yeah
my neighborhood put a literal nationalize-means-of-production socialist on the city council https://www.socialistalternative.org/about/
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Careful with the eye-roll. (You might be talking to a closet socialist.) ¬_¬
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Replying to @smaLLquietLife
I never learned to parse that emoticon so I will read your tweet as unironic and apologize for my gaucherie :/
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Don't apologize. I'm only partially unironic. I'm closer to a true agnostic about economics than I am about religion. ;-) …
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Replying to @smaLLquietLife
… Speaking of, I also refuse to use ready-made emoticons or emoji, but don't hold that against me.
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Replying to @smaLLquietLife
(I also now try to be careful with the word "agnostic" after I got a stern lecture from a Thomas Henry Huxley fan.)
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Replying to @smaLLquietLife
ha yeah I'm dipping my toes in the emoji water but I'll never really get past text emotes. What's Huxley's critique?
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I don't even know if it's Huxley himself or the Huxley fan I got scolded by to be honest. …
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Replying to @smaLLquietLife
… Huxley invented the word "agnostic." According to the fan, it means being absolutely, 100% undecided about God, …
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Replying to @smaLLquietLife
… with no allowance for even slight leaning or suspicion towards one side or the other. I argued that's humanly impossible.
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interesting. someone once pitched a "strong"/"weak" taxonomy of atheist, with strong believing no god exists, and weak...
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Replying to @eigenrobot
simply not having a belief in god(s). Could do similar with agnosticism: actively believe it's impossible to know vs. ..
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Replying to @eigenrobot
simply not believing it's possible to know (with the present information set? unsure, this is twistier than last case)
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