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This photo wasn't even taken with that woman's consent and nobody here gives a shit

They didn't even thought about that, as they don't see her as a person, but as a thing. We don't ask consent to things.

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No the grammar will be easily understood to anyone having a language with an accusative morphosyntactic alignment, that is, by far the most widespread one. The phonetic inventory is quite limited, so perfectly learnable for every culture. For the vocabulary I agree, but it's linked to the most spoken languages of the world, so, not that bad.

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My human existence is not threatened now. I'm middle class in a western country. I have no egoist reasons to fight the system.

Now I'm socialist. I believe we should fight for the well being of the workers of the world. For the poor, the oppressed. But because it's good, because it's the right thing to do. That makes me an idealist socialist, and I feel no shame about that.

And you know what? Most materialist socialist have no egoist reasons to fight themselves. Marx himself could have lived a very comfortable life as a bourgeois intellectual. He didn't because, unknowingly, he was in fact idealist. Actual materialism is by essence right-wing.

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If you're Polish

There are 28 phonemes in Esperanto. 44 in English. 51 in Polish (probably less, in fact, I don't speak Polish maybe someone who does could correct me?).

Haven't seen any vocabulary from Mandarin in Esperanto.

All ≠ most.

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You can all repeat that we don't need a moral foundation because people act in their material interest, if you don't answer to my arguments it's worthless.

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Esperanto's not perfect, for sure. The existence of /x/ is indeed one of its flaws, but it almost disappeared in modern Esperanto because of that.

For the rest, a language do need some diversity in its phonology or the words would have to be very long and least recognizable. It won't be a problem if you mispronounce most phonemes a little, as there's no correct accent; if you pronounce ankaŭ [ankau] instead of [ankau̯] nobody will care… Again it's not perfect, but perfection doesn't exist and Esperanto works.

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we can just get most people to help with the project of maintaining human society

But why would we try to maintain human society if it's not inherently good?