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Broadly speaking, you probably agree with the large majority of the views commonly attributed to whichever group you identify with - what are the exceptions? Something that if you mention without a caveat immediately makes people jump to conclusions or even attack you?

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[–] danciestlobster@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Having children is borderline unethical given the capitalist hellscape they will be born into, the relatively high likelihood that they will not be able to live to old age due to risk of large parts of the planet becoming uninhabitable with climate change, and considering that reduced birth rates is the most ethical path to a lower population on the planet, which, though technically not a strict requirement of a greener future, certainly makes it a lot easier.

No shade for any kids living today or parents who choose to have them despite the above. I understand why people do it and I don't blame anyone for it. But it is worth pointing out that current birth rates in most countries are not sustainable, and the seemingly constant fearmongering about falling birthrates in places where it's low needs to go away. Yes, it's bad for the economy if the new generation is smaller than their parents. That's a problem with the system and its design (one of many), and not at all a rationale for having kids.

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 26 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I don't hate AI. It's fine. I don't love it either, but it's neat and often useful.

[–] Kataelyna@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Just gonna vent a little, don't mind me. I don't hate AI. I hate how it's being used. In a vacuum, AI is fine. But we don't live in a vacuum, we live in a capitalist hellscape where everyone saw how AI was going to be abused even before corporations started jumping on every chance they got to do so. Now we're stuck in the timeline where the public consensus is that using AI for any reason at all is seen as fundamentally unethical. People are zealously anti-AI and the nail is only getting pounded in further with new reasons to hate it appearing every other day. And it didn't have to be this way. Photography didn't try to pass itself off as painting, it had time to develop into its own art form. But AI didn't. Out the gate, it was being used deceptively, and continuously became worse. People want to abolish AI as a whole, but it isn't the problem. The problems run way deeper. Our world is a sinking boat and AI is showing us where all the leaks are. Lack of education, lack of access to mental health professionals, those in power using every chance they get to screw over the working class by cutting every corner. Any new technology in any form that can be used to exploit people, WILL be used to exploit people. The hate on AI may be justified but it's too generalized and unfocused to bring about any meaningful change. There needs to be regulation, but I fear that any laws that are passed will only benefit the rich and horrible.

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[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Believing in facts and reality over ideology and idealism.

And as an extension of that, focusing what people do, not what they say they do or want to do.

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

(everyone hated that and took it personally)

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[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 11 points 3 days ago (9 children)

I think trans athletes should be able to compete only in their assigned gender at birth category, if the sport is gender-segregated.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think sports governing bodies should be able to determine this for themselves and their particular sport. But that's a little too pragmatic for a lot of folks.

But yeah, this gets you labeled an anti-trans bigot these days. Despite the fact practically speaking the particularities are involve really can't be generalized. In some cases there will be a unfair advantage, in others, not.

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, I got into a discussion on this topic and my suggestion is that sports split on other categories, not just gender. Boxing already does weight classes, which is good, more sports should do that. Can't we have sports for people under 5'8"? I'm sure there's lots of shortkings who'd love to compete seriously in a league where there height wasnt an detriment.

This approach seemed to offend both sides of the trans sports debate.

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[–] Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

Im a liberal who loves guns and offensive comedy.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I think violence should be the last resort, not the first, when speaking of revolution.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I hate being drunk as well as being around others who are drunk. So yeah, I'm real fun at parties.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Men aren't the enemy of feminism and equality. It doesn't matter what any man has done to you, being a bigot doesn't fix it.

There are real problems in the world that benefit from attention. And most people prefer to waste their energy being mad at made up shit designed to make them hate their neighbors.

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 days ago (6 children)

My anarchism.

Anarchism in general makes me the other when dealing with most people, but the specifics of my views on it also generally make me the other when dealing with most "anarchists." (I oppose any and all attempts to institute anarchism - I believe it will arise organically or not at all - and I similarly reject any and all stipulations regarding what sort of standards, norms or systems may, may not, must or must not be a part of an anarchistic society),

[–] Bo7a@piefed.ca 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Hey friend. This is basically what I came to write. I consider myself a "dictionary anarchist" which to me just means a complete lack of hierarchy whether natural or imposed.

I don't think of it as a political philosophy but more just as a description of how I believe the world actually is when stripped of the systems we've laid on top of everything.

I also have no interest in figuring out or enforcing this belief on other people or groups.

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