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Other than the bit about the AR-15 I agree with this.
@LouisIngenthron Thats because they are against the beverage not the device ;)
@admitsWrongIfProven the original post is about political extremismand how it is at odds with objective consensus... any form of ideological political extremism is inevitably going to take this form, tbats just common sense. It also forms the core of horse shoe theory since when you become that radicalized it your ideals really dont matter since they are so absurd you wont ever approach them in the first place and instead devolve into contrarianism as the core.
@admitsWrongIfProven I am fine with defining left and right as a fun exercise. I just want to point out it is a tangent not particularly relevant or neccesary to frame the original post.
@admitsWrongIfProven for the record i find that the extreme left and right are almost nonexistant in most coubtries outside the usa, so there is less need to define it.
@admitsWrongIfProven you are the one who came in exerting extremism was hard to define, not me. We can debate left vs right too, its just making thwt distinction is not relevant to my post.
@admitsWrongIfProven tha ks to horshoe theory we dont even need to define right or left to define if your in the extreme of either.
@Biggles Thry seem to manipulate or reject science that disagrees with their stance on a lot of things.
A good example was covid, i was am a research scientist who worked on covid throughout the pandemic. Me and many covid scie tists pointed out criticisms of the lefts ideology and opinions along the way, for example ones ability to be reinfected with covid or the liklihood that a covid vaccine coukdnt produce herd immunity. I was fairly violently attacked by the left on these issues despite being well within mainstream science and even accepted. Of course the right had its own issues with covid.
I tend to find similarly dishonest antiscience when talking about guns, which the left seems to assert quite confidently without even understand the basic ideas they are debating. This is both from the science behind guns themselves and the analysis of the stastics and consequences of gun laws.
@admitsWrongIfProven i can define it with a simple drawi g, give me a minute.
@sebastian_hos I cant decide that before they exist and establish some policies to see if those policies disagree with our ideals or not. I dont intend to defederate with a nonexistant entity.
@admitsWrongIfProven Its usually only the people existing at these extreme ends who struggle to see the line where the extreme begins. Moderates on the left, right, and center are much better at it.
@Free_Idealist Nah there are tons of moderate left, right, and centrists i dont like too.
Sure, I can accept this, but only if we accept that by the same logic black/POC have no culture.. Sure there is carribean culture, and nigerian culture, and tunesian culture... but by your own logic there is no black/POC culture.
Personally I think this is wrong, and that white people, black people, and many groups have a larger culture to them... but as long as we are consistent its a step towards sanity either way.
Almost soubds like you wrote this with QOTO in mind... obviously i agree.
I follow a lot of admins.
We don’t always agree, but I respect what you do.
And I’m not on the team that does “third party” blocks. By which I mean, “You don’t block X so I’m blocking you.”
There are user safety reasons why other admins might choose differently.
Suffice it to say, people start up servers for different reasons. So ultimately you need to find an admin you align with, and that’s your ideal server.
You dont need to beleive my connection, i am simply explaining my perspective.
Yes video editing can make someone look worse, that isnt the case here because he acts senile anytime you watch him unedited.
Its obvious to almost everyone it seems.
@bibliolater no but i can bring it back.
@CanXClV I cant read that language and i am not sure what you are referring to... can you elaborate?
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