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Trump Is Going After the Independence of the Entire Legal Profession, Not Just Big Law
  • He's a god. An evil one. Humanity creates gods when they worship ideas. Donald Trump isn't a man, he's an idea, festering in the minds of millions of people. His power comes from that belief and reverence. His followers commit all these crimes in his name, and THAT is what it means to be a god.

  • Fictional ideologies club
  • Yes, much in the same way that syndicalism or mutualism are anarchism with extra steps. Soulists are anarchists who are a little more open minded, and willing to challenge a couple more hierarchies. Realism, the belief in an objective universe, is the root of all conservativism, and must be destroyed in order to reach liberation.

  • Fictional ideologies club
  • This is true, and this is false - source: me?”

    No, I don't have the expertise in indigenous metaphysics to write that dialogue. It was written by James Cross after many long conversations we had about soulism and Tiwi beliefs.

    Soulism, put simply, is the theory that hierarchy is bad, and reality is a hierarchy we have the ability to abolish. You can read My manifesto on soulism at http://soulism.net/

    As to why I made this comic? If you go to the polcompball wiki page on soulism, you'll see a disclaimer stating that soulism is fictional. The soulist community has had many arguments with the wiki's admin team about this label. Today, this comic suddenly came to Me, and I just had to draw it. I thought I might post it somewhere on Lemmy. Blahaj's soulism community was deleted by the admins, and this was the next best place. I do wish I'd been able to post it to a Lemmy community where the background required to fully appreciate the meme was more normalised, but such communities seem not to last very long. Last year I attempted to create lemmy.soulism.net, but I ran into problems with the cost of VPSes.

  • Fictional ideologies club

    Explanation: Marxism-Leninism is a fictional ideology invented by Joseph Stalin. Anarcho-Capitalism is a fictional ideology invented by Murray Rothbard. Soulism, contrary to popular perception, is a coherent ideology practiced by actual people who (unwillingly) live in the real world. In My conversations with Indigenous Australians, I've learned Soulism bears a remarkable similarity to the metaphysical views of certain Aboriginal nations, especially the Tiwi people, which have been stable and which have guided entire societies over many thousands of years.

    Source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b-DaK8ovlp0UZJLlN-B4s4wG_HwVfqyI/view?usp=sharing

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    You rule
  • When I see a little girl getting excited about Disney princesses and wanting to be one, I see a child being sexually groomed. It's disgusting and it needs to stop. It's abusive. We shouldn't be exposing children to these kinds of messaging. We need to be aware of what our words mean, so we can use them wisely.

  • USA, Russia, and China are part of the same "psychological continent" - Toward a Psychological Atlas of the World With Mixture Modeling

    > This article presents findings based on the outcomes of research conducted with 8,883 participants from 33 countries. It employs mixture modeling (latent profile analysis) to classify countries into latent classes. The country-level analyses are based on three social attitudes factor scores of Nastiness, Religiosity, and Morality. The results indicate that the main sources of cross-cultural differences are with respect to a broadly defined Conservatism/Liberalism. Three groups of societies—that is, “psychological continents”—appear to exist in the world today. They are as follows: (a) liberal European countries plus Canada and Australia; (b) conservative countries from South and South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America; and (c) all other countries, including the United States, Russia, and China, that are in between liberal and conservative groups. In addition, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, cognitive test performance, and governance indicators were found to be low in the most conservative group and high in the most liberal group.

    > There are eight countries belonging to the first group, namely Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Canada, Australia, and Ireland. The majority of these are Western European countries and/or have Anglo heritage. These countries score at the low level on all three variables included in this study.

    > Fourteen countries belong to this group, namely, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, Morocco, Russia, Poland, Ukraine, the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, China, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. They score at the medium level of Nastiness, Religiosity, and Morality.

    > Eleven countries belong to this group—Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Argentina, and Peru. They all score high on the Nastiness, Religiosity, and Morality scales included in the analysis.

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    Biologists rip Trump’s 'non-sensical' executive order declaring only 2 sexes
  • However, the law doesn't talk about genotype. It talks about gametes. Embryos don't produce gametes. The law does not specify a difference.

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  • Reality has always been crafted by the oppressor. It's an inherently oppressive concept. http://soulism.net/

  • How tankies struggle with abstract reasoning
  • Of course I haven't solved philosophy with objectively correct positions. There's no such thing as objectivity. I believe that the idea of objectivity is a harmful one. All truth is subjective, and subjective truth is measured by good done and self-consistency. I'm interested in exploring the potential good to be done by criticising tankies' inability to ethically reason without empathy.

  • How tankies struggle with abstract reasoning
  • Perhaps it would seem less fantastic if you redefined your axes. Materalism is anti-science, and magic is a field of science.

  • How tankies struggle with abstract reasoning
  • They're very good at excuses, fallacies, and mental gymnastics. Those are reasoning too. Just not very advanced reasoning.

  • How tankies struggle with abstract reasoning
  • Takes a bow

    It's been two months and she hasn't woken up gasping for breath since. It was a mind problem, so I fixed it in her mind. The imagination is the mind's development environment.

  • Kamala Harris Paid the Price for Not Breaking With Biden on Gaza, New Poll Shows
  • I thought we were talking about the voters. Just two days ago, you suggested we reconsider voting for the lesser evil.

  • Zuck rule

    This is a screenshot from Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, a tokusatsu show about doctors and video games

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    Just found out I wasn't registered as an organ donor

    I just got a message from Medicare inviting Me to register as an organ donor. I thought I already was. I remember ticking the organ donation box when I first applied for My drivers license.

    If I'd have died in the last few years, My organs wouldn't have saved any lives. Who knows how many other people want to donate but aren't registered? I think Australia should have an opt-out system instead of an opt-in system, so that people don't need to make an effort in order to do the right thing. Doing the right thing should be easy.

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    Philosophy @lemmy.ml Grail (capitalised) @aussie.zone
    Death is a social construct
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    Philosophy @lemmy.ml Grail (capitalised) @aussie.zone
    You already think like a soulist
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    God should never be a proper noun

    While I am not personally an atheist, this was the only religion-centered community I could find to post this article, and surely we polytheists and atheists can find a united purpose in condemning monotheistic bias.

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    Some states are doing better than others at energy

    The top graph is South Australia’s energy grid. The bottom is Queensland’s. Yellow is solar, green is wind, orange is gas, purple is imports, and black is coal.

    Over the last week, Queensland used 27.3% renewable power, and South Australia used 81.4%. Source: https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/au/

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    Some states are doing better than others at energy

    The top graph is South Australia’s energy grid. The bottom is Queensland’s. Yellow is solar, green is wind, orange is gas, purple is imports, and black is coal.

    Over the last week, Queensland used 27.3% renewable power, and South Australia used 81.4%. Source: https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/au/

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    Some states are doing better than others at energy

    The top graph is South Australia's energy grid. The bottom is Queensland's. Yellow is solar, green is wind, orange is gas, purple is imports, and black is coal.

    Over the last week, Queensland used 27.3% renewable power, and South Australia used 81.4%. Source: https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/au/

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    Grail Grail (capitalised) @aussie.zone

    They/Them, capitalised

    Writer of the most popular Soulist Manifesto and the article about how John Wick is communist. Read My blog: https://medium.com/@viridiangrail

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