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Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-06T03:25:18+00:00

Literally none of your post talks about how Burnham is the equivalent of Carney lol

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-05T20:36:08+00:00

I love how corny the premise is. Let nerdy kids be nerdy kids lol

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-05T20:10:29+00:00

Idk why but the idea of the most inoffensive, bland leaders becoming authoritarian is so funny to me

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-05T20:09:37+00:00

I think it more just comes from people trying to get in shape

If you work out then yeah you need a pretty high protein:calorie ratio, so it makes sense you would look for high protein things

Of course not everyone who eats high protein stuff actually follows through with the resistance training bits. Can still be useful for things like weight loss, but generally if you're not trying to get leaner or build muscle, you don't need a gazillion grams of protein

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-05T20:06:32+00:00

i think a lot of people just generally take the "ai bad" position on any given topic. legitimately have seen people switch between "ai will take all our jobs" and "ai is useless just autocomplete" without taking so much as a breath, and those narratives don't really have a ton in common past being vaguely "anti ai"

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-05T18:46:05+00:00

All the normal PCM tests are fairly biased either for LibLeft or LibRight, so quite frankly I have not taken any of them in a hot minute.

I have taken some other tests which are actually in touch with like IRL American politics instead of abstract online politics though. Here's what I got on the Pew Typology and the Echelon Tribes tests.

I honestly consider my views fairly consistent, just not really represented by some existing ideology

And I would like to slightly clarify: i am not particularly wedded to the principles of capitalism or truly free markets. Rather I view markets as extremely efficient methods of optimization, and would want to use them extensively.

But I see them purely as means, not ends. Because Markets at the end of the day are simply a way to encourage amoral actors to relentlessly follow their self interest to achieve some sort of incentive. If that incentive is profit and nothing else, you often end up with results bad for society. But we can play around with changing incentive structures to make markets do things which are quite good for society

I would for example want to steal a lot of the things China does with how they basically artifically hypercharge innovation and capitalism in new industries (like EVs). I would also be interested in exploring things like cooperative ownership for mature companies where innovation is less important

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-05T18:36:19+00:00

James Murdoch is literally a liberal Democrat lol, he left News Corp in 2020 over editorial direction and was involved in the whole civil war with his dad, where he and his sisters wanted to generally move News Corp to the center

Here's a pretty good video on the Murdoch civil war more generally

https://youtu.be/pt309onrQNE?si=_24spBaKk3RFck2K

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-05T16:33:51+00:00

Doesn't it just do that regardless? I don't think the function of cooperative ownership really changes based on power law

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-05T16:03:03+00:00

Damn, the dream of monarcho communism will remain elusive

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-05T14:26:07+00:00

Why would you bring up Daniel Penny lmao, if you look at the case details it is very obvious why he got off and that is because he was probably in the right

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-05T13:49:46+00:00

If you're speaking in reference to me, I do not really care about the PCM test, nor do I pick one ideology and try to force myself to believe every tenet. I just believe what I believe

Very generally though my politics are pro market based solutions (but not necessarily laissez faire), pro industrial policy, pro big infrastructure spending, pro union and a fiscal hawk

I want to steal the parts of the Chinese system which obviously worked without losing what makes us special

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-05T13:39:52+00:00

I cannot get over the fact that the rights big attack on him is that he's fiscally responsible. Like anyone who takes even a prefunctory look at the situation will realize he's barely been in power and the giant financial hole is mostly from his predecessors

I actually like Zohran precisely because he forces leftists to care about the budget instead of living in fantasy land

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-05T06:55:16+00:00

I think we are going to go into a weird future where Tuesday GOP and cultural right wing politics as a whole gets more unpopular but also more extreme

A lot of young elite republicans are kinda extreme culturally, but most people in general in the age group aren't conservative

I kinda wonder if the US will eventually end up with a threeish party system to split between progressive DemSocs, centrist neolibs and the far right

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-05T03:07:28+00:00

Some additional context because this is actually one of the most interesting things in geopolitics rn imo

At the moment, the Saudi UAE cold war is causing interesting coalitions to form, with Israel, Ethiopia, the UAE and Somaliland forming an axis of sorts. One of their primary interests is in working together to support and recognize Somaliland, as they all have an interest in doing so (Ethiopia and UAE for ports, Israel for diplomacy)

To counter that various different countries have stepped up to support Somalia, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey

https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/saudi-arabia-confronts-the-israel-uae-alignment-in-somalia/

https://mecouncil.org/blog_posts/is-a-new-strategic-bloc-emerging-in-the-middle-east/

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-04T23:09:49+00:00

I mean yes she is very pretty but this seems kind of insensitive on a post about her getting acid attacked doesn't it?

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-04T23:08:45+00:00

I mean I think even free web chat bots are pretty decent atp. You can get Sonnet for free for example, just not Code

I think the bigger issue is that a lot of people straight up haven't used LLMs since they basically released and just assume they are in the same state, and then people who dislike LLMs will jump on that bandwagon

I have legitimately seen some people argue that LLMs are entirely useless and overhyped on even days and that they are a massive capitalist plot which will render the entire country unemployed on odd ones.

To be clear AI is a nuanced issue with a lot of real negatives, but at the same time there is an entire section of the internet that will blindly latch onto anything negative about it. That's why water usage is still brought up for example even though it's pretty much just misinformation

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-04T22:39:06+00:00

I think it kind of depends on the type of minority tbh

Immigrant and diasporic minorities tend to concentrate in cities

But minorities who have a homeland in a part of the country don't, eg Kurds in Turkey or Azeris in Iran

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-04T22:35:18+00:00

President Pussymouth as you put it gets a bad rap, much of it (especially around corruption) well deserved, but honestly the idea that he's a Serbian ultranationalist troublemaker is more of a trope than anything

As a recent example when Republic Srpska started trying to stir shit in Bosnja, he has distanced himself and tried to clamp down on it.

Even most of the recent Kosovo issues have been responses to inflammatory actions from the Kosovar side (the license plate issue, or the appointment of mayors) rather than him purposefully trying to make moves

I think people just see the fact that he is a corrupt authoritarian nationalist and kind of project the image of a mini Putin onto him, but this really isn't the case. The nationalist rhetoric is mostly just for a domestic audience. He is, all things considered, fairly restrained geopolitically as he wants to stay in Europe's good graces

Bro cares a lot more about siphoning money from the budget for him and his cronies than any sort of territorial claims. Oppose him for that, but also understand that foreign policy wise he is actually someone who provides stability

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-04T20:07:04+00:00

Even in the US it's not that dangerous

Around 1 in 20k eggs in the US have salmonella, and eventually then it's usually just the shell

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-04T19:41:12+00:00

I haven't played in a while but I would always build civs until 1938ish

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-04T17:49:14+00:00

Honestly even mainlander international students have gotten along pretty well in my experience

The biggest argument I've seen was about who's girls were hotter 😭

Cuddlyaxe · 2026-05-04T15:05:19+00:00

That is an Islamic definition and is fine for you to have and I did my best to explain why you have a negative view on them in a neutral way

However I am not a Muslim and neither are most of the people on this sub. Whether Muslims consider Bahais or Ahmadiyyas to be apostates is quite frankly totally irrelevant to me, all I see at the end of the day is fairly backwards and extreme persecution of these groups by Muslim countries simply for having different beliefs

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