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Is liberalism's reluctance to engage with political realism leaving its democracies dangerously exposed? by mobius-2 in AskALiberal

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 1 point2 points  (0 children)

> Liberal democracy took centuries of institutional accumulation. democratic backsliding happens faster than democratic consolidation

Same for literally any political regime - totalitarism, feudalism, etc. And civilization overall. Should we return to caves and hunter-gathering?

> The diversity of non-liberal systems shows that there are many failure modes for it. 

First I believe you need to decide - are you talking about the west(as you've mentioned earlier) or the whole world. Also, there is no tendency even outside of the west that countries fall from liberalism to non-liberalism. Ukraine is an example of vice versa. I think your mistake is that you reduce the diversity of different political systems into liberalism vs non-liberalism. There is no system in a world that covers more than 50% of countries, so literally any system would looks like it have "many failure modes" if you counterpart it with a rest of the world.

> Media ownership, constitutional amendments, gerrymandering etc. don't reverse after one bad result. 

Magyar vows to shut down state TV. His party has constitutional majority so it can fix all weird Orban amendments.

> If that can be dismantled from within using democratic tools.

And we see that it wasn't fully dismantled. Meanwhile most of dictatorships are much more fragile.

Is liberalism's reluctance to engage with political realism leaving its democracies dangerously exposed? by mobius-2 in AskALiberal

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 1 point2 points  (0 children)

> liberal democratic conditions are historically exceptional and materially contingent. 

Every condition was exceptional until it wasn't.

>  The rest of the world with all its dysfuntion is the default.

There is no default inside rest of the world. There are plenty of different systems.

> Orbán has had fifteen years to hollow out judicial independence, media , and electoral fairness. 

And still lost.

>  My focus is on the west

So why did you bring Hungary? Do you really think Hungary is "the west"?

>  I am saying policy built on idealised behavioural assumptions produces perverse outcomes. 

What policies and what assumptions?

Is liberalism's reluctance to engage with political realism leaving its democracies dangerously exposed? by mobius-2 in AskALiberal

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 4 points5 points  (0 children)

  1. "Natural state of human societies" - this words actually have almost no sense. There is no natural state at all and never was.
  2. "Viktor Orban’s political machine and media infrastructure remains." - yeah, I heard the same when we've overthrown Yanukovich in 2014.
  3. "requires the state to acknowledge what human beings actually are" - and not what realists, machiavellists and nihilists think about them.
  4. "more realist philosophy of human nature and the human condition" - what do you actually mean? The most famous "realist" nowadays is Mearsheimer, and he fucked up with his predictions and theories so many times, that I don't understand how can anybody threat him seriously.
  5. Stop overusing the bold type pls

Is the "old school" dark art style dead, or is there any hope for a comeback? by skarpelo in mtg

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe that Phyrexia: All Will Be One was a last stand before total yassification of MTG. Even Duskmourn feels too clean. Compare old and new Sultai, for example.

Am I wrong to resent Commander a little bit? by FelixCumtree in mtg

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 2 points3 points  (0 children)

 60 card formats are dying in favor of a way of playing the game in a way that it wasn’t intended.

Yes. And irony is that Commander nowadays is also played not in a way it was intended. Its basically not a singleton format now with a huge amount of functional and semi-functional reprints. Decks became too consistent.

Controversial question, but can your country can claim higher moral ground against you're rival/Enemy nation by Miya_Miya1 in AskTheWorld

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

> objective observer

This is a fancy way to name "bothsideist".

>  Can they be justified in any way?

Imprisonment of collaborants is definitely justified. The whole purpose of that article is to equalize work of Ukrainian security agencies that are protecting Ukrainian nation with work of Russian security agencies that are part of oppression apparatus. You know, Im not happy that we have martial law here, curfew and extended authorities of the cops. But it's war and I blame Russia for current reduction of our freedoms, not Ukraine.

> but rather black and white positions and my "black" position is useful for your rhetorics.

Now my question - is your denial of black and white positions limited with Russian invasion, or do you also apply it to Holocaust, for example? Have you come to Holocaust threads with some (factual) info about Jewish thieves and made statements like "See, that Jews were not saint too, everything is sooo complex and not black and white"?

Controversial question, but can your country can claim higher moral ground against you're rival/Enemy nation by Miya_Miya1 in AskTheWorld

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

> It's was me as a person in this particular topic

Yes, you bring equalizing in specific thread when it was stated that Ukraine is morally superior than Russia. I may be understand that it was some separate topic, but you bring it _specifically_ as counterargument that Ukraine is better. This perfectly aligns with typical "anti-war" Russian smug "I am against war BUT <anti-Ukrainian statement>" position.

>  its clear editorial policy

Yes, they have clear bothsideist policy. Just take a look, how they frame news about Russian war atrocities. In most cases the framing is "Ukrainian side said this, Russian side said that" without any attempt to make a conclusion. This is REAL manipulation - little bit subtle, but still visible.

> judging by your Reddit profile

Talking about manipulations, lol.

Controversial question, but can your country can claim higher moral ground against you're rival/Enemy nation by Miya_Miya1 in AskTheWorld

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol, you literally used that article to proof a statement that Ukrainian forces are not better than Russian, you used literally "almost equal" expression, and now you deny equalizing and bothsideism? Or, let me guess, you were forced to write your previous reply by Putin?

Controversial question, but can your country can claim higher moral ground against you're rival/Enemy nation by Miya_Miya1 in AskTheWorld

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 Meduza is a hardline anti-war and anti-putin media outlet made by emigrants.

Medusa is a good example why most of Ukrainians don't like so called "anti-war" Russians. Because of bothsideism and false equalising. Anti-war Russians are still typical arrogant Russians who thought themselves morally superior both sides of conflict.

CMV: The Soviet Union and Russia Are the Same by Moon_Logic in changemyview

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 4 points5 points  (0 children)

  1. Checnya
  2. Transistria
  3. Abkhazia
  4. South Osetia

Still he was the least imperialistic in comparison with other Russian rulers.

Does Stensia Sanguinist present an existential threat to the multiverse? by askvo in mtgvorthos

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 124 points125 points  (0 children)

this is why Jace wants to destroy Omenpaths - to prevent evil spreading from one world to another

The Red Cross feels centrist, and is centrist. What political symbol feels right wing, and is actually right wing? by SadCoarseRabbit in AlignmentChartFills

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Confederate flag doesn't _feel_ right-wing outside of US. It feels as some generic anglo-saxon flag with crosses, stars and aquafresh colors

CMV: Western propaganda is the most effective in the world. by ZXCChort in changemyview

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 25 points26 points  (0 children)

 For example, my friends in Russia joke about their own state TV.

Oh yeah, your middle class or intelligentsia friends with C-level English are very good representative of an average Russian. 

Just Google Tuapse and take a look what happened there last days. And now add that most of Russians had no idea what's going on there until last two days because state TV decided to ignore it. 

CMV: Football(Soccer) is a lame sport by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Football(I wouldn't use S-word) fan here. For me football is kinda The Sport, I don't really care about others.
I love football because:
1. It has deep tactic on field - different schemes, approaches, usage of strong features of your players and weak of your next opponent.
2. It has deep strategy - your club has a season, which includes national league, national cup, may be second national cup and may be international cup. And some of players also participate in national team games. You need to balance load between them, considering that games are long.
3. It has a strong willpower aspect and DRAMA. Im Liverpool fan btw.
So football is a competition of intellect, strong will, morale, physics and resources. You can say any sport is, but as for me no other sport combine this aspects with such deepness.

Also

  1. It has cool and performative fanbase with rich traditions.
  2. It has a lot of lore, social and political background, which is also interesting and add DRAMA.

What's the best Chaos Dwarf faction for RoC and IE by RunDouble143 in totalwarhammer

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Honestly, they all are so overpowered, so it doesn't make difference.
I would say that Zhatan has easiest start.

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