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@SaxonBadyear

Everything everyone believes is probably either partially or entirely wrong

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Saxon Badyear
Saxon Badyear@SaxonBadyear·
I am fully behind this, but probably not in the way Packham et al mean: All government action should have a specific quantifiable goal which, if it is not achieved, should lead to the cessation of said government action. This would be a scientific method of running a country.
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Saxon Badyear@SaxonBadyear·
@ArtemisConsort The one time they're telling the truth is when they claim to be against inequality. They hate the idea of anyone being superior to them. Their solution is to bring everyone down to their level - so, equality. They could try and improve instead, but they know they'd fail.
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Saxon Badyear@SaxonBadyear·
@maxtempers Presumably this is because most people involved in that kind of crime are unable to afford a new car legitimately, so the presence of a new car is filtering for benefit frauds
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Saxon Badyear@SaxonBadyear·
It's the mangled remnants of Christianity forced through a utilitarian filter. Their original sin is one of "causing too much material harm to a class of people", the worst utilitarian crime possible. They must repent for it, but with no higher authority to appeal to, they must do the exact opposite as much as possible to try and cancel out their sins, to get back to zero. So they endlessly privilege and venerate the class of people that was historically harmed.
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Coddled Affluent Professional@feelsdesperate·
A reasonable take I heard (from a millennial) is that wokeness happened because millennials looked around and saw that they had no transcendent belief system to guide them and give their lives meaning and so they just turned up the volume on Boomer anti racism because that was on hand. I think that’s right. It doesn’t explain everything but it’s definitely it’s definitely psychology true in an important way.
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Saxon Badyear@SaxonBadyear·
@ibeenthearcher1 @minordissent Yeah, they can turn up, there's reliably likeminded other oldsters there. It's like a music festival but for old people with no friends. They probably all went to the same actual music festivals when they were young.
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@SaxonBadyear @minordissent that’s basically what it is. the first one had a decent turnout of younger people after that it was all senior citizens who are brainwashed by cable news. i don’t like trump AT ALL but i find the “no kings” thing silly because he’s not a king, he’s a bad president
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Saxon Badyear@SaxonBadyear·
@maxtempers On top of this, marginal tax rates are so high that working overtime often means your effective overtime wage is far lower than your normal wage. Making overtime pointless.
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max tempers@maxtempers·
All the downstream cultural effects you hear about - “Britons are lazy”, “there's no work ethic anymore” - are just a function of eroded incentives. If you’re in the bottom half of the income distribution, hard work doesn’t pay very well. So why work hard and seek to progress?
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max tempers@maxtempers·
Over the past decade, Britain has raised its minimum wage to one of the highest in the world. In a zero-productivity-growth environment, this has meant that wages at the bottom have risen far faster than those in the middle. What have the consequences been? 🧵
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Saxon Badyear
Saxon Badyear@SaxonBadyear·
@ArtemisConsort All applications of government funding to any cause should come with achievement of measurable outcomes as a condition of future funding.
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Hunter Ash@ArtemisConsort·
Beyond the specific content, I’m sick of this entire way of talking. A bunch of vague, meaningless, moralistic words, no arguments and nothing measurable. Oh, you’re fighting “division”? How will we know if you’re making progress? What are your KPIs?
Amnesty International USA@amnestyusa

At a time when anti-rights movements and predatory governments push their regressive vision of the world, built on division, hatred, and inequality, we speak out with and for each other. Now more than ever. Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

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Saxon Badyear@SaxonBadyear·
@robertlasagna1 Having decided their old beliefs were wrong, you'd think this would trigger introspection wherein they'd notice they can't tell that beliefs are wrong while believing them, then realise their new beliefs are suspect as well. Doesn't happen though
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garfieldbot@robertlasagna1·
The average person's worldview and epistemology is akin to hearing a knock knock joke, and taking thinking that the answer to every knock knock joke is "interrupting cow, moo". They have a childhood assumption about the world, and the first time it is proven wrong, they adopt whatever caused their cognitive dissonance as their Adult assumptions, and think that everyone who believes the latter are adults and anyone who believes anything else, is childish. They don't learn the meta rule, the joke structure, the concept of premise - input - new conclusion. They just think the answer to every-MOO
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Saxon Badyear@SaxonBadyear·
@maxtempers Citizenship as a form of international aid has clearly been the actual motivation for some migration proponents all along, the economic "benefits" were always a smokescreen for them
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Saxon Badyear@SaxonBadyear·
@ArtemisConsort It wouldn't happen in a democracy where the population cared about future generations, or about the integrity of the nation in general. It's inevitable with a population that does neither though
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Saxon Badyear@SaxonBadyear·
@kratefus9 @ArtemisConsort I had progressive beliefs but I wasn't a Great Thunberg full-time turbo activist. Most of the time they just didn't come up in conversation. Probably about as much as politics does for anyone
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Steven Browne
Steven Browne@kratefus9·
@SaxonBadyear @ArtemisConsort Despite being too young and ignorant, did you somehow manage to avoid falling out with your peers by going along with whatever nonsense they supported? Progressives seem very able to do what's in their personal interests but somehow are very unable in respect of other's interests
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Hunter Ash@ArtemisConsort·
As a former progressive, this is absolutely accurate and caused me endless frustration with my co-partisans. They fundamentally don’t care if their ideas work. They hardly even have a concept of ideas working. Their entire evaluation function is based on social perception and emotionalism which is, in fact, profoundly selfish and unvirtuous. If you care more about feeling like/being seen as good than you do about results, you’re a selfish parasite. Hardly exclusive to the left, but it defines the leftist project in a way it doesn’t define any other political faction.
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@edwest After a decade in the public sector I still find this one of the most replicable observations ever made.

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Saxon Badyear@SaxonBadyear·
@FUDdaily It absolutely blows my mind that Labour thought they would just keep minority votes forever.
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Andy@PositivFuturist·
I’d have genuine sympathy for Muslims the world over if we’d seen a genuine, continual and sincere attempt to eradicate islamism and radicalisation. I assume most British Muslims are sympathetic to domestic terror because I see no evidence to the contrary.
Alonso Gurmendi@Alonso_GD

The Anglo Right has assumed pretty much the same attitudes towards Muslims that fascists had towards Jews 100 years ago. They are seen as disposable non-humans, to be blamed for every problem. To the point that they are killing them bc they are Muslim now:

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max tempers@maxtempers·
We took in hundreds of thousands of child dependents who were - by our ridiculous definition - in child poverty (care worker salaries < 60% median income) the moment they landed on British soil, and now we must give them permanent residency to get them out of ‘poverty’. Farcical.
Matt Dathan@matt_dathan

Excl: New analysis shows plans to impose the new 10-year settlement rules to migrants already in the UK will increase child poverty by 90,000. Labour rebels have seized on the findings to argue that the policy conflicts with the party's pledge to reduce child poverty. They are planning to force a symbolic vote in parliament to expose the scale of opposition to the plans on the Labour benches. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

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Saxon Badyear@SaxonBadyear·
@eigenrobot They probably should've waited until they were able to defend themselves rather than relying on the effective subsidy of implied future military protection from the USA before they did the whole "we're not following the USA into any more wars!" schtick
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eigenrobot@eigenrobot·
ofc its europes prerogative to not send ships to the gulf etc but it feels disingenuous or irresponsible in the same way proclaiming "we must not have an invasion of lebanon" is yes, the situation is bad and undesirable. fine discernment. but what are you going to do about it?
Lindsey Graham@LindseyGrahamSC

Just spoke to @POTUS about our European allies’ unwillingness to provide assets to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America. I have never heard him so angry in my life. I share that anger given what’s at stake. The arrogance of our allies to suggest that Iran with a nuclear weapon is of little concern and that military action to stop the ayatollah from acquiring a nuclear bomb is our problem not theirs is beyond offensive. The European approach to containing the ayatollah’s nuclear ambitions have proven to be a miserable failure. The repercussions of providing little assistance to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning are going to be wide and deep for Europe and America. I consider myself very forward-leaning on supporting alliances, however at a time of real testing like this, it makes me second guess the value of these alliances. I am certain I am not the only senator who feels this way.

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Saxon Badyear@SaxonBadyear·
@SirJBritain Notice how they panicked about working from home post covid. IIRC Boris Johnson was publically saying people should return to the office specifically to support the rubbish lunch and coffee industry.
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Sometimes it seems like a significant part of the UK economy is just people buying shitty lunches & coffees during their lunch breaks at their shitty office or call centre jobs.
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Saxon Badyear@SaxonBadyear·
@feelsdesperate When a rationalist convinces themselves of something, they assume it is absolutely true because they can't imagine or remember ever being mistaken. That's rationalism
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Coddled Affluent Professional@feelsdesperate·
I wondered for a while what being a ‘rationalist’ meant. Evidently, it just means you don’t have the ability to understand social and cultural life, politics, and human psychology but for some reason still think very highly of your own opinions.
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