roger scruton wrote that conservatism was the ideology of "unthinking men [laudatory]" and that the sin of liberalism/the left was thinking too hard and long about things
Flock is very serious surveillance technology that cops take very seriously: 404media.co/cops-search-...
Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.
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Trump’s domestic terrorism directive, NSPM-7, links “anti-capitalism” and “anti-Christianity” to political violence. Tina Al-khersan and Azadeh Shahshahani examine its roots in 25 years of post-9/11 policing. #september11 inthesetimes.com/article/war-...
How The War on Terror Continues To Terrorize Communities 25 Years Later
Twenty five years after the 9/11 attacks and the launch of the Global War on Terror, the U.S government continues to expand its tools of repression to further crush dissent.
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Pigouvian taxes while you're driving, land value taxes when you're parking
David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · last mo.New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
I think it’s funny that Rs think we should have warm fuzzies about “capitalism” and we should also be terrified of “socialism.” They can’t define either term and we’re supposed to have an emotional response? Ridiculous.
Utopia governed by utilitarian robot where people hack their pain and pleasure centers in an arms race to make themselves more and more into utility monsters so resources are distributed to them and not their enemies
i took my kids to shop for new clothes for the school year today at old navy and i regret to inform you that the 90s have officially returned
First principles are a social coordination mechanism, and an even better one when they're actually true.
Punch Nazis includes strasserites, redbrowns, and fourth theorists
Reminds me of the reasonablists from Parks & Rec. “they call themselves that so that if you disagree you automatically seem unreasonable”
I disagree with the argument that consequentialism is good. Consequentialism is inconsistent due to a variant of the consequentialist judgment paradox thought experiment put forward by Arthur Ionescu. In this thought experiment, there are 3 elements
This sentence isn't known to be true by any omniscient being. This sentence creates a paradox that logically entails the set of omniscient beings is empty, so there is no God. Atheist Refutes Arguments for God youtu.be/RILIkM354sk
Atheist Refutes Arguments for God (Redeemed Zoomer Reaction)
YouTube video by Alchemist Soil
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There is a stupid version of leftism that believes no company can ever serve a useful purpose; that they're pure greed and graft 100% of the time, price discovery is fake, etc. Even if you abolished capitalism, someone would need to invent worker-owned insurance and other financial functions.
Andrew Lilley Brinker@alilleybrinker.com · last mo.Contra "everything is a scam" discourse on the left: insurance companies serve an important function and need to be able to price risk appropriately. You can't fix a broken pricing function with a government backstop.
Another mechanism capital uses is straight up wage theft. One could argue capitalism itself is theft at a fundamental level: youtube.com/shorts/5FGyj...
The biggest form of theft in America
YouTube video by Inalienist
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No matter how much you throw trans people under the bus, you are still going to get attacked. All you've done is betray a vulnerable minority, anger your base, and made the issue front and center.
Democrats need to avoid punching left. Doing so only helps Republicans in smearing Democrat policies as socialism. We need to associate socialism with good governance.
Lindsey Cormack@dcinbox.bsky.social · last mo.Official congressional e-newsletters mentioning "socialism" in the 119th Congress
Democratizing the economy is abolishing capitalism. Worker co-ops can compete with each other under socialism. Far from anti-capitalism being illiberal, there are strong arguments based on liberal inalienable rights theory that capitalism itself is illiberal: www.ellerman.org/inalienable-...
Inalienable Rights: Part I The Basic Argument
What is the inalienable rights theory that descends from the Reformation through the Enlightenment and that answers the classical apologies for slavery and autocracy based on implicit or explicit volu...
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Inalienist@inalienist.bsky.social · last mo.Market economies governed democratically doesn't describe the status quo: www.ellerman.org/on-liberalis... The employer-employee contract is inherently non-democratic.
“He’s cutting regulations that’s right wing or liberal” open up the schools. Do you know how many regulations are crony capitalism or rent seeking?
doing things that help small businesses compete is squarely in the DemSoc wheelhouse. socialism as an economic theory isn’t pro-regulation just for its own sake, overregulation only serves capital who can afford to comply
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last mo.Before this guy crashed out and blocked me, he shared this link to Mamdani’s speech about helping small businesses. It’s good stuff presented with aplomb. It’s also… not socialist? The people talking this way in Minneapolis are considered moderates and loathed by the left www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
Market economies governed democratically doesn't describe the status quo: www.ellerman.org/on-liberalis... The employer-employee contract is inherently non-democratic.
Red-hot mad that the demsoc is going liberalism better than any liberal is currently doing
The distinction between social democracy and democratic socialism is overblown. Ernst Wigforss, a pioneer of Swedish social democracy, supported workplace democracy rights that modern democratic socialists advocate. davidellerman.substack.com/p/ernst-joha...
Ernst Johannes Wigforss (1881–1977)
A pioneer of Swedish social democracy
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As a democratic socialist, for me at least, this sort of good-government liberalism is not just a compatible ideology, but a necessary subset of the overall democratic socialist agenda. If you want the government to do lots of good for people, it needs to do a lot, but it also needs to do it well.
Like, sorry, you can’t say he’s “not really a democratic socialist” because he understands that governing involves tradeoffs or because he’s gutting protectionist regulations that have nothing to do with democratic socialism
my steelman is that good governance doesn't attach to any specific ideological label (though it *excludes* certain ideological labels, like, say, "conservative")
This is why I am a liberal socialist and not a Leninist revolutionary. The expected outcome of stochastic violence is "socialism less likely and barbarism more likely"
Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · last mo.I’m back this week with some thoughts on violence, civil conflict, revolutions, and, yes, Luigi Mangione www.liberalcurrents.com/you-wont-win...
Hayek wrote Road to Serfdom talking about socialism as if it was all Marxism-Leninism. Conservatives spent 75 years dining out on this sleight of hand. What if we do the same with conservatism, equating everything in its direction as leading to MAGA?
tired of the screeching cries and unbridled panic from people who don’t know the difference between the DSA & the USSR