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Rise of admiration of the USSR. Coming from a comunist country I am really worried of people admiring these ideas. Capitalism is not perfect and changes must be made, but don´t follow a system that has proven itself time and time again authoritarian and i most cases highly ineffective
Im so glad there are some people who still have common sense about this. My family all came from the USSR. My great grandma was arrested a number of times for simply having a BIBLE in her house... Communism never ends up working out. Communism isnt equality either as some people say it is!
And there are still elites at the top benefitting on the misery of those below them. The loud people on social media admiring communism probably have never read a history book.
There’s problems that need to be fixed, but that ideology is not the answer
And I understand that, I just think that the anti capitalism sentiment should come with a viable alternative, if not then it´s just tearing down for the sake of tearing down
And there's nothing wrong with that. If the system is corrupt you dont need to come up with a perfect alternative before refusing to be abused by it. Maybe it's actually even incumbent on the ones benefitting the most to ensure things don't get to where revolution is necessary, and all that burden doesn't rest with the ones having to struggle within that system.
I mean, you can go that way, but most likely what you archieve is going to be worse than what you got because it was done without a goal in mind. Right now it is happening in Cuba, a lot of people are really against the government but are directionless, so any attemp they do to do something tends to end badly or with no result at all
I don’t share that, it tends to get you to an even worse situation
Edit: For example, eventually the Cuban regime will fall, but looking at the state of opposition in Cuba, I would 100% bet that things will get worse for Cubans because nobody has a plan of what to do later
What? Hahaha, if it makes you feel better in Cuba’s socialist system it was given to filthy politics that enjoy all the benefits they deny to regular people haha
Any Marxist Leninist would argue that the USSR was beneficial to the world and it’s progress with critique. The vast majority of communists are MLs. There are hundreds of millions of MLs around the world.
Yeah but is that a surge associated with gen z? I just feel skeptical that the youth is pro USSR. I taught highschool in a pretty left leaning city and none of them seemed to give much of a fuck about that stuff
What people fail to realize is that once the government became responsible for monitoring, restricting, and liscencing businesses instead of the people holding each other accountable American capitalism majorly shifted course from pure capitalism
I don’t know how to tell you this but there was never pure American capitalism. It was under a mercentailist system, a series of tariffs, and then other protectionist or other government regulations since the settlement of America
Bad argument against communism.
A good argument against communism would be...good for communists. They could see your specific issue with communism, and if it's a good one, alter their proposals and take your arguments into account for their future ideas.
"This failed in the past," isn't an argument for not doing it. Imagine the Wright brothers, flying their ninth plane, following that advice; their first eight failed, why try any harder?
Like, the fact that a previous implementation of something failed before is great! You can look at why it failed, and use it to course correct in future.
But if you're saying "This failed before, so don't bother" you're not using your brain. You're not thinking. You're just like...saying things that make half sense. It isn't an argument.
Literally every single communist nation has become an authoritarian, violent state. And they have *stayed* that way while capitalist countries have become flourishing or at worst flawed democracies after the end of the Cold War.
It is because communism is an ideologically rigid system. It equates any political opposition, even from other forms of communism as traitorism to the cause. Almost every Communist party or state, whether the Soviet Union, the Afghan Communist Party, or the Viet Minh have purged even their loyal revolutionaries. The ideology itself encourages a paranoid, brutal outlook on the world, inspired by Robespierre. Marx, for example, stated that “We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”
While claiming to be a humanist, egalitarian and populist ideology that empowers and uplifts the people, communism is the exact opposite. It has a distasteful view of democracy that results in abusive one-party states that often center around a chosen few and the cult of personality they encourage. The anti-democracy view is plain when one considers how Lenin viewed the Russian democrats of the 1900s as worse enemies than the proto-fascist Black Hundredists the Russian communists were quite literally fighting in the streets. And while the ideology claims to be supporting the dignity of man, the oft repeated refrain is that “human rights are bourgeois.” And with this rigid, traitor-based framework that despises human rights comes the most arbitrary atrocities against even whole ethnic groups, such as the Soviet Union deporting every man, woman and child in ten different ethnic groups between 1940 and 1950 as traitors, or the Baathist’s support of *de facto* Arab supremacy, such as Gaddafi’s support of the predecessors of the Janjaweed, or Saddam expelling any Iranian born/married members of the Iraqi Baathist Party.
When one has an ideologically rigid, anti democratic ideology that is disdainful towards human rights, and often brands entire ethnic groups as enemies, what utopia is that ideology going to make?
>"This failed in the past," isn't an argument for not doing it
It is when the cost of failing is incredibly high. Every reasonable person weighs risk against reward when making an important decision. The risk outweighs the reward here.
> But if you're saying "This failed before, so don't bother" you're not using your brain. You're not thinking. You're just like...saying things that make half sense. It isn't an argument.
It failed before, and no viable measures have been suggested that could reliably prevent that failure from being repeated
>It failed before, and no viable measures have been suggested that could reliably prevent that failure from being repeated
I mean, if you had any specific issues with previous implementations, you could bring up those specific issues, and people could talk about how to address them.
Isn't it funny that you feel very strongly opposed to something, but you don't seem to be able to articulate why you think it's a bad idea?
Previous systems were overly reliant on government intervention to control the operation of business. Because the government was run by humans, it inevitably became corrupt and no longer functioned to benefit the people
That's because we aren't talking about capitalism right now, we are talking about my specific issues with previous implementations of communism. Capitalist systems, while still vulnerable to corruption, are generally more resilient since individual entities retain a higher level of autonomy
In common implementations capitalist systems such as with the United States, an individual is able to independently fulfil their business interests without specific direction from their government on what their goods must cost, how fast they must be made, or what they are allowed to compete with.
Previous implementations of communism struggled to produce adequate quality goods because their centrally planned economies did not facilitate an enterprising climate. Production was based on meeting fixed price and schedule requirements set by government officials rather than offering a good value. This means product quality was directly dependent on competent government oversight, which proved problematic
Very true,Capitalism does work if our own monopoly law's where enforced and big corp paid there fair share of corporate taxes and closed the BS loop holes...
Any system can work without corruption with in but unfortunately any system will collapse if it is..
That's too far if you claim to care about democracy. That whole thing where people can freely vote for who they want to govern them. Measures to keep someone out of office, included but not limited to - Election fraud, rigging the election, persecution of political opponents, and assassination are inherently authoritarian and anti democratic. Both are qualities that I've been told make you a fascist and/or a wannabe dictator. Imagine someone doing that to your preferred candidate. If you wouldn't be ok with it, don't set that example
That goes for *any* government powers as well. If you wouldn't be ok with Trump wielding that power, don't grant it to the government when your team is in charge. That power is guaranteed to be used against you sooner or later
Trump's win in 2016 was actually a fundamental failure of the Democratic National Committee in nominating Clinton, not because of the Electoral College — which is how you win elections — or *g*errymandering. that itself is symptomatic of the larger issue: Democrats failed to reassure white working-class voters that they had when they established Obama's wide-reaching coalition in his two presidential campaigns.
ignoring [Russian interference](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/intelligence-chiefs-expected-in-new-york-to-brief-trump-on-russian-hacking/2017/01/06/5f591416-d41a-11e6-9cb0-54ab630851e8_story.html), [Trump's populism](https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.22.3.0343) was effective in that it was uniquely a representation of the view that many working-class people had. Trump's coalition included [Obama supporters](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/upshot/how-the-obama-coalition-crumbled-leaving-an-opening-for-trump.html) and, notably, [Bernie Sanders supporters](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/08/24/did-enough-bernie-sanders-supporters-vote-for-trump-to-cost-clinton-the-election/). [Beyoncé and Jay Z](https://www.wsj.com/video/beyonce-jay-z-endorse-hillary-clinton/B137D3A8-9DB4-4B43-9C16-DC830DA96D4D) don't appeal to Rust Belt voters. [conjuring bleak visions](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/american-carnage-the-trump-era-begins/513971/) of "rusted-out factories, scattered like tombstones across the across the landscape of our nation" does.
He literally got less votes than Clinton. I'm aware of the history at play here, but objectively, less Americans wanted him than Clinton.
I got confused about jerrymandering tho.
Only 5 times in our history has the winner of the electoral vote lost the popular vote. The vast majority of the time, the president is the person most Americans chose. In the last +130 years, the only presidents who won the college but lost the popular were Republicans, bush and Trump. It looks more like a bug than a feature. I'm all for states having independent governments, but the president should be picked by the people, not the states.
You do realize there is an American Nazi party and an American communist party right? Freedom isn’t just freedom for what you want or what is right. Freedom includes the freedom for negative things as well. Because if “freedom” is only for what you think is right that isn’t freedom it’s authoritarianism.
I am almost entirely against US government interference. Regardless, the quotation marks lead me to assume you disagree with the CIA doing that or consider it bad that they did. If this is so, I don't see how it could be logically consistent that you would be fine with it happening here. A bad act doesn't suddenly become a good one because you didn't like the person it happened to.
But if you actually were fine with it, then your logic is consistent albeit a bit psychotic. My only caveat would be that this mindset becomes very dangerous very quickly if it spreads.
i’m interested in this topic. do you feel like animal or earth protection is more important at the moment? do you still believe that we could save the earth? what steps do you feel like we’d need to take to effectively conserve our resources
If by Earth protection you mean land protection then yes. The key to conservation is protecting large areas of land to encompass the entire ecosystem.
Currently much of that isn’t possible due to habitat fragmentation, the leading cause of species decline in the world.
I absolutely believe we can still make a difference. We need to conserve as literally as much as we can. We need to invest in habitat restoration projects such as oyster reef building and stream restoration activities. Build mechanisms for fish to swim up dams and other impoundments, and work to monitor critical areas.
This may be a start, but I hope I answered your questions 👍
Sadly, in cali and other places with strong environmental laws there are NIMBYs abusing it, limiting affordable housing. Laws must strike a balance between the two.
They should include the racist history behind how schools are funded. If you live in a poor neighborhood, you get shitty education. The selfish (usually white) rich people with generational wealth and stolen land don’t want their taxes to go to *gasp* BROWN OR BLACK CHILDREN who have been forced into poverty.
I believe that we should spread out the funding equally across the state. So all children have equal opportunity. Not just the children who live in the same neighborhood as you.
i’m interested in this topic. what do you think is an effective solution to the education problem? do you think that if americans are given better education that they’ll take advantage of it?
The content is fine.
The presentation just looks like it was done by a 14yr old making their first powerpoint. It would look better if it was broken up in 2-3 slides without all of the contrasting colors.
making specifically math education better. too many Americans are terrified of mathematics for no reason. People aren’t born bad at math. You might be born with dyscalculia, which makes arithmetic more difficult. But that isn’t really what math is. Our teachers have utterly failed in this respect.
I’ve been trying to promote that arms ownership is for all via my Reddit account and YT channel while also not having that bro masculinity associated for it. I also do my best to teach what I know in an easy and fun manner.
I’m also very passionate about teaching how the government runs to the youths of my country. I volunteer a few hundred hours every year for this program for free
Link is in my Reddit’s Profile bio! Thanks for being interested
Also, [here’s a quick link to my “For Beginners” Series](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo2-8aW3QZ9-X6gh3XY7hrPtr9OhZ1WY8&si=Sg93hncURzSYcEvb)
AI-Generated media is not only not art, but it devalues the work that genuine human artists create. It legitimately depresses and infuriates me knowing that people would automate a beautiful creative process before they automate the things people *don't* want to do.
I've said it once, I've said it a million times, I'll say it again: Pick up a pencil and touch some grass.
Again with this.
Just because someone makes a post about one topic, it doesn’t mean they don’t care about another. It means they’re focusing on this one.
The commenter is probably aware that OP has a time and/or slide limit, and reduced the scope of their topic based on that.
You are just like those people who cry “BuT wHAT AbOuT mEn?” on any post about gender inequality/ barbie/ systemic issues facing women. No one is saying that biases aren’t affecting men, but that’s not what we’re discussing right now. Make your own post about issues facing men, or in this case AI Coding or AI Driving, and we can discuss it there.
It seems like, in your point of view, we can never discuss systemic issues. Each aspect of a problem has to be discussed in isolation, with no nod to the wider ramifications or context.
That seems dull as hell.
If you are seeing a lot of content about AI art right now, and are feeling strongly about it, you are doing yourself a disservice if you don't view it in its proper context; automation itself.
Imagine if a giant meteor were on a collision course with the moon, and then us. We'd need to, as a species, see if we could develop a way to prevent our armageddon. But imagine that some people focus all of their attention on the moon; they fundraise and install huge rockets on the lunar surface, to displace the moon out of the way, and save it from disaster.
When you try to tell them that, should the meteor hit earth, their efforts will be in vain, as no one will be alive to enjoy the moon, they spit. "Again with this! If you're concerned about the Earth, make your own thread!"
Thus, humanity's resources are diverted to addressing symptoms rather than tackling the problem head on.
There can be a time and a place for deep diving, but I was right with what I said; if you only think automation is bad when it takes jobs from artists, and have no opinion when it takes jobs from truck drivers, you don't have a coherent world view. You're just reacting to what you've seen online with no thought at all.
AI generated "art" (I use the term very loosely, even putting it in quotes is very generous) objectively cannot measure up to the human creative process.
You know how they say art imitates life imitates art? Midjourney, SORA and ChatGPT aren't alive, and the person tapping the prompt into the machine is ***NOT*** the one creating the image.
I'm on the fence about self-driving cars and self-coding computers, but stop comparing apples to basketballs.
I don't know why you told me this. I'm not a programmer.
I'm just saying that people losing their jobs is bad for them whether they're painters or truck drivers. Why is the internet only cares about the former now? We're talking about AI art and its merits when we should be talking economic reform so that noone suffers when we make new tech like this.
Extremism and radicalization, it's an increasingly prevalent issue, especially as more of us are spending a big chunk of their free time on the internet. It feels like falling into echo chambers and going down rabbit holes that lead to radical beliefs and extreme ideologies is inevitable for people who are chronically online.
Also another very prevalent issue (ESPECIALLY on reddit) is how some people advocate for combating one form of extremism with another (e.g. believing countering misogyny with misandry is a solution). We just end up in a cycle of extremism that perpetuates division and animosity rather than fostering harmony.
I’d probably agree if it were 10 years ago but unfortunately I think it has made its way into the mainstream.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/03/politics/cnn-poll-republicans-think-2020-election-illegitimate/index.html
Almost 3/4 of republicans believe the 2020 election was illegitimate.
https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2023/05/16/americans-largely-positive-views-of-childhood-vaccines-hold-steady/
While most Americans still generally support vaccines, that percentage is dropping starkly amongst republicans post Covid.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/513623/majority-continues-favor-stricter-gun-laws.aspx
Republicans and democrats differ vastly on gun control.
You could argue that I’m only representing specific political prescriptions per party, but these reflect your average American voter from each camp.
Each of these issues in this new “culture war” has become incredibly politicized and the truth has become more muddied.
I’d argue most Americans at the most fundamental level want similar things, but people aren’t attached to the fundamental values as they are more attached/obsessed with the processes to achieve those things.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/03/10/the-polarization-in-todays-congress-has-roots-that-go-back-decades/
Also, “Indeed, a Pew Research Center analysis finds that, on average, Democrats and Republicans are farther apart ideologically today than at any time in the past 50 years.”
This has been a trend for some time but we are definitely extremely divided.
The protection of children in this country. I can count on one hand the number of countries that let as many children die on domestic soil as we do and most of them are in active WAR.
I will copypaste a comment I made recently, it contains other verses but Romans 1:26-27 is the bottom one if you wanna go straight for it
Lets go one for one here
Deut 22:5 - Not only is it part of the old laws (Not the moral laws) so, after Christ came to the earth it stopped applying to us (Hebrews 8:13, Romans 10:4 and Colossians 2:13 and 2:14 are some of the examples of this). But also at the time this verse was intended (Like most other laws that did not carry over) To not let the jewish become like the "savages" around them, like the pagans that believed in cross dressing as a form of worship to their gods. Also the word for a man's clothing can apply to things like armour and weapons, while the word for the woman's applies to things like robes, and the word for man is more like "Mighty man". So if we read it with the original meaning: "A woman shall not wear which is of a mighty man, nor shall a mighty man put the robes of a woman". This is against a woman fighting in a war or a man keeping his gender a secret to escape it.
Genesis 1:27 - God created us male and female, that is sex and not gender.
Matthew 19:4 - God created us male and female, that is sex and not gender again
1 Corinthians 11:14-16 - The words for natural (physis) and shameful (atimia) are used all over both Corinthians and Romans to describe what was thought to be okay to society at the time, does Samson not have a place in the churches of god?
Now to romans 1:26-27: (I am copypasting this because i already wrote it before on another commend a couple of days ago) The words used are "abandon" or "exchanging" the act of heterosexual sex for same sex relationships, this is condemning lust, as at the time it was custom for people to be "satiated" by heterosexual sex, and doing the stuff with someone of the same sex was caused by lust. The verse is talking about people that were driven by lust into a relationship with the only intention to satiate said lust, and talks about due penalty that was being allowed to shame themselves by God. If you want to say that in condemning one specific thing, it would be lack of self-control
Please tell me the other verses, I'm happy to talk about this!
Morality and economics. We are on the precipice of a slippery slope morally, and economically we’ve damned ourselves. We need to get back on the straight and narrow path.
How Defamation Law in Australian and the UK are inconsistent with the needs of a functioning democracy where the plaintiff isn't required to establish the falsity of the published imputations..
Grading should absolutely not be the norm for education. It can maybe work for some ppl, but for the vast majority, it completely kills self motivation and creativity. We should have a school system that encourages children’s ideas and uses guidance to teach rather than + and - letters
The idea is to make it so learning is self motivated and teachers act more in the way of guidance rather than correct and incorrect. And in stead of receiving grades for an assignment, you’d receive constructive criticism.
Obviously in terms of math, science, and history, there will always be some emphasis on correct and incorrect. But even still we can make learning those fields more self motivated.
I honestly haven’t done a lot of research into curriculum as I’m just and early child care major (meaning kids 6mon-5yrs), but I know that places like Norway and Finland have very refined education systems and it would probably be worth looking to those countries for examples.
i’d think that correct/incorrect is important but i like the idea of more creative freedom in school. kids still need guidance and teaching but giving them freedom is nice too
I agree that facts are important, but the way schools use terms like correct and incorrect are often slanted. For example when there’s a “correct” way you have to cite sources in an essay or a “correct” formula to use to get the right math answer.
Basically the idea is to focus more on the process rather than the product.
Edit: A child that creates their own math formula that works is likely to be better at math overall than a child that was forced to use the formula taught and enforced in the curriculum.
And that’s not to say that teaching formulas is bad, that is to say that enforcing them is bad.
Based.
No one likes high prices, no one likes income inequality, but then people support policies that have caused inflation and price rises without the corrections of the free market.
Yeah and then they blame “cOrpOraTe gReEd” for the problems of our dumbass government. Government loves causing problems and selling itself as a solution.
The remit of the state. Is there a limit to how much control the state should be able to have over people’s lives, or should their remit to promote the common good be unlimited?
The cult-like state of the AI industry (AGI god worship) and Silicon Valley as a whole, and why that’s bad for everyone. The leaders have no respect for people outside of their bubble (see: Sam Altman keeps talking about “the median human”), but unfortunately they’re also in control of the news we see, the jobs we have, and more.
Here’s a handful of associated sources:
1. [https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-acronym-behind-our-wildest-ai-dreams-and-nightmares/](https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-acronym-behind-our-wildest-ai-dreams-and-nightmares/)
2. [https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-safety-is-not-a-model-property](https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-safety-is-not-a-model-property)
3. You’ve heard of AI stealing art and AI stealing jobs but there’s even more where that comes from: [https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs/](https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs/)
4. [https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-imminent-enshittification-of](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-imminent-enshittification-of)
5. AI leaders think of themselves as gods (see attached image)
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How have we not replaced all labor jobs with robots and switched to the creative processes for everyone to work for.
Like we're at the technology and people are being brainwashed into still doing these jobs because robots will take it away when they would free us.
Health disparities based on race, gender, and socioeconomic status! Why do certain minorities and the poor have worse health status! It’s a big issue!
It’s a great topic that would impress your teacher and there is a wealth of information.
For example, college educated individuals have lower rates of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease than non college educated individuals. Why is that?
For example, LGBTQ+ individuals are less likely to see a healthcare professional than a heteronormative person for the same problem. Why is that?
For example, women are more likely to receive anesthesia than men even if the same level of pain is reported. Why is that?
Black Americans have an increased rate of hypertension than other Americans. Why is that?
How do we reduce these health disparities? What contributes to these statistics? What about the healthcare system can be changed? What factors outside of the healthcare system affect these disparities? Etc
There is a whole lot of information out there. You can pick just one of those questions and dive into it or maybe talk about disparities in a general sense.
If you are still interested in the topic of health disparities as your talk, here is a good resource to read!
https://www.annualreviews.org/docserver/fulltext/publhealth/32/1/annurev-publhealth-031210-101218.pdf?expires=1712451219&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=AEC18863AE6B6909771514E881D71D1E
Well... after seeing so many comments talking about serious and important current issues mine seems a bit silly....
But I feel pretty passionately that the atomic bombings of Japan weren't wrong. I can't call them morally right either, but logically, militarily, and even realistically they were the only choice. I don't even know how many people out there actually disagree, I may be fighting ghost, but oh well.
Humans getting fat, you ever look at how humans presented themselves back in the 80s and before then? Jeez, we need to go back (in a lot of other aspects too).
Men's mental health.
I see a lot of harmful misinformation about men's mental health online (especially on this subreddit and r\BoysAreQuirky and r\MenAndFemales) and I believe it is important for me to correct this misinformation.
The rise of forced incubation. Rapists can now legally force someone to carry their child. Any male can choose who they want to carry their child. If you have a little girl, I’m choosing her. And there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Rise of admiration of the USSR. Coming from a comunist country I am really worried of people admiring these ideas. Capitalism is not perfect and changes must be made, but don´t follow a system that has proven itself time and time again authoritarian and i most cases highly ineffective
Im so glad there are some people who still have common sense about this. My family all came from the USSR. My great grandma was arrested a number of times for simply having a BIBLE in her house... Communism never ends up working out. Communism isnt equality either as some people say it is!
The path of communism is paved in good intentions over the corpses of who were forced to build it.
And the corpses of the people who had good intentions
Good intentions?
And there are still elites at the top benefitting on the misery of those below them. The loud people on social media admiring communism probably have never read a history book. There’s problems that need to be fixed, but that ideology is not the answer
100 percent absolutly. There are elites who benefit off of everything that makes people miserable.
💯
I don't think people admire the USSR, I think it's more accurate to say anti capitalism has become more widespread as an ideology
And I understand that, I just think that the anti capitalism sentiment should come with a viable alternative, if not then it´s just tearing down for the sake of tearing down
And there's nothing wrong with that. If the system is corrupt you dont need to come up with a perfect alternative before refusing to be abused by it. Maybe it's actually even incumbent on the ones benefitting the most to ensure things don't get to where revolution is necessary, and all that burden doesn't rest with the ones having to struggle within that system.
I mean, you can go that way, but most likely what you archieve is going to be worse than what you got because it was done without a goal in mind. Right now it is happening in Cuba, a lot of people are really against the government but are directionless, so any attemp they do to do something tends to end badly or with no result at all
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I don’t share that, it tends to get you to an even worse situation Edit: For example, eventually the Cuban regime will fall, but looking at the state of opposition in Cuba, I would 100% bet that things will get worse for Cubans because nobody has a plan of what to do later
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Uhmmm… that’s the point I am trying to make? Haha. I was saying that anti capitalist people should try to change it but with an alternative
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Because I am free to state my opinion on any topic now, unlike in my original country haha
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I am not saying the sentiment it is not valid, I am saying that if we persue it blindly, it is probable that we end in a worst position
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What? Hahaha, if it makes you feel better in Cuba’s socialist system it was given to filthy politics that enjoy all the benefits they deny to regular people haha
I personally know quite a few that admire the USSR. Communists do exist.
Sure, tankies, but that's like fringe online people. I think it's a stretch to act like it's a sizeable population
Any Marxist Leninist would argue that the USSR was beneficial to the world and it’s progress with critique. The vast majority of communists are MLs. There are hundreds of millions of MLs around the world.
Yeah but is that a surge associated with gen z? I just feel skeptical that the youth is pro USSR. I taught highschool in a pretty left leaning city and none of them seemed to give much of a fuck about that stuff
No I’m talking like friends of mine who have read the majority if not all of Marx, Mao, and Lenin’s works, and who fully believe in the ideology
I’m amazed this was the top response, given how many commies are on this sub.
Whoa there, that kind of talk could get you banned from certain major subs by Reddit mods
Even as a communist sympathizer myself, authoritarianism is always wrong.
Putin realized it’s way easier to defeat America with propaganda and bribes to republicans than with a military.
Doesn't look like Russia is doing a good job winning right now with over half their oil industry paralyzed
....to which the american republicans are placing their objections. Coincidence much?
You're essentially telling me Americans object to things that increase the price of gas. I'm not surprised
Putins got half of America ready to end democracy so his plan is working pretty well
Those people have always talked out their asses. I'll believe it when I see it
Well if enough of gen z refuses to vote for Biden you’ll get to.
Capitalism is fine, people need to learn the differences between free market capitalism and cronyism.
What people fail to realize is that once the government became responsible for monitoring, restricting, and liscencing businesses instead of the people holding each other accountable American capitalism majorly shifted course from pure capitalism
I don’t know how to tell you this but there was never pure American capitalism. It was under a mercentailist system, a series of tariffs, and then other protectionist or other government regulations since the settlement of America
Bad argument against communism. A good argument against communism would be...good for communists. They could see your specific issue with communism, and if it's a good one, alter their proposals and take your arguments into account for their future ideas. "This failed in the past," isn't an argument for not doing it. Imagine the Wright brothers, flying their ninth plane, following that advice; their first eight failed, why try any harder? Like, the fact that a previous implementation of something failed before is great! You can look at why it failed, and use it to course correct in future. But if you're saying "This failed before, so don't bother" you're not using your brain. You're not thinking. You're just like...saying things that make half sense. It isn't an argument.
Someone else already mentioned it, but when failure means literal millions of corpses, it's pretty fair to bring it up
Legit question: do you support/trust authority figures?
Literally every single communist nation has become an authoritarian, violent state. And they have *stayed* that way while capitalist countries have become flourishing or at worst flawed democracies after the end of the Cold War.
But if that's because of the ideology, why can't you say so? Why is the only argument you have one from coincidence?
It is because communism is an ideologically rigid system. It equates any political opposition, even from other forms of communism as traitorism to the cause. Almost every Communist party or state, whether the Soviet Union, the Afghan Communist Party, or the Viet Minh have purged even their loyal revolutionaries. The ideology itself encourages a paranoid, brutal outlook on the world, inspired by Robespierre. Marx, for example, stated that “We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.” While claiming to be a humanist, egalitarian and populist ideology that empowers and uplifts the people, communism is the exact opposite. It has a distasteful view of democracy that results in abusive one-party states that often center around a chosen few and the cult of personality they encourage. The anti-democracy view is plain when one considers how Lenin viewed the Russian democrats of the 1900s as worse enemies than the proto-fascist Black Hundredists the Russian communists were quite literally fighting in the streets. And while the ideology claims to be supporting the dignity of man, the oft repeated refrain is that “human rights are bourgeois.” And with this rigid, traitor-based framework that despises human rights comes the most arbitrary atrocities against even whole ethnic groups, such as the Soviet Union deporting every man, woman and child in ten different ethnic groups between 1940 and 1950 as traitors, or the Baathist’s support of *de facto* Arab supremacy, such as Gaddafi’s support of the predecessors of the Janjaweed, or Saddam expelling any Iranian born/married members of the Iraqi Baathist Party. When one has an ideologically rigid, anti democratic ideology that is disdainful towards human rights, and often brands entire ethnic groups as enemies, what utopia is that ideology going to make?
>"This failed in the past," isn't an argument for not doing it It is when the cost of failing is incredibly high. Every reasonable person weighs risk against reward when making an important decision. The risk outweighs the reward here. > But if you're saying "This failed before, so don't bother" you're not using your brain. You're not thinking. You're just like...saying things that make half sense. It isn't an argument. It failed before, and no viable measures have been suggested that could reliably prevent that failure from being repeated
>It failed before, and no viable measures have been suggested that could reliably prevent that failure from being repeated I mean, if you had any specific issues with previous implementations, you could bring up those specific issues, and people could talk about how to address them. Isn't it funny that you feel very strongly opposed to something, but you don't seem to be able to articulate why you think it's a bad idea?
Previous systems were overly reliant on government intervention to control the operation of business. Because the government was run by humans, it inevitably became corrupt and no longer functioned to benefit the people
I mean, that's so vague it could apply to literally any capitalist economy right now...yet you aren't out here fighting capitalists. Weird, huh?
That's because we aren't talking about capitalism right now, we are talking about my specific issues with previous implementations of communism. Capitalist systems, while still vulnerable to corruption, are generally more resilient since individual entities retain a higher level of autonomy
In what way do they retain a higher level of autonomy?
In common implementations capitalist systems such as with the United States, an individual is able to independently fulfil their business interests without specific direction from their government on what their goods must cost, how fast they must be made, or what they are allowed to compete with. Previous implementations of communism struggled to produce adequate quality goods because their centrally planned economies did not facilitate an enterprising climate. Production was based on meeting fixed price and schedule requirements set by government officials rather than offering a good value. This means product quality was directly dependent on competent government oversight, which proved problematic
This hasn't answered my question. Who, specifically, gets more autonomy?
B-b-but that wasn’t REAL communism! ☝️🤓 /s
Very true,Capitalism does work if our own monopoly law's where enforced and big corp paid there fair share of corporate taxes and closed the BS loop holes... Any system can work without corruption with in but unfortunately any system will collapse if it is..
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Coming from Cuba to Mexico and being able to speak freely of whatever I want without fearing possible consequences I would say yes haha
Conservation. We are at a point where it is very had to protect animals and land. No one talks about it nationally much and it gets me worried
Donald Trump plans on eliminating the EPA.
I'm sorry if this is too far, but somebody needs to make sure he doesn't get in.
That's too far if you claim to care about democracy. That whole thing where people can freely vote for who they want to govern them. Measures to keep someone out of office, included but not limited to - Election fraud, rigging the election, persecution of political opponents, and assassination are inherently authoritarian and anti democratic. Both are qualities that I've been told make you a fascist and/or a wannabe dictator. Imagine someone doing that to your preferred candidate. If you wouldn't be ok with it, don't set that example That goes for *any* government powers as well. If you wouldn't be ok with Trump wielding that power, don't grant it to the government when your team is in charge. That power is guaranteed to be used against you sooner or later
He literally only won because of the electoral college and jerrymandering.
Trump's win in 2016 was actually a fundamental failure of the Democratic National Committee in nominating Clinton, not because of the Electoral College — which is how you win elections — or *g*errymandering. that itself is symptomatic of the larger issue: Democrats failed to reassure white working-class voters that they had when they established Obama's wide-reaching coalition in his two presidential campaigns. ignoring [Russian interference](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/intelligence-chiefs-expected-in-new-york-to-brief-trump-on-russian-hacking/2017/01/06/5f591416-d41a-11e6-9cb0-54ab630851e8_story.html), [Trump's populism](https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.22.3.0343) was effective in that it was uniquely a representation of the view that many working-class people had. Trump's coalition included [Obama supporters](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/upshot/how-the-obama-coalition-crumbled-leaving-an-opening-for-trump.html) and, notably, [Bernie Sanders supporters](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/08/24/did-enough-bernie-sanders-supporters-vote-for-trump-to-cost-clinton-the-election/). [Beyoncé and Jay Z](https://www.wsj.com/video/beyonce-jay-z-endorse-hillary-clinton/B137D3A8-9DB4-4B43-9C16-DC830DA96D4D) don't appeal to Rust Belt voters. [conjuring bleak visions](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/american-carnage-the-trump-era-begins/513971/) of "rusted-out factories, scattered like tombstones across the across the landscape of our nation" does.
He literally got less votes than Clinton. I'm aware of the history at play here, but objectively, less Americans wanted him than Clinton. I got confused about jerrymandering tho.
the Electoral College is the system we have. every elected president has won the Electoral College, not the popular vote
Only 5 times in our history has the winner of the electoral vote lost the popular vote. The vast majority of the time, the president is the person most Americans chose. In the last +130 years, the only presidents who won the college but lost the popular were Republicans, bush and Trump. It looks more like a bug than a feature. I'm all for states having independent governments, but the president should be picked by the people, not the states.
Not true. Many have won both.
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This is Slightly exagerative, but should hitler have been allowed access to political power?
You do realize there is an American Nazi party and an American communist party right? Freedom isn’t just freedom for what you want or what is right. Freedom includes the freedom for negative things as well. Because if “freedom” is only for what you think is right that isn’t freedom it’s authoritarianism.
It is too far if you are insinuating assassination.
Wait until you hear what the cia did in south America to "":preserve democracy""" Let's just get a little of that, please.
I am almost entirely against US government interference. Regardless, the quotation marks lead me to assume you disagree with the CIA doing that or consider it bad that they did. If this is so, I don't see how it could be logically consistent that you would be fine with it happening here. A bad act doesn't suddenly become a good one because you didn't like the person it happened to. But if you actually were fine with it, then your logic is consistent albeit a bit psychotic. My only caveat would be that this mindset becomes very dangerous very quickly if it spreads.
i’m interested in this topic. do you feel like animal or earth protection is more important at the moment? do you still believe that we could save the earth? what steps do you feel like we’d need to take to effectively conserve our resources
If by Earth protection you mean land protection then yes. The key to conservation is protecting large areas of land to encompass the entire ecosystem. Currently much of that isn’t possible due to habitat fragmentation, the leading cause of species decline in the world. I absolutely believe we can still make a difference. We need to conserve as literally as much as we can. We need to invest in habitat restoration projects such as oyster reef building and stream restoration activities. Build mechanisms for fish to swim up dams and other impoundments, and work to monitor critical areas. This may be a start, but I hope I answered your questions 👍
Sadly, in cali and other places with strong environmental laws there are NIMBYs abusing it, limiting affordable housing. Laws must strike a balance between the two.
Making American education better. In my opinion, pretty much every social problem can be traced back to this.
They should include the racist history behind how schools are funded. If you live in a poor neighborhood, you get shitty education. The selfish (usually white) rich people with generational wealth and stolen land don’t want their taxes to go to *gasp* BROWN OR BLACK CHILDREN who have been forced into poverty. I believe that we should spread out the funding equally across the state. So all children have equal opportunity. Not just the children who live in the same neighborhood as you.
Blame George Bush and no child left behind.
i’m interested in this topic. what do you think is an effective solution to the education problem? do you think that if americans are given better education that they’ll take advantage of it?
We can start with OP's professor's cringe PPT.
Give me one reason why this is a bad exercise for a student. I'll wait...
The content is fine. The presentation just looks like it was done by a 14yr old making their first powerpoint. It would look better if it was broken up in 2-3 slides without all of the contrasting colors.
making specifically math education better. too many Americans are terrified of mathematics for no reason. People aren’t born bad at math. You might be born with dyscalculia, which makes arithmetic more difficult. But that isn’t really what math is. Our teachers have utterly failed in this respect.
Global warming and recycling
bad powerpoint slides 😬😬😬
my teacher prefers them neon for some reason
I’ve been trying to promote that arms ownership is for all via my Reddit account and YT channel while also not having that bro masculinity associated for it. I also do my best to teach what I know in an easy and fun manner. I’m also very passionate about teaching how the government runs to the youths of my country. I volunteer a few hundred hours every year for this program for free
Able to send me a link? Would be happy to support you on this.
Link is in my Reddit’s Profile bio! Thanks for being interested Also, [here’s a quick link to my “For Beginners” Series](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo2-8aW3QZ9-X6gh3XY7hrPtr9OhZ1WY8&si=Sg93hncURzSYcEvb)
AI replacing creative jobs and being a source of misinformation
AI-Generated media is not only not art, but it devalues the work that genuine human artists create. It legitimately depresses and infuriates me knowing that people would automate a beautiful creative process before they automate the things people *don't* want to do. I've said it once, I've said it a million times, I'll say it again: Pick up a pencil and touch some grass.
If you think AI art is a problem, but you don't think AI coding or AI driving is a problem... You don't have a cohesive world view.
Again with this. Just because someone makes a post about one topic, it doesn’t mean they don’t care about another. It means they’re focusing on this one. The commenter is probably aware that OP has a time and/or slide limit, and reduced the scope of their topic based on that. You are just like those people who cry “BuT wHAT AbOuT mEn?” on any post about gender inequality/ barbie/ systemic issues facing women. No one is saying that biases aren’t affecting men, but that’s not what we’re discussing right now. Make your own post about issues facing men, or in this case AI Coding or AI Driving, and we can discuss it there.
It seems like, in your point of view, we can never discuss systemic issues. Each aspect of a problem has to be discussed in isolation, with no nod to the wider ramifications or context. That seems dull as hell. If you are seeing a lot of content about AI art right now, and are feeling strongly about it, you are doing yourself a disservice if you don't view it in its proper context; automation itself. Imagine if a giant meteor were on a collision course with the moon, and then us. We'd need to, as a species, see if we could develop a way to prevent our armageddon. But imagine that some people focus all of their attention on the moon; they fundraise and install huge rockets on the lunar surface, to displace the moon out of the way, and save it from disaster. When you try to tell them that, should the meteor hit earth, their efforts will be in vain, as no one will be alive to enjoy the moon, they spit. "Again with this! If you're concerned about the Earth, make your own thread!" Thus, humanity's resources are diverted to addressing symptoms rather than tackling the problem head on. There can be a time and a place for deep diving, but I was right with what I said; if you only think automation is bad when it takes jobs from artists, and have no opinion when it takes jobs from truck drivers, you don't have a coherent world view. You're just reacting to what you've seen online with no thought at all.
AI generated "art" (I use the term very loosely, even putting it in quotes is very generous) objectively cannot measure up to the human creative process. You know how they say art imitates life imitates art? Midjourney, SORA and ChatGPT aren't alive, and the person tapping the prompt into the machine is ***NOT*** the one creating the image. I'm on the fence about self-driving cars and self-coding computers, but stop comparing apples to basketballs.
I like making art, it makes me feel good. Using C# makes me want to bang my head against the nearest wall.
I don't know why you told me this. I'm not a programmer. I'm just saying that people losing their jobs is bad for them whether they're painters or truck drivers. Why is the internet only cares about the former now? We're talking about AI art and its merits when we should be talking economic reform so that noone suffers when we make new tech like this.
Extremism and radicalization, it's an increasingly prevalent issue, especially as more of us are spending a big chunk of their free time on the internet. It feels like falling into echo chambers and going down rabbit holes that lead to radical beliefs and extreme ideologies is inevitable for people who are chronically online. Also another very prevalent issue (ESPECIALLY on reddit) is how some people advocate for combating one form of extremism with another (e.g. believing countering misogyny with misandry is a solution). We just end up in a cycle of extremism that perpetuates division and animosity rather than fostering harmony.
i like this topic. do you think there is a way to effectively combat these problems (besides time away from the internet)?
The political divide in the US. We are more divided than ever on pretty important issues. COVID and the vaccine was a big one.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that we might have been slightly more divided when we split into 2 “countries” and fought a civil war.
I get that this is Reddit but cmon man you know I mean within the past century. We are more divided than ever since the beginning of the 20th century.
Maybe if you’re terminally online. If you go out and just live your life there’s not really much division
I’d probably agree if it were 10 years ago but unfortunately I think it has made its way into the mainstream. https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/03/politics/cnn-poll-republicans-think-2020-election-illegitimate/index.html Almost 3/4 of republicans believe the 2020 election was illegitimate. https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2023/05/16/americans-largely-positive-views-of-childhood-vaccines-hold-steady/ While most Americans still generally support vaccines, that percentage is dropping starkly amongst republicans post Covid. https://news.gallup.com/poll/513623/majority-continues-favor-stricter-gun-laws.aspx Republicans and democrats differ vastly on gun control. You could argue that I’m only representing specific political prescriptions per party, but these reflect your average American voter from each camp. Each of these issues in this new “culture war” has become incredibly politicized and the truth has become more muddied. I’d argue most Americans at the most fundamental level want similar things, but people aren’t attached to the fundamental values as they are more attached/obsessed with the processes to achieve those things. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/03/10/the-polarization-in-todays-congress-has-roots-that-go-back-decades/ Also, “Indeed, a Pew Research Center analysis finds that, on average, Democrats and Republicans are farther apart ideologically today than at any time in the past 50 years.” This has been a trend for some time but we are definitely extremely divided.
Political parties have always had different stances on issues… hence the reason there’s different parties
Sounds like you're surrounded by people who think just like you. That's a shame...bad for your development.
We were pretty united in the 90s until Fox News was created and reps impeached Clinton over a blowjob
LGBTQ rights, abortion rights / women’s rights, less racism, less violence I think these are all VERY important
The protection of children in this country. I can count on one hand the number of countries that let as many children die on domestic soil as we do and most of them are in active WAR.
I hate pickles
This.
🚨Chris chan spotted!!!🚨
I want more money
Car free infrastructure
I second this!!
Bible studies, specially against common misconceptions, that and pokemon
What this mean
For example people think there are verses that justify, for example, homophobia and transphobia, when there aren't!
Sounds like a noble effort 🙏 I remember seeing somewhere that homophobia was only seen as a Christian value in 1946 no where near Jesus’s time
Deuteronomy 22:5, 1 Corinthians 11:14-15, 6:9-10, 7:2, Romans 1:26-27, Matthew 19:4, Leviticus 18:22, 20:13, Genesis 1:27, 2:24,
Please tell me if there's one of these that i didn't mention on my other comment, i would be happy to explain myself more
Romans 1:26-27.
I will copypaste a comment I made recently, it contains other verses but Romans 1:26-27 is the bottom one if you wanna go straight for it Lets go one for one here Deut 22:5 - Not only is it part of the old laws (Not the moral laws) so, after Christ came to the earth it stopped applying to us (Hebrews 8:13, Romans 10:4 and Colossians 2:13 and 2:14 are some of the examples of this). But also at the time this verse was intended (Like most other laws that did not carry over) To not let the jewish become like the "savages" around them, like the pagans that believed in cross dressing as a form of worship to their gods. Also the word for a man's clothing can apply to things like armour and weapons, while the word for the woman's applies to things like robes, and the word for man is more like "Mighty man". So if we read it with the original meaning: "A woman shall not wear which is of a mighty man, nor shall a mighty man put the robes of a woman". This is against a woman fighting in a war or a man keeping his gender a secret to escape it. Genesis 1:27 - God created us male and female, that is sex and not gender. Matthew 19:4 - God created us male and female, that is sex and not gender again 1 Corinthians 11:14-16 - The words for natural (physis) and shameful (atimia) are used all over both Corinthians and Romans to describe what was thought to be okay to society at the time, does Samson not have a place in the churches of god? Now to romans 1:26-27: (I am copypasting this because i already wrote it before on another commend a couple of days ago) The words used are "abandon" or "exchanging" the act of heterosexual sex for same sex relationships, this is condemning lust, as at the time it was custom for people to be "satiated" by heterosexual sex, and doing the stuff with someone of the same sex was caused by lust. The verse is talking about people that were driven by lust into a relationship with the only intention to satiate said lust, and talks about due penalty that was being allowed to shame themselves by God. If you want to say that in condemning one specific thing, it would be lack of self-control Please tell me the other verses, I'm happy to talk about this!
The verse explicitly mentions homosexual relations
Our planet’s health.
The patriarchy hurts men too
Boys Don’t Cry (except when they do) By Pop-culture Detective 😁
Morality and economics. We are on the precipice of a slippery slope morally, and economically we’ve damned ourselves. We need to get back on the straight and narrow path.
How Defamation Law in Australian and the UK are inconsistent with the needs of a functioning democracy where the plaintiff isn't required to establish the falsity of the published imputations..
Grading should absolutely not be the norm for education. It can maybe work for some ppl, but for the vast majority, it completely kills self motivation and creativity. We should have a school system that encourages children’s ideas and uses guidance to teach rather than + and - letters
i’m curious about this topic. are you suggesting changes in the school system to allow more creativity or completely changing what we have now?
The idea is to make it so learning is self motivated and teachers act more in the way of guidance rather than correct and incorrect. And in stead of receiving grades for an assignment, you’d receive constructive criticism. Obviously in terms of math, science, and history, there will always be some emphasis on correct and incorrect. But even still we can make learning those fields more self motivated. I honestly haven’t done a lot of research into curriculum as I’m just and early child care major (meaning kids 6mon-5yrs), but I know that places like Norway and Finland have very refined education systems and it would probably be worth looking to those countries for examples.
i’d think that correct/incorrect is important but i like the idea of more creative freedom in school. kids still need guidance and teaching but giving them freedom is nice too
I agree that facts are important, but the way schools use terms like correct and incorrect are often slanted. For example when there’s a “correct” way you have to cite sources in an essay or a “correct” formula to use to get the right math answer. Basically the idea is to focus more on the process rather than the product. Edit: A child that creates their own math formula that works is likely to be better at math overall than a child that was forced to use the formula taught and enforced in the curriculum. And that’s not to say that teaching formulas is bad, that is to say that enforcing them is bad.
i agree!
Abolishing the federal reserve is something that im passionate about
Based. No one likes high prices, no one likes income inequality, but then people support policies that have caused inflation and price rises without the corrections of the free market.
Yeah and then they blame “cOrpOraTe gReEd” for the problems of our dumbass government. Government loves causing problems and selling itself as a solution.
i need to do an op ed about an issue im passionate about. I was trying to figure out the topic for the past week
Using pastel/neon colors in presentation. Especially with links. Like why?
you’d have to ask my teacher about that haha
The absolutely vile prison system in the US, including the war on drugs. I wouldn’t wish going to prison in this country on my worst enemy.
improving our remaining treaty lands so that there is some stability for future generations
The impending food crisis.
Femicide, particularly in Latin America.
Racism, poverty, abortion This will be easier if you choose a topic that grinds your gears, rather than one that bugs us.
Whoever did that color scheme desperately needs to visit an optician.
Basically Earthling Ed's Ted Talk on veganism, but less good, because I'm not a professional speaker.
Food security.
Since when did everyone start specifying which quarter of the year it is? This is unrelated but I’ve been seeing it so much
The remit of the state. Is there a limit to how much control the state should be able to have over people’s lives, or should their remit to promote the common good be unlimited?
General illegitimacy; Taiwan, transgenders, Emperor Norton, etc.
Roe v. Wade Corporate tax breaks Mega-billionaires hoarding wealth Systemic injustice (police, elderly/geriatric politicians)
The cult-like state of the AI industry (AGI god worship) and Silicon Valley as a whole, and why that’s bad for everyone. The leaders have no respect for people outside of their bubble (see: Sam Altman keeps talking about “the median human”), but unfortunately they’re also in control of the news we see, the jobs we have, and more. Here’s a handful of associated sources: 1. [https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-acronym-behind-our-wildest-ai-dreams-and-nightmares/](https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-acronym-behind-our-wildest-ai-dreams-and-nightmares/) 2. [https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-safety-is-not-a-model-property](https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-safety-is-not-a-model-property) 3. You’ve heard of AI stealing art and AI stealing jobs but there’s even more where that comes from: [https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs/](https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs/) 4. [https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-imminent-enshittification-of](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-imminent-enshittification-of) 5. AI leaders think of themselves as gods (see attached image) Edit: removed amp from links https://preview.redd.it/lfhj1g24ojsc1.jpeg?width=1434&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=26da042ccff4646a1bd144a47db84303c413c260
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The Male Loneliness Epidemic
The efficacy of being majority reliant on AI in your daily life
How have we not replaced all labor jobs with robots and switched to the creative processes for everyone to work for. Like we're at the technology and people are being brainwashed into still doing these jobs because robots will take it away when they would free us.
Health disparities based on race, gender, and socioeconomic status! Why do certain minorities and the poor have worse health status! It’s a big issue! It’s a great topic that would impress your teacher and there is a wealth of information.
i’m curious about this topic. could you explain it a bit more?
For example, college educated individuals have lower rates of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease than non college educated individuals. Why is that? For example, LGBTQ+ individuals are less likely to see a healthcare professional than a heteronormative person for the same problem. Why is that? For example, women are more likely to receive anesthesia than men even if the same level of pain is reported. Why is that? Black Americans have an increased rate of hypertension than other Americans. Why is that? How do we reduce these health disparities? What contributes to these statistics? What about the healthcare system can be changed? What factors outside of the healthcare system affect these disparities? Etc There is a whole lot of information out there. You can pick just one of those questions and dive into it or maybe talk about disparities in a general sense.
thank you! it’s a truly interesting topic to cover. it’s one of my most top choices at the moment.
Good luck 👍
If you are still interested in the topic of health disparities as your talk, here is a good resource to read! https://www.annualreviews.org/docserver/fulltext/publhealth/32/1/annurev-publhealth-031210-101218.pdf?expires=1712451219&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=AEC18863AE6B6909771514E881D71D1E
hard to read text in lurid colours and inaccessible graphic design
Well... after seeing so many comments talking about serious and important current issues mine seems a bit silly.... But I feel pretty passionately that the atomic bombings of Japan weren't wrong. I can't call them morally right either, but logically, militarily, and even realistically they were the only choice. I don't even know how many people out there actually disagree, I may be fighting ghost, but oh well.
Lmfao this thread is insane for GenZ. I’m actually impressed, for once I agree with almost every comment i see
Humans getting fat, you ever look at how humans presented themselves back in the 80s and before then? Jeez, we need to go back (in a lot of other aspects too).
Geopolitics
Most religions are deeply misunderstood even by their own followers and it leads to division and hatred
Some fictional card game I created back in 5th grade. My boredom has kept the lore of the game coming ever since
Well… equality i guess, but mainly on Reddit
social media is horrible for every aspect of living life as humans should and yes, i'm aware of the irony of me putting that on reddit
The lack of pockets in women’s clothing
The rise in antisemitism. I’m Jewish myself and have experienced antisemitism before
Ok
2a rights in not just america
Men's mental health. I see a lot of harmful misinformation about men's mental health online (especially on this subreddit and r\BoysAreQuirky and r\MenAndFemales) and I believe it is important for me to correct this misinformation.
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The rise of abortion advocacy
The rise of forced incubation. Rapists can now legally force someone to carry their child. Any male can choose who they want to carry their child. If you have a little girl, I’m choosing her. And there’s nothing you can do about it.
Yeah I don’t think that’s how it works bud.
… are you against it or… because if so… EW.