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by rainworld 3y ago
Who? The US in Iraq and Afghanistan, for example. https://www.context.news/digital-rights/why-does-the-us-stil...
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by rainworld 3y ago
Unlike sex work, my “good” jobs didn’t threaten to overthrow traditional power structures. Many sex workers, including myself, have long hypothesized that the reason so many people in power work to keep the commercial sex trade marginalize
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by rainworld 3y ago
Yet when it came out six years ago, Rising Star was mostly ignored; as a result, its most scandalous and perhaps revelatory passages, such as Obama’s long letter to another girlfriend about his fantasies of having sex with men, read today,
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by rainworld 3y ago
Yeah, that’s the thing about the current arrangement: all this material wealth and “progress” and yet we’re observing increasing numbers of the unhappy, depressed and aggrieved. Men and women blaming each other for conditions that—not neces
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by rainworld 3y ago
But most do in fact want children and do not really know the risk. Modern Western societies are structured to encourage people to use their most fertile years to further their careers and to keep “searching” and “experiencing”. We’re ru
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by rainworld 3y ago
Well, what’s clear is that a number of bad outcomes are associated with paternal age. Men, too, should not waste their most fertile years.[0] much more to a relationship than reproduction But, in fact, women say they want children, materi
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by rainworld 3y ago
At 38, some 25% of women are sterile and almost all have reduced fertility. These days “now” is often too late. See also: exploding IVF rates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_and_female_fertility
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by rainworld 3y ago
Modern (wo)man encounters human nature, finds it lacking, attempts to bend it to his or her will, fails miserably, makes everyone miserable in the process, and learns nothing from the experience.
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by rainworld 3y ago
modern DNA evidence suggests that a huge percentage of children back then (some estimates as high as 25%) were not genetically related to their fathers This is not true at all, typical historical rates are 1% or less: https://w
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by rainworld 3y ago
There was discontent and unrest, for various reasons, but the war began when billions worth of weapons and ammunition were poured in. And so-called “advisors”. First covertly then overtly.
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If these assertions are surprising to readers, it is because the outpourings of Western military punditry have been so dismal: overly credulous of Ukrainian narratives, locked in a river of thinking that is outmoded, and exceedingly inclin
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Russian fortifications present an old problem for Ukraine(engelsbergideas.com)
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Which would inevitably force the Ukrainians to do that, at some point. Of course. Welcome to the real world. Without Western help this would have happened within weeks or months and would have spared so many. The terms would have certainl
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by rainworld 3y ago
She etc. Absurdly strained metaphor that betrays a profound ignorance of matters of state and war in general and of the current geopolitical situation in particular. Let me repeat once more: I have not called on Ukrainians to lay down the
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by rainworld 3y ago
saints who only do good imperialistic, genocidal invaders Rhetorical cluster munitions. One day you’ll run out of superlatives and then you’ll be forced to negotiate. You know, if you were Ukrainian I’d understand the hard feelings. But
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by rainworld 3y ago
Conveniently ignoring the fact that they are on their 12th wave of mobilization, and that most of these men are not at all volunteering. The regime is literally abducting men from the streets and their homes. Men are in hiding from press ga
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by rainworld 3y ago
Indeed we are 2–3 orders of magnitude away from the point where our energy output itself non-negligibly, globally heats the earth. And if we kept growing, an incandescent Earth would not be too far off. There are hard limits.
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by rainworld 3y ago
That’s not an answer to the question, then again I don’t think you’ll ever answer it. https://twitter.com/tinkzorg/status/1680452684988424193 Tag yourself. Bravely volunteering other people to die and feeling re
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by rainworld 3y ago
If that’s what you’ve let yourself be convinced is the present then, boy, are you not going to enjoy the future.
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by rainworld 3y ago
Atrocity propaganda is great for eliminating opposition at home. It doesn’t win you a war, though. And it bears repeating: the thing about wars is you actually have to win them. The curious thing is that historically it’s always the good gu
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by rainworld 3y ago
It was also the only moral and ethical position. If you think it through, the only reasons this “I’m a pacifist but” dime store morality can be entertained at all is because of the idea that Ukraine is winning, and because Western audienc
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by rainworld 3y ago
For me, it really is all-purpose, neutral. Granted, you will probably see it used in a less than neutral way more often than not.
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by rainworld 3y ago
It means Brits + Americans (and occasionally other anglophone countries too), no reason to overthink it. To be fair, I should have added the NYTimes to that list because it very much belongs to it.
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The way they immediately threw away their pacifism in favour of US-led interventionism when the Cold War ended. Unsurprisingly, it was also them screaming for military support for Ukraine instead of pushing for talks. Scholz at least feigne
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by rainworld 3y ago
It’s also a running joke that entire political parties can be considered fronts of the CIA. The German Greens are a particularly unsubtle example but there are others. The spookery in Europe didn’t end in 1990, quite the opposite, but only
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by rainworld 3y ago
Loftus has also been involved with the cases of [Robert Durst, Ghislaine Maxwell, Harvey Weinstein, Jerry Sandusky,] Ted Bundy, O.J. Simpson, Rodney King, Oliver North, Martha Stewart, Lewis Libby, Michael Jackson, the Menéndez brothers an
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by rainworld 3y ago
I’d tread carefully on a day where I’ve burned half a brigade in a fruitless, hare-brained probing/screening effort. But then, treading carefully isn’t something Ukies (and the fandom) are generally known for exactly. Cute that you&#x
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by rainworld 3y ago
Man, it’s like Mac vs. Windows all over again. Except you can count the bodies. If you dare.
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by rainworld 3y ago
Nice of the Russians to support the "Western psyop" Yes, but unironically. Decisions Were Made after the US and UK attacked (via Ukraine but fooling nobody) sites of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces at the beginning of December
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by rainworld 3y ago
If we side with Ukraine then let's end this as quickly and decisively as possible. And how exactly are you going to achieve that? The thing about war is that you can’t just decide to win, you actually have to do it. Stretching thi

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