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by rexpop 8mo ago
That's optimistic! I worry the attack on discourse and community has fundamentally undermined democracy.
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by rexpop 8mo ago
You're not going to find, with me, a realm of life that's not fundamentally political—"the personal is political," and one's religious choices are social choices fundamentally shaping your relations to others. Thi
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by rexpop 8mo ago
Most people on earth still live in social and political environments where the core thought experiment of “The Left Hand of Darkness” – a human society without fixed male/female sexes – is not just unfamiliar but fundamentally unintuit
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by rexpop 8mo ago
Religion has always been political. The very language of religion is rooted in political and economic struggle. Concepts such as "guilt," "sin," and "redemption" originally emerged from ancient debates regard
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by rexpop 8mo ago
What propaganda? What are you talking about?
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by rexpop 8mo ago
"On the one hand the chef gets shit for taking too long, and then on another for undercooked, badly plated dishes." Incompetence is incompetence.
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by rexpop 8mo ago
Yeah, and for some reason my hardware drivers can't manage a team of horses!
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by rexpop 9mo ago
Slavery still is—and will always be—the issue. You think the Black populations of Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida want to be ruled by uncontested white supremacists? It is the historical task of our species to abolish slavery. In every gene
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by rexpop 9mo ago
It's a crime. What do you have against crime? Nonviolent political action is often criminalized.
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by rexpop 9mo ago
Ok, you're probably fine, then.
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by rexpop 9mo ago
Television, arguably, can be blamed for the near-total degradation of civic life and, subsequently, human liberty. By substituting the unilateral flow of images for the dialogue of the community, television enforces a banking concept of rea
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by rexpop 9mo ago
Mass media even moreso isolates individuals who DO have access to it. Their "shared experience" is, actually, a debilitating addiction to flat, untouchable, and anti-democratic spectacle. The least hundred years have seen our soci
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by rexpop 9mo ago
Don't do that. High-performing teams maintain a ratio of approxima ~6:1 positive comments for every criticism. Systematic use of shame aligns with toxic leadership patterns that produce measurably negative outcomes. Public humiliation
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by rexpop 9mo ago
> Making friends through capitalism Capitalism is the political economy of our civilization. It's the social substrate through which we relate. Are you seriously suggesting that we give up on making friends?
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by rexpop 9mo ago
Yeah, deportations are clearly beside the point, now.
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by rexpop 9mo ago
Party games for sociopaths. I've been to a couple AR scenes. It's mostly cultlike leaders breaking down others' boundaries through humiliation rituals like these. If you're enough of a psychopath, you can make your way t
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by rexpop 9mo ago
The concept of *unlearning* in Chapter 48 and the Y Combinator (YC) model represent two fundamentally opposing approaches to action, leadership, and success. While C emphasizes accumulation, urgency, and overcoming obstacles to "win,&q
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by rexpop 9mo ago
> If it's not impossible, it will happen given enough time. I hope you might be somewhat relieved to consider that this is not so in an absolute sense. There are plenty of technological might-have-beens that didn't happen, and
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by rexpop 9mo ago
What you wrote was vague as hell.
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by rexpop 9mo ago
We're actually not on that subject.
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by rexpop 9mo ago
I agree, but that's an issue of our economic system: financial precarity. Capitalism operates on consumers right to vote with our feet and dollars. This takes the form of "a bad review" that signifies a bad investment. It&#x2
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by rexpop 9mo ago
That doesn't really matter once you arrive in the US. You're now a beneficiary of American political economy.
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by rexpop 9mo ago
I'm not familiar with the socioeconomic category of "miserable person".
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by rexpop 9mo ago
The exacerbation of schizophrenic symptoms is a problem that pales in comparison to the infringement of our civil rights.
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by rexpop 9mo ago
I would not characterize immigrants as "invaders". Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022, including $59.4 billion to the federal government and $37.3 billion to state and local gover
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by rexpop 9mo ago
Briar is a peer-to-peer encrypted messaging app that has received funding from multiple organizations, including the Open Technology Fund (OTF), which is financed by the U.S. government through the Agency for Global Media [1][2][3]. The OTF
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by rexpop 9mo ago
That's not what this is.
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by rexpop 9mo ago
You're maintaining negligent ignorance.
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by rexpop 9mo ago
Let's exchange reading lists and revisit in six months.
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by rexpop 9mo ago
Your father-in-law, an Eastern European immigrant who fled communism, benefits from ongoing racialized distributions of privilege, power, and money. So, yes, I do believe he is "cutting in line," and should have the humility to st

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