#Fascist

One really has to take issue with these sunny statements. Just today Lenin Moreno found Rafael Correa guilty of some confected crime, fraud/embezzlement/caring for his people etc, and the Bolivian
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OMG Starship Troopers is so anti-american it's hilarious. Not the book, which Verhoeven considered juvenile fascist crap (correct). The so-called golden age of science fiction lol lol lol From what
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Mini Thread on why Marxism doesn't mean a nanny state & why the USSR wasn't Marxist:I would begin by addressing the communist manifesto. The manifesto was written when both M
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I understand wanting to divest entirely from a political system that has consistently failed to deliver.Dropping out and focusing entirely on local survival for your immediate community is... kind of
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Nazi fallacy thread: So as November 3rd 2020 approaches, I think we might see some comparisons of Nazi Germany, Nazis, and Hitler to America, Republicans and President Trump. This is
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Ok I understand Karan is so problematic but that’s another convo. I don’t get one thing... the public have this big problem with Dharma but I’m sorry KJo is allowed
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questions I have for you based on your favourite 5sos songa not that well put together thread - retweet don't reply- don't get mad if it's a weird question- stream
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1/ I mentioned this AM how I'm attuned to small details of society so I spend time trying to figure out what people can't see that's obvious to meSo it's
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Scott Alexander also wrote a good piece on this over on SSC. A really important part of the picture for understanding the demise of New Atheism, it seems to me,
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An important part of @MaxBlumenthal's deep investigation into how billionaires and US intelligence-linked foundations have co-opted the environmentalist movement is his damning section on Naomi Klein, which needs to get
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"We demand that the state be charged first with providing the opportunity for a livelihood & way of life for the citizens. If it is impossible to nourish the total
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Trump just paraphrased the 1920 Nazi Platform:"We demand that the state be charged 1st w/ providing the opportunity for a livelihood & way of life for citizens. If it is
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Trump’s ride will be talked about 30 years from now like it happened yesterday. It will be viewed as the worst photo op in Presidential History. It speaks perfectly to
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Here, Du Bois is useful. "The black man is a person who must ride 'Jim Crow' in Georgia." Which is to say, what makes Harris "black in an American context"
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I use fantasy races in my D&D games to basically thwart the idea of fantasy races as they're intended. That is, every "race-based" psychological trait that a given race must
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This is so complex and I have a lot of thoughts I’ll try to sum up what I’ve put together. There is a subset of the “internet left” that is
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