Of course I haven’t solved philosophy with objectively correct positions. There’s no such thing as objectivity. I believe that the idea of objectivity is a harmful one. All truth is subjective, and subjective truth is measured by good done and self-consistency. I’m interested in exploring the potential good to be done by criticising tankies’ inability to ethically reason without empathy.

Perhaps it would seem less fantastic if you redefined your axes. Materalism is anti-science, and magic is a field of science.

Well, Trump is going to get the codes to the nukes in two days, isn’t he? He said “all hell will break loose”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/3/31/republican-congressman-suggests-nuking-gaza

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-minister-renews-call-for-striking-gaza-with-nuclear-bomb-/3117351

They’re very good at excuses, fallacies, and mental gymnastics. Those are reasoning too. Just not very advanced reasoning.

Takes a bow

It’s been two months and she hasn’t woken up gasping for breath since. It was a mind problem, so I fixed it in her mind. The imagination is the mind’s development environment.

I thought we were talking about the voters. Just two days ago, you suggested we reconsider voting for the lesser evil.

I think we’ve exhausted this part of the conversation. We don’t know what’s going to happen next term, because it’s in the future. We’ve both made good arguments. Whether democracy will continue to exist is uncertain.

I don’t think the non-voters should have bet their entire country on a gamble like that.

On the other hand, I bet they would love to have a dictator THEY can control. Trump is very easy to manipulate. It’s much cheaper to give Trump a bribe than to spend billions influencing the voters. Take Elon Musk, for example. He spent 44 billion dollars to control Twitter, and it didn’t even work right. The platform is dying. 44 billion to control the internet’s agora, and then he broke it with his incompetence. On the other hand, 277 million to buy Trump is a fantastic investment.

Sure, you get the worst option for one or two terms, but you would hopefully force the Democratic party to reform and stop supporting Genocides in the long term.

I’m not entirely convinced that the USA still has terms.

Do you [favor or oppose] the Biden administration approving taxpayer-funded weapons and other military support to Israel, even if the U.S. government has no control over whether the Israeli military uses those weapons on innocent civilians in Gaza, or are you undecided?

How much do you [agree or disagree] with the following statement: The $18 billion in weapons the U.S. provided to Israel over the last year, funded by taxpayer dollars, would be better spent lowering costs and supporting Americans dealing with inflation and struggling to afford basics like housing and healthcare.

These questions inform the participant of basic facts about the DNC’s strategy on Israel. So this survey provides a great look at what non-voters think of Harris when they’re informed about the issues. But it doesn’t actually tell us why they didn’t vote, because it doesn’t give us any information on how non-voters think when they’re uninformed. And many non-voters were uninformed. This would be an excellent survey in a perfect world where people understand the consequences of their decisions, and it’s a terrible survey in a world where people have no clue what their leaders are doing with their tax dollars.

This seems like a problem for immigration to solve.

A worker shortage sounds great, though! That means higher wages and better working conditions.

A worker shortage of this magnitude hasn’t happened since the years immediately after World War II, when the number of young men was reduced by death and disability, said Strohl and others.

Awesome! Why is this article acting like a post-WWII economy is a bad thing? This is gonna be great!

Pataphysics is a valid scientific discipline.

The deists and Deadpool are right, though.

https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/the-need-for-solidarity-between-leftist-movements-b7b3d4f63b22

He pinned a comment on the video that the word is wrong and promised to edit the video to remove or blur it! I took My article down.

If discussion of politics is not to your liking

Actually, I am Extremely Political. Here are My blog posts on the subject of the subject of politics. One admittedly quite aggressive on the subject:
https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/there-is-no-such-thing-as-apolitical-and-claiming-otherwise-is-dangerous-72180711a310
https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/apolitical-queers-dont-deserve-to-opt-out-of-discourse-25bf467f9cc2

Also, I admit that I am constructing a very emotional narrative in the blog post, which is a transparent attempt at emotionally manipulating people into feeling empathy and patience for the big scary person living with NPD. I find that when I use language that permits people to think of these issues as a matter of cold, hard, factual accuracy, their ability to empathise with oppressed peoples who they’ve been told to hate is deeply impaired. Stories are the language of human memory. They’re easy to listen to, easy to remember, easy to think about, and easy to feel about. The human mind is optimised for processing stories more readily than facts. So I often try to present facts as stories.

In any case, thank you for the idea to ask Ian directly. I just did so, and I plan to heavily rethink My post if he agrees.

I think that aggression against people on the basis of disability is inherently reactionary, no matter the scale of the aggression, nor the disability in question. Furthermore, there’s also the fact that Ian thinks Gary was wrong to defend an indigenous species from genocide by a colonising power. That is an incredibly bad take to be coming from an outlet often touted as exemplary of leftist values. And the fact that it seems to be a factor that the liberator of the indigenous people is supposedly disabled, makes it very sus.

I use capitalised neopronouns because I’m transgender and nonbinary. I’m sure you didn’t realise that, or else you wouldn’t have complained about My pronouns. And yes, I am a person living with narcissistic personality disorder. You can psychoanalyse a potential connection between My gender and My disability if you wish, but please don’t feel the need to share your opinion of My psychiatric history, as I’ve heard, and thought about, it all before. Chicken, egg, it doesn’t matter to anyone else but Me, because it doesn’t hurt anyone except perhaps Me. That is if people are not understanding of My gender identity.

The quality of Innuendo Studios has been declining lately, and I no longer feel comfortable sharing their videos. https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/innuendo-studios-is-getting-more-reactionary-2c9e54da67b5

I think you should keep reading for 10 more words. I elaborated on exactly what you’re talking about in the 10 words after that quote.