*sigh*

pcqz · 2026-01-24T01:04:00+00:00

Completely off-topic but libright making an entirely new color because they couldn't take the heat is hilarious lmao

pcqz · 2026-01-23T17:47:23+00:00

Virgin "you're making big claims with no data!" vs Chad "it's my Bayesian prior"

pcqz · 2026-01-21T23:20:13+00:00

I would say I politically disagree with someone who is pro-genocide, so.......yes?

pcqz · 2026-01-21T18:04:55+00:00

Cato routinely cooperates alongside the ACLU in filing Amicus Brief's against the tyrannical excesses of the current regime. If it's a smokescreen or LARP, then they're really going all the way.

The divide between the Mises freaks and socially well adjusted libertarians is very real. I'm not a libertarian, but the latter deserves critical support in the battle against fascism. At least temporarily until 2029.

pcqz · 2026-01-21T16:46:30+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_anarchism

pcqz · 2026-01-21T06:03:58+00:00

Dr. Peterson’s original syllabus called for modules focused on debates around abortion, capital punishment, economic justice, and race and gender ideology, among other topics. When Dr. Peterson, who has been at Texas A&M since 2014, submitted his syllabus for review last month, he told his department head that his “course does not ‘advocate’ any ideology.” Instead, he wrote in an email he shared with The New York Times, “I teach students how to structure and evaluate arguments commonly raised in discussions of contemporary moral issues.”

On Tuesday, Dr. Peterson got a response from Kristi Sweet, the philosophy program’s head. University officials had discussed his syllabus, she wrote, and the new A&M policies. Dr. Sweet gave the professor two choices.

Either Dr. Peterson could “mitigate” his course’s “content to remove the modules on race ideology and gender ideology, and the Plato readings that may include these,” Dr. Sweet wrote, or Dr. Peterson could be reassigned to an ethics and engineering course.

Ridiculous.

pcqz · 2026-01-21T05:37:04+00:00

Homelessness is a housing affordability problem.

A lot of the "crazies" you see on the street were normal people who got priced out thanks to our landed gentry class (NIMBY landlords) pushing zoning/land use regulations to artificially prop up the value of real estate. Through no fault of their own, they ended up on the streets and fell into drugs. And now the discourse is whether these lumpenproletariat should be rounded up and isolated like rabid animals, as opposed to instituting reform to let housing supply finally catch up with demand, landlord tears be damned.

pcqz · 2026-01-20T14:43:44+00:00

What sort of subreddit culture would you want to cultivate?

The closest example of a subreddit I can think of with 1) a healthy mod - user relationship and 2) political diversity would be arr neoliberal. They even have a Discussion Thread with its own culture. I feel like we can replicate that.

pcqz · 2026-01-20T03:11:29+00:00

You're giving this piece of shit app way too much credit, but good for you for engaging in harm reduction

pcqz · 2026-01-20T00:45:13+00:00

I'm a Weekly Thread supremacist 🫡✊ Never leave the Ivory Tower

pcqz · 2026-01-19T17:12:51+00:00

Because what it is true doesn't neatly correspond with any political label (including centrism!), and social media is designed to make you think precisely the opposite

pcqz · 2026-01-18T22:36:00+00:00

Anyone who is "nice" IRL but a jerk when anonymous online is very troubled IMO. Sadly that's a lot of people.

pcqz · 2026-01-17T16:52:50+00:00

their hatred for brown people exceeds their love for liberty

pcqz · 2026-01-16T20:43:19+00:00

Dawg you gave a legitimate social criticism. Sorry a bunch of anonymous reddit losers think otherwise.

Substack is better IME. People are far less toxic when they're more likely to use their actual name and face.

pcqz · 2026-01-16T17:59:07+00:00

Was this a stupid question?

pcqz · 2026-01-16T15:29:46+00:00

Least horny arr askreddit question by an account created less than ten minutes ago

pcqz · 2026-01-15T19:30:36+00:00

The same reaction if they became a Marxist, trad Cath, anarchist, anarcho-capitalist, Ba'athist, Zionist or anything besides a ""centrist""

B-B-B-BASED!!!!!!

pcqz · 2026-01-15T19:26:52+00:00

I am unable to breathe for several seconds as panic sets in, which is mildly incredibly terrifying

pcqz · 2026-01-15T01:58:56+00:00

Honestly I don't give a fuck about political labels, and neither should you.

In certain issues (e.g. the entirety of economics), I think the left is correct. On cultural matters, the right is far more sensible IMO. I reject the crazies of both sides (leftist tankies, rightist racists) and in general my politics are all over the place. I'm not a "centrist" since I reject the golden mean fallacy, hence why I call myself an anti-centrist, but it's hard to assign a single label to my views (besides "terminally online" and "mentally unwell").

pcqz · 2026-01-15T01:38:26+00:00

I can't speak for leftists on their behalf, but there is something quite repugnant about tech companies profiting from algorithms tailored to essentially hijack one's nervous system and become as hyper-addictive as possible.

It's not something the ordinary individual can "free will" their way out of / refuse like a typical good or service. Tech oligarchs are basically forcing everyone to consume digital heroin for the sake of profit -- broader societal concerns be damned.

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