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By “conservative” do you mean: one book, one news channel, one social media platform? I hate terms liberal and conservative they don’t mean anything anymore.

By “conservative” do you mean: one book, one news channel, one social media platform? I hate terms liberal and conservative they don’t mean anything anymore. Stop identifying with some label and ask yourself: am I learned? Do I try to understand? Do I empathize? Do I sympathize? Do I produce? Do I consume? Do I consume more than I produce? Do I take action? Do I blame others? Do I litter in the park? Do I take care of myself and others? If you think about it, communism is all about: one book, one news channel, one social media controlled by the government. How do these “conservatives” who pride themselves patriots think living in a moderated cesspool of misinformation is any better than a government controlled one?

kkjjkgjjgg 5y ago
As a white male your position at FAANG is on very shaky grounds. To me those places sound hostile to the degree that I wouldn't want to work there. Do you empathize with that and try to understand? Probably not, because I am a white male...
- JediWing 5y ago
  Want to make sure I understand: you think white males are disadvantaged at FAANG? What is the basis for thinking this, and have you weighed any difficulties for white males against the difficulties of other groups?
  - kkjjkgjjgg 5y ago
    Yes they are. They are disadvantaged in hiring because FAANG want to fulfil diversity quotas. I don't know how their internal promotions work, could have the same issues. When you are hired against all odds, grievance activists can get you fired at any moment because they feel offended by your behavior. They can demand humiliating rituals from you (like attending diversity workshops where you are being taught that you are the source of all evil, or being asked to deny your own perception of reality and pretend to believe in their interpretation, for example when it comes to gender as a "social construct"). I stopped being interested in being hired with Google the exact moment when they fired James Damore. And I read the article he wrote, so don't tell me he deserved it. Apple fired the Chaos Monkeys guy (Antonio Garcia Martinez) because some grievance activists within the company chose to interpret a passage in his books in a way they deemed offensive. Edit: as for weighting difficulties against difficulties of other groups, there is a difference between discriminatory policies and alleged discrimination in daily conduct. The base assumption should be that everybody is treated with equal rights as an individual human beings. Even if non-policy discrimination would happen, it would be nonsensical to answer that with group based policies. An individual belonging to some arbitrary group (like grouping by skin color) is not responsible for actions of other members of the same group, and hence should also not be punished for them.
- Jotra7 5y ago
  Give me a break. You people and your victim complexes are worse than the SJWs you claim to hate, while emulating entirely. So sick of conservatism and the hypocrisy.
Kye 5y ago
I'm not sure they ever meant anything concrete. The editor of the local newspaper has been conservative longer than I've been alive, and still wrote opinion pieces arguing in favor of trans rights, BLM, marriage equality, and other modern "conservative" rage points from what he considered conservative first principles. His argument boiled down to: people who spent decades screaming about people coming for their rights can't turn around and deny rights to others. Most conservatives I've met are not like that. What does the word mean when two people can have such contradictory understandings? For example: >> "If you think about it, communism is all about: one book, one news channel, one social media controlled by the government." I've never met a communist who would agree with this, but I'm sure they exist. The communists I know are more about forming communities and cultures of mutual support by mutual consent, and they read lots of books. It seems you haven't run the process you used to reach your feelings on liberal and conservative on other terms. This word is just as hard to pin down.
- blacktriangle 5y ago
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- wibagusto 5y ago
  Well, there again a dangerous label. Communist and “communism” are two different things. Modern communist nations and “The Communist Manifesto” are not the same. What I was referring to is modern communist nations and their blanket surveillance and content-enforcement of journalism and social networks. One singular content moderation network above all social networks and news organizations. So, I didn’t literally mean: one book, one news, one social media platform. But if modern communist nations have their fingers all up in every media organization, saying what can and cannot be published, does this not equate to one voice above all else? A conservative focuses social network is nothing but a singular voice with a political agenda. Able to amplify nonsense at their discretion.

kkjjkgjjgg 5y ago

As a white male your position at FAANG is on very shaky grounds. To me those places sound hostile to the degree that I wouldn't want to work there. Do you empathize with that and try to understand? Probably not, because I am a white male...

JediWing 5y ago
Want to make sure I understand: you think white males are disadvantaged at FAANG? What is the basis for thinking this, and have you weighed any difficulties for white males against the difficulties of other groups?
- kkjjkgjjgg 5y ago
  Yes they are. They are disadvantaged in hiring because FAANG want to fulfil diversity quotas. I don't know how their internal promotions work, could have the same issues. When you are hired against all odds, grievance activists can get you fired at any moment because they feel offended by your behavior. They can demand humiliating rituals from you (like attending diversity workshops where you are being taught that you are the source of all evil, or being asked to deny your own perception of reality and pretend to believe in their interpretation, for example when it comes to gender as a "social construct"). I stopped being interested in being hired with Google the exact moment when they fired James Damore. And I read the article he wrote, so don't tell me he deserved it. Apple fired the Chaos Monkeys guy (Antonio Garcia Martinez) because some grievance activists within the company chose to interpret a passage in his books in a way they deemed offensive. Edit: as for weighting difficulties against difficulties of other groups, there is a difference between discriminatory policies and alleged discrimination in daily conduct. The base assumption should be that everybody is treated with equal rights as an individual human beings. Even if non-policy discrimination would happen, it would be nonsensical to answer that with group based policies. An individual belonging to some arbitrary group (like grouping by skin color) is not responsible for actions of other members of the same group, and hence should also not be punished for them.
Jotra7 5y ago
Give me a break. You people and your victim complexes are worse than the SJWs you claim to hate, while emulating entirely. So sick of conservatism and the hypocrisy.

Kye 5y ago

I'm not sure they ever meant anything concrete. The editor of the local newspaper has been conservative longer than I've been alive, and still wrote opinion pieces arguing in favor of trans rights, BLM, marriage equality, and other modern "conservative" rage points from what he considered conservative first principles. His argument boiled down to: people who spent decades screaming about people coming for their rights can't turn around and deny rights to others. Most conservatives I've met are not like that. What does the word mean when two people can have such contradictory understandings? For example: >> "If you think about it, communism is all about: one book, one news channel, one social media controlled by the government." I've never met a communist who would agree with this, but I'm sure they exist. The communists I know are more about forming communities and cultures of mutual support by mutual consent, and they read lots of books. It seems you haven't run the process you used to reach your feelings on liberal and conservative on other terms. This word is just as hard to pin down.

blacktriangle 5y ago
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wibagusto 5y ago
Well, there again a dangerous label. Communist and “communism” are two different things. Modern communist nations and “The Communist Manifesto” are not the same. What I was referring to is modern communist nations and their blanket surveillance and content-enforcement of journalism and social networks. One singular content moderation network above all social networks and news organizations. So, I didn’t literally mean: one book, one news, one social media platform. But if modern communist nations have their fingers all up in every media organization, saying what can and cannot be published, does this not equate to one voice above all else? A conservative focuses social network is nothing but a singular voice with a political agenda. Able to amplify nonsense at their discretion.