Dr. Moose

Im not an American but can they actually do this legally?

The American right in general has no unified ideology or thought. It’s just a bunch of angry idiots.

Honestly reddit is still underrated in terms of social media value but it’s a doomed platform from management pov. Its just so leaderless and spineless rn.

Hard to know these days huh

Every day my mind is blown how actually stupid these people are. I wake up tead the news and wonder if it’s The Onion or what

Nice.

Woosh

Not saying it is, just quite the opposite if what libertarianism is.

Yes I’m generally pro regulation and government oversight but the way European countries implement this sometimes feels like a purposeful moat to protect the rich.

Golden Mean is a philosophy of Aristotel who said that all things have a golden mean (or balance) where existence is optimal.

Basically avoiding any sort of extremism will always be the most efficient path because of uncertainty and imperfection of our existence.

He mostly applied it to virtues of living like justice or wisdom. Sure you can close yourself off and study non-stop or fight all of the injustice in the world without sleep but this is not sustainble and diminishing returns reaches a point where the energy input is no longer returning positive results or even decreasing the overall output.

Imo this applies to basically everything including politics. Because political systems are so complex (and people are so complex) it’s imposible to control the systwm without leaving space for imperfection. So you can be a socialist but you still need to respect some individual freedoms, you can be a libertarian but you still have to admit that some things need to be forbidden for smooth sailing basically.

So nazis are your problem not the IDs right?

It’s just Kafka-esque bureaucracy of everything. It’s almost impossible to get anything done and it’s incredibly demotivating.

No the golden mean also applies to your example too. If rich get too toxic it’s time to bring out guillotines

These thought experiments are fun and truthful and all but I really dont see much value in this speculation tbh. In my 40something years in different cultures I’ve became a staunch believer in Golden Mean of politics. Use the right tool for the right job. Times are good - work on more fteedoms, times are harder - maybe it’s time to tighten up the belts.

I got turned towards Libertanianism when I lived in Germany for a while and if you ever had you’d know why. Then I lived in Asia where it’s the exact opposite and that turned me towards socialism. My point being is that there’s definitely a golden mean to freedoms and any absolutist should be immediately ignored because they are objectively wrong.

It’s not about voting fraud but your entire culture being so crippled by fear that you avoid basic societal structures that are accepted as a net positive literally everywhere else. Maybe it’s time to stand up for yourself?

So maybe fascism is your issue not the ID laws? How come its not an issue in other developed countries.

I’m sorry but not implementing ID cards is literally the dumbest way to address this 🙄

It seems like ID is not the issue here then?

Nah that’s not a justification. Just fix your country instead of running away from your problems. Seriously americans are spineless as fuck.