- Joined
- Oct 1, 2020
- Messages
- 112
- Reaction score
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- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Socialist
Having somewhat recently sworn off Twitter (it seems to have stuck this time and I feel much healthier for it) I realize I could never get from that site what I used to get out of debate back in my college days and the earlier days of the internet.
I would like to have intelligent arguments with people. I don't want a shouting match. I don't want to call people names or be called names.
I want to intelligently engage with people I disagree with in order to find the flaws in my thinking and/or strengthen my understanding.
I'm a socialist who would prefer not to have a state if possible but grant that it may be a necessary evil. I was an anarcho-capitalist from youth to middle age, but became a liberal after the 2007-2008 financial crisis. From there I began to move steadily to the left, finally becoming a socialist during the Trump years.
These days I fundamentally believe that people are more important than things, that a market is not always (or, possibly, ever) the best way to organize cooperation. I also distrust authority and hierarchy at any scale or in any sphere, public or private. I also don't agree that human beings are basically savage and cruel and that we need the power of violence to reign in our savage nature.
I would like to have intelligent arguments with people. I don't want a shouting match. I don't want to call people names or be called names.
I want to intelligently engage with people I disagree with in order to find the flaws in my thinking and/or strengthen my understanding.
I'm a socialist who would prefer not to have a state if possible but grant that it may be a necessary evil. I was an anarcho-capitalist from youth to middle age, but became a liberal after the 2007-2008 financial crisis. From there I began to move steadily to the left, finally becoming a socialist during the Trump years.
These days I fundamentally believe that people are more important than things, that a market is not always (or, possibly, ever) the best way to organize cooperation. I also distrust authority and hierarchy at any scale or in any sphere, public or private. I also don't agree that human beings are basically savage and cruel and that we need the power of violence to reign in our savage nature.