Or, atleast, that it have been obvious that they will soon be...

I think what will happen is that a larger percentage of the US will realize it and not like it. I think the US lives in a bubble but other parts of the world are feeling that shift already. I wonder how many Americans know that Europe trades more with China than the US. Or that Japan also trades more with China than the US. Same with Africa. The US is retreating into protectionism, internal struggle, and the opiate o…

From my view it looks like the US optimized their political/economic system for the situation they where in just after WW2, when most other developed countries had been bombed quite a bit.

It sort of made sense then to focus so heavily on growth, they had an entire planet (not really, but a large portion) that would buy their stuff. Worring about income distribution seemed a bit unnessecary when there was so much growth that "everyone" gets a piece of the cake.

This really isn't the case anymore, but a large part (maybe even a majority) of americans still seem to think that growth is the most important factor when designing their economic system.

The new administration doesn't have a mandate to change this, Biden didn't win because he promised reform, he won because he promised to stop trump from dismantling american democracy. And he won with a really small margin.

While I generally argue that the american institutions are dysfunctional, I really wouldn't blame the current administration for not addressing the issue, not only do they not have the mandate, but their stated political ideology is "liberalism", not social democracy, so why would they want to?

Re: Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab

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Post by user-the-name »

loveistheanswer wrote: post #586
user-the-name wrote: post #580

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Yes, it is in his quote. It is nowhere to be seen in today's world, though. You're here talking about letting the nazis spread their hatred as much as they want, but I am not seeing you having any plan for how to dealing with them, other than just letting them do whatever they want. Once you let them out, what are you planning to do to deal with them?

>It is nowhere to be seen in today's world, though. Hatred is very difficult to confront effectively. It requires inner strength and a great capacity for love. So many people lack that and just default to mirroring that hatred back at the hater, or just try to cover it up and ignore it. It's hard to see things when you don't want to see them. >Once you let them out, what are you planning to do to deal with them? If y…

No, I want to hear what YOUR plan is.

Re: Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab

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Post by goatcode »

_o0rc wrote: post #577
DenisM wrote: post #557

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Would you consider listing this preference on your linked-in profile then? It's the same deal as a job ad.

If I were looking for work, I would consider it.

I'd genuinely recommend just letting such things be a permanent fixture of your profile. It would save you a lot of headaches and wasted time dealing with people who'd ultimately not want to interact with you, and likewise with whom you'd not want to interact.

Re: Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab

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Post by jariel »

dguaraglia wrote: post #576
jariel wrote: post #180

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No, this is upside down. The entire point of the situation is that the nuances are not hugely relevant in the big picture. Moreover, the nuances are never catered to in cancel culture anyhow. Nothing remotely significant happened in this situation that should have involved anything other than maybe some stern retorts on the medium she started on i.e. Twitter. The commenter thinking that 'this was a good outcome' give…

> Nothing remotely significant happened in this situation that should have involved anything other than maybe some stern retorts on the medium she started on i.e. Twitter. Somehow you miss the other side of this: her interaction on her train ride didn't deserve to be more significant than the average unpleasant experienced 10 times a week by anyone living in a city. She actively tried to make it bigger, then it got b…

Yes, except that an apology was all that was necessary.

Claims of racism in the national press are ridiculous.

Re: Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab

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Post by jariel »

DanBC wrote: post #562
jariel wrote: post #538

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Ok, yes - except that with Rowling it's 100% cancel culture - and it has to stop, now. Rowling's views are not 'dated' (that's your opinion) - they are thought out, and reasonable. They are controversial, possibly. Of course, nobody has to buy her books. It's a little infantile, but it's fine. I don't. The issue is not 'people not buying her books' - the issue is that people are trying to suppress and silence her, an…

It's ludicrous to suggest that the wealthiest author of the 21st century, who can get articles published in any news outlet of her choice whenever she likes, who could get interviews broadcast on any UK tv channel, is somehow "being silenced". But let's look at the trans people she hates: where do we hear their voices? We don't. For a comprehensive debunking of Rowlings bullshit you could try this: https://katymontgo…

I'm sorry, it's not Rowling that is 'bullshit' - rather it's this comment.

a) Plenty of wealthy people have been 'cancelled', that they haven't been, is not evidence that many have not tried.

b) Her positions are entirely reasonable and in good faith.

Comments like these are exactly the problem, representative the totalitarian mobs wanting to destroy anyone who doesn't agree using outrageous tactics of bullying and slander.

Take a dose of self-awareness and understand that this trite is the category of those pushing to overthrow elections or deny COVID.

Re: Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab

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Post by loveistheanswer »

user-the-name wrote: post #592
loveistheanswer wrote: post #586

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>It is nowhere to be seen in today's world, though. Hatred is very difficult to confront effectively. It requires inner strength and a great capacity for love. So many people lack that and just default to mirroring that hatred back at the hater, or just try to cover it up and ignore it. It's hard to see things when you don't want to see them. >Once you let them out, what are you planning to do to deal with them? If y…

No, I want to hear what YOUR plan is.

I choose to follow Dr. King's plan, because I believe he was the greatest sociopolitical and moral leader America has ever seen, and had far more wisdom and experience than me.

You have no standing to deny me that.

Especially since you have pledged your allegiance to the plans of Big Tech overlords like Mark Zuckerberg who profit greatly from the engagement metrics of hate.

Re: Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab

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Post by Zuider »

brodouevencode wrote: post #588
bitwize wrote: post #498

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Bob Altemeyer would disagree. He formulated the idea of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) as a psychological condition. His research discovered that there is no corresponding left-wing authoritarianism -- that even the authoritarianism exhibited by followers of Stalin or Mao was right-wing. Kinda hard to be authoritarian if one of your central beliefs is in the fraternity and equality of all. It's more useful to desc…

Thomas Costello has found countering data: https://psyarxiv.com/3nprq , https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00926... This sums it up pretty well: "Left-wing authoritarians, in Costello's research, typically strongly agree with the following statements: the rich should be stripped of their belongs and status; deep-down just about all conservatives are racist, sexist and homophobic; classrooms can be…

Have to agree. If Mao and Stalin can be disqualified as being left-wing due to the contradiction between their actions and the leftist values of equality and universal solidarity, then, by the same token, Hitler and Mussolini must be disqualified as being right-wing because of the contradiction between their actions and the values of limited government and rule of law.

Critical race theory has more in common with National Socialism than with the leftist values of equality and solidarity, because when you get past the verbal subterfuge which ostensibly denies that race exists, you find a deeply racist ideology of racial collectives locked in a struggle for supremacy, with one particular collective singled out as evil beyond redemption and in need of destruction. We have seen that before, and it is undeniable where it must lead. Critical Race Theory is Nazism barely disguised by a light sprinkling of leftist pixie-dust.

The common factor between the extremes of left and right is collectivism. Totalitarian demagogues, left or right, favor collectivism as a tool of control because it detaches people from their moral obligations to other individual human beings and transfers their loyalties wholly to an abstraction controlled by that demagogue.

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