JayDee

Blazing saddles isn't really centrist, more just anti-rightwing from my memory of it.

Let's talk about the chapters shown in the snopes article above.

Chapter 3 is making fun of (an) American Student(s). This was 1969, in the middle of the Vietnam war. He's saying they were idiots and that they shouldn't have been protesting the Vietnam war.

Chapter six - The Yippies. The action they are doing is the fighting against two things. The first would be gentrification which is always an issue driving the poor into homelessness. The other was the bulldozing of entire neighborhoods to make way for the highways from 1957 to 1977, an act which displaced 1 million people.

Chapter seven - the Black Militants. This would include Malcolm X and the Black Panthers along with the Philadelphia organization MOVE. Hell, this was a year after MLK Jr was assassinated, and the white general public probably still saw him as an agitator. These were a movement in opposition to very overtly racist cops supported by a largely pro-apartheid populace. And the Author completely misrepresents every view they had from a brief skim over.

We could talk about the looters but I don't think we're ready for that convo.

Looks like I can avoid plastic by printing some templates and using a band saw. Probably will have to do some redesigning to make it work on my bike since I have shocks up front and a rack in the back.

I imagine it's a "negative liberty vs positive liberty" conundrum.

American libertarianism seems to consistently skew towards negative liberty, which is complete autonomy to anything but without any power or resources. I believe this predilection came from Ayn Rand and Reaganism, and that It now manifests mostly as anarchocapitalist sentiments.

I'm a bigger fan of positive liberty - possessing the resources and power to do what you desire within a constrained system.

Unfortunately we live in a society which provides neither. The amazing results of constant compromise.

I wanna be rolled over by a tank after reading this.

This guy gets nihilistic hedonism.

Yep, you get it pretty clearly that the creator was an edgy centrist.

So long as that drug use is paired by actually good rehabilitation infrastructure (like Portugal's drug abuse treatment before its unraveling)

I'll continue to live dangerously via Q-tips. Been doing it since I was a child, and no doctor's told me I've irreparably damaged my ears yet.

Approval voting, STAR voting, Ranked-choice voting- I don't care, just get me out of this first-past-the-pole nightmare!

In the US? Dudes love glocks here, so fewer guns have anything but a trigger/grip safety.

Very often scientific breakthroughs lead to horrible unforseen outcomes (I doubt the first people to create a recipe for black powder forsaw the havoc it'd cause) - but y'all should've seen this coming.

Automation always leads to less workforce being needed pretty much without exception. Thousands of craftsmen were put out of work by industrial machines, replaced with women and children paid dirt poor wages. Automobiles ended the era of horse and buggy (not so great an ending for the horses at large). Shorthand stenographers were put out of jobs by the type-writer. Computer was a job title before it was something that fit in your pocket.

Bottom line: If you invent something that automates X - everyone who does X will begin to lose their jobs to your automation.

Either we stop developing automation solutions, or we end requiring people have occupations to live.

If this is the name of the game, it's dumb. It's not like they lined the Devs up along a wall. They'll still be able to serve other companies with their talent since Microsoft just cut their leads.