@redpillschool

The basic task on both is reading. Many people here struggle with reading.

What I struggle with is how little of the page is occupied by the text I am trying to read. That was the problem with "new reddit". The users didn't want it, but the users aren't the customers, they're the product. The customers were the advertisers, and they wanted more space for ads. So a version was devised that devoted less space to content.

When I look at this site, I'm looking at a narrow strip of text down the middle, surrounded by a thick border of blank space, and then two thick sidebars that don't contain any information I'm actually looking for.

Which is why there's a little button labelled "read more" on any post with a significant amount of text. But a significant amount of text is necessary for any sort of detailed analysis or nuanced thought.

Trp.red, to a certain extent, mimics twitter. But twitter is designed from the ground up to be user-hostile, which is not our intent here.

@MentORPHEUS

You're inverting a syllogism.

Given that someone is gay, the likelihood that they are closeted and publicly anti-gay increases over baseline.

However, given that someone is publicly anti-gay does NOT necessarily increase the likelihood that they are gay over baseline.

That's not how probability works.

Furthermore, "you are secretly gay" is irrelevant to someone's arguments about whether gays should be tolerated or even celebrated.

The pride-flag people, and the family-and-jesus people are being used by Wall Street as a distraction. That's why big corporations with government clout are busying draping themselves in rainbow flags, and celebrate women's history month and whatnot.

Because that's what they want the national discourse to be about. The real threat to them is stuff like the TEA Party and Occupy Wall Street. They want culture wars so that people don't focus on questions like "why have corporate profits increased far more rapidly than wages?", "where is all this tax money going?", and "why are all these politicians getting six-figure speaking fees and eight-figure book deals?".

Sitting here arguing about whether it's okay to be gay is playing right into their hands. And that goes for both sides of the argument... Liberals hunting for "homophobes" to pillory instead of asking why a working class wage no qualifies for a mortgage in blue states AND conservatives throwing tantrums about dudes kissing dudes instead of asking why the federal government is gobbling our paychecks and still trillions of dollars in debt.

Buttsex doesn't matter. Follow the money.

@Antelope

This has also been rendered as "to each according to his labour". I believe the quote comes from the Kritik des Gothaer Programms.

In either case, the idea is a recipe for disaster, because it's the labour theory of value again... in other words, the idea that value is proportional to effort (therefore implying that rewards should be proportional to effort).

What's disastrous about the labour theory of value is that it rewards inefficiency. "Inefficiency" doesn't sound that scary in a stable and prosperous society, but in reality, it's a very scary thing indeed, because the difference between ourselves and paleolithic hunters is simply an accumulated body of knowledge about how to work more efficiently.

Societies collapse and die when they begin to waste the effort of their members.

What marxism is, in a nutshell, is some intellectual's horrified emotional response to implications of the fact that effort isn't rewarded by a free market... results are.

Thought for the moment:

The difference between the right and left is not great, but there is one.

The right would happily kill anyone who doesn't embrace its lifestyle and values, but at least that means that there is someone, somewhere, that they wouldn't happily kill. The left, on the other hand, perpetually eats its own, perpetually radicalizing itself and purging people for holding positions which were last year's mainstream leftist thought.

This means you cannot be a friend to the left. Not "should not", not even "must not", but CAN NOT. No matter how much you comply with them, it will never be enough, they will find an excuse to hate you, shun you, cancel you, and eventually kill you.

It is much safer to be their enemy, because at least then you can band together with their other enemies and fight them.