Zyansheep

Does anyone else see “removed” in this comment? Is the instance editing comments to censor certain words or is it just the user?

I mean, machine learning can theoretically approximate any computable function given enough time and resources…

Damn, i really need to figure out how I can block lemmygrad in its entirety. While there are some interesting people there, I’ve seen 3 separate comments from accounts there posting absolute drivel just in the past 15 minutes!

How does one even count similarities and differences? What does it even mean to say there are more of one than the other?

I’ve heard stuff like “communists want community”, but perhaps we are in different social environments. I will agree though that the manipulation of some terms might be more extreme than others.

Political conservatism obeys none of the other dictionary definitions. It’s just a label. It’s the label chosen by generations of influential public figures whose general philosophy is “Well someone has to be the king.”

Isn’t this kinda true of most politically-associated labels? Communism, socialism, capitalism, egalitarianism, progressivism… they can all be thought of as general ideas, but when someone actually uses them, they could be referring to a more specific concept, or twisting the idea a bit, or referring to a specific person’s definition of the idea and its kinda hard to know how to interpret it…

Unless the cars on the road are going to fast for comfort or are too agressive, then do whatever you can to not feel like you are going to die at any moment.

Hmmm… words used in not-satiric circumstances where the true meaning isn’t the intended meaning is a bit confusing…

Hmmm, I guess I don’t like the reasoning “extreme version of complicated idea is bad, therefore the idea is bad in general”. Like its fine to dislike an idea’s extremes, but it would be disingenuous to also dismiss its more moderate forms.

everyone is equal and thus should have equal rights and treatment under the law

Isn’t that like the definition of (clasical) liberalism?

The mechanistic reasoning might be plausible, but is there any actual examples of a modern capitalist society regressing back to some form of feudalism to any significant degree?

The point where I’d be worried is when a single company is the majority of a country’s GDP or has complete control over the government. The only examples I can think of that even get close to these possibilities are South Korea’s Chaebols or Hong Kong’s corporate voting block.

What about capitalism requires infinite growth? And what does it require infinite growth in? What happens when growth stagnates in a capitalist system? Does it suddenly not become capitalist anymore?

So you are defining an ambiguous term in order to better criticise it? That makes sense, but it might not convince people who have different definitions 🤔

Like I for example would consider a Co-Op where the employees own the company / have voting power over how its run to be a part of a capitalist system, hell, I’d even consider someone who makes a living as an artist where they own all their tools to be a part of a capitalist system… although I suppose that could also be considered socialist to some degree because the artist “owns” the means of production?

These definitions are kind of difficult to use…

Hmmm, its those kinds of extreme statements that make me a bit suspicious. Is global warming really an extinction level event? I can imagine terrible civil wars over resources and increasing displacement from natural disasters, but total eradication of the human race is afaik not a possible result of global warming.

I don’t think pure capitalism as you describe it exists, or if it does its definitely not common.

Huh, I use capitalism solely to refer to the first two 🤔

What is egalitarianism?