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Amazon is like a marketplace. People and companies should be allowed to sell their products on the marketplace, but any one company or person shouldn´t be allowed to own the marketplace itself, and abuse that position for their own benefit, because it would be to the detriment of all. The marketplace should belong to the people, should be open to everyone.

It would seem that such a model would be able to compete easily, so I reckon in time it will come to be, if people put the work in. Sellers and buyers alike all have an incentive to cut amazon out of the deal. The only problem is buyers are lazy, so although can they can bypass Amazon now, most of them won´t. So we need the fair open-access marketplace so people can one-stop-shop in a way that's just.

I am currently learning about Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, in which cognitive fusion is one of the sources of human suffering (along with experiential avoidance). Basically they're saying words are what makes us suffer, and though we cannot get away from them, we have to stop taking them seriously, we need to defuse our cognitions.

i don't think our political views differ much. But I wouldn't let them have this word, for it has a meaning that is bigger than them. You say conservatism has never been wanting to keep society as is, I'd say it is exactly that, and I would fight these so called conservatives by pointing out that, as you said, they're only conservative when it comes to their positions of power. If you allow them to own, so to speak, the term conservatism, then people might fall for these movements, because they feel the world is moving to fast, things of importance are being lost and should be conserved. It doesn't work to say: but anyone who knows about politics knows that the conservatives don't actually conserve anything of importance, because many voters know very little about politics. They need to be called out, we shouldn't except the frame that they're the ones conserving, while they're destroying the planet, the wellfare state, society.

I'm actually a member of the dutch green and workers-parties, which are fusing into one new party this year and will then change their name to Progressief Nederland, and despite being happy with the party, I am strongly uncomfortable with this name. For I don't feel I am progressive in many if not most senses of the word.

Within politics these words are still context dependent and used to describe all sorts of stances and are open to various interpretations. It's an umbrella term. To claim otherwise is simply besides the facts. I know lots of leftwingers who call themselves conservative. About liberalism and anarchism, yes you might use those terms in those ways, and that is actually being done all the time.

People tend to underestimate the enormous success of the EU. It can be seen in the economical developments of Poland and the Baltic states. Ukraine saw it and wanted in on it. Russia knowing that if Ukraine too would 'fall' to democracy, Russia itself would inevitably follow. So Navalny needed to be killed, Ukraine invaded, the EU sabotaged. Hungary was their pawn. Not only could Hungary halt EU decision making through veto's, they could also be used in propaganda. How can Putin be all bad if even this EU country sympathizes with him? The EU will now be very inclined to make Hungary as succesfull as they can. It's too early to celebrate, the Hungarian government will still be filled with lots of Fidesz bureaucrats. And the new government may still be inclined to use its ties with Russia. But the past decades have proven that the cheap Russian oil can't compensate for the corruption that comes along. Magyars anti-corruption stance is pretty much saying: we want to model our country towards the EU examples, not Russia. Lets hope Magyar succeeds and other countries follow. Lets hope that eventually Belarus and Russia will rejoin the European family. The world has much to win here. The US not understanding why they need to support Ukraine tells us they don't care much for democracy anymore. It's understandable that if your government fails to supply you with decent living conditions, you won't be inclined to support helping out other countries on the path towards decent government. But both can be done at the same time: focus on sorting out your own government, while simultaneously supporting other countries on the same path. The EU has been the driving force behind multilateralism. If we want a rules-based order, if we want to save the planet, if we want a better future, we want a strong EU leading the way. We want to support nations in their striving for democracy.

ListenBrainz is used to track your music listening habits. So you just use whatever application you are using now, and submit the listening data to LB. This page should help you find if what you're using now to play music is compatible with LB somehow. If you're on Android I think you can use the ListenBrainz official app, but personally I have no experience with it, since I only listen to music on laptop/