• Leviathan@lemmy.world
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    This is what it looks like when you’re young/dumb enough to believe that these opposing wants will ever coexist and that things could ever get better. People with money don’t want you happy, they want you endlessly productive or dead, they also control the government.

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    Clearly we need university arts and humanities departments to start interpreting stuff like this instead of whatever it is they do now.

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      Independent thought, try it sometime you might hate yourself less. That or make the true Vulcan society without emotions and see what logic dictates of culture if expression of emotion bothers you so. I am King, Conform to me.

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    They’ve been subject to syncretism, only in face do their similarities to their original culture appear

  • “high trust commuinites”. What do you think that idea was born out of?

    “I hate being cancelled and called on my shit all the time! I need to move to a high trust community with other deplorables, so we can trust each other and not offend each other!”

    “I’m just so sick of hearing that reality has a leftist bias. My reality will have a rightist bias!”

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      I’ve never hear the phrase “reality has a leftist bias”. in which contexts is it usually applied?

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        When the context is the person thinks “liberal” means “leftist.”

        The phrase is “reality has a liberal bias,” in response to media support of liberal viewpoints. Usually because they can back them up with proof.

        The problem they have is, even in solely American context, there’s a difference between “the left” and “leftists.”

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        A common one recently is in response to the assertion that chatGPT and similar LLMs have a leftist bias, when the reality is that they’re just regurgitating the data they’ve been fed.

        One example I particularly remember was someone asking chatGPT what it thought of trump, which it responded to with a list of things Trump lied about or fucked up. Never mind that it was all accurate, it “clearly” showed that it has a left bias lol