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Lemmy is more left leaning because the rights popularity seen on other social media are driven by bots that are not here.

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  • While yes, libertarian is originally a leftist term, that’s not what I meant.

    I meant the first comment saying most people on new tech are leftists is wrong. Most people who are technophilic are liberals. As in US style Democrat liberals. Which are NOT leftists. At all.

    • Lemmy is more left leaning because the rights popularity seen on other social media are driven by bots that are not here.

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  • I feel that comment is on the vibe of “liberals are leftists”.

    Edit: “that comment” as in the one above the one I’m replying to…

    • Eating meat creates four times more greenhouse gases than being vegan, landmark study finds

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  • Meat = strength is not a fact, or “info”, or history. Also saying vegans are all endurance athletes. That’s an assumption. Both are assumptions.

    • If someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared, what would be the most difficult thing to explain about life today?

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  • Coolio, thanks! I love old sci-fi like this. Specially the crazy sciency words lol

    • Eating meat creates four times more greenhouse gases than being vegan, landmark study finds

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  • The issue is that’s not info, those are assumptions.

    No sin, in thinking out loud. But what you’re saying easily falls apart if you think about it even a little bit.

    • Do you think that Climate Change is exaggerated and at best would cause food and water shortages, mass immigration and small conflicts or will it lead to human extinction?

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  • Bro the world is VERY big. Much bigger than you presume. We can indeed all live like that.

    Not that we should, but we could…

    • Do you think that Climate Change is exaggerated and at best would cause food and water shortages, mass immigration and small conflicts or will it lead to human extinction?

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  • More people is not = more pollution. It’s how we live that’s the issue. If we all lived like “tribal” peoples from the Amazon or Indian North East, we would never arrive at this point.

    We just need to learn how to live with nature.

    But we have these two impulses. To protect nature, because we need it. But also to destroy it, because it really has been our number 1 enemy for most of our existence.

    Eros and Thanatos. It’s hard…

    • If someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared, what would be the most difficult thing to explain about life today?

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  • That’s a cool section, thanks. Which book/story is this from?

    • If someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared, what would be the most difficult thing to explain about life today?

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  • Can you really though?

    I mean, no jokes though, why don’t you just name him instead of saying you could? Lol

    • Why are folks so anti-capitalist?

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  • Why when there are breadlines, war, civil unrest, homelessness, unemployment etc. etc. in a capitalist country “That’s ok! It’s just part of the market cycles”…

    But some of those things (ONLY SOME) happened in a “socialist” country and “That system can’t work! See, it falls apart!”?

    I mean do you want to see a capitalist country falling apart? See the US in 1929? Germany in the 30s? The Chinese republic in the early 1900s? Somalia now? The UK is heading there… Also what about “shock therapy” in the former USSR in the 90s? That was a failure I’d say… And what about pretty much all countries facing extreme poverty and general destitution nowadays?

    Bro show me a country where capitalism has succeeded?

    • Eating meat creates four times more greenhouse gases than being vegan, landmark study finds

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  • Most people eat animal products.

    Also, a good portion of vegans are “healthy hippy” types. Which rarely spills over to strength athletes.

    But there are some vegan strength athletes, so it goes to show it’s possible.

    Not sure what you mean by this tbh.

    Seems like a very forceful attempt to correlate things that have no evidence for relation at all.

    • Why are folks so anti-capitalist?

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  • The dictatorship of the bourgeoisie will always produce individuals that support it in one way or another.

    • Why are folks so anti-capitalist?

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  • All forms of capitalism benefit the capital owning class. They created this system exactly to do that.

    From the state, to nationalism, to the police, to banking and finance, wage labour etc etc. It’s all capitalism and it’s all to benefit the capital owning class.

    How the hell would it be any other way?

    Everything we have that make this shit more liveable was won with blood by leftists, syndicalists, communists, anarchists etc. The 8 hour workday, weekends, benefits, minimum wages, public health…

    There is no capitalism that is good for “everyone else” ever. Why would the system controlled by capital owners benefit anyone but them??

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  • Science is not about proving things at all… it’s about provings things WRONG, and approximating truth through that. Key word being approximating.

    Mythology is the collection of stories and sayings from a religion we no longer really “respect” anymore. Like Ancient Greek or Egyptian Religions. While no one says the burning bush or Allah in the cave are myths.

    Still, there is a very fine line between philosophy and religion/mythology. Specially if you understand the basic concept of metaphors and symbology, when trying to read ancient and religious texts.

    Just a final note, materialist reductionism is a dead-end. Many scientists already noticed this…

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  • How are all religions conservative and oppressive? How is that the point of their existence?

    Like have you ever read anything about early Christianity compared to how things were around it at the time? What about Mandeism? What about the early Hindu schools like Advaita Vedanta and Vaisheshika? What about Sikhism, which is explicitly egalitarian and humanist?

    The Renaissance was just a stage of development of Christian values. Like Capitalism after it (which was an evolution of Protestant values) and socialism.

    Arguably modern science was born in the Catholic Church.

    Why do people speak so confidently about things they know so little about?

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  • Yeah but Christianity WAS progressive for its time. It was a time salvation was exclusive to secret clubs. It was a time where only the special would be granted “salvation”. It was a time where women were seen as spiritually inferior and couldn’t be saved at all.

    The Renaissance is just a deepening of Christian values. And the Middle Ages were not dark at all, I thought we all had overcome that silly misconception. So much philosophy and science was born in the Middle Ages.

    Read Spinoza or Rumi and tell me the Middle Ages were dark lmao

    Your view of history is based on pop-history of the 90s. That is an odd way to view things.

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  • I see Lawful Chaotic more like Burt from Dirk Gently… Or even Dirk himself tbh. Trying to follow Chaos to the letter, not deviating from Entropy and Chaos one bit.

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  • Religions have always been about trying to understand the world and how we should act in it as human beings. Those are the only and main things that connect all different “religions” in time and space.

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  • Religion and mythology have nothing to do with one another.

    One of the oldest religions in the world, Advaita Vedanta, has basically no mythology. And I’d say it says a lot of similar things to modern science.

    If you think ancient peoples believed the things they wrote in the way you understand them literally, then you really are missing the point.

    We’ve been hammering on the same thing over and over. We’ve found the answer many times.

    Science perhaps will be the gateway for this truth for a massive number of people. Much more than ever before.

    But still, we’ve found the answer many many times already.

    • Texas border agents allegedly laid the wire traps that ensnared a pregnant 19-year-old woman, as part of Greg Abbott's plan to keep migrants out.

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  • But if you look a bit, you’ll find a bunch of “heretical” Christian books from before the Councils and the development of the canon.

    Like the Gospel of Thomas etc etc

    And Jesus is pretty based on those as well.