osarusan @ osarusan @kbin.social

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Maybe you can borrow the history book when they're done with it.

Someone needs to pick up a Chinese history book...

The author wasn't making a logical argument, so there's no need to address his "logic."

He's a tourist who spent some time in a foreign country, and came to some very sweeping, rash conclusions about an entire country's culture. It's shallow, judgmental, and tragically commonplace among self-centered tourists who think they can understand an entire culture after 2 weeks living in a hotel on someone else's dime. I am so done with the "white dude waxes philosophical about Asian country" trope.

Republicans gonna repub.

"It is the result of Korea maximizing the bad points of Confucian culture and the shortcomings of capitalism."

"In Confucian culture, there are no individuals....

"In Confucian culture, we do not try to empathize with mental health problems...

"When you learn Korean culture...

I love when tourists (let's be real: rich, white, American tourists) visit a country and come back a fucking expert on the culture, filled with all the judgmental wisdom to dish out why that culture is inferior to their own.

Fuck this clown and his "wisdom."

It's going to be weird not seeing his face on every police box in the country anymore.

THAC0 is just subtraction instead of addition. I'll never understand the hate it got.
I have no problem with ascending armor classes and attack bonus. The math is the same. It's easy and intuitive. But if you're having issues subtracting whole numbers less than 20, you've got a problem bigger than the wrong game system.

Yeah that jumped out at me too. What a privileged bunch of crap to spew.

Our brains are instead programmed to focus on our immediate needs.

Yes, we are "programmed" to buy things that we need to live, like food, shelter, and medicine. I'm pretty sure most people would save if they fucking could. You'd think that "a certified financial planner and expert in financial psychology and behavioral finance" could come up with something a bit better than another avocado-toast-like victim blaming.

The original point I made

The only point you've made is that you're a bigot who is not interested in honest discussion. And you keep making it by repeating the same bullshit.

Grow a thicker skin for fucks sake you absolute child.

Says the guy whining about mods deleting his content.

I'll hand it to you -- you've put on a masterclass-worthy performance of a bigot having a breakdown because nobody takes him seriously. You've blamed me, you've blamed the mods, and you've blamed lemmy. The only person who hasn't done anything wrong here is you.

When everyone in the world is giving you problems, it's time to consider that maybe you're the problem. And if the users and mods on lemmy are too harsh for you, then maybe you should go back to Truth Social or wherever the big-brained adults like yourself hang out.

No, man.

You came in here posting absolutely disgusting ableist slurs and spewing discriminatory bullshit that's not true. Then after you get called out on it by everyone, you've start changing your tune, cherry picking specific circumstances that if that had been what you originally said, we'd have ended up in a different conversation. But instead we're having this garbage conversation that you decided to start.

And as for "hey look, people used this word in the 60s all the time!" I'll point you to every other slur, whether ableist, racist, sexist, or whatever. You know what? People used them all in the past with impunity. That doesn't make it ok to use them today.

Instead of just Googling things that support your prejudice and confirm your existing biases, try searching for the counterarguments.

retarded is NOT a slur it is legitimately a medical term and you people are too sensitive

It's actually not.

they cannot vote

They actually can.

You seem to have a serious problem with facts and with discrimination.

You're spouting false bullshit, and you're prejudiced.

You're exactly the kind of person who should not be allowed to vote, but luckily for you being a stupid, wrong, bigoted asshole does not revoke your rights.

Unless theyre scrapping 2077s engine and starting over completely in a different engine for Cyberpunk 2.

They previously (last year or so) said this was their plan.

I think it’s a tragedy that we let people who are borderline retarded cast ballots at all.

You deserve to get lambasted for that. That's a horrible thing to say.

The very core of democracy is the idea that individuals have the right to make choices in how they live their lives, and that the power to govern derives from the consent of the government. What you're saying is that there's an arbitrary line of intelligence below which you don't accept someone's ability to consent, and you deny their right to make choices about their lives.

I think that's the tragedy here.

Thanks for taking the time to read it and for responding!

Shockingly, it takes more to revolutionize a country of 320 million people than casting a single protest vote for Jill Stein every 4 years.

The folks whining the most about Biden also seem to be the least civic-minded.

Well, no. The Electoral College has its own list of problems, but keeping 3rd parties out of power is not one of them.

There's two main reasons we don't have any serious third party candidates:

1. We have a first-past-the-post system, which mathematically results in a two-party system, and
2. no serious politician runs as a third party candidate, because any serious politician understands how our election system works.

It's almost like... there's a reason these 3rd party candidates aren't making it onto the big party tickets.

"I don't like Trump, but Biden just doesn't excite me..."

Those were the really fun days of the internet.

When surfing the web was actually an adventure and you'd actually discover things.

Not that I could ever go back to dial up speeds, but damn those days were fun.

So we have been saying this since I was a kid, a third party is a wasted vote. Next time around will be our chance! Well. When? We just going to always push off voting third party until democrats stop hiding and go full republican?

This is why I included "ignorant" among the list of terms in my previous comment. I'm not using it as an insult; yours is a popular opinion, but it displays a fundamental lack of understanding about how the US election system works.

A third party is a wasted vote, because that's literally how the system works. It's not something people say to discourage you from voting or to keep the Big Two in power. It's just a fact of the rules of the game. Voting third party in hopes that it will change the game is as useful as picking up the soccer ball with your hands in hopes that maybe this time the ref will allow it. The rules just don't allow for that.

To be clear, I'm not saying this because I like the system. I'm not defending the system. I'm just highlighting the truth of it. The rules we have are crap, designed by people hundreds of years ago who didn't know any better. It was the best they had at the time, and here we are 250 years later desperately in need of a rules update... But that still doesn't change the rules!

In our FPTP system, one of the Big Two parties will win. Period. If you want that to change (I know I do), the time to do that is in between election cycles. You will never ever change the political system by miraculously voting in a 3rd party. Even if you could somehow get 100% of the country to unanimously vote for a 3rd party president, all you would have is a lame duck president. You would not change the makeup of the legislature, which is the part of our government responsible for making the rules. So if you want to change those rules, you do so through the legislature, not by electing an outsider president. You need to spend the period in between election cycles petitioning, writing, calling, and contacting your legislative representatives every way possible to convince them to support election reform measures. Then and only then will there be meaningful discussion about changing the rules into something better; something where you can actually vote your heart or for the person who best represents your views rather than just a person from party A or B. In other words, if you want to play a version of soccer where you can use your hands, the time to do that is before you play, not mid-game. The same goes for elections.

If you don't believe me, just look into how US elections work. There are so many great explanations about the math and the game theory that makes them function the way they do. Third parties are a wasted vote, not because of any cynicism or pessimism or nihilism; they are because the math literally works out that way. Worse, any vote for a third party candidate actually aids the candidate you dislike. That is to day, if you'd rather Biden beat Trump, your vote for candidate C mathematically actually aids Trump. So yes, third party candidates really do spoil the election, and third party votes are actually shooting yourself in the foot.

So let's change the system, and let's do it the only way laws get changed in this country: by petitioning our representatives. Not by pinning our hopes on a zero-chance candidate and actually supporting the worse candidate by wasting our vote.