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My dad has a hostel in Choroni, Venezuela, I'm convincing him to accept BCH, I'm going to travel this week to create him a wallet and explain how to use it. I gotta take him to the future!
I think it took a certain type of people, at a certain time and place to make that breakthrough, if it is lost from the US I can not see it happening anywhere else in the near future.
@Kokansei, Freedom of speech is so radical in a historical context that it is hard to believe, same with the fact that individual rights are a new and precarious thing.
It is possible to try to address it by advocating for hospitality and letting people be free to associate and act even without personally endorsing their actions. No need to make it an arms race
The cycle can only be broken by protecting speech in absolute terms. That's why the US was a breakthrough in human history. But there is still room for improvement.
I am not saying that there is not oppression, in the sense that there will be a majority view that is not up for scrutiny, that is a human universal, to have the basic assumptions sacrilege.
But the antidote for that is not to create new groups with their own power dynamics that does counter oppression until it is a constant struggle between real or perceived groups.
Women are different than men = women are inferior to men in their mind. Pure projection. Meanwhile I love my wife, appreciate her strengths and would literally protect her with my life.
If we made men act more like women, and made women act more like men, then perhaps the psychological differences would decrease (why that is a good thing is not explained), but that is also fals
The overlap in temperament (the big 5) is about 75% last I checked, it is the upper 10% in each direction that is heavily dominated by men and women, those are what we call feminine and masculin
Critical Theory and Socialism do not follow from each other, but there is an overlap in the sense that there is a belief that the ills of the world are social constructions and not natural.
Instead of block her, I prefer to goad LR into embarrassing herself and undermining all the other socialists who are smart enough to shut up before revealing the extent of their mental illness