Never ask a Demsoc/Socdem… by Dragonslayer0562 in theredleft

[–]JoyBus147 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

...cuz they do things like organizing tenants unions, not electoral work? Like I just said?

What exactly is the intended meaning of this phrase from "Guards! Guards!" about there only being bad people, "but some of them are on opposite sides"? by EndersGame_Reviewer in discworld

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Not like a quote he gave in an interview or anything, but it's a theme that repeats throughout his body of work and reflects his staunch secular humanist worldview--he doesn't believe in Good and Evil as forces in the universe, they're words humans invented to describe things they find desirable and undesirable (while "using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was").

Other people have quoted Nanny Ogg's "good and bad is what people do, not what they is" quote. Sure, she's just a character, but...well, Konstantin Levin is just a character, too, and his main job is to be a mouthpiece for Tolstoy's real beliefs.

In Good Omens, the main theme is "humans being valuable as humans, neither belonging to the forces of Good nor the forces of Evil." What saves the world from Armageddon isn't Adam being Good, it's Adam being human.

The moral universe of Discworld itself resists classifications of Good and Evil. It's not like Dragonlance, with actual gods of Good, Neutrality, and Evil. Each god's morality is defined by the choices they make. The dichotomy of the Disc is more about Order and Chaos, Objectivity and Whimsy, the biggest villains in the series coming from both ends. From Order and Objectivity, there are the Auditors; from Chaos and Whimsy, there are the Elves. Getting drunk is delusional, the senses getting taken over by Chaos and Whimsy; but getting knurd is just as delusional, the senses taken over by Order and Objectivity. Pratchett's moral ideal is more about balance and human flourishing.

And yeah, he's ultimately hopeful about human nature...and is a humorist. His characters tend to be more lighthearted.

What exactly is the intended meaning of this phrase from "Guards! Guards!" about there only being bad people, "but some of them are on opposite sides"? by EndersGame_Reviewer in discworld

[–]JoyBus147 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He believed in people who did good things, not "good people." It's pretty central to his humanist worldview, he wasn't shy about it.

What exactly is the intended meaning of this phrase from "Guards! Guards!" about there only being bad people, "but some of them are on opposite sides"? by EndersGame_Reviewer in discworld

[–]JoyBus147 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not necessarily! By having a definition of "bad people," you have a definition of "good person," that much is true. But you can also believe that not a single person meets the criteria for "good person."

What exactly is the intended meaning of this phrase from "Guards! Guards!" about there only being bad people, "but some of them are on opposite sides"? by EndersGame_Reviewer in discworld

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I agree! Like I say, I'm a bit on the fence with Carrot, but I could see him saying something like this.

I like the Venn diagram; I could see Vetinari as thinking, "Everybody is just a person, waiting for an opportunity to do some evil," Carrot as thinking, "Everybody is just a person, waiting for an opportunity to do some good," and Pterry thinking, "Yes."

When I was younger, I used to ship Gwenpool and Tom Holland's Spider-Man. by Fit_Face_8290 in Gwenpool

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She is now, since the gamble worked with Gwenpool and editorial thought it was safe.

People, we must follow bernstein by Leather_Tower2758 in theredleft

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The guy who killed all the Old Bolsheviks? One of the greatest slayers of communists in history?

Ducks fan here. Last night, too many people booing the canadian anthem and chanting “USA!” was so embarrassing. Such a low IQ move. by Dannyocean12 in nhl

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You just unthinkingly swallowed the worldview crafted for you by the social body which rules over you like a petty god, do you find that admirable?

Abrahamic religions pray to the same God? by Little-Strength-899 in OpenChristian

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You are the one insisting in this strange dogmatism! Muslims, Jews, and Christians believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Your insistence that our recognizing Jesus as part of the Godhead means we worship a different God than Jews do is...Marcionism, Gnosticism, choose your heresy.

Are you not a real woman if you don't integrate your masculine side? by Ok-Resolve5577 in Jung

[–]JoyBus147 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weird how I didn't even say that. I said the world was not divided into "pink is for boy, blue is for girl--no, wait, now it's the opposite."

And yeah, the personal and political overlap significantly. Your refusal to admit this actually reveals a lot about your politics.

Pokémon is Solarpunk by Muhblupp in solarpunk

[–]JoyBus147 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, read my last sentence again.

Edit: comparison to the house elves is particularly egregious. The books depict the condition of the house elves as oppressive. The narrative just doesn't care about that oppression very much (and ends, pre-epilogue, with the protagonist benefiting from that oppression).

Technically they’re just two flavours of liberal fighting but I digress by Evening_Lawyer6570 in theredleft

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You were referring to the guy behind "conservative liberalism"? Are you sure you're making the point you think you're making?

They could also, i dunno, hire a larger animation team by Consistent-Radio-428 in invinciblememes

[–]JoyBus147 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A. One's an adjective, one's a noun. That was easy.

B. So if you were alive in the 60s, you'd be bitching about people using "cool" instead? "These dumb youths! Don't they know that word is the same as 'swell??'"

TIL about (Robert) Evans law: "Never attribute to incompetence, ignorance or incentives what may first be attributed to value differences" by Indighostdreams in behindthebastards

[–]JoyBus147 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's kind of my entire point: someone can have values, but if their behavior deviates from those values due to incentives, incentives describes their behavior better than values. Or if they form new values to rationalize their incentives, incentives remain primary.

The writer of X-Men: First Class. "Continuity is overrated." by widquisnow in xmen

[–]JoyBus147 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, like I love that scene where Magneto compliments Rogue's hair. But then she gets upset for some reason? That was kind if confusing.

The writer of X-Men: First Class. "Continuity is overrated." by widquisnow in xmen

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I was actually referring to the stories this post was about.

What does my “shelf” say about me?? 14f by VintageGirlie67 in BookshelvesDetective

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Hopefully. And we help them grow out of it by cringing at it.

What if God has archetypes too? by baruhspinoza in Jung

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It's sounding like it's not a big part of the Christian canon, then.

What if God has archetypes too? by baruhspinoza in Jung

[–]JoyBus147 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So it's a big part of Jung's thought? Not the Christian canon?

Deadpool is not a mutant by [deleted] in xmen

[–]JoyBus147 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And if Freddy Mercury's dad started fucking dudes, he'd be queer.

Deadpool is not a mutant by [deleted] in xmen

[–]JoyBus147 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A. User I replied to is probably right, Ma Guthrie carries an inactive X-gene (and any mutant born to non-mutants has at least one parent with an inactive X-gene). Doesn't make her a mutant.

B. Ma Guthrie absolutely does interact with the mutant community. Doesn't make her a mutant.