I heard Mint and Elementary both mentioned a lot for switchers.

Any reason you recommend mint over it?

Never tried either of them myself so just curious.

Ah, me a pillar of my insanity.

Paywall…

Edit: Are you from the US? Because sometimes in the US they refer to “social liberalism” as liberalism. If so then the arguments you are trying to make make far more sense. Vis à vis social liberalism. From Wikipedia

In Europe and North America, the establishment of social liberalism(often called simply liberalism in the United States)

Previous comment: Oh my god. No it isn’t. Liberalism is a political philsophy based on enlightenment ideals.

Like Locke’s social contract theory, hence the idea (that often fails in practice) of “consent of the governed”.

Liberalism did give us the declaration of human rights. It also gave us capitalism. It’s a complex ideology that has been dominant in the west for the past couple centuries. It is not synonymous with “Human rights”, and it is not the only ideology that claims to promote them.

Plenty of anti-capitalist ideologies arguably promote them more.

And famous liberals throughout history have been slave owners. So please please learn nuance.

Dude when did I ever say I’m anti human rights???

This conversation is so frustrating its like talking to a wall.

I have a hard time believing your good faith. Are you seriously arguing there’s no pro-human rights ideology except liberalism?

Liberalism ≠ Human Rights

If so please please learn about political philosophy. There’s a lot more than “liberals” and “conservatives”.

Liberalism promotes capitalism. Which isn’t great for human rights.

So no, criticising liberalism as an ideology, built upon capitalist and statist-nationalist ideals does not make me an evil person trying to “catch the smurfs”.

Arguable that things have improved for poor people in the last 50 years. In relative terms they are objectively far worse off. And native Americans were arguably better off in the early colonial days pre-manifest destiny. I know US liberalism loves the myth of linear progress. But I think it isn’t necessarily accurate.

It really sucks. And like every second post is an add. Urgh

Try nextdns (ie. Addblock at the DNS level). It won’t work for facebook. But works for most apps.

A mouse model still is really not a stage to post news articles. Only 1 in ~100+ drugs that make it past mouse models eventually get approved. And those are replicated findings. As far as I can tell this headline is an un replicated study.

Journalists need clickbait “cancer cure” hopium. But I don’t think it’s very useful. As a chronically ill person myself I’m sick of people sending me those articles about my illness because they think a cure’s on the horizon when well, it’s really unlikely. Which means every time they see me and I’m not magically cured I have to sit through another “what about that miracle drug” convo. I still hope, but I don’t like the misleading hopium journalism seems to love.

I was wading in here to post exactly that XKCD.

We discover hundreds of new compounds that kill cancer cells every year. Perhaps we should only be posting in uplifting news when new drugs are found effective.

Nah it doesn’t. It’s possible to criticise a party without people automatically thinking it means I support a fascist party. This two party thinking has to stop. They both deserve a fuckload of criticism.

They should rebrand to the “Work or Starve” party.

It’s also the party who willingly sent hundreds of thousands of disabled people including children into poverty. So not too off brand either.

Reminder that the government is spending ridiculous money like this to accommodate the absurd whims of the elite while disabled homeless people are starving to death in droves.

Also Japan, India, Malaysia.

Even the UK has covert influence from politics on district drawing tho officially its “independent commission”.

Are the mods on this community active? whats up with all the sensationalised titles and low quality posts?