Indeed. Which standard do you, gentle Slashdot read, want: * Videos that people want to put up, and that people want to see; or * A curated selection of videos that are best for you, as judged by your betters
We know that oppressive governments the world round demand the second option. Which should you demand?
"To know who rules you, ask: who am I not allowed to criticize in public? Those are your rulers."
It used to be the case that a higher education was good for exposing young minds to challenging ideas, and thereby teaching them to stare with resolve into the deep abyss that is existence, and to rebut bad arguments with good arguments.
However, collectivist authoritarians (namely Marxists) began their "long march" through the Institutions of the West; in the Universities, they started curbing speech by setting up "safe spaces", and then once the "safe" space spread across most of a campus, they started des
As an actual Marxist, I fucking wish Marxism was spreading throughout universities, but alas it isn't at all. What is spreading though universities is consumer ideology. People treating their degrees as commodities, demanding "consumer satisfaction" from their time at university. Institutes of learning have been invaded by the market, with everything valuable worthy and fun driven out.
All that shit you wrote has no basis in reality, and shows you've never been within 10km of a university ever, but as a Marxis
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @01:45PM (#58372740)
Indeed, all the "pure" ideologies are pretty much useless at any scale beyond the immediately local, including "pure capitalism".
That's why I laugh when people say "the USA will never be socialist" because the USA has been socialist for at least a hundred years and arguably since its founding. If you believe the government has any role whatsoever in regulating commerce, then you believe in socialism and we're just dickering over details (as an aside, the power that the constitution most explicitly grants congress is the power to regulate commerce, i.e., socialism is baked into the constitution, they just didn't have that word back then).
You think abortion, prostitution, drugs and/or extreme pornography should be illegal, that's socialism.
You think it should be illegal for private citizens to buy nuclear weapons if they have the money, that's socialism.
You think the gov't should make attempts to foster business and R&D, that's socialism.
You think the gov't should regulate what flows across its borders, that's socialism.
You think employers shouldn't be allowed to hire illegal immigrants, or that the notion of illegal immigrant even should exist at all, that's socialism.
Good (Score:1, Insightful)
I see no problem here (except with some employees who are complaining, who should probably be fired).
Re: (Score:5, Insightful)
Indeed. Which standard do you, gentle Slashdot read, want:
* Videos that people want to put up, and that people want to see; or
* A curated selection of videos that are best for you, as judged by your betters
We know that oppressive governments the world round demand the second option. Which should you demand?
"To know who rules you, ask: who am I not allowed to criticize in public? Those are your rulers."
Collectivists took over Universities. (Score:2, Interesting)
It used to be the case that a higher education was good for exposing young minds to challenging ideas, and thereby teaching them to stare with resolve into the deep abyss that is existence, and to rebut bad arguments with good arguments.
However, collectivist authoritarians (namely Marxists) began their "long march" through the Institutions of the West; in the Universities, they started curbing speech by setting up "safe spaces", and then once the "safe" space spread across most of a campus, they started des
Re: (Score:5, Interesting)
As an actual Marxist, I fucking wish Marxism was spreading throughout universities, but alas it isn't at all.
What is spreading though universities is consumer ideology. People treating their degrees as commodities, demanding "consumer satisfaction" from their time at university.
Institutes of learning have been invaded by the market, with everything valuable worthy and fun driven out.
All that shit you wrote has no basis in reality, and shows you've never been within 10km of a university ever, but as a Marxis
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wtf is an "actual marxist" ... is this like people who claim to be Libertarian?
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wtf is an "actual marxist"
I assume it's someone who follows the writings of Marx.
Of course, those are just writings, ideas, not an actual stable functional system.
Re:Collectivists took over Universities. (Score:0)
Indeed, all the "pure" ideologies are pretty much useless at any scale beyond the immediately local, including "pure capitalism".
That's why I laugh when people say "the USA will never be socialist" because the USA has been socialist for at least a hundred years and arguably since its founding. If you believe the government has any role whatsoever in regulating commerce, then you believe in socialism and we're just dickering over details (as an aside, the power that the constitution most explicitly grants congress is the power to regulate commerce, i.e., socialism is baked into the constitution, they just didn't have that word back then).
You think abortion, prostitution, drugs and/or extreme pornography should be illegal, that's socialism.
You think it should be illegal for private citizens to buy nuclear weapons if they have the money, that's socialism.
You think the gov't should make attempts to foster business and R&D, that's socialism.
You think the gov't should regulate what flows across its borders, that's socialism.
You think employers shouldn't be allowed to hire illegal immigrants, or that the notion of illegal immigrant even should exist at all, that's socialism.
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So, what's the difference between libertarians, fascists and socialist?