Notices by william.maggos (wjmaggos@liberal.city)

We need to make the case to #EzraKlein about why the fedi can be a better version of what twitter was. who can do that?

#SocialWeb #xitter #bluesky #threads

https://pca.st/4lsscmbd

Exits are not enough. We must push for at least as many social media servers as we have web/email servers today. If you put out content or have a public presence, you should want it to be social to ensure that no person, corporation or govt can limit your reach. That everyone who will be interacting with your work is also similarly free to share it, w/o competing with ads/algos. That's the promise of #ActivityPub and where the #ATproto model falls short.

#SocialWeb #bluesky #AttentionDemocracy

@evan

I will listen and I will try to find another episode I heard talking about reform. but would the US rather nuke somebody than let the UN put in a peacekeeping force to create more of a true democracy in Palestine? I doubt it. but Israel has nukes now even though they won't admit it and might. IDK

@evan

we need to restructure the UN. the will of the international community should not be able to be stymied by the permanent members of the UNSC.

@BowsacNoodle @Witch_Hunter_Siegfried @justinerickson @NoBeret @EvilSandmich @reallyangry

empathy is about trying to truly understand where somebody else is coming from, but not losing yourself. and not just them, but trying to consider everyone.

I think that leads to not giving a kid a snack cause you're thinking bigger. and it leads to immigration policies that don't produce a native backlash, but also other policies that consider why they are coming. if other actions can also be taken.

@justinerickson @BowsacNoodle @NoBeret @EvilSandmich

you have me confused with some other guy.

@justinerickson @BowsacNoodle @NoBeret @EvilSandmich

I think I said some reasonable stuff last night, had a decent discussion with this guy, and you jump in defining and tearing down "the left".

please learn how to be decent to people you don't agree with.

@BowsacNoodle @justinerickson @NoBeret @EvilSandmich

I bring up the interconnectedness and reasonableness because what stops most of us from "doing more" to get what we want is empathy for others less like us. I hope you have and retain that.

@BowsacNoodle @justinerickson @NoBeret @EvilSandmich

concerns about borders are not inherently racist. I hate that some of my fellow lefties default to that.

but wanting more immigration is also not a plot.

it's hard to balance all this stuff out when the world is now so interconnected and it's easier to travel. like I say to libertarians, I don't think it's crazy to want what you want but it's currently unreasonable. I wish you could have your own planet.

@BowsacNoodle @justinerickson @NoBeret @EvilSandmich

I share your concern about labor supply.

what I said about being willing to move is not intended to discount the pain of moving but to argue that people usually put their economic well-being above staying in homogeneous communities.

some people really like being with people like themselves. Not me. Hence why I like to argue with conservatives I guess. Not sure how many are more like me vs you.

But the rich like us fighting over scraps.

@BowsacNoodle @justinerickson @NoBeret @EvilSandmich

it correlates with economic insecurity. rich people don't feel worse cause they're now having fancy parties with more people of mixed ethnicities. people are happy to move for better jobs. the person of another ethnicity who does something you like is not a problem. it's only when your life sucks that most people freak out about "diversity".

peoples are always mixing. we define groups arbitrarily by drawing borders at certain times.

@justinerickson @EvilSandmich @NoBeret

you're acting like older generations concerned about the degenerating of younger generations. they try shit, sometimes just to freak out people like you. look at the trolling here. same thing. and you think it's a plot instead of just what happens with kids.

that damn rock and roll telling kids about Satan and to kill themselves.

@EvilSandmich @justinerickson @NoBeret

here's where I'd assume somebody with virtue would tell somebody (even someone they agree with on lots of stuff, maybe specifically someone they agree with cause it would be more likely to be listened to) not to bring race into this. but wtf do I know.

@NoBeret @justinerickson @EvilSandmich

being overly selfish is the problem. that can show up in an insatiable need for money or attention. probably other stuff too.

but some selfishness is required. and people tend to think they have the right ideas. so compromise is really hard. that's where the conflict begins.

and I focus on money because in our system, it's what allows the interests of a few who have more money to win out over the interests of the many. till it gets bad enough...

@EvilSandmich @justinerickson @NoBeret

but I didn't say "not nice". I said selfish, wealth and a failure to compromise.

who decides is exactly the question and why we've built institutions with rules we're supposed to follow, not lie and bitch about when it means a president can't do what he wants. how much did Elon spend to help the GOP?

I somehow didn't hear about that law you claim exists above, but did just hear Rogan complaining about ICE harassing a guy he worked with for being brown.

@EvilSandmich @justinerickson @NoBeret

And here's a fact check of your claim, a law I'm not sure I support but which is not what you claimed.

And you're proving my point. Rich people turned an issue about a very small number of kids struggling with who they are into a meme about the govt castrating your kids so you'll hate govt some more and they can have less business regulation and lower taxes. They turned money into bs to get what they want and us get less.

https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36DH2RT

@justinerickson @EvilSandmich @NoBeret

it's this generation's version of punk. they're also less afraid of saying they don't like the gender norms or know who they are yet. ask how many are actually taking hormone blockers or getting surgeries. calm down old man. the kids are alright.

@justinerickson @EvilSandmich @NoBeret

I'm 46. Are you not the guy in your pic? I have a kid in high school. I don't see the perversion you're talking about. I do see kids less scared to be gay than in my day. One issue I don't like is girls more likely to say they are trans or non binary than a tomboy and angry about the norms forced on them like when I was their age. They internalize it instead of getting angry at the system. Do you have kids?

@EvilSandmich

what do you mean by a DN show? further left?

@EvilSandmich

lots of podcasts now go on tangents. what I wish conservatives would recognize (and publicly say to other conservatives) is that the m5m is not "left". it might be further left than they are but it is much more about the establishment. the m5m has kept off progressive voices just like it has kept off conservative perspectives. and in the US where we lack the social services of most other rich countries, it's worth asking which side they've been better at making seem unreasonable.