San Francisco absolutely does not need a racist[1] mayor. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_Cit...
Piracy is good but fascism is bad. What's the problem here?
Capitalism has certain systemic features, one of them is concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a small few. Look at how wealth is concentrated in the U.S., especially over the last 40 years. Unions have…
Capitalism.
That investment shouldn't be made by individuals, it should be made by society as a whole, ie by increasing taxes so tuition is free. The burden of student debt is not shared equally or fairly.
I'm more upset that a single person has 5 billion dollars in the first place. Why don't we have a wealth tax on billionaires so that no one has student debt and we don't have to rely on the isolated generosity of…
They would be say that an inheritance tax hurts "family farms" and "family businesses", because they are dishonest about the fact that their policies benefit the power and privilege of a only a tiny minority of the…
There is not one single way to publicly fund media. Hell you could just leave the whole system as is as provide no strings attached grants or tax credits to all publishers. The point is, there is no technical solution…
> The only way to have free content is if the user is the product being sold. Or we could provide robust public funding, like the BBC > It's what we must accept if we don't want the government to provide the news.…
The U.S. president has been accused by multiple women of sexual assault. He has called women bitches, whores, fat pigs, ugly, etc. Multiple states in the south passed legislation effectively banning abortion, stripping…
I didn't frame it as men vs. women. I framed it as challenging patriarchy, which is a system and ideology of male dominance and control.
No, I'm saying the economy rewards the choices men make. Women get paid less because employers pay less in female-dominated fields.
Even if you assume all this research is correct, why are people with certain characteristics or interests that are disproportionately associated with women get rewarded less economically? Also sexism.
It's not sexist to point out that men historically have held disproportionate cultural, social, economic, and political power and continue to do so to this day.
I agree, however I think it's important that we do not use "implicit bias" as a cover. Implicit bias seems very vague and allows people to evade responsibility. I think there's a lot of very explicit bias (in the form…
It isn't, there is an enormous body of evidence demonstrating that the gender pay gap is driven by overt sexism and institutional barriers. This evidence is far more compelling than speculation about height.
Another way in which rigid, patriarchal gender roles hurt men as well as women. Straight men should be far more critical of sexism and misogyny than they are. This attitude is directly tied to oppression against women…
There's a ton of overt misogyny and sexism in the U.S., nothing "subconscious" about it.
Socialism is a material struggle, it isn't an idealist Utopia where everything is perfect. It's a process. And most socialist regimes have been in the developing world, which had much less to work with and much weaker…
This is ahistorical nonsense. The west industrialized hundreds of years ahead of the rest of the world and spent a century and a half plundering the global south. Regardless, China has managed to almost eliminate…
>they are not the reason why there is still actual poverty and malnutrition in the western world. Why is there poverty and malnutrition in the western world if not because of capitalism? Neoliberal capitalism has been…
>Then why not focus on the anti-competitive behavior, instead of trying to remake the entire society in your leftist image? because my leftist image is good
We could do this all day, but the fundamental difference here is you look at the normal functioning of capitalism and think it is just and good, while I look at it and see it as highly exploitative, unethical and…
You ignored my point - that the concentration of wealth is an inhibitor of solving poverty, and you failed to explain why you feel the need to defend billionaires' interests when they couldn't care less about yours,…
>Some of us do not believe the leftist alternatives being proposed are better. This does not mean we actually like the status quo. You are knocking down a giant strawman here. I'm trying to be fair here, what…
San Francisco absolutely does not need a racist[1] mayor. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_Cit...
Piracy is good but fascism is bad. What's the problem here?
Capitalism has certain systemic features, one of them is concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a small few. Look at how wealth is concentrated in the U.S., especially over the last 40 years. Unions have…
Capitalism.
That investment shouldn't be made by individuals, it should be made by society as a whole, ie by increasing taxes so tuition is free. The burden of student debt is not shared equally or fairly.
I'm more upset that a single person has 5 billion dollars in the first place. Why don't we have a wealth tax on billionaires so that no one has student debt and we don't have to rely on the isolated generosity of…
They would be say that an inheritance tax hurts "family farms" and "family businesses", because they are dishonest about the fact that their policies benefit the power and privilege of a only a tiny minority of the…
There is not one single way to publicly fund media. Hell you could just leave the whole system as is as provide no strings attached grants or tax credits to all publishers. The point is, there is no technical solution…
> The only way to have free content is if the user is the product being sold. Or we could provide robust public funding, like the BBC > It's what we must accept if we don't want the government to provide the news.…
The U.S. president has been accused by multiple women of sexual assault. He has called women bitches, whores, fat pigs, ugly, etc. Multiple states in the south passed legislation effectively banning abortion, stripping…
I didn't frame it as men vs. women. I framed it as challenging patriarchy, which is a system and ideology of male dominance and control.
No, I'm saying the economy rewards the choices men make. Women get paid less because employers pay less in female-dominated fields.
Even if you assume all this research is correct, why are people with certain characteristics or interests that are disproportionately associated with women get rewarded less economically? Also sexism.
It's not sexist to point out that men historically have held disproportionate cultural, social, economic, and political power and continue to do so to this day.
I agree, however I think it's important that we do not use "implicit bias" as a cover. Implicit bias seems very vague and allows people to evade responsibility. I think there's a lot of very explicit bias (in the form…
It isn't, there is an enormous body of evidence demonstrating that the gender pay gap is driven by overt sexism and institutional barriers. This evidence is far more compelling than speculation about height.
Another way in which rigid, patriarchal gender roles hurt men as well as women. Straight men should be far more critical of sexism and misogyny than they are. This attitude is directly tied to oppression against women…
There's a ton of overt misogyny and sexism in the U.S., nothing "subconscious" about it.
Socialism is a material struggle, it isn't an idealist Utopia where everything is perfect. It's a process. And most socialist regimes have been in the developing world, which had much less to work with and much weaker…
This is ahistorical nonsense. The west industrialized hundreds of years ahead of the rest of the world and spent a century and a half plundering the global south. Regardless, China has managed to almost eliminate…
>they are not the reason why there is still actual poverty and malnutrition in the western world. Why is there poverty and malnutrition in the western world if not because of capitalism? Neoliberal capitalism has been…
>Then why not focus on the anti-competitive behavior, instead of trying to remake the entire society in your leftist image? because my leftist image is good
We could do this all day, but the fundamental difference here is you look at the normal functioning of capitalism and think it is just and good, while I look at it and see it as highly exploitative, unethical and…
You ignored my point - that the concentration of wealth is an inhibitor of solving poverty, and you failed to explain why you feel the need to defend billionaires' interests when they couldn't care less about yours,…
>Some of us do not believe the leftist alternatives being proposed are better. This does not mean we actually like the status quo. You are knocking down a giant strawman here. I'm trying to be fair here, what…