Mr_Fish
@Mr_Fish@lemmy.world
- Comment on i see that you know judo well 17 hours ago:
But he did eat a meal, a succulent Chinese meal
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 1 day ago:
can you not have auth left and lib left viewpoints?
Yes, but actually no. The distinction is fundamentally unstable. If the left is constantly questioning power structures, it will inevitably turn to whatever structure the auth left comes up with.
what’s wrong with the definition of left and right on the political compass?
It’s specially economic left/right, which is almost always defined by taxation, government spending, and social welfare. While leftists usually say social welfare is a good thing, it’s not changing the fundamentals of how capitalism works, which is the current dominant power structure that leftists are against.
do auth left not also take issue with the power capitalist businesses have?
Yes, but they usually put something just as bad in its place. You might have heard people saying that the USSR was “state capitalist rather than communist”. This means that the workers and customers had just as little say in how things are run than they would under capitalists, only is was directly with the state rather than individual business owners.
- Comment on Ah, so that's how you spell it. 1 day ago:
Contestant: “can you use it in a sentence?”
Judge: aussie accent intensifies
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 1 day ago:
It comes from the French revolution, when the people who wanted a better king sat on the right side of the debate room, and people who wanted to get rid of the king sat on the left. From my understanding, right wing is about incremental improvement on what currently exists (optimistically, current right wing isn’t even about this), while left wing is about questioning what exists and redesigning it from the ground up.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 1 day ago:
Only on the political compass, which uses a definition of left vs right that a lot of leftists disagree with. Really, the entire history of “left wing” politics has been about questioning and dismantling authority. The terms “left wing” and “right wing” come from the French revolution, when the people in favour of simply reforming the monarchy sat on the right side of the room, while the people who wanted to fully dismantling the monarchy sat on the left. A lot of more modern leftist thought is about questioning the power that capitalist businesses have.
- Comment on please do not the fish 1 day ago:
You cannot imagine my relief at seeing this
- Comment on Confirms to Marxist theories regarding the proletariat. 4 days ago:
Because we all know that horny is the most rational of all states of humanity
- Comment on I'm trains 1 week ago:
Trains is the factorio version of “evolve into crab”
- Comment on *wet snapping sound* 2 weeks ago:
He choked a man to death when he was on a different ship. Pretty sure crushing nuts isn’t beyond his abilities
- Comment on Doctors in the 1800s 2 weeks ago:
By Bayer, the same company that invented the first artificial fertilizer and aspirin, as well as the gasses used in both WW1 and the holocaust. They can’t decide between making some of the best inventions of their time or some of the worst.
- Comment on What??? Nativity scene with a crucifix in the background? 3 weeks ago:
Chekhov’s cross
- Comment on SBA #54 5 weeks ago:
You also have the option of using c# in godot, if you prefer it to typed python.
- Comment on Science knows no borders! 1 month ago:
That only works if you believe the moon is real, which a shockingly high number of people don’t
- Comment on Start-up idea 2 months ago:
Counter point: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
- Comment on 2 months ago:
“Hot” I believe
- Comment on Truth hurts! 2 months ago:
Behold, a man
- Comment on Please please please 2 months ago:
Have you thought of having billionaire parents?
- Comment on Had to happen sometime 2 months ago:
Ah yes, because “lemmy” is one singular entity that would ever agree to work with reddit
- Comment on Literally not me 2 months ago:
Am I high or am I seeing that jar saying “nutolla”?
- Comment on Absolute unit 2 months ago:
no shit
Incorrect, that’s quite a lot of shit
- Comment on We are going WHERE for drinks? 2 months ago:
I’ve seen a retirement home with the same name
- Comment on At the art gallery and giving the guys in the painting something to stare at 2 months ago:
Don’t worry. I’m sure they’re sown shut
- Comment on IF NO HEN 2 months ago:
That was fowl
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 2 months ago:
He’s not wrong. There is absolute immunity for Trump friendly crimes, also known as presidential pardon.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 3 months ago:
My parents have a shed with all the shit that they have amassed over the years. Somehow my moonboot from 2016-17 ended up there, and I think it’s still there to this day. Along with other random things like a slide projector.
- Comment on Throw the baby out with the bathwater 3 months ago:
Religious people (especially monotheistic religions, not sure about pantheistic ones like Hinduism) have more reason to study science than non religious people. Everyone can get practical value from studying the world, but religious people also study science to learn more about God.
- Comment on Cosmic Christmas Tree 3 months ago:
O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree
Such terror do you bring me
- Comment on All the guilt none of the salvation 3 months ago:
Plus most of the rest of the Bible. I highly doubt that the political cult focused around a billionaire would approve of Amos, the book of the Bible all about God being pissed at Isreal for treating poor people badly.
- Comment on All the guilt none of the salvation 3 months ago:
A. It kinda depends who you ask. Some Christians are cessationists, meaning they believe the gifts of the spirit stopped happening after the apostles in the new testament. Those Christians will universally say no new scripture can be added. On the other hand, Catholics believe in papal infallibility, which means that in certain conditions (I’m not sure what they are, I’m not a catholic), the pope can make infallible doctrine, which is almost as highly valued as scriptural doctrine.
B. The list of books in the Bible has technically changed since the original canonization in the 4th century, but that was only removals like the apocrypha as far as I know. To add a new book, especially one written so long after the new testament was written, is basically impossible. It has been tried by the Mormons and arguably by Islam (although I don’t think they see the new testament letters as scripture so it’s another change on top of adding), but both of those changed so much that they’re no longer Christian.
I technically won’t say God can’t reveal more to humanity, enough to make another book of the Bible, but we already have the Bible, with no new additions for nearly 2000 years. If God was going to inspire more scripture, he probably would have done it by now.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
It’s like how in the Shrek universe, dragons and donkeys are the same species.