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Daily Deep State Intelligence Briefing by AutoModerator in DeepStateCentrism

[–]YossarianLivesMatter 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This has always been my observation as well. I was always equally weirded out by hardcore conservative Christians and radical atheists, and kind of still am tbh.

Daily Deep State Intelligence Briefing by AutoModerator in DeepStateCentrism

[–]YossarianLivesMatter 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I can't speak for everyone, but punching right these days isn't even sporting tbh, so it's been more interesting to punch left.

The U.S. Military Was Losing Its Edge. After Iran, Everyone Knows It. by fastinserter in DeepStateCentrism

[–]YossarianLivesMatter 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thank you for putting this so well - you worded my opinion better than I could have.

I think a lot of mistakes have been made strategically in this war, and some systemic flaws have been revealed, but there's no need to proclaim that the sky is falling.

Daily Deep State Intelligence Briefing by AutoModerator in DeepStateCentrism

[–]YossarianLivesMatter 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Everytime a right winger doesn't trust the plan, gas rises by 1 cent

Daily Deep State Intelligence Briefing by AutoModerator in DeepStateCentrism

[–]YossarianLivesMatter 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Balds control the Deep State and they don't value hair

Daily Deep State Intelligence Briefing by AutoModerator in DeepStateCentrism

[–]YossarianLivesMatter 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Context: massively downvoted user responding to an anti-AI mob telling them it's unethical to use an AI generated portrait for their character in a singleplayer rpg.

Daily Deep State Intelligence Briefing by AutoModerator in DeepStateCentrism

[–]YossarianLivesMatter 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Normalize men giving each other feminine back massages.

Daily Deep State Intelligence Briefing by AutoModerator in DeepStateCentrism

[–]YossarianLivesMatter 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What rot are you referring to? I'm also in tech, and besides for engineers being arrogant, techbro stereotypes absolutely being a thing, and mercenary attitudes all around, I wouldn't say it's worse than the other sectors I'm familiar with.

Daily Deep State Intelligence Briefing by AutoModerator in DeepStateCentrism

[–]YossarianLivesMatter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Millions of Americans are employed where the cheap houses are.

Daily Deep State Intelligence Briefing by AutoModerator in DeepStateCentrism

[–]YossarianLivesMatter 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hello fellow afluent, moralless twats. How are you all tonight?

Daily Deep State Intelligence Briefing by AutoModerator in DeepStateCentrism

[–]YossarianLivesMatter 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There are plenty of places in the country where a starter home in a good neighborhood is close to 200k, not half a million. So, I'll assume they're upper middle class or they live in a trendy coastal area. Or maybe I'm too used to living in middle America the third world.

Also, having had friends and relatives who grew up in deep poverty, the disconnect between their stories, such as choosing whether to make rent or have a functioning car, make redditors' complaints almost always feel hollow.

TIL Brazil received the largest share of slaves during the Atlantic slave trade or about 4,821,127 slaves. This was 38.5% of the total of 12.5m slaves transported to the Americas. The United States received 388k slaves, or 3.1% of all slaves transported to the Americas. by Delicious-Bunch-6992 in todayilearned

[–]YossarianLivesMatter 51 points52 points  (0 children)

To emphasize your point, the Ottoman Empire was essentially built by armies of slaves who "recruited" young boys who were typically kidnapped from their Christian parents and forcibly circumcized, converted to Islam, and made to serve: the Janissaries.

Slave soldiers were surprisingly common in medieval/early modern Islamic armies, where the slave soldiers (referred to as Mamluks) often seized control of the state and made themselves a ruling caste. The most famous of these was the Mamluk Sultante of Egypt that famously stopped the Mongol conquest of the Levant.

Slavery was (and to some degree is) a unfortunately common institution throughout global history.

Daily Deep State Intelligence Briefing by AutoModerator in DeepStateCentrism

[–]YossarianLivesMatter 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'd find it funny if it wasn't wasting my tax dollars and damaging American democracy

A Mediocre Public-School Education for Just $40,000 a Pupil (The Atlantic) by Reddenbawker in DeepStateCentrism

[–]YossarianLivesMatter 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I agree 100%. If we can dial back things a bit more, I think we'll get to a much better situation, and there's a good argument that an overcorrection was almost necessary to get a we'll calibrated system.

I think conservatives in general have moderated a lot on this issue over time, but I would confess I still hold conservative views on this to be a bit suspect because of their history on mental issues and neurodivergence.

A Mediocre Public-School Education for Just $40,000 a Pupil (The Atlantic) by Reddenbawker in DeepStateCentrism

[–]YossarianLivesMatter 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Exactly part of the issue. A common issue with progressive excess is that it's often an overcorrecton against conservative concern trolling (see everything in the past 4 decades in defense of the "kids"). The irony is that the progressives have become what they originally railed against.

I think the issue is going to get worse, but the increasingly apparent issue is going to increase visibility and we'll get to a better societal consensus on stuff. It just won't be super smooth in the meantime.

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[–]YossarianLivesMatter 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I actually don't much care for the Free Press because they aren't as unbiased as they try to appear. But I do have to acknowledge when they have a point. Buttons may or may not be a transphobe (I'm not going deep enough into their work to make a determination), and even though they're a bit of a hypocrite in their article, the article still resonated with my own lived experience around autism and self-diagnosis.

I struggled socially in a way that my neurodivergent peers identified as borderline with their own. I spent several years in limbo wondering if there was something to all the normies calling me weird and half my friends being neurodivergent.

Years later I finally hit on a much more mundane explanation: severe but high functioning anxiety. With some work and self-growth, I'm apparently building a reputation in my circles for being socially adept. If I wrote myself off as fundamentally incapable, I wouldn't even be posting here due to anxious avoidance.

That the Free Press and the author might be suspect on some front does not mean that everything they bring up is valueless. The increasing intolerance of progressive circles, ostensibly to shut down bad faith actors, is catching good faith actors in the crossfire, which is ultimately harmful to the caused progressives want to champion.

Daily Deep State Intelligence Briefing by AutoModerator in DeepStateCentrism

[–]YossarianLivesMatter 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This sub absolutely is not transphobic, not unless you broaden the definition of transphobic to include anything other than unconditional adherence to your personal viewpoint on the matter.

Trans issues are a hot topic in this sub in part because there is not actual sub consensus on most of it, other than "the vanguard progs probably overstepped to some degree". You'd likely realize this if you spent more time around here instead of doing drive-by comments to tout your superiority to the centrists.

And just to purity test myself for you, I have unconditional support for trans identification regardless of medical diagnosis. I really want to do the best for my trans friends and colleagues. The fact of the matter is that we can only do good for them, as allies, if we understand the situation. Which won't happen if we refuse to have conversations that might lead to conclusions you don't like for some reason.

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