#Society

"Mankind is born for mutual assistance, anger for mutual ruin: the former loves society, the latter estrangement."Seneca. On Anger .... "The one loves to do good, the other to do
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Short of covid19 holding up a sign saying "ok Ireland well played", I don't know what people want. Last 2 weeks, Ireland:Tests completed: 75,548Positive cases: 166Negativity rate: 99.8%ICU admissions: 1Deaths:
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Consent is a useful but also utterly bananas magic concept. Eg:*If you're 16, your ability to consent to sex depends on the age of your partner *consent only counts if
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Ernst Junger thread:After Storm of Steel was published in 1920, Junger's writings would take an extremely different turn from his initial praise of war as a transcendental experience and hope
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In a nobler time, principle and norms constrained behavior. A government could be "trusted" to maintain a gold peg on its currency because it was obvious to most involved that
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I’m so tired of this stupid“what ~true~ Cyberpunk is about discourse”, because Cyberpunk is about NOTHING. It’s a goddamn genre. No genre has an inherent message, unless you think all
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Much said recently about trans women potentially using currently ‘women-only spaces/facilities, based on: 1. facilitating/empowering their right to assert their identities; 2. Protecting them from exposure to potential harm/danger from
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This is the Pennsylvania AntiSlavery Society in 1851.You might recognize Lucretia Mott, front row in the bonnet, between her husband James and Robert Purvis. But who are the other women?
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i don't see how substack is going to radically change the problems with journalism when it's just crowdfunding again. like yeah "already be popular and ask people for money" has
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Can the opposition [read @RahulGandhi] fight RSS/BJP Hindutva with Hindutva light? @RamaNewDelhi rightly argues it will be like Pepsi fighting with Coke for the Soda market. It cannot work 4
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The show Gravity Falls, has a lot of Illuminati Symbolism in it. You can see a Journal with the number 3 on it and behind that number 3
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75% of all suicides are men with 42-29yo most at risk. That mid-life crisis we joke about? That kills. We now lose 94 men a week to suicide, a rise
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Eradicating racial inequities is an overarching policy agenda for the Biden administration. All policy levers, including antitrust, should be deployed in furtherance of that agenda. Antitrust is one of several
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From 1990 - 2020Every 1st world country has had universalized healthcare (socialized/government provided medicine, covering 100% of the population). America has been the notable exception. Why has America not had
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At the moment there is a huge moral panic about trans people. It’s got many focuses. That men might use cross dressing to attack women in changing areas or loos.
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How might the Left overcome self-defeating infighting & endless strategy disputes and instead start building the type of solidarity necessary to win a radically better world?Left Solidarity in a Hostile
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