in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Anyone who has hoarded more wealth than any reasonable person would have in their entire lifetime is a snake and is not to be trusted and sadly that applies to almost all of our politicians. I don't care about their education or their background or their upbringing or any of their other justifications for their success. There are many different kinds of snakes who cannot be trusted, but the wealthy kind are universal. If they treated people fairly from the beginning and profited fairly and gave profits they didn't genuinely earn or deserve back to their customers or to society they wouldn't have nearly as much wealth as they do. Noblesse oblige, and I have run out of patience waiting for them to fulfill their obligation.

The class war is starting now. Organize and prepare for battle.

in reply to Melvin_Ferd

I mean first off, lol, because what does "legitimate" even mean in your philosophical system?

Like, I dunno, Kant distinguishes between noumena and phenomena but he doesn't then say that therefore it's all a goddamn free-for-all where you can just say that lies are truth now, which seems to be your position.

Hence me saying "listen to the people telling you that you are wrong about your entire epistemic framework".

in reply to patatas

that’s not even close to what I said. You’re mixing up epistemology with moral reasoning. I never said “lies are truth.” I said perception shapes truth in politics. There’s a difference between understanding how framing works and throwing reality out the window.

Kant separated noumena and phenomena, that’s literally the whole point. we don’t get direct access to the thing in itself. We interact with how it appears. That doesn’t mean free for all, it means we operate off perception and agreement, not perfect access to reality.