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A word replaced with one more vague one does not a robust argument make. Such a notion of universality lacks the concept of frames of reference and relies on an impoverished unders…

Maybe we should stop re-positing the specific developments of contemporary capitalism with some generic notion of civilization. A civilization is not some 'national body' that grow…

Or airplane passengers vs those on the ground. Something like 59 micro-seconds per 10 million frequent flier miles.

It depends on a certain consideration. If you take the argument (which I can't remember who laid it out) that (in Christian metaphysics, was the example) the experience of the indi…

They are disingenuously referencing trans affirmative care.

> Interestingly, child sacrifice is still with us, in the form of state-sanctioned castration. Plus ça change... This isn't happening. Intersex children being force-ably sexually r…

> outrage over this is misplaced and typical of comfortable out of touch urbanites, Born and raised on a farm. Worked logging from the age of eighteen. Worked in housing constructi…

It's been a lot of years since I first read Scanners Live in Vain, but I always remember the first two lines. ... Martel was angry. He did not even adjust his blood away from anger…

Social construct != not real™. A king is only a social construct. One can still order your head cut off.

> I have nothing to say. I feel powerless and robbed of my own future by my parents' generation. Beware, O Sinner, for Who Promises You a Tomorrow? --St. Alphonsus of Ligouri Just …

The early 1800s didn't have governments?

Oh, a both-sideser. Well, if that's the case, you really shouldn't care. It should be as easy for you to be one as the other, yet those who invoke 'both sides' really only ever see…

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While I'm on this (literally just saw this). Inside a US Neo-Nazi Homeschool Network With Thousands of Members https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34ane/neo-nazi-homeschool-o...

Most people are not going to have the requisite knowledge of pedagogy. We think we know X, Y, Z, or we actually know X, Y, Z, but teaching that (especially to children) is a whole …

As a former home-schooled child, don't do this.

"On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage i…

You can't swim against the same stream twice.

I'm sort of sick of the top talent argument. My grandfather and group sang. From what tapes I have heard of them, they didn't sound worse than any other group of Appalachian gospel…

You can't have a war against a thing. You have a war against people, and there is always collateral damage. There is no Rousseau–Portalis doctrine when you aim inwards at the popul…

>But people who write like that and don't edit it; won't care of how the AI reads it. Now human language, limited as it already is, is to be is to be humbled before machines that h…

> The control of funding agencies at the federal level by vested interests seems to be a major problem This is a fundamental problem with the nature of science and the nation state…

50s women had washing machines (unless they were poor Appalachians, like my grandparents). But really when we're speaking of the 50s we're almost explicitly formulating it in terms…

The real issue I find with stuff of this nature is one of aesthetic distance. It's similar to BDSM in a way: certain people fantasies about being a 'slave' but to actually enact th…