Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire - Horror in Manhattan - Extra History" video.

  1. The right vs left divide traces its roots back to royalists vs those that opposed them. Taken out of that specific context, it's best understood as drawing a distinction between entrenched power and populism. Any time you fall on the populist side of that divide, you're supporting a left-wing position. For example, libertarians are by in large left wing on social issues while right wing on economic issues (mostly due to what IMO is a misunderstanding of economics, though I'm sure they'd say the same about me). Sure, it's neither a binary, nor does is encompass all range of political thought (as politicians like to twist it to mean, among other things), but as this is about entrenched power vs populism, the use is valid. Ideally, it wouldn't be partisan because we'd have multiple left-wing political parties debating issues on other axes because serving the people was just assumed, but the reality is we do have strong opposition to both the will and interests of the general population in both major US political parties and until we get an election system that weeds both the corrupt and power-hungry out and we get voters who largely stop voting against their interests the right vs left spectrum will continue to be relevant in discussion. The best we can hope for is to try and re-establish the real definitions of political terms that politicians have twisted into meaningless buzzwords to throw around and be very judicious about how we use them.
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  2. I'm just going to assume that was rhetorical.
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  3. There's a version from the great show Babylon 5's Londo Mollari: Big concerns grow from small concerns. You plant them, water them with tears, fertilize them with unconcern. If you ignore them, they grow.
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  4. A progressive in favor of the status quo is, by definition, not a progressive, reguardless of what they might claim. Neither is one who wants to curtail free speech or institute forms of segregation to deal with bigotry. That's what the term "regressive" was created to describe.
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  5. Kevin Medina wow, very nice accidental symbolism catch there
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  6. Zachary Henderson statistics show that, yes, the US healthcare is more costly, less effective, and covers fewer people than the modern norm of a successful healthcare system.
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  7. jewperbro communism is an extermist solution that has a poor track record and some serious problems. What should boggle your mind are people that are so afraid of communism that they start claiming very moderate positions (even those closer to pure capitalism than pure communism) are all Marxist, or start calling ideologies that have very little to do with economics at all as Marxist.
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  8. Setting asside the more conservative statistic of 4% testing as full sociopaths, CEOs test as ~20% as at least borderline psychopaths, which falls into the category of "antisocial personality disorders". Since we're not talking about the casual usage meaning one just avoids socializing (which would be more correctly called being asocial ), but it's clinical definition meaning "destructive to social groups" yes, that's a problem. When you add to that how the power dynamics produce antisocial behavior in normal people (See Stanford Prison Experiment, an experiment on the effect of authority on human behavior that got so out of hand that it was quickly cancelled and never repeated), yes, we have a big problem. I'm not sure I could design a more effective system for moving people to where they absolutely shouldn't be than our current corporate culture.
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  9. Nah, wait 'till GoT &/ASoIaF is complete. THEN do war of the roses!
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  10. Suspicious Flaming Pyro they've always had a range of art styles thanks to the guest artists. I'd still say this falls within that range.
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  11. Jacob Robert that is one of the very few times I didn't expect a Spanish Inquisition comment. Well done.
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  12. Mandisa W and, while much better than all charlatans, sadly, a spotty history of being able to tell one from the other.
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  13. Ah, only following the show atm and thought we were down to 1 season and 1 book. That was supposed to be an and/or though, just waiting for the show wouldn't be too long (or alternatively, I suppose having it finish right before the last season was released would work).
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