When talking with libertarians you should keep in mind they have completely different axiomatic values. It is often the case that they understand a certain policy would be on net bad for everyone, they simply don’t care. They are rarely utilitarian about those issues.

I get along much better with libertarians who justify libertarianism with values extrinsic to just “muh freedom” – they are usually much more willing to yield ground in places where I can convince them that a libertarian policy would be net negative, and they have also moved me to be more open minded about some things I thought I would never agree with.

Yeah, good point. I’m with you.

Headline writers believe there are two genders: pilots and female pilots.

can you explain the problem?

it’s beyond me how people can feel bad for one but not the other. Feeling bad for neither or both, that I can understand.

all forgiven

But it’s not even you who I was replying to? It was someone who has now been banned? Unless you’re their alt, in which case you could really help me out here by reminding me what this was even about in the first place.

Anyway, if you would like to call genocides “holocausts,” I am not going to get on your case about that. But if you will use the word holocaust that way, there’s no particularly good reason to call the one in gaza either the second or third holocaust, not as far as I can see.

By the way, I used the word “holocaust” in the sense you are using it at the start of this very thread. So I honestly cannot understand what it is you think I’m policing. I think you might just suck at reading comprehension.

Yes, but it didn’t refer to a genocide before. That’s like saying “the word spam predates the internet,” and calling me a prescriptivist for saying the word “spam” in its digital sense is a neologism with a different meaning. You should note that I mentioned the older meaning of holocaust in this same thread, here.

I’m being perfectly descriptivist btw – I am acknowledging that there may some day be another genocide widely referred to as “a holocaust,” but in general usage I just don’t see people refer to any other genocide as a holocaust. If this starts happening I’ll retract my stance, which I don’t even remember because the comment above was deleted.

I don’t see how what you said is inconsistent with me saying “self” is special in lua. Note that I did not say it’s a keyword.

Lua might have been a better choice, since self is special in lua.

I didn’t know that! Definitely did not mean it as “jew it”!! This was just the first version of the meme I found, I always thought of it as “do it.”

I’ve never encountered an Iranian refugee before, just normal expats.

Crazy. Iran has some really good researchers, at least, I’ve been consistently impressed by Iranian academics abroad.

we’ve gone completely M.A.D.

TIL of Aotearoa, thanks for sharing. That’s a bad-ass name, NZ should switch back to that.

CANZUK ✊ 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇬🇧

Right, they’re asking to cut taxes because the purpose of taxes is to redistribute wealth.

I’m saying WoD failed to stop drugs. Failed, as in, was supposed to and didn’t. Was there a secondary purpose of incarcerating black people? Sure, could be. Is it racist to want to get rid of drugs? Nah.

Redistributing wealth by printing money is pretty stupid. The wealthy don’t have money, because there are better investments. This is all based on the myth that inflation is necessary for society to function; that you need to push people to get rid of their money. Japan went like 20 years without inflation – not saying they don’t have problems, but to my eyes none of those problems are caused by a lack of inflation, and the typical person did not complain that inflation was too low. Redistributing wealth by taxing the rich is based.

That’s just how war is though. War is always justified by the enemy. I’m not saying it’s sad that they choose to defend themselves – it’s sad that they’re in a situation where they must.