Really like GunSmoke. Old-timey western. Use it to go to sleep sometimes.

Don’t post this in lemmy.ml. You will be argued down and then banned.

Shit like this makes people go back to reddit. At least there’s more content and getting banned from one million user subreddit doesn’t stop you from going to another big sub. Here, if you get banned in one or two of the big instances you have to become a lurker. I take pride in being able to disagree with the dominant opinion in a reasonable way, but these .ml mods are unreasonable.

True, but reddit is better for niche interests. For example, we don’t seem to have any serious philosophy or history communities here. (I am happy to be wrong here, someone please let me know.) On the other hand, r/askphilosophy and r/askhistorians regularly get interesting questions answered by actual professionals.

“Baby level understanding” is not an objection. You have to say something more specific Dessalines.

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The Communist Party is based in the Leninist principle of “democratic centralism”. This means “debate within the party, unity in action”. It is meant to make the party more powerful by allowing dissent and debates within the party, but when it comes to taking action, all members are expected to follow the consensus even if they disagreed with it.

Since China’s Congress is primarily members of the Communist Party, this means that the decision of the president ultimately originates in the Communist Party itself. After they reach a consensus, the whole party will vote for that consensus in the Congress. While there technically are smaller parties in China’s Congress, they act more as advisors, since it is not practically possible for them to overturn the vote, since the CPC always votes in unity.

Formally, China’s president is elected by the Congress. But the decision of who to elect largely comes back to the CPC itself before they come to a consensus. So the final decision largely originates in the Politburo and the Central Committee.

The president in China is harder to shift on a dime than like in the US. The president is not elected by a nation-wide vote but by the Congress itself. To change who the Congress elects, you have to change the opinions of the largest party in that Congress, you have to change the opinions of the CPC

Xi is not technically a dictator in the same way that Putin is not technically a dictator. He is in control of a governing body that could replace him on paper, but never will. And he has dictatorial powers without real checks/balances. And, to return to my original point, it may appear that this system is fine if it produces a good result, but the power of the government should come from the will of the people.

I’m not sure if it’s intentional, but you’re missing the point

By this logic, a monarchy that keeps the aristocracy in line is better than the US democracy. A benevolent dictator is still a dictator.

I’m simultaneously rooting for the predator while rooting for the prey to get away

Sadly, a lot of them voted for Trump because they think he’s going to “fix it”. The sad thing is they just trust him to figure it out once in office.

Pecan pie is very calorie dense and I don’t have the self control

This assumes that time (and perhaps space) is infinitely divisible. On the other hand, suppose there are points of time that pass, one after the other, like pages on a flip book. If this model is right, then the current moment would be the present. I’m not sure what scientists have to say about this; I suspect that we’re entering the realm of quantum physics. Either way the difference between continuous and discrete time is worth mentioning.

I love pecan pie but I feel guilty every time. If I’m eating pie I’m more likely to go for apple or blueberry pie.

You should sharpen your claims to make them more apparent. There are moral claims thrown in with religious presupposition in a way that is neither illuminating for ethics nor philosophy of religion. Alternatively, this may be the wrong sub for your post.

Reasonable people can disagree about the rules, the point is the mods are inconsistent.

(But seriously, do you really want to say one is worse than the other?)

In my experience, the mods on lemmy.ml are particularly biased. Like it’s okay to joke about American school shootings but not about abortions biased. But after a while I just stopped posting there. (I barely post to lemmy at all now, but that’s another story.)

Let’s fucking gooo

But we have so much to learn from conservatives! Like don’t trust the news, don’t play by the rules, and buy a gun 🥰

If I know the internet, this picture was commissioned by somebody with a fetish