#Society

Ableist jokes you need to cut out right now, a thread I'll keep adding to:- Making fun of slow walkers- Making fun of someone walking 'weird'- Jokes about wheelchair users
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Am I the asshole?I created two people without an understanding of right or wrong, and the only rule I gave them was not to eat my magical fruit. I lied
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The big problem with the way becoming disabled is understood by nondisabled people is that they don't grasp newly disabled people grieve. For who they were, who they thought they
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There are some independent institutions that are important to every democracy, eg. the media, CSOs, and academia. When functioning free of threat, these groups provide adequate checks for the Executive.
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The world today faces a crisis on the scale of the 1930s. Capitalism is trapped in a long-term crisis. Financialisation and austerity are shrinking demand, deepening the depression, and widening
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THREAD As donor states gather to pledge aid to Lebanon, they must tread carefully, or risk rewarding a regime that has proven not just corrupt, but unwilling and incapable of
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As a part of its commitment to bolstering democracy, the Biden admin wants to renew US support for #civilsociety around the world. This is a welcome move. Some thoughts &
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@kgorilla5@hmyaoi1@ColeMoleson @BasedMobster1.OK so here is my response to the mess.Here we have 2 things: the good ol calculation problem and Marxists having no idea what they are talking about when
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THREAD: Tumult1. We are entering a time of great tumult.Beliefs are being activated. This activation inevitably invokes a judgement about someone:- Are they good or bad?- Are they right or
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The most salient part of the pic to me isn't a transition from quality to shoddiness or good to evil, the reverse, or whatever. It's the dissolution of a vast
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Feel like I see this a lot so gonna clarify something:The socialist nations of the 20th Century, such as the Soviet Union, Cuba, Vietnam, Burkina Faso, China and others, were
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Can vaccine mandates ever be justified?Does this Covid pandemic justify vaccine mandates?I will try to address this below. Forced vaccination is a crime against humanity and violation of: 1)
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Last night Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito spoke at a Federalist Society event. It did… not go great! In fact it was a Supreme train wreck. Here’s a link to
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Those who don’t know me well, don’t realize my love for history, politics and especially civil liberties. When I studied Political Science at Michigan I had the privilege of taking
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I often tell myself that my life shouldn't be a cautionary tale, but I carry scars - some you see and some you don't. Some are buried deeply into my
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Something a certain podcaster once pointed out that stuck with me, resonated with my own experiences, is that Disneyland always looks clean because it has a lot of trash cans.
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