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But surely you're the first one here to fall victim to such sensationalism? A typical fruit shop ought to be more terrifying to you than this kinda-di...
September 14, 2021 at 08:53
Like, it's all there if you look for it!: But liberals will read this is a morality tale about hubris and human overambition.
September 14, 2021 at 07:23
I like Daniel Dor's thesis that language's utility (or what he calls 'functional specificity') consists in coordinating imagination. In particular, it...
September 14, 2021 at 07:14
Idk, an appeal to etymology doesn't strike me as particularly convincing. But so be it.
September 14, 2021 at 06:46
Well I recognize it as an artificial(!) distinction that is contextual and useful in some circumstances while not being very useful in others. If ther...
September 14, 2021 at 06:34
Nature doesn't create novel life forms?
September 14, 2021 at 06:31
We have been creating synthetic animals for the longest time; the means have just been different. Our 'best friends' - dogs - are effectively syntheti...
September 14, 2021 at 06:15
And who runs biotech and health care? I have no doubt as to the purity of his intentions. He's probably a lovely, intelligent, interesting bloke. Unfo...
September 14, 2021 at 05:51
In principle I am totally on board with this. We have used technology to create the biggest and most devastating mass extinction in the history of the...
September 14, 2021 at 05:45
Arundhati Roy - The Cost of Living Arundhati Roy - The Chequebook and the Cruise Missile Hito Steyerl - The Wretched of the Screen
September 13, 2021 at 13:38
idk if you can't figure it out then so much the worse for you.
September 12, 2021 at 06:51
Well yes I was hostile towards a state that has killed hundreds and thousands of people but apparently you took this personally?
September 12, 2021 at 06:45
You are also welcome to reflect on the terror that the US has sown around the world - and at home - after 9/11.
September 12, 2021 at 06:40
idk I'm a broad tent kinda guy, I hate all imperialism but I also believe in proportionality and the US is clearly the most murderous country in the w...
September 12, 2021 at 06:02
Nah this is just something people say because they have nothing of substance to add. Besides it would be dumb to focus on the log for the forest of Am...
September 12, 2021 at 05:24
Cavell singlehandedly demolished almost all the usual philosophical discussion of ethics for me. Like, in comparison with Cavell, most ethical discuss...
September 12, 2021 at 04:49
Remembering the day that the US abused the deaths of ~3000 people to engage in a murdeous paroxysm of international violence that would leave ~400,000...
September 12, 2021 at 03:23
"The eight generals who commanded American forces in Afghanistan between 2008 and 2018 have gone on to serve on more than 20 corporate boards, accordi...
September 05, 2021 at 04:30
No, no you're not. And besides, Afghanistan was clearly just practice for the US. Aspiration for the home front. Afghan women: American woman of the f...
September 05, 2021 at 01:05
Gosh that's terrible. Imagine if the US was running the place for the last twenty years. Oh wait.
September 04, 2021 at 01:22
Nothing, like anything anyone does here, which you know perfectly well, you posturing high-horse'd git. This kind of low hanging rubbish ought to be b...
September 03, 2021 at 19:00
Hey Hano was the one who got mad at me for not taking a bunch of degenerate woman haters with the seriousness and dignity they deserve. I figured that...
September 03, 2021 at 18:49
Yes, the philosophy of power and domination and its exercise upon the bodies and freedoms of women. Which is what this is about. Why do you think it's...
September 03, 2021 at 17:28
Same people, different costume: /uploads/resized/files/vy/xrm9uba0gywf692k.jpg /uploads/resized/files/he/yc0amxkiyd2gzc51.png
September 03, 2021 at 17:26
It certainly isn't irrelevant to the women whose lives are continually ruined by these laws. But sure, treat it as a cute little academic debate while...
September 03, 2021 at 17:24
There is no debate about regulating abortion, and especially not in the US, a fundamentalist regime of extremism and misogyny. Abortion is irrelevant ...
September 03, 2021 at 17:16
I mean fuck me, we're talking about Texas which is sending their children into gas chamber classrooms. These people are supposed to care about childre...
September 03, 2021 at 17:08
Not my fault that you take these Mullahs of American Christianity seriously.
September 03, 2021 at 16:55
No, because only morons take these people at their word when you can simply look at what they do. The faux 'how could you!' tone of your post is hilar...
September 03, 2021 at 16:44
Nah, this kinda stuff has nothing to do with the life of children. It's just punishment for women who have sex. That's it. It's pretty straightforward...
September 03, 2021 at 14:06
No wonder the US gifted Afghanistan to the Taliban. They share the same hateful, fucked up, attitudes towards woman. Also maybe Americans will come to...
September 03, 2021 at 10:47
The problem is the -archy part of both.
September 03, 2021 at 04:08
Right, but only one of these is differential in its effects. Whatever the discourse around parallel lines, my life is exactly the same as Jeff Bezos. ...
September 02, 2021 at 03:36
Well we are becoming more and more Americanized every day, which is the worst possible thing that can happen. In some respects we are much worse, cons...
September 02, 2021 at 03:27
The division and discord you have in the US is between one set of working class plebs pitched against another set of working class plebs. What you don...
September 02, 2021 at 03:22
The same cannot, in any sense, be said of political and economic problems. Why? Because the latter issues are lived. You may never have to deal with E...
September 02, 2021 at 01:34
It's very cute to see Americans lobbing tar bombs at their respective local villains, as if a multi-decade bipartisan effort led by a nation whose con...
August 31, 2021 at 04:01
https://themountain.news/news/american-drone-strike-murders-ten-afghan-civilians-six-children Americans braying about 'women and children' need to shu...
August 31, 2021 at 03:28
https://www.smh.com.au/national/shocking-and-disturbing-explosive-report-claims-corruption-and-branch-bombing-has-left-the-wa-liberals-a-political-was...
August 29, 2021 at 03:56
Approved and posted.
August 27, 2021 at 17:45
When you learn that capital is indifferent to fake lines on a map except to the extent that it can use them to its advantage, it doesn't really matter...
August 27, 2021 at 07:58
Considering the US had 20 years to get their logistics straight, these were not captured. They were gifted. Jesus Christ the instinctive rhetoric peop...
August 27, 2021 at 07:48
I spent most of my reading budget this year reading about state-formation and the contingency and fragility of the state-form so yes, very much so, an...
August 27, 2021 at 07:31
:meh: Seems kinda like an imperialist take to me, where 'country' = 'centralized system which can be taken over easily by an invading power'. Don't li...
August 27, 2021 at 06:35
...American presence fucking up the region, and directly precipitating the rise of terrorism.
August 26, 2021 at 06:11
Gee it's almost like a twenty year occupation which didn't change a thing and was the cause of tens of thousands of deaths is likely to breed resentme...
August 26, 2021 at 04:56
To think that this piece of shit country still imagines it gives a flying hoot about the 'women and children' of Afghanistan: https://www.audacy.com/c...
August 25, 2021 at 13:05
A genocide enabled and supported by US arms and money. All the more reason for the US to fuck right off forever.
August 25, 2021 at 07:07
Good. The faster they fuck right off, the better.
August 25, 2021 at 06:53
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August 25, 2021 at 04:10