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Could someone point out that the Trump admin is currently threatening to imprison an activist for 20 years for helping illegals. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/scott-warren-arizona-undocumented-migrants_n_5ceee754e4b00cfa19658ebd

I'm sure they'll come right to his aid because they're not at all more aligned with the top pic than the bottom in this meme.

Some anarchist groups who also identify with antifascism use the circled A as a symbol for both anarchism and antifascism but other than that, antifa really is just the idea of opposing fascism, without any central organisation or symbol.

NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH A TEXTBOOK OF THE SAME NAME: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me. A textbook about misleading history and lies of omission taught in schools.

This quote comes from this one: https://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Independence/dp/0692613285/ref=nodl_. A five dollar self published screed on Amazon.

the brain center at whipple’s

great episode. the boss from the dick van dyke show (mel) plays whipple, who, like you say, is eventually fired by a machine

Yeah you got me there. It's not like an economics professor wrote a book about how debt grows faster than the growth of the economy and how debts have to be periodically forgiven with a jubilee or else civilization will collapse exactly like how the Roman empire did. Oh wait.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014IAV9MK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

It is actually more like she is BEING A FASCIST here instead of "describing fascism". Hitler told the German people that Jews and communists were coming to take away their guns and free speech. Hitler promised to protect Germans from Jews and communists who would nationalize their property. Hitler succeeded because he promised to protect the German people FROM BIG COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT.

People in Nazi Germany were terrified of communist, totalitarian government, so they trusted Hitler to protect them from big government. Ironic, yes, the best fascist have used Libertarian propaganda to fool people into authoritarianism.

https://www.amazon.com/They-Thought-Were-Free-Germans/dp/0226511928

I read a really, really interesting book when I was in high school on the power of cognitive dissonance and I'd recommend it to anyone who's willing to read it because it really changed the way that I evaluate my own thought processes and how I perceive the world.

<em>Mistakes Were Made (But not by me)</em> by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson

I’ve mainly just picked this all up here and there, but I am very much looking forward to reading NYT editorial board member Jesse Wegman’s book-length case against the EC, the aptly-titled Let the People Pick the President . Coming out next March.

Edit: I know of Wegman through his advocacy for the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which is a fascinating attempt to render the EC useless without an amendment (by using states’ rights, which conservatives should love, right?). Definitely a rabbit hole of reading around that.

Recently I got a very interesting book called White Fragility by Robin D'Angelo. Now I do not live in the US, but I was horribly surprised how many points this book raises applied directly to me.

It isn’t necessarily a racist statement. This article explains why better than I can; while I understand it is the Huffington Post, it is consistent with what I learned in a political science class that I took in college. Black people are far more likely to end up in prison, and it has nothing to do with black people being more likely to commit crimes than white people.

He believes his teacher taught him to be ashamed of his 'heritage' and that this was obviously bullshit. https://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Independence/dp/0692613285/ref=nodl_. His whole book is fucking Lost Cause apologism.

BTW, if you're interested in understanding how they got there, even though they may be intelligent in all other aspects of their lives, I recommend this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Believing-Brain-Conspiracies-How-Construct-Reinforce/dp/1250008808

> Well, women don't have a surgically implanted vagina

Vaginal agenesis exists, so yes, there are cis women with "surgically implanted vaginas".

Because putting incompetent people in charge of government is their (Republicans) Modus operandi.

Well I'm not gonna resist that opportunity for self-promotion. Is that against the rules of this sub? I have no idea

Since everyone is saying everyone else is wrong, both you and /u/TheBlackBear are wrong (well, sort of). They (the party, not necessarily Republican voters) only care about two core things:

1. Making the rich richer.
2. Pushing white evangelical Christian nationalism.

Not everyone in the party cares equally about these two things, but those are the two core drivers that the modern Republican party are built upon. Everything else-- including all the things that /u/TheBlackBear refers to, as well as the racism, homophobia, and misogyny-- follow from those core ideals.

I'm just reading the book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation and it really does a good job of tracing both the history of white evangelical Christian nationalism and shows the effect that they have had and are having on our national policies. Their ultimate goal is to make the US a Christian theocracy. Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States is another good book on the subject.

While nothing these two books cover started with Trump (Jesus and John Wayne traces it's roots back to the Eisenhower administration), it's hard to truly understand the Trump presidency without understanding these forces. It's really far more terrifying then it even appears on the surface.

> There are genetic differences, of course

Yes, but it’s not in the way people think

> In general, however, an average of 85% of genetic variation exists within local populations, ~7% is between local populations within the same continent, and ~8% of variation occurs between large groups living on different continents.

Roughly translated by my partner who studied genetics, this means that there is more variation between people in one (fairly homogeneous) city than there is between the population of that city as a whole and the population of say Tokyo.

There is more variation between people from east Africa and west Africa than more or less anywhere else in the world.

As geneticists have been saying for years. Race is a social construct, not a biological one.

There's a book called...well the title is a word I'm not going to say but it's written by an African American Harvard professor, Randall Kennedy. I read it in college (PolySci major) and I think it's one of the best breakdowns of how one word has dehumanized and delegitimized African Americans for the past 150+ years.

Think about that for a moment: a word exists in our lexicon so vile, so egregious that, even though it's the title of a legitimate book that studies the origins of the word, I refuse to even type it.

If systemic racism doesn't exist then how can such a word exist?

Link to book: https://smile.amazon.com/Nigger-Strange-Troublesome-Revised-Introduction/dp/B08ZQWQRK3/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=nigger+book&amp;qid=1624630486&amp;sr=8-1

I always thought of her as more weeb than Asian, and it's not as though she has an accent of any sort. Her concept art makes it seem possible she's intended to be Asian, though.

The same problem pops up with Mirage.

It's funny because Andrew Chael came out and actually shot down this ridiculous argument.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-hole-katie-bouman-andrew-chael-sexist-trolls_n_5cb08f0de4b098b9a2d2bb5d

So yep, enjoy your downvote for not researching your stupid opinion. :)

No you’re just wrong. I’m sorry but men on average have 40% more upper body strength and 30% more lower body strength. At the top is where it really matters. With average people it’s easier for men and women to compete. And yes individuals have specific advantages - I did a dna test a while back and it turns out I actually build muscle better than the average person. That’s an innate advantage that I have over other people. I still couldn’t compete with most boys in high school - despite being in really good shape.

My SO of 8 years was almost an Olympic gymnast before an injury cut his career short. He trained with men and women and he’ll be the first one to tell you how strong a female gymnast can be (much stronger than the average man of that height). But he’s confirmed what I’ve always known based on scientific evidence and my own experiences: most men and women cannot compete fairly in a physical way.

My last comment was not to bring men down (male domestic abuse victims hardly ever report and don’t have enough shelters - it’s awful). My point was that biology does matter. I don’t think women are killed in domestic homicides the vast majority of the time because men are so much worse than women. I think it’s because men are almost always inherently physically stronger. And that stat is stunning - something like 90% of domestic homicide victims are women. It’s not even a close split. You’d think if women could compete physically with men then there wouldn’t be such a large statistical difference.

Source on strength differences:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Skeletal-muscle-mass-and-distribution-in-468-men-Janssen-Heymsfield/13189d4619d006db0c6674160c7b1b60ef9b77fb

Edit: I usually love this sub but seriously? Can someone respond instead of downvoting. I’m not against trans people in sports. I’m against ending gender segregation in sports.

What if I told you people do exactly just that? https://www.amazon.com/5-99oz-Weight-Stretcher-Extender-Chastity/dp/B07871PLTD

Yes, it apparently does work, however, it hinders your girth and potentially causes ED.

I just want to take a moment to say Dr. Lowen's book Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the best and easiest to read U.S. history books out there. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1620973928/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_89N7A38X7XYE9G0QEM5R

The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale > The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself. Why we need to defund the police and how we get there.

>Recent weeks have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on accountability, diversity, training, and community relations. Unfortunately, these reforms will not produce results, either alone or in combination. The core of the problem must be addressed: the nature of modern policing itself.

>This book attempts to spark public discussion by revealing the tainted origins of modern policing as a tool of social control. It shows how the expansion of police authority is inconsistent with community empowerment, social justice— even public safety. Drawing on groundbreaking research from across the world, and covering virtually every area in the increasingly broad range of police work, Alex Vitale demonstrates how law enforcement has come to exacerbate the very problems it is supposed to solve.

>In contrast, there are places where the robust implementation of policing alternatives—such as legalization, restorative justice, and harm reduction—has led to a decrease in crime, spending, and injustice. The best solution to bad policing may be an end to policing.

Give this interview a listen as a quicker alternative to reading the book:

Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing, on why cops are being so brutal and what should be done with them

You don't have to imagine such a story, good sir, Mr. William Dietz is here to help: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IK4BCVY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1

It's a decent and quick read (and the 2nd part) actually for pulpish sci-fi.

Edit: Spoiler alert >!They didn't come in peace!<

First off, they aren't feeling oppressed. They're masters of projection and playing the victim. They have pseudo-eugenic and quasi-genocidal beliefs about how society should be structured, families should reproduce, and who should hold power. Entire commercial and propaganda worlds exist and are broadcast over public airwaves for the sole purpose of whitewashing the most murderous aspects of their "starve off the weak" "libertarianism".

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alabama-mayor-mark-chambers-kill-lgbtq_n_5cf8c284e4b0e63eda95a46b

I think that if you look up the N Word here, you might get an idea of how I feel about the washington redskins. I think it's born out of racism, rather than respect. In general, I don't have a problem with indian imagery though (Indian motorcycles and Apache helicopters come to mind. Those seem born more out of respect).

No one in China gets in trouble for displaying images of Winnie the Pooh. At worst, you'll get your post removed from social media if you post the specific meme comparing Xi to Pooh.

Just go search 'Winnie the Pooh' or '小熊维尼' on Baidu or Taobao and you'll see thousands of results.

Give them money. Experiments with basic income show an increase in life expectancy, happiness, reduction of stress, reduction of crime, etc. when you just give people money to live. And it saves money. Keeping poor people poor is actually really expensive.

A good book about it is Utopia for Realists.

Title: "Home Appraised With a Black Owner: $472,000. With a White Owner: $750,000."

"Last summer, Nathan Connolly and his wife, Shani Mott, welcomed an appraiser into their house in Baltimore, hoping to take advantage of historically low interest rates and refinance their mortgage.

They believed that their house — improved with a new $5,000 tankless water heater and $35,000 in other renovations — was worth much more than the $450,000 that they paid for it in 2017. Home prices have been on the rise nationwide since the pandemic; in Baltimore, they have gone up 42 percent in the past five years, according to Zillow.com.

But 20/20 Valuations, a Maryland appraisal company, put the home’s value at $472,000, and in turn, loanDepot, a mortgage lender, denied the couple a refinance loan."

literally got denied a refinance because of it

"Months after that first appraisal, the couple applied for another refinance loan, removed family photos and had a white male colleague — another Johns Hopkins professor — stand in for them. The second appraiser valued the house at $750,000."

Again though, this isn't "new" and has been reported on and studied quite a lot, especially in the past years.

Just within this very narrow direction this book goes into some good detail on how the government has been screwing over black communities even long after the Jim Crow era https://www.amazon.com/Color-Law-Forgotten-Government-Segregated/dp/1631492853

Yup. I read a book chapter that dealt with this very topic, and the author said that—for Jesus’s audience—referring to a Good Samaritan would be like referring to Good Osama bin Laden. Like, that is how much Samaritans were hated.

I recommend this book. It is a historical, but not biblical, look back at Jesus life.

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BRUQ7ZY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_7Y2XTZZCQCEV4G7S6Z7X

Remember that Jesus was poor and illiterate. Most of his original followers were also poor and illiterate. All we know of Jesus comes from Paul*, who never met him but wrote half the New Testament, and Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, who each wrote their versions with a specific audience in mind. AND the gospels have been revised to make them more cohesive. I honestly believe that Jesus was an extraordinary man. A man of his background made enough of a splash that he had to be killed. He must have been incredibly charismatic. However, I don’t believe that he had the foresight or resources to pull off the kind of scam that you’re suggesting against the religious leaders of his community and the actual Roman empire.

*Paul carefully crafted Christian doctrine to line up as much as possible with what we call the Old Testament. Paul had the background and education to do it. He is the true architect of Christianity as we know it today. He probably was sincere, but he’s the one who should be blamed for taking “love thy neighbor” and turning it into a global super weapon.

It's literally a google search away.

>Two dozen people have been charged with deliberately setting bushfires in New South Wales, where nearly 19,000 square miles have burned since September.
>
>The New South Wales Police Force announced in a news release that legal actions have been taken against 183 people for 205 bushfire-related offenses since Nov. 8.

https://weather.com/news/news/2020-01-07-australia-bushfires-arrests-arson

J.S. Mills Principles of Political Economy Pretty much just the idea of mixed economies, similar to the way Bernie views a mixed solution involving private industry and government.

> The very word “Christianity” is a misunderstanding—at bottom there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.

> <em>The Antichrist</em> - Nietzsche

These people really should read that book they hold so dear.

You might be talking about this

>Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause

>The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

https://www.favreau.info/misc/14-points-fascism.php

Or maybe you prefer a different Scholar?

>The obsession with a plot. “The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia.”

http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html

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Are you telling me you believe they were born genocidal murderers? Or is it due to circumstance, environment, and choices along the way?

I would hope that you have enough self-awareness to realize why the former would place you in the company of the Nazis themselves.

In Weimar Germany (between the empire and the Nazi regime) conservatives really, really hated the idea of the German communist party getting power. So much so that they were willing to work with actual Nazis to shut all liberals out of power, despite most moderate German conservatives not being antisemitic or interested in conquering Europe.

I find the similarity concerning.

In Weimar Germany (between the empire and the Nazi regime) conservatives really, really hated the idea of the German communist party getting power. So much so that they were willing to work with actual Nazis, despite most moderate German conservatives not being antisemitic or interested in conquering Europe.

I find the similarity concerning.

There's a really interesting book by Jonathan Metzl, "https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Whiteness-Politics-Resentment-Heartland/dp/1541644972". It's about this very topic of white Americans voting against their interest due to the perception that equality and betterment mean something is being taken from them, and they'd rather vote for policies that hurt themselves instead of losing something to better others (which they won't lose anything, and benefit from the policies they vote against as well, hurting all sides).

> To be fair, if that’s the case, that’s pretty much what the gun nuts are claiming the amendment is for. “People should have guns so the government can’t oppress you.”

Not it’s not. It says the people should have the right to serve in their state militia, nothing more.

The language “Keep and bear arms” is solely used in the constitution and contemporary colonial law to describe military service, which is why the original draft of the second amendment had a conscientious objector clause. But the objector clause was removed because they feared the Quakers would succumb to mercenaries if they hired them instead of forming a civilian militia. That clause makes no sense if the second amendment was supposed to protect hunting or self-defense rights, because most Quakers of the time were fine with hunting and lethal self-defense.

According to the original intended plain text, the second amendment is an individuals right to military service, not an individual right to own a gun for self-defense, hunting, arms dealing, or gun collecting.

For example, DADT would have violated the Founder’s second amendment. Same with Trump’s trans ban. You don’t want to be ruled by a military you aren’t allowed to join. That’s tyrannical, which is why the Founder’s put it in the bill of rights.

You can read about it in the book The Second Amendment by Patrick J Charles

Paraphrasing Jonathan Haidt's book; People do actually value "do no harm" and "fairness" as principles, but these people value Justice (aka punishing / righting wrongs) more than they value "do no harm" / "fairness".

See, it's funny because conservatives also do this, just more effectively. None of them cried about politicizing tragedy when it was creating the DHS after 9/11, for example.

god i hate when morons co-opt language that they don’t understand to make themselves feel smart.

god forbid someone equated Jim Crow to modern systemic racism, it might just become one of the most well known sociological texts of the last twenty years

And while you’re at it, read some Coates, Ture, Baldwin, Hughes, Jimenez, Ngozi-Adichie.

Educate yourself before you make this big a fool of yourself in public

Apparently there’s a few running jokes within the NRA about keeping away from Wayne Lapierre when he’s anywhere near a weapon. Vanity fair article, yes I know, vanity fair, but the information is from a well sourced book.The man is dangerous with a firearm, no wonder the secret service is jumpy.

If You Lived During the Plimoth Thanksgiving

It’s a kids book but is quickly being recognized as a far more accurate depiction. It’s by Passamaquoddy Educator Chris Newell.

If you are disinterested enough that you won't consider the numerous explanations from TST's founders or its members because it doesn't align with your assessment of what a religion is, or what satanism is, then I suppose that we have reached an impasse.

If you do wish for clarification on the topic, the TST FAQ is a good place to start. If you are particularly ambitious, the academic study of TST which was conducted over a number of years with interviews with the founders as well as many members (current and former) is another good choice. If you have questions, r/SatanicTemple_Reddit is can be a good place to ask them, it is open to all varieties of satanism even if TST seems to be predominant.

I do appreciate you taking the time to "disagree" with my disagreement over the inaccurate explanations of my beliefs. Take care.

That works to. I was just relaying the information I had read from Greece’s’ interviews and the analysis of TST in Speak Of The Devil

Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin discusses this.

A big part of the strategy involves marginalized subcultures, particularly, where they think they can harness some of that "otherness" members of the groups may have and slowly redirect (indoctrinate) and harness that energy.

Fuck Nazis.

I think the post title is a bit... eh.

You don't know if that brush continues, or whether there is a berm, but what they are actually using is not that dangerous.

Kids don't need ear protection, because of what they are using. Eye protection, sure, ricochets are always possible.

Kids can wear their shirts inside out. People can do whatever is comfortable to them. What is this point even supposed to be about?

This is not gun ownership. Those are air rifles, not firearms, which is why ear protection is not necessary. See that rifle in the middle, presumably the one used by the parent? The unique barrel that tapers from narrow to wide? That's this: https://www.amazon.com/Gamo-Wildcat-Whisper-Air-Rifles/dp/B01NC3AELQ.

You've grossly misrepresented the danger and threat here.

here’s a cheap book called A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns, if you really want to understand better. it’s a shirt little comic guidebook by a non-binary person and a cis person about why someone people prefer they/them.

if you are sticking to what grows best in the area... but have pest issues... a fence like that can help... ( I do not condone purchasing any thing from amazon )

The Cult of Trump by Steven Hassan is a book you may like

https://www.amazon.com/Cult-Trump-Leading-Explains-President/dp/1982127333

If you’re a parent, his article on Blippi is also really good: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-dead-world-of-blippi

Also <em>Blueprints for a Sparkling Tomorrow</em> is a fantastic piece of absurdity.

Find your dns settings on your phone and change them to dns.adguard.com to keep most ads away. Youtube ads tends to still work, unless you get vancedapp.com.

If something on a particular site stops working because of the blocking you can disable it and re-enable once your done with the website.

>Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production…

>Social ownership can be public, collective or cooperative ownership, or citizen ownership of equity. There are many varieties of socialism and there is no single definition encapsulating all of them, with social ownership being the common element shared by its various forms...

Just a quick google search from the wikipedia article and also, decades of work as a titled professional economist in the public sector, evaluating social policy.

https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/8590/successful-scientific-replication-and-extension-of-levitt-2008-child-seats-are-still-no-safer-than-seat-belts

You’re the one that did the cursory internet search....

You came back with a source that says nothing and now youre hand waiving...

Things assumed to be true are over turned all the time. Surely as a medical “researcher” you’re familiar with medical reversals?

What the fuck does that mean? Social constructs do have a lot of value, but why do you assume zimbabwe does not have that? If anything the global south has found itself increasingly held hostage to debt traps enforced by the IMF and the world bank. These countries are not under developed they are over exploited. The amount of "value" that zimbabwe contains in its borders is immense (although I think you just used that as a example of the whole global south) And the amount of "Value" that the west contains is directly proportional to the amount that they can steal from underdeveloped nation. And you want to lecture me about pyramid schemes?

The real value you are describing there is social interaction and co-existence. A community attempting to build something larger then themselves. When I see communities that are really trying to lower the barrier to the worldwide information exchange and trying to remove barriers to getting included in the global economy then the one I see right now with the greatest promise are crypto-currencies, with their quasi-pseudonyms nature and resistance to censorship, since they force a complete turnaround of the "surveillance capitalism" that was so confident it was the next stage of capitalism. If your interested in that topic heres a good book about it. https://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Frontier/dp/1610395697

So ill just keep really conveniently giving money to the people who worked for it and you can just keep being salty about it, I guess. Sure seems way more convenient to the artist friends of mine who again, make money from it.

You should look into a book called "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"

https://www.amazon.com/The-New-Jim-Crow-audiobook/dp/B007R0L47O

If you don't have the time to read it, you might want to find a summary. Spoiler alert, we didn't really end slavery.

> don’t know how to explain to someone that people matter more than stuff.

I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People

You're correct, I was wrong. However he does have gold plated sinks on his private airliner that he makes the Secret Service pay to fly on

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Yeah, two dipshits can peer review each other any time.

I feel like the more stock someone puts in "peer review" the less experience they actually have with it. Everyone in my college programs knew you could buy a spot in a journal for a pretty insignificant amount of money and someone would just rubber stamp it. Have you ever read &quot;Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List&quot;? It was published and peer-reviewed.

>Oh shit, yes please, I do want a long explanation of why Meth didn’t work out for the Nazis in the long run. Thank you, replying to save and reference your comment.

To be fair, those podcast links are the comedic version of a long explanation, I think the really long explanations involve things like...

https://www.amazon.com/Blitzed-Drugs-Third-Norman-Ohler/dp/1328663795

Though I've heard that book isn't perfectly accurate (they talk about it a bit in the podcast, but I haven't listened to those episodes in roughly a month so my memory is not perfect), but it is at least a possible starting place...

Although he is clearly a fucking dunce there is some debate to be had on just one of the points he made.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Woke-Racism-Religion-Betrayed-America/dp/0593423062

A really interesting book written by a black Columbia University professor that makes a very interesting argument that being ultra woke is a new type of religion.

I presume the more sophisticated bots all now have computer-generated fake faces.

If the botmaster can't even go to that much trouble, then clearly their fake accounts are even less worthy of notice than bots used to be. :-)

(I've got an avatar on my Twitter account, but it's a picture I took of my face in 1997. Since then I've... I've grown a beard. That's the sum total. I am definitely not getting old. The picture is. Shut up.)

Here's a link to the study referenced in the article.

Here's some details on the morality of Lee. It's actually pretty terrible compared to the revisionist history we hear, here are his thoughts on slavery:

> The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially & physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing, is necessary for their instruction as a race, & I hope will prepare & lead them to better things. How long their subjugation may be necessary is known & ordered by a wise Merciful Providence. Their emancipation will sooner result from the mild & melting influence of Christianity, than the storms & tempests of fiery Controversy.

Very "white man's burden" decades before the term was coined.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Fuck off dipshit, you're wrong and I have proof..

Even if you were right on the semantic point, it would still be an admission that you're wrong because they're both the same drug in different doses.

Fucking thank you for saying this. I'm so damn sick of ignorant people all copying each other's invented visual distinction that doesn't exist. Posted this about five times already on this thread.

false

It's a decorative symbol and it has infinite variations.

false

Here's a Hindu (not "hindi") one with the top spoke pointing right.

here

Stop parroting people on the internet without even checking first.

These visual distinctions are incorrect and as somebody with Indian family I'm getting sick of people just parroting this from each other without ever checking to see if what they say is true.

here for example

Same direction, same tilt. The thing about 'more symbols' is correct but doesn't have to be. There are tons of variations.

Are you delusional?

There is nothing stopping you reaching for the top except your own imagination. You choose your own job. You demand your own salary.

In Communism, the government chooses your job, the government chooses your salary. Everyone is on the bottom.

I understand you are hired, but seriously... who buys this political nonsense? Aren't you bothered by the fact your poisonous murdering dictator is paying you out of your own peoples' tax money to suppress freedom around the globe and your people suppressed? https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=RUB&amp;to=CAD&amp;view=10Y

Right now, there are 417 reported deaths in the US. I'll bet within two weeks we'll be over the hump, and there will be an effective way to mitigate symptoms and/or drastically reduce mortality. Wanna take my bet?

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

>Much more so than women. And it’s not even close.

I'd argue that only a tiny minority of men -- rich men -- are excused routinely. Men face much larger sentences for the same crime a woman commits, so much so that the gender disparity in prisons is greater than the racial disparity. And starting as soon as preschool, boys are also disciplined much more harshly in school.

We don't really let boys off the hook as much as you think we do.

And obviously with the Americas and Australasia, imported diseases were a huge factor, as we all know.

That wouldn't have been a major issue when the Aryans came into India.

This was the course in question. The guy's pretty good, I particularly like the way he's very clear about the gaps in our knowledge - that point about migration vs invasion being one of them: he said we simply don't know. Either way, not my opinion because I don't have the expertise to know. Just passing on what I heard.

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/history-of-the-ancient-world-a-global-perspective.html

> i "brigade" against you stupid hurensohn.

>Jfc you are one stupid missgeburt.

i had to look up your insults. are you actually native german speaker or neo-nazi or both?

Look up sites like temp-mail.org. They provide you with some bullshit email address that can only receive emails temporarily. Use that email address to avoid bullshit "email to use" features.

Not saying you should do that on Breitbart, but there might be other cases where you'll find it useful.

If you haven't read it, Andrew Seidel's Founding Myth is a great book to counter the false Christian nation narrative. (Link to show the book so you can look for a copy at your friendly local bookstore)

Mass migration destroyed the Roman Empire. Also, according to the scholar Mary Beard in SPQR what started the fall of Rome was when they started granting Roman citizenship to all people within its borders. This diluted what it met to be a Roman and destroyed the common values/culture.

https://www.amazon.com/SPQR-History-Ancient-Mary-Beard/dp/1631492225

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Sounds like Republicans are right. We need to prevent mass migration and also force immigrants to fully assimilate. Bring back the "great melting pot" and lose your foreign culture.

There’s a fantastic book that does a deep dive into this - how America was for government spending before the Civil Rights Act.

Heather McGhee The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

You (meaning anyone reading this) might want to read this book (or others making this similar argument). Obviously I am not expecting anyone to read. The author also summarizes this in lecturea found on youtubes, and there are review articles.

https://www.amazon.com/Meritocracy-Trap-Foundational-Inequality-Dismantles/dp/0735221995

If you're interested in reading about people's thoughts in the leadup to Nazi Germany, I'd strongly recommend They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 by Milton Mayer.

It's based on interviews with 10 people from various socio-economic positions that lived in Germany at the time.

Here's an excerpt

It's not about values. I don't agree with requiring volunteer work. That would be conservative values. You should work to make the world the way you want. However, you also need to learn to accept what you cannot change. Only YOU can choose to look at it differently for YOUR OWN comfort. No one is in control of your happiness but you. I used to think and feel the same way you did in this regard. I read a book from Deepak Chopra called Seven Spiritual Laws for Success. It helped me have a better understanding in life, and helped me identify issues in my life that could be handled better. That was 10 years ago, anyways, I don't have all the answers, but here is a link to the book. If you want, I would even gift one to you. https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Spiritual-Laws-Success-Pocketbook/dp/1878424718

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I get it I am just some asshole on the internet, but my intentions are good here.

In the <em>Illuminatus!</em> trilogy, they occasionally cut to Jesus talking to his disciples and saying "Don't write this part down". Near the end of the third book, they finally reveal what his super-secret teaching is: he's showing them how to play Bingo.

It's like Donald Trump Junior and his book "Triggered."

The poor design of the cover just has his face with TRIGGERED under it, making it look like he's the one who is triggered.

I'm sadly not sure. It was a random library grab that I didn't expect to really read, much less enjoy so much. I'm gonna guess America's Women by Gail Collins since I remember some sort of flag on the cover, but no promises.

You really can't beat "The Oxford Study Bible," in my estimation. Used it as a companion when I took a couple courses on the Tanakh and the New Testament. Also includes the apocrypha.

During the Cold War, there were numerous authors who made claims that Marx was racist. Here are some examples I can find:

https://www.amazon.com/Karl-Marx-racist-Nathaniel-Weyl/dp/0870004484

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41035216?seq=1

Regardless, we need to be careful what are the intents here. Many of them want to paint that "Socialism is evil", that is "Marx was racist so therefore his idea of workers owning the production must be wrong too" or shit like that. A recent example, it's like what happened to George Floyd, many people will point out that "George Floyd did this and that so blacks' lives obviously don't matter" and so on...

I'm referring to the basis of political theory; this was my text: https://www.amazon.com/About-Philosophy-11th-Robert-Wolff/dp/0205194125 Wolff does a great job of breaking everything down to their constituent parts. A good lit book isn't necessary, just read the highlights by John Locke, Jefferson, Hamilton, and even some modern views like MLK (I highly recommend his "Letter from Birmingham Jail"). Malcom X had some very powerful rhetoric too. Churchill and several of the WWII leaders Autobiographies are great lenses to look at some of the different political ideologies and how they shaped the 20th century.

> Yeah, I think you found your problem. The bulk of a good Philosophy class is on Enlightenment and Politic

Sorry, but I couldn't find a book by the title "Enlightenment and Politic" on google. Are you referring to maybe this book or this article?

"Facts" is a funny way to describe misleading and interpretations of statistics. There are many ways that data can be analyzed and that's certainly one way, but it definitely isn't the only way. You're also inferring that it's a natural state, and not something that can be changed. It may even be natural, but that certainly doesn't imply that it's inevitable.

Here's a book you should read to understand a little bit of what I'm talking about:

&quot;How to lie with statistics&quot; by Darrell Huff

27 top psychiatrists and other mental health experts have diagnosed Trump as a psychopath, a narcissist, and a danger to society:

https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Case-Donald-Trump-Psychiatrists/dp/1250179459

Of course, so he recommended an algae-based supplement containing omega 3 and 6, and DHA (fun fact, fish oil is high in these nutrients due to fish consuming the algae, vegan versions just skip the fish conduit and add linseed oil) I buy this brand in Australia https://www.chemistwarehouse.com.au/buy/98562/healthy-care-pure-vegan-omega-3-6-9-60-capsules

But basically something like this, as long as it includes omega 3,6, and the DHA (this is in Australian currency, not US) https://www.amazon.com.au/Vegan-Omega-Softgels-Essential-Supplements/dp/B07GPXWLH9/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dchild=1&amp;keywords=vegan+omega+3+6+9+dha+epa&amp;qid=1613552849&amp;refinements=p_36%3A5355411051&amp;rnid=5355409051&amp;s=health&amp;sprefix=veg...

It also has cleared up my skin a bit, added bonus!

not sure why you're getting downvoted. A few DJi with drop kits attached carrying standard issue M67 grenades will wreck any encounter.

I, unironically, despise the Santa thing. Like, I'm ok with the capitalist iconography and the &quot;In Santa We Trust&quot; money-themed chocolate bars and shit.

But I hate the, "It doesn't hurt anybody to add a little magic to the season." attitude.

Yes it does! There is no magic, only lies. And it encourages magical thinking. There is wonder and beauty in the world, we don't have to make it up.