politics
- Nomic — a game in which changing the rules is a move.
The game demonstrates that in any system where rule changes are possible, a situation may arise in which the resulting laws are contradictory or insufficient to determine what is in fact legal.
- Gandersauce — Disruption for thee, but not for me.
"Moving fast and breaking things" is not intrinsically amoral. There's plenty of stuff out there that needs breaking. The problem isn't disruption, per se. The problem comes when the disruptor can declare an end to history, declare themselves to be eternal kings, and block anyone from disrupting them.
- "The R-Slur," Inner Circle and Outer
...a core way that the alt-right/new right/MAGA tendency grew was precisely through this kind of normative overreach on the part of progressives, the assertion of shared community expectations for language and behavior that simply weren’t actually shared. Put another way, one of the most consequential elements of the social justice era was the implication that certain language and discourse norms had been broadly accepted when they had in fact only been adopted by a small elite.
- Pluralistic by Cory Doctorow — Sci-fi writer and digital rights activist punches monopolies and capitalism in general.
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