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One of the good things about lemmy is I can change the title, and "what ruled" is a pretty cool title so POOF, now its the title!

edit: Ok nvm it wont let me change the title

Hi, I realize that its been almost 2 weeks, and I'm sorry for necroing this thread, but I just have to thank you again for the recommendation, Renzo Novatore writes like a poet. It is so incredibly validating to see someone who is clearly well educated advocating for many of my own beliefs in well written prose even a hundred years ago, its like, if this idea can occur to this clearly smart person even ages ago and in an entirely different country, surely I'm not so crazy for feeling that way.

I especially love how he defines a person as neither being social or anti-social by nature!

Thank you!

Thank you! Renzo Novatore seems to be a fascinating person, I'm particularly excited to read his work! Everything else you recommended also looks very exciting, I don't think there's a single thing that I'm not looking forward to reading!

Thank you! All of these look like great resources! I've actually watched Andrewism before, his video on digital colonialism was great imho!

I remember bringing up possibly switching to linux to my IT manager at my previous job, I was told, and I quote:

I would love to, windows sends a lot of junk network traffic and that sometimes makes it hard to investigate shit, but I was told by corporate that people already know windows and we already paid for the licenses, so no.

That's basically been my experience as well whenever I recommend linux over Windows to corpos, they can't understand that there are valid reasons to switch, they are corporate and they know better than you, even when they know nothing about your field!

Honestly its not just any WW2 game, but any remotely popular game's updates pages, when steam points & awards got added, several people set up bots to spam every update post on large games to say "Add pronouns and rainbow flags" banking on the conservatives giving them the jester award, others have it set up to spam "Dont give into woke and add (whatever buzzword is currently popular)" so they can get other awards, and like the morons they are, conservatives keep falling for both, giving awards and reacting in the comments.

LGBTQ+ people and allies have mostly stopped opening the comments on updates due to this, so there are multiple instances of people just openly calling for the extermination of anyone LGBTQ+ that never get reported or removed on the updates pages of otherwise not rightwing games.

Forums are supposed to be moderated by the company that makes the game, this means that if someone makes a nazi post and the company has no moderators, or has moderators that are also nazis, reporting it does nothing, even if it's blatantly against Steam's TOS.

Something seriously needs to be done about it.

Probably not the type of person you are directing the question towards, however, to me "Liberal" when used as a genuine marker of someone's political philosophy is effectively someone who believes in the status quo, but with slightly more protections for individuals, or relatively minor changes to existing political processes. They refuse to believe that other market or political system options are worthy of attempting or simply do not consider them feasible.

As to the second part,

Either words’ definitions matter or they don’t, and if they don’t, then none of what you say matters.

Unfortunately, definitions change over time or simply aren't accurate, homosexual used to inaccurately be defined as "sexual orientation disturbance" for example. That definition of liberal also covers things like the ""Classical Liberalism"" movement as liberal, they believe in COMPLETE market deregulation and capitalist "anarchy", their version of "rights of the individual" is the rights of an individual to do whatever they want to when they have the money to do so, without allowing any government to intervene in any way. This can (and frequently does) include using money to discriminate against other people, that's something worth fighting against.

Also FWIW, "Neoliberal" is defined by Oxford Languages as "favoring policies that promote free-market capitalism, deregulation, and reduction in government spending.", sometimes when people refer to "libs" they mean neoliberals, and yeah, deregulation and free-market capitalism has been tried, it sucks and deserves to be shat on.

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Not sure if its the same study that we're talking about here, but there was a study done on conservatives and (neo)liberals empathy levels towards others during the covid pandemic's initial onset, one of the works it cited as supporting evidence looked into political biases in relation to empathy in 2010, and while those classified as liberals (not remembering how they defined liberal for the paper, will have to find my citation & check later) more often attributed external factors to people's suffering (someone is poor because they suffer from bigotry based discrimination), conservatives almost universally attributed personal factors to those same people's suffering (someone is poor because they use drugs) UNLESS that person was listed as conservative in which case they were more likely to attribute it to an external factor.

They do have empathy, just only for those who are also conservative.

Interestingly, if I'm recalling which paper it was correctly, jordan b peterson (who is now a right wing influencer) actually contributed to it, this was BEFORE he started appearing in right wing circles and was while he was still someone who would be considered respectable

IMPORTANT: I'll have to find my statistics notes to back this up, so for now, please take this with a heavy grain of salt

I know, right?! Why!!!

youtube is plagued with these bots that either copy someone else's comment (normally positive of the video creator in order to avoid being auto deleted) or use some chatbot to come up with phrases, the picture is always some attractive woman or sometimes just straight up images from porn, when you click on the profile the banner image or profile links will contain a link to either a scam site or an onlyfans page. They generally also bot upvotes on their comments in order to get better visibility

If I had a quarter for each time someone has explained eldritch/other-worldly concepts to me via an analogy using ants I'd have a dollar, which isn't a lot but it's strange that it's happened 4 times

Speak for yourself, I personally love to give blowjobs/suck dick