exocrinous

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[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

Haha. Two days. Tiny. Itty bitty state. Not even as big as New South Wales.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Low effort brutalism looks cheap because it is. And that's a good thing. In my country there's a homeless crisis. The waitlist for government housing is five years. And that's because too much of the government housing is single family detached houses. The politicians always say "we don't have enough money to build government housing for everyone who needs it". You know how many homeless we'd have if the government built soviet block style apartment buildings? Next to none. The people who can live on their own and just don't have enough money can live in that, the people who need support can stay in the homeless shelters that have support, and only the people who want to be homeless would be left. Brutalism is efficient. American style suburbia is inefficient, so much so that it needs to be subsidized by the government using money taken from the city, because the suburbanites can't pay for their own single family detached houses, even the ones with high paying jobs.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago

Americans think 13 hours in the same state is big? Cute!

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

You know how transphobes say to trans women, "You're a biological man, that's a physical fact of reality and you can't change that"? That's the kind of reality, law of physics, and limitation of our bodies that soulism seeks to abolish. Soulism recognises that such "laws" of reality as immutable sex are myths, and seek to abolish all belief in such laws.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago

Oh, okay. Soulism expands on the fact that everything is a bias.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

If I was the wolf, I'd just point out that the shepherd eats lamb too, and is therefore just as much a murderer. The only difference is the amount of power in the equation. The wolf doesn't need to be bigoted to make its point, there are much better criticisms against the way the shepherd deprives the sheep of liberty. I didn't really understand why Lincoln was describing a foolish wolf who attacks the shepherd for bad reasons instead of readily available good ones. What the wolf says is pretty nonsense to me.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Oh okay. So what does racists complaining that the government freed slaves have to do with soulism?

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago (10 children)

WTF does the sheep's colour have to go with liberty? Do black sheep taste better? I thought their colour only mattered to humans because humans like to dye their woolen garments. A wolf doesn't need to dye clothes.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 9 points 7 months ago

the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labour, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.

That's the USSR.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The man also concentrated ownership of the means of production in the hands of one person, administered by a hierarchy of national and regional subordinates who controlled the labour of the people and the distribution of resources. This is an economic model known most commonly as feudalism. Now given the term left wing originally referred to opponents of the monarchy in France, I don't see how there's any way to argue in good faith that a feudal dictator was left wing.

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