History IS written by the winners

#906

So Horseshoe Theory take on modern politics here -

Neoliberalists, “art-fixers,” and the people that think orcs are racist etc are all the same white savior complexes.
To label something as racist out of infinite labels creates racism, the other extreme end of the horseshoe.
This also extends beyond race of course, gender, economics and such also. You reach an event horizon where you’re so woke you reach something so beyond corporate out-of-touchness that you view the world as a giant caricature with only yourself and your political party to save it.

Debate this.

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#907

How do you debate something true? :P

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#909

Community.

The problem is we’re dealing with echo chambers. These are naturally developed social circles of agreed perspectives that create their own challenges to the viewpoint. Thanks to technology they’ve become less contained.

So the natural battle lines drawn between viewpoints (the line drawn in the sand) is wiped out by “popular opinions” because it’s a lot easier to excise opposing viewpoints and reinforce beliefs.

Thus…popular opinions dominate the topics and challenges are drowned out by majorities. The internet is essentially a modern day Tower of Babel where like groups congregate and support themselves because of nothing more than a mutual understanding.

Like predators and prey in nature’s population control to ensure equilibrium…when one side is overpopulated it disrupts the balance in a way that can create cataclysmic events. That’s what we’re beginning to experience in a society that doesn’t fully grasp the consequences of consequence itself. Or the fact that freedom by it’s very nature is contradictory in that it’s primary requirement is responsibility.

TLDR: People only listen to people that agree with them thanks to the internet. That makes them stupid. If you cry wolf you’re automatically asked why it’s a problem. The people getting the most attention have never seen a wolf. When they do, the horseshoe becomes a circle.

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#911

I would hate to add in here, but this is true. Canadians get more in refunds too. All the taxes paid in goods in services, depending on what you earned (lowest income bracket) i beleive they get a set amount back based on income as a benefit ppackage in 4 installments during the entire year. like a few hundred dollars. This is because of our whopping 13% in GstHST on goods and services. but whatever, …everyone do your homework.

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#912

In general our refunds are better. Depends on you’re provincial gov., there’s other things like the child tax credit that give money back to people too. It all adds up to a slightly better standard of living, still lots of room for improvement though.

#913

I absolutely think that the American taxation system is fraut with ppl who dont understand it very well and hense they resort to alot of taxation lawyers being hired by normal regular people. As well, you have those capitalist driven americans who make themselves into a corporate entity and outsource in order to save money- a process many take on without knowledge that it does not serve them well as every one can’t be world leaders and are pretty much dis-illusioned by making money. That said, it is also evident in canada, but i’m sure it is less so. The Canadian taxation systems for personal taxes are completely automated through an online system and are fairly transparent and friendly. I’m not sure if thats common in other countries. may be it is maybe it isn.t

#914

You got it man. There are things I’d change about our system but overall it’s fairly streamlined and easy to engage with. The major change I’d make would actually be to have it taught in high school directly. Even with it being fairly transparent, people don’t make the best use of it. It always confuses me when people argue about Canadian taxes, the level is proportional to the services we receive from it, for the most part.
To go off topic slightly, we pay less for our military then other countries of similar wealth but our forces are trained better, so the value we receive is actually higher in that instance. Other things like the size of our country work against us, infrastructure is expensive and a small population with a disproportionate amount of space means we all have to pay more to get the same quality service as a smaller country with a big population, like the US.
If I was an American, I’d actually be pretty pissed at how little they get for their tax dollars. The value simply isn’t on the same scale, if you consider the average citizen between the two countries. Ten times the population but without the proportional advantage.

Course it isn’t all sunshine, our higher education is ridiculously expensive and it looks like Americans will have a chance to get free college before we do up North.

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#915

hmmm not something i thought existed in america ,more so in europe.i didnt know that.
I think definitely there should be some training in highschool for basic finacial compentency but it can be jarring since no one in high school really knows about or cares about how much one should make in order to live a fruitful life (at least at the moment after a college degree or diploma) let alone what it means to be an incorporated entity, or just basic self-employment, but it most certainly does pay off to be knowledgable to a certain extent.
because the make or break is weather or not one can escape from low wages and becoming a specialist working as freelance as an artist or writer, etc.etc.

BUt the facts of life are really one that highschoolers have to explore for themselves, almost at their own expense. It is after all ‘their’ lives and not the public school systems.

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#917

I like your term “art-fixers”. I think I know what you mean. Like Banksy and the other post-modernists. Their art is devoid of meaning except it’s monetary value. Where as I feel true art transports the participant into a timeless state , often transfixed with flases of beauty and meaning.

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#918

The people that take comics, art, games etc and raceswap/genderswap everything with strange caricatures and say they fixed it because its less “problematic” if it checks off more of their boxes.

Art-fixers.

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#919

It that why we have female preds in PHG?

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#920

lead directors headcanon. same way he thinks preds click with the cloak on because it hurts them

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#921

Introducing predatress woke-ary. Empowered by b-cup and sumo-style panties

#922

I think the clicking in the forested area would not localized and actually would bring about fear to the prey (i think that was mentioned before), but the game has reversed that to make it more fair.

#923

How long before one genocides the other?

The iron dome pierced btw it was only built to intercept so many rockets. Out of interceptors. Chances are the moment any of the paleorockets do any significant damage they’re going to level Gaza.
Israel will retaliate x1000 for this but I wonder if anyone else is getting involved. Other than all of US spending going into Israel’s defense budget :/

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#924

Vid unavailable in my region :( were the missiles that hit Israel fired from the ‘intermittent zone’, of my terminology is correct?

#925

From Gaza yes.
They blocked all iron dome vids in your region?