• CBYX@feddit.orgEnglish
    252·
    8 months ago

    No one needs more than 500sqft of living space per capital until poverty is eradicated

    War is absurd and the consequence of greed and senile, old, fucked up and immoral men

    Democracy doesn’t work without a limit on speech - specifically hate speech, authoritarianism, and ethnic superiority ideology

    Fascism is the greatest concern of the western world right now

    Genocide deserves instant disavowal and should convince any sane person to immediately support removing any government official or politician from office who doesn’t oppose it

    Black Lives Matter, and American history has treated black Americans awfully (see prison industrial complex)

    Housing isn’t an investment vehicle. Tax speculative purchasing of housing. Support government building high density housing like the HBD system in Singapore or Austria’s housing system

    • Ember James@lemmy.caOP
      2·
      8 months ago

      I agree that free will is an illusion, but have decided that because it is true it isn’t worth thinking about further.

      I don’t find the “why” to be interesting, which is interesting because it is like “I” am trying to avoid further reflection on that fact which “I” also have no control over. haha

    • otacon239@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 months ago

      I have a crackpot theory that I enjoy for the sake of enjoying it. What if our “soul” or “consciousness” is the collapse of the quantum field. Our decisions moment to moment aren’t random chance, but the unspeakable thing.

      Again, pure speculation, but it’s a lot more satisfying and rewarding to live by than throwing moral responsibility to the universe.

      • Opinionhaver@feddit.uk
        English
        1·
        8 months ago

        My understanding is that, according to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, everything that can happen will happen - so for every choice you’ve made, there’s an alternate timeline for every other possible choice you could have made. But it still makes no sense to claim that you could’ve acted differently in this timeline.

        • otacon239@lemmy.world
          1·
          8 months ago

          I dunno man. I’m currently in my time-space experiencing whatever I can. Is it my “decision” to not deteriorate in a pile of my own waste? Who knows! I’ll be dead before we have an answer, and I’m not a philosopher, so I might as well be an armchair optimist in the meantime.

          Just because I probably could “disprove” my theory with science, I think the concept of self and science are inherently incompatible with our current model. So until someone can disprove my experience with the world, I’ll continue “choosing” to accept it.

    • Opinionhaver@feddit.uk
      English
      2·
      8 months ago

      Free will and the “self” - just two sides of the same coin. You’re not free to choose, because there’s no “you” in the first place. You’re just a collection of atoms obeying the laws of physics. It makes no sense to say you could’ve done otherwise. No, you couldn’t - whatever caused you to make a decision in the first place would compel you to make the same choice every single time, no matter how many times you rewound the universe, assuming everything else stayed the same.

      We do things for two reasons: either because we want to, or because we have to. There’s no freedom in being forced to do something - and you don’t get to choose your wants or don’t-wants.

  • Nog00d@lemmy.world
    7·
    8 months ago

    I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
    7·
    8 months ago

    I believe in social democracy, I believe that it is the best political ideology.

    It combines a free society with a government provided safety net.

    I see communism as being too restrictive, and unregulated capitalism as being way too out of control.

    A progressive social democratic country with a strong government seems to me as combining new ideas with a stable foundation.

      • stoy@lemmy.zip
        2·
        8 months ago

        I am not well versed in the theory if economics.

        In general terms and speaking purely in an ideal world, I would expect that a regulated market economy would allow the society to exploit the free market and the greed of humans, while providing a solid foundation of government services for it’s citizens to rely on.

    • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 months ago

      Violence is always necessary when dealing with dogs that can’t talk, only bite. And Americans are easily some of the most violent people on Earth, so the worry isn’t there, it’s that once again someone will use that anger to fuel their violent actions but will direct it once more against the innocent. Also, the cops would never allow it, they’re even worse dogs, lol, and would definitely have to be put down before anything.

      Honestly, I can’t see America becoming anything but a hwite ethnonationalist dictatorship. The lost and the stupid yearn for a messiah and will never even consider putting in the mental work so they would rather leave it all in the hands of an appealing character, and Americans know too little about the world to give it to anyone with a shred of decency and competence.