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by detcader 8y ago
Have you ever read Noel Ignatiev's talk "The Point Is Not To Interpret Whiteness But To To Abolish It"? He talks about the issue of the position of poor whites in society, curious how you would feel about it. http:/&#x2
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Site is down but crossword puzzles also do this... I used to do the LA Times one as it seemed proximal to the NY Times, but free to play.
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To what extent may we apply this principle? Was the promise of forty acres and a mule to formerly enslaved black farmers in the U.S. too "far"? Was the actual result of some land redistribution and the Freedmen's Bureau provi
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Maybe we can agree if people in positions like Larry Ellison's or Elon Musk's were hoarding money with the intention of funding medical research, setting up entities that make it difficult-to-impossible to blow it all on buying a
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To me, there's planning ahead, with a large emergency fund and survival supplies for one's family, and then there's hoarding money and resources. "When you start talking about whether it is moral to be rich, you end up
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It's deeply immoral to use violence to control people. It's deeply immoral to hoard money and resources (to "be rich" in today's language) and ensure the system of resource hoarding continues over generations throug
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"Even when we take the conservative political philosophy at face value, though, we should note what it implies: that sense of futility, that feeling that you can’t do anything to substantially change the world, you’re stuck with it as
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> banks ... could not care less about race I have a task for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_Unit...
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What can people do to be effective actors against the societal inertia that inevitably throws well-off, as tptacek put it, "engaged residents" (they're always instant experts in the next arena of material advantage, eh?) agai
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Can certain types and angles of reporting be incentivized by the deep state and/or public fervor without direct "collaboration"? Or is every article a state sponsored propaganda-or-nothing deal?
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At an individual level this may be true, but it is becoming necessary to ask if this is a standalone phenomena or symptomatic of a system with one class extracting resources from another. Is the problem just a pattern of fallacy in the perc
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"Conflict is Not Abuse" by Sarah Schulman is supposed to be a good book.
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I agree that the incorrect framing of what I understand is the claimed count of which documents Snowden "accessed" during his job (as opposed to "released," with an implied "to the public") does not make the en
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> people he barely knew Does this refer to a handful of journalists who are also public figures? If so, who is permitted to leak to well-known journalists and what is the upper limit of how much they may leak under this implied moral fra
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I've been missing this sort of thing since the maintainer of notepad.cc shut it down...
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An "anonymous" author sharpens this argument in a Current Affairs essay called It's Basically Just Immoral To Be Rich . The logic works better applied to super-rich people than trying to get to the assertion that everyone sh
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Serious albeit philosophical question: Why not more? Why not $160B?
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Buddhist nun Pema Chodron discussing "hooked" with Bill Moyers more than ten years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrgznKit-vI
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There's a lot of ways to help besides getting someone set up with medication or a therapist. One thing I can advise is that it's important to (continue to) have patience. Patience is a really powerful thing. I know this suggestion
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You can do something, with ideas like starting locally, experimenting with your habits, setting a good example. Do you have time to practice cooking? Try out some meatless/meat-substituting recipes. You don't have to give up meat,
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Noel Ignatiev's "How the Irish Became White" is supposed to be a nice book on this subject
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The people who use large amounts of energy to farm bitcoin make up <1% of humankind. Basically everyone eats meat.
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In the UK there is certainly a degree of magnitude more diversity to the voices who engage in the discourse and are listened to. But can we name even one 'radfem' with similar mainstream platforms and access to the sort enjoyed by
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The sex industry has a sort of 360-degree shield from criticism: From a "left" or "liberal"-minded perspective, to critique prostitution in any way is an insidious attack women's agency and sexuality, a holdover fro
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> If you want to be a woman, just act like one And what does this mean?
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Did the pigs need the transplants, like were they sick? (I can't access the article's supplementary materials)
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You're right, somehow I forgot about all those anonymous poll data leaks leading to mass round-ups by the armed liberal masses.
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Is this person debating, or just acting economically? Does a moth fly towards the light because it believes in any explicit ideas in its brain, or because statistically moths flying towards light means a better off situation for moths as a
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> I would say that race relations have not improved The proportion of interracial marriages as a proportion of all marriages has been increasing since, such that 15.1% of all new marriages in the United States were interracial marriages
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As someone familiar with hasbara units and finding it only economic that such things would operate to defend a rich patron country, I'm curious to know why I should assume this question is posed by a Venezuelan

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