Well at the bare minimum you can unionise.

Mark Zuckerberg is a whiny piss baby.

Hypothetically, if Hitler saved a child from being hit by a car would you publicly sing Hitlers praises and be happy to make positive quotes about it?

Does being on the right side of a single issue negate everything else?

This game is a good thought experiment that you can play yourself.

It can help to see connections and interests in all the different facets of society.

I’ll help you out with the stick community though (I’m sure you can think of lots of other examples of how it’s political):

Take a wood product into a country with strict quarantine.

Maybe one of those sticks was removed from a protected area.

Try carry that stick into a secure area, suddenly it’s a weapon. You don’t agree? Better argue your case to politicians who wrote those laws.

I take your point.

A water molecule is not inherently political, there is no ‘politics’ one can observe under an electron microscope.

However, I am approaching from the perspective that humans are perceiving that water. And given that humans are political with everything then all actions/perceptions humans have are political.

Everything is political.

Everything.

I don think you’d have to become part of Canada to join the Commonwealth so maybe there’s a chance?

You sound (mostly) libertarian.

Thanks for the explanation though.

I agree with you. There is legitimate criticism of UBI especially of the Yang flavor.

I’ve just always seen it as increased unemployment payments with fewer conditions rather than a replacement of the welfare state.

And drag was shorthand for?

The UBI I support is only a replacement for unemployment benefits and all the welfare state social safety nets would still be provided for I.e. single payer healthcare, social housing

Is that still a capitalist nightmare?

There was a person insisting on using the neopronouns ‘dragon fucker’ and the mods decided to honor that.

No I am not making this up.

It’s shocking to me that so called respectable journalists can work for major news outlets and not know that they serve the interests of capital.

This is stuff taught in university for anyone that pays attention to the likes of Chomsky.

This person was wilfully ignorant and shouldn’t be celebrated for doing the bare minimum; not being a mouthpiece for vested interests.

Wow that was quite a read.

Absolutely brutish for Gaiman and Palmer to take advantage of vulnerable people like that.

Disgusting.

Not sure I agree as it seems like black and white thinking.

I.e. I could imagine a scenario where someone is very obviously/admits to using neopronouns disingenuously and that would break my social contract with them to honour it.

If I make an assessment of neopronoun usage on a case by case basis I can still avoid witch hunts. It’s similar to how I determine in real life if someone is an asshole or not.

Another way; I can support a person who I genuinely believe uses neopronouns while denouncing and excluding someone who doesn’t.

My preference is for completely community moderated platform.

People essentially vote for content moderation. Likely susceptible to gamification but I’m still interested in seeing it in practice.

Is it still invalidating when someone using neopronouns is doing so disingenuously?

Mods will always be a problem.

I’ve yet to encounter a well adjusted human who voluntarily mods.

This sounds like some kind of an enlightened centrist take.

Educate me though, can you briefly describe your political philosophy?

Conservatives can quite frankly go somewhere else.

Their policies are terrible and the only redeeming qualities of most countries we live in are socialist.

Lemmy should reflect the actual political spectrum which is (IMO) Social Democrats on the far right and Tankies on the far left.