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Then you really ought to educate yourself. Seriously, google it, it won't take you a moment, and you'll have learned something from doing it.

Yes, because all are examples of population control measures, weather you choose to "frame" it that way or not. If you want to choose to "frame" steri...

This has to do with responses to when problems are framed in terms of "overpopulation" and the barbarism that follows along with it.

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Of course lifestyles are going to have to change. Drastically, by everyone. That's not even a question. But 'lifestyle' is tributary to massive econom...

Australians consume roughly 17tons of Co2 per capita; India, 1.73t* - but of course, it's the poor, brown nation that is the problem... This kind of M...

Pertinant to the OP - education and love are not the answer: “We have been taught that ignorance and hate lead to racist ideas, lead to racist policie...

Comrade Trump, doing his best to bring down the imperialist beast from the inside: https://twitter.com/treasonstickers/status/1243745187559403520

Why? Because racists need to be dumb enough to cater to your faux-naivety?

What kind of fuckstickery is this shit? You think policies need to declare themselves to be racist in order to be racist? Fuck off. You're not this st...

I deleted it. It was a two line thread, one of which was a vague, largely undefined question. Please refer to the site guidelines about starting threa...

Comrade Trump, bringing the people together :strong: : "Protests have significantly shifted public opinion on race, creating potential political allie...

Interesting recap of a recent study on the correlations between race, police violence, and class: "Feldman found that “the rate of police killings inc...

I can't tell if we're picking on theists or not picking on them enough :fear: In any case I don't think there is any bright line dividing theology fro...

No wonder half the 'solutions' proposed by non-blacks is "what if we just stop talking about race :hearts: :starstruck: :flower: ". Well no Chad, but ...

/uploads/resized/files/cd/mg82vlvmc0rv6pp9.jpg :chin: Something something these people only speak the language of private property and lives are other...

It's funny - in fact sad, really - that these debates have been going on for so long. There's this great clip of James Baldwin, debating some Yale phi...

I don't care about either democrats or republicans, both of whom can all drown in the ocean for all I care. And no, we really don't need consensus at ...

I have no idea what you're babbling about here.

Huh? No, the objective is that black people aren't murdered by cops in public on film - among other things. Not these shitty meaningless slogans that ...

Good. I don't want charity from people like you. I want you to seethe and writhe and bitch.

Why this obsession with consensus? Consensus is not a political value. It is completely agnostic as to whether things remain terrible, or whether thin...

Yeah imagine why thinking in terms of individuals in a thread on systemic racism is not an utterly stupid thing to do? :chin:

Yes, but we - mods - can't follow every thread with a fine toothcomb and curate them that way. Decent OPs generally make for decent discussion, and it...

The Lounge sucks. It's current existence is indeed a kind of pragmatic compromise. I don't like it, but it's better than having tens of people a week ...

Well, you know what to expect then.

Yes. No vomit thoughts here, and no woo-woo. I don't know why anyone would even want that sort of stuff here.

A rule of thumb is this: effort in, effort out - and we expect some effort. That 'know thyself' is a classic topic (for instance) is not enough for it...

And I'll simply post the rules of starting threads in that are pinned at the top of the board, which we are, quite frankly, lax about enforcing:

I won't comment on the God thread, it's too long and I didn't make that decision. As for the others: (1) Know Thyself is barely a thread. Frankly it o...

Can you provide some examples of which threads you had in mind? Genuine question.

Again, not a word from you about the changes that have already taken place, and more utter irrelevancies about other times and other places.

Eh, Heidi was a provincial philosopher with a couple of interesting ideas here and there. Would give away his entire corpus for a page of Hannah Arend...

No - your posts, in this thread have been a distraction. They are single-minded and seething in hypocrisy.

Again, this is not about me or your fantasies. Stop, or simply shut up.

No, it's entirely irrelevant. A further distraction to match your other distractions to cover over your hypocritical, unprincipled, partiality. Like, ...

Why do you keep resorting to fantasies? And Western civilisation is built off the back of slavery, genocide, and material expropriation. Not sure why ...

Actually, the shops should be more responsible. They should have known not to open up in such a violence prone area. I don't know why they aren't taki...

Luckily, this isn't about me, and I have the lucidity not to fantasize that it is.

Ah, #allviolencematters #bothsides. Maybe next you'll be asking me about why no one is speaking about white lives. I bet 'you don't even see color'.

Again, no you don't. You care about some individuals getting what they deserve. There's nothing principled about your 'care'.

Mm, telling that all of a sudden the fact of some protestors being black matters, whereas before, 'its just an economic issue' or whatever rubbish. It...

No, I simply don't believe you care an iota about 'humanity'. You're a single-issue energy sink on this topic, and that disproportion of focus tells m...

I'm not advocating violence. I'm not rejecting it either. I simply think the talk of "violence" - and only a certain kind of violence, perpetrated onl...

Oh look, the indictment of Ahmed Aubery's murderers.

Maybe begin with the fact that the Minneapolis police department is basically getting gutted and is getting reset from scratch. Or that cities like LA...

Apparently you don't know it's 2020 either. All these efforts to consign problems to the past ('it was bad back then but now everything's better!') ar...

And on the topic of 'individual responsibility' - I wonder what responsibility Breonna Taylor should have taken as she was gunned down as she slept. G...

The ruling class is shitting their pants and if you can't see that you're either not looking or an idiot. Every one of them is scrambling to show some...