ChristerMLB

So wanting back to the post-war consensus is centrism in your book?

huh, I have to say, this is the opposite experience of what I have on the rest of the internet. Finally I can get into arguments with some leftists :)

There is a left wing in the democratic party - it is possible to get organized and help it win over the conservative wing.

The military is majority conservative, the same with the police, private security, and even the local gun club. Normalizing political violence is just about the dumbest thing the left can do in the US.

I don’t know that they want to, but as economic inequality increases it will happen. Without a middle class, there’s not much of a market for high-end bleeding edge gaming PCs

Pretty sure that’s a fake picture actually

My experience is that Linux Mint is the closest we have to a “it just works”-distro that is also decently up to date. Try that first.

It is possible to harass and shame people by misgendering them, e.g. by conspicuously and repeatedly referring to them in the third person. I think some people do try to chase trans people off the public square using tactics like that. Beyond that, my gut feeling is that if it’s a belief that’s presented honestly and curiously, those philosophers would want it expressed.

The whole trans debate is a bit of a mess in this regard, I think. For trans people, it is very personal, and it’s been jazzed up so much by the whole culture war bs. Everyone who has an opinion on it, seem to finish presenting it with “END OF DISCUSSION”, not really in line with those enlightenment ideals.

That’s exactly the idea. The process of rational discussion and consideration is supposed to take care of the quality.

Obviously this was before the birth of the internet, and also before the birth of the think tank :l

If you read the classical texts defending freedom of speech (Mill, Spinoza, Kant, et.c.), you’ll see that the point was supposed to be to get as many ideas as possible up on the table, so they can be rationally discussed and considered.

They were quite clear that harassment, shaming and other ways of shutting people up, goes against this purpose - and while they might not want the government to get involved, I don’t think they’d have a big problem with platforms doing content moderation to prevent those sorts of things.