#contradictory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #contradictory, aggregated by home.social.
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A tale of two #agendas: Trump’s #contradictory approach toward small #farmers
https://www.cspi.org/cspi-news/tale-two-agendas-trumps-contradictory-approach-toward-small-farmers
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Monday, August 18, 2025
Ukrainian drones hit key rail hub in Russia’s Voronezh Oblast — Ukraine’s long-range Flamingo cruise missile enters serial production — US officials provide contradictory statements on security guarantees fueling uncertainty — International borders cannot be changed by force, — von der Leyen says in Brussels … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/monday-august-18-2025/
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#Cishet #men are driving #Britain’s #antitrans #hostility – the #data proves it.
It’s become #common for #politicians to act as if #transgender #rights and #womensrights are inherently #contradictory and #conflicting.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Tories #TERFS #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Discrimination #Misogyny #Homophobia #Transphobia #TERFIsland
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/uk-trans-men-women-data/
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"@historickomodo submission: “Salvador Allende didn’t die for this shit.”
For newbies playing along at home, this #meme circulates all over the place on #liberal pages, and it’s filled with #contradictory pieces of #ideology. Firstly, one can’t really be a #capitalist and a #socialist at the same time – if you support capitalist #ownership over the means of #production, then you support capitalism; if you support #democratic ownership over the means of production, where people have a say in the #institutions and #activities they contribute to, then you support socialism. I don’t know how to make it more succinct than that. Also, #communism is the post-scarcity natural conclusion of socialism, a #stateless/ #moneyless/ #classless #society where #socially-operated #property is held in common and #people “contribute according to their #abilities and receive according to their #needs”; #statelessness is a #fundamental aspect of the ideology, ergo a #totalitarian #government “forcing everybody to be exactly equal” is not communism.
Secondly, channeling government power to curb capitalism’s self-destructive excesses is merely Keynesian #welfare capitalism or Scandinavian social democracy, both of which try to use the state to mitigate structural tension within the parameters of the system (and all-too-often to wither away class consciousness and pushes for actual socialist change).
Thirdly and lastly, “the #economy and society being run democratically to meet #human needs rather than #profit for a #greedy few” is literally socialism. Capitalism by definition will always have a tiny class of owners pulling the #economic and #political strings; as long as they own the means of production and accrue profit off the backs of the #laboring class, they will always, always have disproportionate power in society. Such is the #nature of class relations – throughout history, laboring classes have produced the things society needs while ruling classes have sat and accrued the most #wealth. If labor produces all, why not have a society democratically run by #laborers?"
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I see far fewer (not none, but definitely fewer) #opinions I #disagree with on here, compared to the before place.
Contrary to a #belief I used to hold a long time ago, that does not in any way make me feel like my opinions are #mainstream. I still read #news, I am still very aware of #contradictory opinions to mine existing and I’m definitely aware that on many topics (including not a few I’d consider very important) I am most definitely in the minority. But I feel better, I #stress out about it less, I definitely have far less (basically none) negative experiences around such things happening.
It’s much easier to either not engage at all or at the very least engage in a much more polite and constructive way with differing opinions when there isn’t an overwhelming amount of them.
#EchoChambers are obviously bad, but we’ve seen very well that forced continuous cross-pollination of opposing opinions doesn’t really lead to any constructive outcomes or bring us to understand each other better and manage to either find a middle ground or to have one side persuade the other.