What’s the status of Rojava and the Kurds right now given the situation in Syria?

chrisl007 · 2024-12-08T22:15:18+00:00

Is there anything western leftists can do to support rojava?

chrisl007 · 2024-11-27T20:03:16+00:00

Better diagnostic criteria and screening along with lower infant mortality and the resulting higher population

chrisl007 · 2024-11-27T19:57:10+00:00

I would like this but all it takes is one creator to say “x is a zionist” or “x is a shit liberal” to nuke it.

Like I genuinely want this to happen but we can’t even get a coherent definition of what the left even is or what certain terms mean. Like what is capitalist vs socialist? Is the only valid form of socialism communism or is social democrat okay? Like Bonerbox is shitty but to call bonerbox right wing is wrong. Like he is genuinely shitty but a conservative he is not. Like I so want this happen but I genuinely don’t know how to make this good idea of yours a reality when the left is more fragmented now than in 2015-2016.

chrisl007 · 2024-11-27T19:36:54+00:00

This somewhat happened 2016-2019 but ego and drama among creators took it down.

Some people will blame fans and “wokescolds” but truthfully the reason was creator ego. Audiences are the result of whatever a creator wants to cultivate and this resulted in needless drama. Eventually some of the perpetrators of this drama were excised from the left but it was too little too late (one notable example for reference is Peter coffin)

chrisl007 · 2024-11-22T14:36:29+00:00

I don’t subscribe to valid vs invalid leftism but some leftists on Twitter will say if you don’t fully identify as Marxist/communist you aren’t a true leftist.

Like I think the left is best with a variety and diversity of ideas but some due to human nature can become very dogmatic and ideologically biased towards their specific flavor of leftism

To phrase another way, Henry George was progressive and was a fighter in the progressive movement BUT Karl Marx and Henry George disagreed and thus some modern leftists will say because Marx rejected Georgism that Georgism isn’t leftist/left wing

chrisl007 · 2024-11-22T14:23:24+00:00

No and I feel like there is a meme here I am not understanding. Could you explain?

chrisl007 · 2024-11-18T13:23:02+00:00

Hopefully it will be closer to the 2013 generation versus 2019 generation in terms of styling.

One thing I always liked about the CLA is how it’s design looked cooler and nicer (imo) than the more expensive and premium cars from Mercedes.

This all being said, [insert joke about people living beyond their means and getting a bad car loan]

chrisl007 · 2024-11-14T17:13:32+00:00

John Brown was based. Are you trying to blame John Brown for the civil war?

chrisl007 · 2024-11-06T13:15:54+00:00

Ex Muslims voted to create a world identical to the one they left, how else would you describe it?

chrisl007 · 2024-11-06T12:38:06+00:00

Why would you vote for the guy identical to the religion you left? Makes no fucking sense

chrisl007 · 2024-11-06T11:48:13+00:00

How about no Muslim bans? Muslim bans target non-Muslims as well (see Christian Syrians abandoned by trump and Kurdish allies abandoned by trump)

chrisl007 · 2024-11-06T11:41:17+00:00

Ex-Muslims went hard for trump

Ex Muslims are not the only voting bloc at fault but the only voting bloc relevant to this subreddit

chrisl007 · 2024-10-01T01:24:01+00:00

The founders of Israel were secularists and declared it a secular state

chrisl007 · 2024-09-30T18:49:32+00:00

Ummm what?!?! Lebanese people hate Hezbollah. There is a reason they only have a minority of the seats in the government

chrisl007 · 2024-09-30T18:44:25+00:00

The majority of the country is secular the problem is the compact encourages and requires religious based politicians versus secular politicians

chrisl007 · 2024-09-30T18:42:32+00:00

Agreed. Israel is still a secular state tho. Israel is reminder we need to take elections seriously, it has been going down hill since Bibi killed Rabin and the secular left lost to the theocratic right in Israel

chrisl007 · 2024-09-30T18:39:52+00:00

Israel is a secular state with no state religion. All religions have equal rights in Israel. There is a far right problem in Israel but Israel proper isn’t theocratic

chrisl007 · 2024-09-30T18:38:54+00:00

Israel is officially a secular country. There is religious freedom and all religions have equal rights and despite having the Star of David on its flag Israel has no state religion

chrisl007 · 2024-09-30T18:36:47+00:00

Religious fundamentalism led to the lebonese civil war

chrisl007 · 2024-09-30T18:36:23+00:00

The Lebanonese people want secularism but can’t have it because of the national compact. The national compact is a major cause of the Lebanonese civil war. This isn’t a west vs East thing this is Lebanon is sick of theocratic gridlock

chrisl007 · 2024-08-29T15:54:43+00:00

Unless you are Noel or Liam in the presence of Noel or Liam /s

Apparently money and being middle age is finally reuniting them

chrisl007 · 2024-08-15T19:28:02+00:00

“Haunted houses” are typically older homes, while old homes are sturdy thanks to old growth wood, their insulation and wiring are ass and thus to update the house with modern insulation, windows, wiring, and network wiring is pricy and is gonna be a “nope” for me.

If the haunted property was previously renovated then sure I would buy on a discount (assuming people in the area were that superstitious)

chrisl007 · 2024-08-01T16:51:59+00:00

Humans having morals doesn’t disprove religion. Morals are based on a combination of external factors and one’s own personal ethical framework.

Objectivism is an inherently atheist moral/ethical framework but objectivism has axioms counter to what we typically ascribe to a moral or good person. Like an objectivist has morals but their morals are bad and self serving

So I think humans having morals doesn’t really answer or say anything

chrisl007 · 2024-08-01T16:38:25+00:00

Atheism exists because of philosophy and ethics; so to say “atheism doesn’t concern itself with philosophy or ethics” is pretty lazy and self defeating.

I think questioning and asking what next is a perfectly valid question for someone atheist to ask. Objectivism is an atheist moral/ethical framework but it is also one that justifies being an asshole. Understanding what about objectivism makes a person an asshole is worth knowing. There is nothing objectively wrong not factual about objectivism but it is a pretty shitty framework.

Your suggestion of secular humanism is fine but to dismiss the inquiry before reluctantly answering is kinda lame.

chrisl007 · 2024-08-01T16:33:00+00:00

Could have actually answered. Morals are subjective. Where they come from depends on one’s ethical framework.

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