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@niclas

I ronically slaves remaining slaves for their own good was **not** just an invention of slave owners (though perhaps that happened too)... It was a legitimate concern for some slaves. Being free was often a death sentance.

Obviously in the long term being free has been great for them and it is obviously the right thing to do. But in the short term it meant certain death for many with no food, work, job, and just the fact that without a master people will be a lot quicker to kill you. If you had a kind and generous master (of course not many did) I can see why objectively you might want to remain a slave givin the conditions in the world at the time for a free black man.

@modrobert @Darkayne

@minogully@mstdn.ca

Being a dad would probably be great.. in all reality only reason im not a dad is because I cant ethically bring a child into a world that is already so overcrowded and in shambles, especially when there are so many kids up for adoption. Should I have a kid it will almost certainly be adopted

@Romaq

@thatguyoverthere @niclas

Yes the big L is the name of the party, and the little l is the name of the principle that party espouses...

Libertarians are classically liberal... modern liberals do not remotely resemble the classical use of the term liberal, they just hijacked it as a way to manipulate people.. same reason they are now starting to lean more into terms like "Progressive" to make it sound like only they hold the monopoly on progress... its kinda a joke. Dont fall for it.

@niclas

> Democracy is by definition forcing the will of the majority onto the rest of the population. A.k.a. Authoritarianism.

Except its literally not. The primary definition of democracy doesnt even use the word majority:

"a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections"

In fact while there are other secondary definitions that include majority, those definitions apply only when used more generally (as in not specific to the context of national governments)

In fact we only need to look at example to know what you said is false, The USA, the UK, and effectively every nation in the world, doesnt have a simple majority to win. In fact all these nations are designed to have some mechanism to ensure a simple majority, a tyranny of the majority, isnt possible.

@Darkayne

@thatguyoverthere @niclas

Nah thats not even remotely in line with the truth. Their views dont line up with any of the GOP and there is little relationship.

They also follow the **original** meaning of libertarian (that is minimal government control).. you can like or dislike or put them anywhere on the spectrum you want... But saying they are similar tot he GOP, or not true libertarians is just absurd

@diresock @kilroy_was_here

Any particular reason? Do you think a non pronouncable acronym works better?

Oh wow the open-source license I wrote is still out there!

https://openhub.net/licenses/OSCL-C

#OpenSource #OSS #FOSS #FLOSS

@TruthSandwich

P9 Rection... sounds like a good name for a gun.

@ted_dunning

Huh, what do you mean? Apach, MIT, and BSD are all examples of FLOSS licenses

@kilroy_was_here

@holgerschurig

Yea thats a good point actually... I'm leaning towards FLEAR s the organization name.. the other two domains might make sense as projects underneath it.

@kilroy_was_here

@TruthSandwich If you admit there is no two-party system ill donate too :)

@ambihelical From what I've seen so far that is certainly true.

@khird Well as I said, there is no doubt there are edge cases who might use the flag in that way... I dont doubt that at all... But when half of a whole country use it in a positive way the fact that a small handful of execptions use it explicitly for racism, while disgusting, should not reflect on the overwhelming majority of people who carry the flag and it represents something positive for them.

@ambihelical

> I won't argue about the southern pride thing, I don't know, but that seems to have a ring of truth in it. but is this statement reasonable?:
>
> "No surprise, as usual the racists are the ones trying to pretend they are the heros vilifying the good ones."

To an extent, if you get my mentality... Keep in mind I've been in deep with southern people, both black and white, and been debating this issue with them all day.. so im going from a fresh perspective here.

Generally the southerners are treated like stupid, ignorant, racist people to be dismissed by pretty much everyone else.. I mean its aweful... So here we have the "City folk" doing it again painting all the confederate flag wearing members as if they are KKK members and racist, and almost violently pushing that fact at times...

They are acting **very** racist towards them (white trash rednecks as they see them).. when in fact they are some of the nicest least racist people you could meet. so yea the supposid heros burning the confederate flag and calling them racist, ARE the racist ones,, and its nothing new to be racist against the deep south.. meanwhile the ones getting called the racists are actually the good guys in this scenario.

> Ignoring the use of the word racist for a second, I would argue that you are running up against the difference in education backgrounds between the north and south. When I first moved to the south, I was shocked to hear that most considered the civil war to be about states rights. I had not heard that before despite my father being from the deep south. I still think it's a bit of a cop out, since they wanted the right to continue a vile tradition, but that is the education that southerners receive, so I have to accept that background.

Its only a cop out if they say they didnt care about slavery, then its a lie.. but otherwise its true. A war, and this war in particular, is not about a single thing. It was about state rights, it was about slavery, it was about a lot of things.

Lincoln for example didnt free the slaves during the emancipation proclmation... he freed **only** the southern slaves, all northern states were allowed to keep their slaves... Let that sink in, one of the first acts that kicked off the north is that the southern slaves were all freed and the north kept all their slaves (in the states that still had slavery, this isnt 100% of states)... Doesnt sound like it was as much about freeing the slaves as people make it seem...

@khird only reason is i never met a nonsoutherner who used the flag, so i have no expience to call on.

In the few cases ive swwn sourthern flags on norther homes i just assumed they moved here from the south. But i cant say for sure as it was just in passing, i didnt know them.

I suspect if someone was flying it with no souther heritage then it ia reasonable its a underhanded way to show racism. But again never witnessed it to really say.

@takosix

Neither are you :)

Interesting fact of the day. One fundamental principle of the Sikh culture/religion is to feed the homeless. As such every single one of their temples has a community kitchen and anyone, even if you arent a sikh, can go in any time and be fed, no questions asked.