I think the paradox of tolerance seems to be wildly misunderstood by the left

if a person cannot be tolerant of the intolerant, then they’re not a tolerant person; hence this “paradox” as interpreted by leftists, seems to advocate for shades of intolerance then, and against a tolerant society existing

yet, tolerance does not imply agreement, nor pacifism. Someone is still free to argue against someone with a view they disagree with, or if such a person uses violence against the person wrongly, they don’t have to “tolerate” the violence (although they are free to do so if that would be prudent) but are able to defend themselves with lawful self-defense

I suppose the word “tolerance” is probably ambiguous in this “paradox”

Additionally, the predominant American attitude seemed to be that such “intolerance” could be voluntarily argued against and overcome; it is legal to advocate for violent ideologies like Nazism or Communism alike, and usually such people were ignored or problems for example with their economics views were brought up and most people voluntarily agreed that such ideologies were not ideal.

So as I understand it, the “paradox of tolerance” is not really a justification for or argument for a necessity of “not tolerating the intolerant”

not Christian extremism, just Christian symbols

I’m not really a fan of tattoos but they’re not necessarily morally wrong, I think some Christians have put small cross tattoos on when going in to combat for bodily identification if they died in battle for example

They’re honestly just Christian symbols and not a problem

Well, I see some leftwing people post they can’t coexist with Nazism in contrast for example. Are you ok with coexisting with nazism or do you think it needs to be “crushed”? I disagree that islam needs to be “crushed” however authortarian variants may pose such a danger

Tattoo on arm: “Deus Vult” (God wills it, crusader motto… typically associated with Catholicism, although Hegseth is Baptist I think?)

Tattoo on chest: Jerusalem cross (multiple religious meanings attached to it)

ehhhh, there’s kind of already a lack of unity as a country, and a lack of standards, and even with the standards apparently a lot of underperforming students

schools will decide that there’s no point in teaching mathematics if math teachers are expensive and impacting the bottom line

since businesses need people who have math skills, the market asks for people to be educated in math, in turn giving incentive for schools to teach math, so there are basically market checks and balances here

plus I imagine if you like math, you don’t need to be forced to learn it, you just fire up something like andymath.com and learn it yourself (for free / cost of internet + electricity) or could post on forums asking for help

It’s definitely a risk and gamble, but they think it will be worth it and produce better results

yeah if we can get more bipartisan things done, let’s work together and do it

I think the opposing view says that these things can be provided by private companies or nonprofits

Take the federal Department of Education, for example. You could easily just let state universities take over and/or form a non-federal alliance of sorts or allow educational businesses or nonprofits to be created to fill in the gap.

I think that’s what they have in mind

no, but i am, and why - because i don’t use the internet like others but I think I try to use it in a useful way?

I didn’t think this was possible but I wish you good luck with it

Well but so what’s to moderate disagreements between Atheist A who believes one thing is right versus Atheist B who believes some other opposite thing is right?

there’s the indieweb movement, smaller sites trying to have fun, like neocities

lots of [removed] and [deleted] and way too many sub rules

it’s hard to know if just going to lemmy or trying to improve reddit are better strategies (or some other reddit alternative)

scarred for life, but you just focus on other things

I was going to guess racially based comments about crime in detroit idk

indeed, 'tis poison for body and mind…

mistake is relying on bing’s servers?

the problem is “intellectual property” existing at all, just get rid of it entirely and make everything public domain

also too much: [deleted] [removed]

there are some alternatives popping up like drone light shows (which can do some interesting displays fireworks can’t?) and if they got popular enough maybe people wouldn’t feel a need for fireworks as much