rCon user thinks they know Socialism better than the rCon OP who thinks they know Socialism better than socialists.

WearyTunes · 18時間前

Thought leads to subversive ideas and those ideas are dangerous to The Narrative.

Subversive ideas like advocating the overthrowing of the oppresive system by force?

TheZizekiest · 2日前

I mean the police totally overracted, but I don't blame the teacher for reporting it, it kind of looked like one. If it had been dangerous everyone would be calling the teachers idiots for not noticing what was "obviously" a bomb.

TommyP63 · 4日前

Yes, most peoples throughout history experienced the same

No, most people did not experience chattel slavery. Moreover, those people whose ancestors did experience some form of slavery generally have an ethnic or national identity which is not solely the result of that slavery

African nations are some of the only places where slavery exists today.

What does this have to do with modern Canadians of African descent?

Regardless, what are you proposing by your previous comment?

I'm not proposing anything. I'm saying there are already 'Euro-centric' student unions, without the need for a white student union. What would a white student union even concern itself with?

Should fifth generation white Canadians, that know nothing of their ancestors

They could probably start by finding out what their national heritage is, like it isn't that hard. Google your surname, google your mother's maiden name, google your grandmothers' maiden names and you will have a good starting point.

Should black students unions be shut down in order to allow more specific African students unions to replace them?

No, because 'black Canadian' is a legitimate identity based on the act that their ancestors were, you know, separated from their families, forcibly relocated to a different landmass and disenfranchised from their history.

TommyP63 · 4日前

Most African Americans don't know where their ancestors originated, due to the fact that their ancestors were, you know, separated from their families, forcibly relocated to a different landmass and disenfranchised from their history, so it's a completely different situation.

treebog · 4日前

Men don't castrate themselves by playing maid for their bitches

Because cleaning up after yourself to make a person you love feel more comfortable in the space you share is literally the same as cutting your balls off

They have to be demeaned if you're going to train them correctly and it makes it infinitely more difficult when they have falsely attained some measure of professional success.

Because women are literally pets

TommyP63 · 4日前

Maybe they want a european centric

You mean like the Albanian Students Union?

Or the Greek student union?

Or the English students union?

Or the Polish students union?

AutoModerator · 5日前

Beat a charge for manufacturing and distributing illicit drugs (because he legitimately didn't)

Consumes illicit drugs manufactured and distributed by someone else in order to remind himself that he is still free to experience the world on his own terms

AutoModerator · 5日前

The best one I heard is "Machiavelli said you should disregard any treaty which is no longer useful to you, so the Crown should abandon the treaty." The implication was very much, Te Tiriti helps Maori ad hurts pakeha, so Pakeha as the one's with power should ignore it. Yay for going to high school in Invercargill :D

The other flags are tacky.

The other flags are designed so we pick the one Glorious Leader John likes. Two are almost identical, so will steal each other's voters, and the koru design has little support and John Key keeps pushing a fern in the media, meaning a fern becomes more and more likely to win, which leaves one option.

Don't worry though, the silver fern is the most important New Zealand symbol. Along with the colours white and black. That's why we name the All Blacks in our parliament building now. If someone is receiving a shirt with a silver fern on it it must be government endorsed, because that is what the rest of the world knows us by.

I'd rather just use the tino rangatiratanga flag, but you know, it's much better for the flag to have a fern, a symbol of post colonial New Zealand than anything Maori on it rolls eyes

Responds_to_Woosh · 5日前

I hope you checked out those sources, University of houston? American psychological association? A lot of these places scream feminist establishment to me.

You can't make this shit up

016Bramble · 5日前

You know it is possible to not be anti-state and also not be a 'libertarian' or an an-cap. You know, by being communist or anarchist.

"By the mere fact that it is a class and no longer an estate, the bourgeoisie is forced to organise itself no longer locally, but nationally, and to give a general form to its mean average interest. Through the emancipation of private property from the community, the State has become a separate entity, beside and outside civil society; but it is nothing more than the form of organisation which the bourgeois necessarily adopt both for internal and external purposes, for the mutual guarantee of their property and interests" -Karl Marx

To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue. … To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under the pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonoured. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.- Proudhon

"All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization." - Proudhon

"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime." - Stirner

AutoModerator · 5日前

Encountered some good bad history/bad politics/bad law the on Thursday. Someone was arguing that NZ changing its flag would be a great thing, because we would no longer have to uphold the Treaty of Waitangi as it was signed under the Union Jack and our new flag won't have the union jack on it. A literal quote they literally said was "Now we won't have to give the Maori special treatments and they can just be like the rest of us normal New Zealanders." No shit.

My weekend was fucked though. One of my friends was found guilty of all charges against him, which included conspiracy to manufacture a class a restricted substance with intent to distribute, on Friday. One of my other friends was charged with the same thing but found not guilty. Me and the second friend had a "we aren't going to jail bender."

We spent all of our money, mostly on esspresso 'tinis and silly gins. We also invented a new drink called the Aritrippus, which is two shots of ouzo, one shot of vodka, and a scoop of vanilla ice cream, and the rest of a tall glass filled with coke. You eat the foam, then drop two hits of LSD into the mix and down the rest, which includes the half melted ice cream. Yea, things got debauched.

016Bramble · 5日前

But for 'financial privilege', there probably aren't more complaints because essentially all of it has been earned, unlike traits such as gender or race. As much as people like to bitch about the 1%, it's really only a slice of the 1% that doesn't earn their money 'rightfully'.

mfw someone thinks excessive wealth gained through the systemic disenfranchisement of others is someone's 'right'

diehtc0ke · 7日前

To paraphrase Warren Farrell, if women gave sexual gratification to men who walked on their hands then every straight man everywhere would be trying to walk on his hands

As a straight man I resent this.

TheZizekiest · 8日前

Why is this bad? Catholics are Christians.

selfhatingyank · 9日前

Well, I've been studying New Zealand Catholic architecture, and Bishop Patrick Moran, the first Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Dunedin believed some strange things. For instance, he thought that state funded secular schools were part of a plot by Freemasons to destroy the Catholic Church. He also believed that the appointment of English Bishops in New Zealand was part of a conspiracy on behalf of English Catholics to undermine the Irish nationalism of New Zealand's Irish Catholics.

deathpigeonx · 9日前

Surely this is satire

TheZizekiest · 9日前

You said Capitalism was different because you have to protect your property

No, I said that capitalist systems require state monopoly of force in order to protect capitalist conceptions of property. In a free enterprise system the state is not required to protect your property. You could protect your property through private institutions, or you could protect your property yourself, however, you would not require the state.

And your "explanation" failed (for me) on multiple points, as to why they are not the same thing.

So basically, you think state capitalism isn't real, all free enterprise systems require the accumulation of capital, and that capitalists systems never have government regulation?

B_anon · 9日前

about knowledge, not belief.

Belief is a subset of knowledge, you can't know something you don't believe

How did he determine anything with only a layman's understanding from their friend without looking it up himself and maybe talking to someone who'd studied it?

I mean, I wasn't going to write an entire essay it is a short thought experiment. Let's say Mary is an expert on Kia's and has worked on the Island for a significant period of time.

What changed?

In the first instance he wasn't sure if he believed it, because he had no idea of what it is. In the second he is making a specific claim that it doesn't exist, based on the evidence presented. The claim that "The Tia bird does not exist" is very different, and implies something different to "What is the Tia bird?"

This is purely based on someone's opinion and personal preference for a specific activity

Except it requires evidence to support it. They are not merely asking for a person's belief, but they are looking for the evidence provided to justify those beliefs to develop their own belief about whether they should do something or not. They are looking to be convinced about x, and the phrase I'm not sure does not provide them a reason to be convinced of position x. If someone says "I'm not sure if I believe in God" and someone says "I believe in God because reasons" and another says "I do not believe in God because reasons" then only the second and third person can be used to inform your position. The position I do not know does not provide evidence either way.

What did I say that was incorrect?

That lacking a belief for or against x entails not believing x.

If I don't believing something I am lacking in the positive belief regarding that thing.

Which isn't the same thing as holding a negative belief regarding the thing.

You're trying to argue that atheism is the assertion and belief that no gods exist, aren't you?

Yes, because this is what atheism is. Atheism isn't merely the lack of belief in God, it is explicitly the belief that God does not exist, as contrasted to agnosticism which is a lack of belief in either truth value of the phrase "God exists."

Basically there are three positions you can take in relation to the statement "God exists." It is true, it is false, or I am not sure of the statement's truth value. These are all unique positions.

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