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  • Are you trying to argue in good faith?

    says the person claiming that authoritarianism can old exist on the right, lmao

    Vertices are the plural of vertex.

    yeah, but you said "vertice" not "vertices", and the political compass only has one vertex at the intersection of the two axes, ahem, so what you said still doesn't make sense.

    Authoritarianism is all there is to right wing ideology.

    wrong. right-wing ideologies are varied and complex and can vary from authoritarian to libertarian in nature. your ignorance on this subject doesn't make your statement correct simply because you lack knowledge of anything else.

    If an “enlightened” dictator implemented full communism through sheer military force or charismatic sorcery, it would still be right wing.

    if ignorant statements and "magical" reasoning like this are the best you have, then it's especially hilarious that you accused me of arguing in bad faith...

  • It is a meaningless vertice.

    "vertice" isn't a word-- perhaps you meant "vertex"? and what, precisely, do you mean by calling "it" "worthless"?

    Authoritarian is right-wing, power in the hands of the few.

    as explained (and illustrated) In previous comments, authoritarianism is not exclusive to right-wing ideologies; Soviet-style communism was a left-wing ideology and infamously authoritarian.

  • beware! soon, it will be able to turn that long email into a meeting!

  • a lot of people thought he was a massive douchenozzle. still do.

  • yet you were able to sign up for an account and can make comments...

    riiiight....

  • ignoring them won't make them go away because they'll just up the stakes-- that's exactly what Carleson is doing after he got fired. the only way to beat fascism is with united strength, and there are more of us than there are of them. the problem is that we've become complacent, and too many of us have come to believe we're doing all we can or that our efforts won't be enough-- and that's wrong.

    The Alt-Right Playbook: The Cost of Doing Business

  • it's the pattern buffer. Neelix tries to touch it in some very early episode, and Tuvok intimates that doing so might kill him in some terrible way. it's not unusual to see technicians fiddling with it while in the background of scenes.

  • well, now i'm convinced that Fuentes met Dorian Grey in a Weimar Berlin gay bar, killed him, and stole his painting because the only thing in the article that defies belief is that Fuentes is 32.

  • gee, if only the president at the time could have done something about that... i wonder who that was...

    OH, YEAH, IT WAS YOU, DUMBASS

  • they have no obligation to do exceed to your entitled demands, and this is not a "profession" but a casual conversation. again, if you refuse to make the effort to do what's required to participate in it, then that is your choice. don't complain when others won't do that work for you.

    grow up.

  • the video provides context for the conversation. if you're not interested in doing the work in order to participate, fine, but demanding that they transcribe possibly thousands of words just because you refuse to watch the video isn't reasonable.

  • Why does he still look like he's in prep school?

    There's a painting of a 90-year-old Dachau camp guard aging in his attic, I just know it.

  • espousing capitalist principles to fight capitalism while criticizing someone for engaging in capitalism simply because you dislike/disapprove of their choice of smartphone rings a bit disingenuous to me.

    a single choice by a single person isn't really "fighting capitalism" in any meaningful way, certainly not by doing anything more than making a symbolic gesture. Fairphones do much more to support user privacy, open-source software, the right to repair, and consumer choice than anything else.

    edit: spelling

  • i must have missed that chapter in Das Kapital, but, I admit, my German is a bit rusty...

  • “Hawley typically cites Big Tech, Hollywood and academia as the unholy trinity of elites that has laid masculinity to waste..."

    well, Hawley and his ilk, are on to something, although not quite what they think. Mass media, and more recently the internet, has brought about the democratization of media, culture, and knowledge, of discourse and interaction, for the masses. No longer controlled by the ruling elites, the masses can use and come to understand and to organize in ways that shift the old power dynamic, and now those in power on the right see the people - and, especially, their means of empowerment - as a threat.

    So, it's not that straight, cis, white men (or even masculinity itself) that are under attack per se, it's the current power dynamic that progressive movements seek to change. its dominance by straight, cis, white men is, academically speaking, just a coincidence. When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.