This is similar to people coping about low turnout. There was a large amount of persuasion, unless you believe that somehow the Harris non voters will magically come back in 2026?

Rwandan Genocide leaders were prosecuted by the UN, but death penalty was forbidden. Same for the Khmer Rouge! It's pretty clear that there is a wide ranging agreement in real life that killing is wrong, but this doesn't exist online (because it incentivizes bad behavior)

Obviously Assad is far worse than any CEO could be, unless you're a full on utilitarian consequentialist (and even then Assad wins and it's not particularly close).

But I think it's worth mentioning that a right to live is agreed upon internationally!

It is downright despicable to me. Maybe I am too much of a pacifist at heart, but the rot has spread far too wide online where this is celebrated by people of all stripes. Is there any room for people who are just anti-death?

You cannot claim to be on the side of good and widely celebrate the taking of a life by a line vigilante. You cannot claim to be on the side of good as you rehabilitate one of the worst - one of the most fundamentally evil acts imaginable.

We all knew this, but seeing it actually play out in live form (plus commentary from my dad) is fucking insane. Literally an entirely different reality.

Zoomers are incredibly risk averse, in basically every behavior. I think this is mostly the fault of social media: everyone can see your failures! The actual risk hasn't changed, but the perception of risk definitely has imo.

I need to flesh these thoughts out more, probably tomorrow.

Libertarians (and I mean true libertarians, not mises caucus people) are heirs to an American progressive tradition that split off over a century ago. In this sense, they are long-lost cousins of progressives.

In general, this is the part I hate about left-liberal twitter. There is a general sense of holier-than-thou mobbing if you say something slightly unorthodox, hence why I avoid that (and most genuinely controversial views).

I think it's good, important, and needed to have some heterodox views!

My favorite rhetorical thing is when people switch from "company" (places they like) to "corporation" (places they don't like). It's just legitimately funny because they tend to be so blatant about it.