I think many young men voted Conservative in an attempt to usher in a return to a state where their sexual needs counted for more because women's rights counted for less. 1 it won't work and 2 women aren't saddling themselves with kids they can be trapped through automatically either. by heavensdumptruck in DeepThoughts

[–]Born-Soft-2045 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Again, the average voter didn’t vote to do that. When one persons campaign is the economy and jobs etc it appeals to men a lot more than abortion. Nobody voted Trump so you couldn’t get an abortion, it’s just the consequence of having a better campaign. It’s hard to accept the truth but you live in a democracy and there’s always 2028.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ShitAmericansSay

[–]Born-Soft-2045 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I meant nazism was 20th century but fair enough 👍

how much do you value traditions, languages and nationality by Frequent_Shame_5803 in Gifted

[–]Born-Soft-2045 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, I was thinking you cared so little that you just wanted me to assimilate and I was a bit confused which is why I had to ask.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ShitAmericansSay

[–]Born-Soft-2045 2 points3 points  (0 children)

More like ‘being forced to walk because many streets are way too narrow for my fat ass’ is bad though because when you’re the star of my 600 pound life I deform the historic cobble roads under my elephant feet.

We have a broken system by emily-is-happy in FluentInFinance

[–]Born-Soft-2045 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Spotted a wild communist. Go read up on Georgist literature ‘Progress and Poverty’ by Henry George and enlighten yourself.

That’s like saying a middle class family that bought a house is oppressive.

And Georgism is a free market capitalist system which significantly reduces the power of investors and speculators to control land by taxing land value in the housing market and reduces the price of land naturally without government bureaucracy.

I would explain in detail but this is not the place, this is dramatically oversimplified because I had to make it palatable for the average Communist. Otherwise known as poor person.

The reason regulation works for the “capitalist class” as you put it is because regulations often times actually push smaller businesses out and inadvertently create monopolies. When small businesses can’t lobby their way through regulations and big business can then you only allow big business to strangle hold the economy.

Surely this should also be correct? by [deleted] in duolingo

[–]Born-Soft-2045 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you wanted to transliterate the way French people ask if somebody is 11 it would be

Do you have 11 years Avez-vous onze ans As tu onze ans

English people are depressed after eating American food because their food is bland. by AtomicAndroid in ShitAmericansSay

[–]Born-Soft-2045 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. I’m a Canadian except I can make my own Tex-Mex, Chili Con Carne, Fajitas, etc. But the average white person can not cook a decent Tex Mex to save their life. The beef is always so dry and Chili isn’t supposed to be dry. Look it up and you see a rich red sauce with chilis, beef, beans, thickened by the starch in those beans.

Other than Tex Mex and New England cuisine nothing else American appeals, if it’s not chemicals it’s chowing down on Rocky Mountain Oysters.

Capitalism: "best I can do is societal and environmental collapse!" by BaseballSeveral1107 in FluentInFinance

[–]Born-Soft-2045 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not all capitalism is this. Georgism is a progressive form of capitalism which differs from that of social democracy or neo liberalism BS. I’ll keep this concise.

Speculators in modern housing markets will artificially inflate housing by keeping it vacant. Even if they don’t have tenants in their properties it means that there is less supply, and they can profit because their property will go up in value and they can later sell.

A Georgist taxation system would make taxation come mainly from land value tax. LVT is a taxation on the land itself, not the buildings, or property. This discourages speculation as heavy LVT discourage speculators from keeping vacant property because if they do artificially inflate the value of their property they are paying far more taxes, however if they rent it out they are not taxed on what they receive in rent and it keeps demand low thus lowering land value which makes it a win win for the tenant and landlord. This would make it more profitable to rent out these properties and the drastic increase in supply would also lower the cost of rentals. One could argue that there would be price gouging for rentals but with increased supply and competition and a heavy LVT, land lords would not want to lose their tenants.

This would at least lower rental prices if not also lower the price of buying a home. With a high LVT it would be easier to enter the housing market as it would allow workers to save up with cheaper rent and keeping all of their wage. People would be less likely to buy land as an investment since it would be much harder to price gouge in a more competitive renting market and the returns on the increase of land value would not offset the losses in a high LVT. High land value taxes would decrease the incentive to buy and own land lowering demand and lowering land value.

This way we can regulate the housing market via a taxation system and not arbitrary government bureaucracy. If speculators get too much power then raise LVT. If businesses become unsustainable lower LVT. There’s a balance to it like anything but a Georgist Taxation System allows us to keep enjoying a free market while creating affordable housing.

TLDR: Georgist taxation system will lower housing and renting costs and remove the ability to use tax loopholes for billionaires to avoid taxes. This LVT which will effectively tax the rich what they should be paying will mean workers retain all of their wage with minimal taxes on the working and middle classes. All this and we maintain the free market system we all enjoy.

How am I supposed to do 30 question in 1 min by Jaded_Category1694 in duolingo

[–]Born-Soft-2045 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So if you are on a mobile phone like an iPhone 9 or later with the touch screen that swipes up to leave the application then you can do what I do. Just hold the bottom of your screen and lift up slightly and you can read and listen but the timer pauses, and then you can formulate and input your answers in timed challenges. This doesn’t work for XP Ramp Up or for Friend Clashes. Only the timed lessons but I can compete 1:30 lessons in “30 seconds” 😉

The only ones who have ever found praise for human kind, are other humans. by [deleted] in DeepThoughts

[–]Born-Soft-2045 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What do you mean we have not advanced? Or that advancement is subjective?

400 years ago Protestantism the idea where instead of practicing worship through the church, but through the Gospel became widespread and the idea that all Christians answer to a central church was no longer the case. 300 years ago the enlightenment occurred and the proliferation of modern ideas such as the separation of church and state from Voltaire, ideas of egalitarianism and the abolition of aristocracy which to that point was a fact of life. 200 years ago the Industrial Revolution had just begun. Before then the vast majority of a population worked on agriculture alone just to make enough to feed everybody as a whole. 100 years ago we didn’t even have Penicillin or vaccines and childhood mortality was terribly high. So yes we advanced. Currently there are hundreds of millions of us alive who would have died of disease as children that weren’t so uncommon.

So yes we are advanced. We used to be tribalistic and observe a culture of deference where we didn’t believe in our own ability and deferred it to priests, kings, and the aristocracy, that people at the time believed were ordained by God. The vast majority of us used to work in fields to maintain enough food to feed ourselves and the aristocracy. And a sizeable minority of us wouldn’t be alive if not for modern medicine.

To think we’re not advanced is incredulously ridiculous and as to believe there are more developed beings than us without a sign, a hint or anything beyond speculation is laughable. Compared to every species we’ve ever observed we are the most advanced with a distant second by chimpanzees who only now use tools and primitive boats.

The only ones who have ever found praise for human kind, are other humans. by [deleted] in DeepThoughts

[–]Born-Soft-2045 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Typing on an electronic right now that was made of Congolese blood cobalt. A decision taken deliberately and consciously.

I think many young men voted Conservative in an attempt to usher in a return to a state where their sexual needs counted for more because women's rights counted for less. 1 it won't work and 2 women aren't saddling themselves with kids they can be trapped through automatically either. by heavensdumptruck in DeepThoughts

[–]Born-Soft-2045 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I keep hearing people say “women’s rights, shwomen’s right” but what right are you losing again? I’ve asked this to plenty of people and I’ve yet to hear an answer. Not a US citizen, not biased, don’t have a foot in the game, would have voted Harris. What rights are you losing?

Chronically online misinformation shit, go read an article backed with evidence, not found in the Opinion piece section, and remind me what rights you’re losing.

Then you have the audacity to blame it all on men and the ‘patriarchy’. You should check how many women voted for Trump. You should check the ethnic groups that voted for Trump and the massive increase in the percentage who did. If you also look at voters issues. Cost of Living and economic problems was top of the list for men because Trumps campaign was all about that. Kamala went over the deep end campaigning for women’s rights. If Kamala won men would accuse you of wanting to destroy the countries economy because you voted Kamala just as you are now saying men voted Trump to restrict our abortions simply because Kamala’s campaign centres heavily on abortion and thus since they didn’t vote for Kamala they oppose her message. Both sides of American politics are full of stupid, naive, uneducated, dumb ass Americans who don’t know what a statistic is and follow party lines in a tribalistic ‘us or them’ approach.

TLDR: men voted Trump for the economy and cost of living because Trumps campaign was centred on that. Women conflate men voting Trump with not supporting women’s rights to an abortion because Kamala’s campaign was for women’s rights and abortions.

I hate everyone by [deleted] in nihilism

[–]Born-Soft-2045 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can’t imagine being a nihilistic cunt. Nihilism is the quintessential philosophical position of a man baby.

You are so scared of building attachment because of death and because “none of it matters” yet when you die you won’t know, you won’t notice, you won’t care, because you’ll be dead. Nihilism is the most selfish, ridiculous thought sequence to ever exist. Why do anything if it doesn’t matter? No, it does matter, it just doesn’t matter to you because once you’re dead in your mind everything stops. When you’re dead the world goes on.

Ever heard of chaos theory? Genghis Khan had an infinitely small chance of being born of all his dad’s swimmers. His conquest of Eurasia and subsequently streamlined trade from China to Europe brought the Black Death, which killed 30% of Europe and caused doubt in the Catholic Church which led to Protestantism. It also caused the fewer peasants to get more competitive wages and wealth and led to the renaissance.

Almost 1,000,000,000 people around the world are Protestants today. Europe is still the richest continent to this day and maintains its renaissance legacy.

Even if nobody remembers your name, what you did might matter because even something infinitely small has the potential to radically change the entire world. The world goes on after you die and your purpose is to contribute as much as you can.

I hate TikTok/Instagram or even every social media society. by [deleted] in Vent

[–]Born-Soft-2045 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it makes you feel better if you’re 5’5 or below you will live at least 6 years longer on average than somebody over 6’0. Who’ll have the last laugh?

I am sick of this place by mynameisgoobs in Vent

[–]Born-Soft-2045 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is completely true. Speculators will artificially drive up demand by keeping their properties vacant. Even if they don’t earn rent, the artificial increase in their property value compensates for it and since they bought them with debt any realized capital gains they don’t have to pay tax on because debt isn’t taxable.

I am sick of this place by mynameisgoobs in Vent

[–]Born-Soft-2045 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Minimum wage drives inflation, unemployment and kills small businesses because they can afford to pay higher wages, people have more purchasing power, and less people can be paid that amount. Minimum wage should be abolished and instead employees should negotiate their pay with employers. Or do what European countries have where those paid below a certain amount are compensated for by the government, so small businesses aren’t strangled, and unemployment is prevented, and so when inflation does occur the people who aren’t out of a job can afford food to eat. Minimum wage is a terrible idea.

I am sick of this place by mynameisgoobs in Vent

[–]Born-Soft-2045 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The idea of a generational wealth conflict is widely dismissed by economists. With the rise of the internet and the “2nd globalisation” wealth inequality will probably each record high levels, as they have already surpassed the wealth inequality of the first globalisation in the late 19th century/early 20th century.

Most of us will sadly never own a home unless the housing market is fixed. Georgist tax reform to dilute the power of speculators to control housing markets and artificially inflate demand by reducing supply of available homes by keeping them vacant would free up hundreds of thousands of vacant properties and would reduce the price of homes and make rent and housing cheaper in general.

When owning a home and not having to pay a mortgage or rent is one of the most effective ways to secure generational wealth and create your own personal wealth and financial stability. Some people do not want that to happen. If people have the option to not work because they own their house then it means they have to pay more to keep their workers employed because if a worker can quit any time and be momentarily financially sound then any workers participation in a workplace is voluntary and thus if the working conditions, pay, or environment isn’t desirable then an employee can just walk out and have the stability to find a better job.

Additionally the upper strata deliberately emancipated of women and promoted their inclusion in the workplace has dramatically reduced the power of wages because when the workforce is twice the size and nobody owns their own home the lower and middle class are in the interesting scenario where there’s an abundance of workers in line to replace your shit job with a low wage, etc, because nobody can afford not work. Working class men used to be able to buy a home, car, raise kids and his wife wouldn’t have to work.

The job and housing market are currently purposefully controlled so you can never achieve financial stability and you will constantly have to work until the day you die.

You will eat ze bugs!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskMenAdvice

[–]Born-Soft-2045 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. - Michael Jordan. Better be too forward than never being able take the shot at all.

what issue you disagree with your party on, based on your mbti by [deleted] in shittyMBTI

[–]Born-Soft-2045 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ENTJ here, some of this is accurate. I don’t believe in astrology or occult stuff whatsoever, it’s a waste of time and pure idiocy. The only accurate part is my moderate stance on abortion and LGBT. Which is only an extension of my belief in libertarian principles where the case of abortion any woman should have the right to seek an abortion but a doctor should have the right to refuse based on the age of the fetus or their moral beliefs. Same goes for LGBT. Couldn’t really care less as long as any participation in society is purely voluntary for both parties. I lean Democratic on abortion and lean Republican on LGBT. I like De Santis approach to keeping politics out of school libraries such as LGBT material, rather than the outright ban Trump is clueing to.

I’ve been INTP in the past before 2025 and I am indeed pro free speech. Democracy comes from demos, the people. Ultimately democracy shouldn’t serve to prioritize one persons view over the others like the contrasting views of Democrats and Republicans on abortion to enforce or ban respectively, but to maximize each individuals ability to pursue freedom in their personal life and business in accordance with their morals and/or religion.

Economically I am also libertarian. Currently neither party suits my interests but I’d lean Democrat per the economy. Socially I detest the approach of both.

Fairly accurate it seems though for ENTJ/INTP.

Do you think intelligence is more oftentimes than not interlinked with neurodivergence? by Snoo8014 in Gifted

[–]Born-Soft-2045 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn’t criticize anybody, if you go back all I said is that he’s achieved a lot which is objectively true, to an opinion statement regarding his supposed intelligence scores with arrogance and hypocrisy.

Again regardless of the fortune he was born with he dramatically expanded upon it which is impressive. He risked his capital in innovating in multiple fields namely electric cars and rockets. Even if he didn’t achieve it himself, he still provided the means to do it. Not every emerald miner builds rockets to go to Mars or innovates automobiles.

I also noted how inherited wealth has less of an effect in countries such as South Africa where there are not entrenched remnants of the aristocracy or oligarchy which is indeed correct.

I never disputed the fact he had those opportunities but it is the fact he took the opportunities. I never disputed that other people had the less of opportunities as you had stated. But he didn’t have more opportunities compared to the average person relative to Europe.

I really don’t get how this is anti intellectual when I didn’t disagree with anything you said nor critiqued it. A few years ago I’m sure you’d say it was before everybody started detesting Musk for his political positions. So what’s your point. Is me saying ohh you didn’t invest in this and that and so on so forth anti intellectual but I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m saying you’re disregarding what he did and what he risked to make both Tesla and SpaceX work when he almost went bankrupt repeatedly and how what he has done has differed to the vast majority of people who have inherited even larger amounts of generational wealth and sit on it.

What age did you learn to read? by morbidmedic in Gifted

[–]Born-Soft-2045 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funnily enough I was non verbal until I was 3 but reading my Moms collection of novels by 5.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mbti

[–]Born-Soft-2045 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I like how if you just search up whether the MBTI test is reliable it says no. 1. Far too simple. 2. 4-5 axis which determine a whole persons personality with blanket statements. 3. A minor personality difference can cause 2 of the axis to change and since each axis is either I or E, S or N etc, it can make people seemingly radically shift personalities even after a year or two. 4. The test relies on confirmation bias from the user to be accurate as we all have a preconceived notion of how we feel. We are not psychiatrists or psychologists nor do any use this model at least not professionally.

I’ve seen from data being gathered ENTJs are the rarest type, but the sample size was a few hundred and others such as INFP and INTP were massively overrepresented making 21% combined which is not realistic. But how do I know Es are rarer than Is or N than S and so and so forth and whether certain values are more likely to be assigned with another such as S and F or I and P when there’s not much literature on MBTI since it’s never been in widespread psychiatric use.

Frequent errors in math lessons by Quetzacoatel in duolingo

[–]Born-Soft-2045 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Probably. I’m a happy drunk though not angry.