YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]

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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • It’s funnier without context tbh but here goes

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    The College of Psychologists of Ontario, the professional licensing body that licenses him as a psychologist, took issue with some of his public statements in 2022:

    In its Decision, the ICRC expressed its concern that Dr. Peterson’s comments may be “degrading, de-meaning and unprofessional.” The ICRC concluded that some of the language used in Dr. Peterson’s public statements “may be reasonably regarded by members of the profession as disgraceful, dishonourable and/or unprofessional” and posed “moderate risks of harm to the public.” The risks of harm identified by the ICRC in- cluded “undermining public trust in the profession of psychology” and “may also raise questions about Dr. Peterson’s ability to appropriately carry out his responsibilities as a registered psychologist.”

    They assigned him some remedial continuing education training on “professionalism in public statements.” Not sure why it’s coming up again now since the court case about it ended months ago, but I think maybe he decided he’s gonna take the course and expose the woke indoctrination of it or something (caving immediately just like he did on the twitter ban lmao)




  • So I’m reading early Parenti (The Anti-Communist Impulse)… There are some serious bangers

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    But if and when the anti-communist admits there may be positive features in the Soviet system, he then usually reintroduces the “tactical” argument. For instance, Bertram Wolfe dismisses the welfare feature of the Soviet system as an expediency adopted by the totalitarian state in order to maximize its power: a literate, healthy population is, after all, a necessary condition for increased industrialization. Hence, what is considered “welfare” is actually an instrument of “power.” One however, might just as easily argue it the other way around. Given the Soviet dream of building the supposedly one true happy, productive, cooperative, and peaceful socialist society, it might be that what is considered “power” is actually an instrument of “welfare.” For years, Wolfe and others argued that Soviet leaders pursued power to the constant an deliberate detriment of welfare; now confronted with the fact that the USSR spends proportionately more on health, education, and welfare than do highly industrialized Western nations, they dismiss this as an expediency of power. First the Soviets supposedly used power to neglect welfare; now it seems they use welfare to maintain power.

    The communist system is evil either because it shows no concern for the welfare of its citizenry, or because it does show a concern, but only for an imputed evil purpose. There are, then, no set of observable conditions which can put the anti-communist presumption to an empirical test. Indeed, we are not dealing with an empirical proposition. The fact remains that he Soviet government has chosen to give a reasonably high priority to social welfare, and this datum cannot be dismissed if we allow that one way of judging behavior is to observe actual behavior, and one way of judging a system’s priorities and policies is to look at its actual priorities and policies.

    Ik the main thrust of this is something he restates many times and is well known for, but specifically the line about power being used as an instrument of welfare really resonated with me.









  • yeah this. You’re totally allowed to have a kitchen in your office (though if it isn’t already equipped for one you probably won’t be hauling in nice appliances, no sense in building anything decent when you can get kicked out at any time), and you can probably get away with “hmm this seems like someone is just living here” with inspectors as long as there’s no smoking gun (having a bed, mainly) and its not just super blatantly obvious. Even being a little messy can probably be gotten away with but it would raise less suspicion if cleaner (especially the more living oriented parts)

    Honestly having a lot of the area dedicated to obvious desk/work space would cover a lot of other red flags. if you have a 3d printer and a computer setup, and any other hobby workspace you might want all in there it’s going to draw attention away from a break room style kitchen or a futon area that looks a little too lived-in.