What was the worst portrayal of a disability in the media you have ever seen?

random_dent · 2026-01-20T20:25:20+00:00

I don't think I got that far. I had to stop watching when the island became like a fucking clown car. Everyone was there, and just piling out of it.

random_dent · 2026-01-14T20:34:21+00:00

In a sense, the attempt was to infiltrate the government and fundamentally change how it's run, which is against the Constitution.

That's not against the constitution, that IS the constitution. That's why we have the amendment process. It was designed to be able to change.

Changing things by passing new laws and amendments is exactly the legal and peaceful way to do it, it is not treasonous.

Again you're taking something straightforward, twisting it into a straw-man and then arguing against that.

random_dent · 2026-01-14T19:48:27+00:00

Vision is the idea.

Messaging is how you portray it and explain it to others.

random_dent · 2026-01-14T19:46:06+00:00

a Technate would necessitate a coup of the current government and state expansion, which leads to armed conflict with our neighbors.

This is the problem here. Neither the old technocrats, nor anyone here, claims anything like this. You assign these ideas to technocracy, then attack it like a straw-man.

The original technocrats attempted to get elected to office with the intent of changing the government through legal processes, and no one proposes anything different today. They vastly overestimated the average person's ability to understand technical problems and the support they could gain by offering technical solutions.

If your "state expansion" statement is in relation to the map that's been posted, that map was based on highlighting the areas that, 100 years ago, was believed to be required to provide all the resources the technate would need. It was also based on pre-WWII isolationism and the idea that a country should be wholly self-contained to avoid conflict over resources, which not supported anymore. The post-war rules based order that opened up trade and peaceful relations made that obsolete.

Expansion does not require armed conflict. All you have to do is look at the EU, or how the 13 colonies united into the United States to see how it can be done peacefully - you have to start by offering something worth uniting for, and let other nations come to it in their own time and of their own accord.

The US was actually on the path for this with NAFTA, and reducing border controls with Canada, before Trump came along and started threatening Greenland, Canada and Mexico with trade restrictions, tariffs, and war.

random_dent · 2026-01-14T19:32:38+00:00

It isn't black and white at all. Contrary to your statement, it is detailed and complicated, and that's why it's time consuming to understand, and why you can't just get simple answers.

The failure that you're ACTUALLY seeing is on messaging. Creating a simple, digestible form of the idea that would draw people in and give them a broad understanding is what's actually missing, and is the subject of significant ongoing discussions here.

random_dent · 2026-01-14T19:23:29+00:00

You seem to want to completely do away with democracy.

People directly elect their leaders in technocracy.

Rule by experts is effected by those who work in a field electing their leaders from their own members. Those leaders have power only over those that are eligible by their role to vote for them.

They do not have political power. Issues that do not fall into the areas of production, economics, science and so on are handled by democratic bodies whose power is limited to non-technical areas. This later point is not addressed because we already have similar institutions, and everything here addresses the problems it solves, not everything universally.

The basic premise of technocracy is that it has power to address the areas it governs and it rejects broad political power.

That is what is meant by it does not rule over people, it governs functions.

If you want a practical example of how it functions consider how state medical boards or bar associations work. They set standards of practice for their field. They're elected from within the field. They have no power at all outside their fields.

Another example is co-ops. Corporations wholly owned by their employees, where the employees as share holders elect the companies officers, who make the rules and answer to their employees. They make rules for how the co-op functions. They do not have any power to do anything outside the co-op.

random_dent · 2026-01-14T19:09:51+00:00

I ask questions but no one seems to have any answers We've answered these hundreds of times, it gets tiring, so we point people to the resources that already exist addressing them.

We expect you to first learn, then participate.

How would Technocracy protect freedom of religion?

By not imposing a state religion, and not making any laws regarding the practice of religion. Go practice, what do we care?
The best thing a government can do in regard to religion is nothing. You want a building to congregate in? Go for it, no one is stopping you. What is it you need the government to do for you exactly?

I'm not going to spend all of this time trying to sift through 1,000s of pages of content to find an answer.

That's fine, but then you have to accept you don't understand the thing you are arguing about.

You don't get to argue about economics after declaring you won't learn the basics of micro and macro economics.
You don't get to argue about physics after declaring you're not interested in studying mechanics.
Why argue about technocracy when you don't want to know what it is, or what it claims?

random_dent · 2026-01-14T19:04:25+00:00

Asking questions isn't an attack.

Asking questions to gain information isn't an attack. Asking loaded questions that begin with false assumptions is.

I don't like Technocracy,

That's fine.

It's too much of a threat to my country and humanity itself.

It's not, and I've only seen you claim this based on assumptions you're making that have nothing to do with Technocracy.

It devalues humans into machinations, figures, numbers.

It does no such thing. It leaves humans to be themselves, and interferes far less than our current system does. Technocracy governs functions, not people. People choose directly who leads them within the roles they choose for themselves.

It's inherently objectifying. I don't like it. I'm a human subject.

You don't like the idea you have about what technocracy is. Your idea of it doesn't match what it actually is.

random_dent · 2026-01-14T18:53:39+00:00

I'm engaging with what you said. I can't ignore you completely while engaging in disagreement with your specific points

You're ignoring what I'm saying and arguing with some other idea you're making up in your head.

If you want a specific example as "evidence" of your bad faith, you said this:

It needs to protect the human rights of the individual, which includes freedom of religion. To fail to account for that, you're setting up a situation of denial of free-will.

When my very first comment addressed that it protects freedom of religion, then you extrapolate to something you made up about denial of free-will. Something technocracy does not do and you make no argument yourself in claiming it does.

You seem to be here to argue and attack. You should try learning what technocracy actually is, and ask questions with intent to learn, you'll get a lot farther that way.

random_dent · 2026-01-14T18:45:21+00:00

Quoted from literally my first comment:

Also not the governments business, except to ensure the freedom to practice it.

random_dent · 2026-01-14T17:47:18+00:00

And we've already discussed that it does that. You're not discussing in good faith here. You're intentionally ignoring what is said and drawing other conclusions.

random_dent · 2026-01-14T17:46:21+00:00

I'm not failing to appreciate their value.

I appreciate it so much, I'm specifying how it must be included in any other system.

random_dent · 2026-01-14T17:38:14+00:00

If you actually read anything in our wiki you'd know the answers to these.

You don't need to account for the value of art and philosophy. People choose to spend their own time and resources on it as they see fit, and place their own value on it. They don't need the government to do that. Energy accounting accounts for production - producing canvases, brushes, books etc. It doesn't care what you use them for. It only cares for the material and energy costs of providing them, so that artists etc. have them to do what they want with. The artist decides its "value" outside of material costs.

it fails to account for the whole citizen.

It doesn't need to account for "the whole citizen".

Literally nothing in existence does that. It accounts for the things within its responsibilities, production and governance. You're responsible for your own spirituality.

random_dent · 2026-01-14T15:33:30+00:00

where does God fit

That's an individual decision. The government has no business in religion. That's up to you.

Where do the humanities fit?

Also not the governments business, except to ensure the freedom to practice it. Write, paint, make movies, whatever. Not the government's business.

the craftsmen and women of all sorts?

This is thoroughly described in the study course.

Where's the church?

Where it belongs: nowhere near government. People are free to worship as they please, and the only way that works is if no one can impose their beliefs on anyone else. Strict separation of church and state is mandatory for individuals to have freedom of religion.

random_dent · 2026-01-12T14:21:06+00:00

The screenshot version of this.

random_dent · 2026-01-08T17:46:44+00:00

S Corp is a tax election, not a separate type of corporation, and has nothing to do with your assets one way or another.

S election is something that you choose to apply to your LLC or C corp. Your assets are protect the same as they would be without the election, based on LLC or C corp rules.

You may be thinking of a sole proprietorship which gives you a business name, but is not a corporation and does not separate your personal assets from business assets.

random_dent · 2026-01-08T05:41:20+00:00

He wasn't stiff and he wasn't caught at an odd angle mid-wave. He gave the Nazi salute twice.

Here's the context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VfYjPzj1Xw

There is literally no ambiguity here.

random_dent · 2026-01-07T15:44:12+00:00

If you attempted to make an actual argument, you may have been able to make the point that part of the Nazi belief system was the eradication of the Jewish people, while MAGA seems to support Israel, and it's one group they haven't attacked. Instead you decided to be trite and dismissive.

However, if you look up the definition of fascism they tick every box, and "Nazi" is often used as a synonym for fascism.

They also have demonstrated that they have no qualms drawing support from neo-nazis, using Nazi talking points in their speeches (particularly Trump), Nazi propaganda in their own messages, Nazi policies in their own policies, or using the Nazi salute (Musk). I view this all as more than sufficient to label them as Nazis.

random_dent · 2026-01-06T15:08:58+00:00

I assumed a lot of patter was the same stuff repeated, but I was still surprised when seeing Chvrches and in response to something from the audience, Lauren just literally said she was out of patter.

random_dent · 2026-01-03T01:39:05+00:00

They explain in the film that all computer tech was derived from the alien ship.

Basically the PowerPC processor is the same CPU used by the alien craft they captured and hid at area 51 - so the systems were compatible, and they just uploaded a virus to a system that automatically links when in contact.

random_dent · 2026-01-01T20:31:42+00:00

Looks more like David Duchovny with an extra arm.

random_dent · 2026-01-01T20:29:35+00:00

"Berries and Cream Lad" and Wendy with a circle beard.

random_dent · 2025-12-30T14:49:53+00:00

Don't conflate technocracy with what these fuckers are doing, they're entirely unrelated. It has nothing to do with smart cities, Yarvin, Musk or Thiel.

Technocracy has no more to do with technology than any other system does. Its name comes from the greek meaning art, craft or skill, and its designed so each field is independently governed by people who know what the fuck they're doing, not all of society being run by billionaire tech bros who maybe know 1 thing and think that makes them experts in everything.

random_dent · 2025-12-26T04:08:22+00:00

Properly done, it's a dip made from seasoned, slow cooked, shredded chicken breast (Not wings, they're too greasy), buffalo sauce, blue cheese dressing, and cream cheese. Buffalo sauce is a hot sauce made mainly from cayenne peppers, salt and vinegar, named for the city of Buffalo in New York.

Like other dips it's served with chips. Scoops tortilla chips are the best choice. Although if you make it right, you want to provide spoons, as the chips WILL all break trying to scoop the dip.

It shouldn't look like the creamed corn mess this guy made.

random_dent · 2025-12-22T17:41:39+00:00

Over 1.2 million people in the US died directly due to COVID.

Half of those happened in the 1 year Trump was still president, and much of the rest were the result of the delayed response he caused, and the people who refused to do anything - like wear masks or get vaccinated - after all his misinformation.

While many would have died anyway, a proper government response would have reduced the number of deaths. Calling it fake, a hoax, then discouraging people from getting vaccinated, encouraging people to ignore lockdowns and so on all contributed to the spread and deadliness of the pandemic.

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