Oof. You think that translates into a thesis about what would make people 'think like me'? And you accuse me of being illogical? With a literacy stand...
I'm getting pretty tired of you dragging in topics that no one is talking about - aliens and Jesus among other miscellaneous rubbish - so fully expect...
Necessary reading, especially for those pretending to give a shit about 'divisiveness' : Most relevant for this particular thread: https://jacobinmag....
Amazing. When people protest on racial grounds, they're doing it wrong because it's really a question of class. When class comes to the fore, the ques...
You're welcome to start a thread on overpopulation. For my part, I think the refrain of 'overpopulation' is entirely regressive. I don't think it is a...
Don't get me wrong, I think you're exactly right. I have no expectation, none whatsoever, that things will play out how I think they should. But I dar...
No I agree systemic racism is pretty upsetting and if anyone gave a shit about their own self well-being they'd want to do everything in their power t...
Y'know - even if it were entirely true that the mention of race "scares off" potential allies - what the fuck kind of "allies" are so pathetically sel...
Actually if you talk about bad things at all, that too causes bad things to happen. Because that's how reality works and is totally not how babies are...
Anyone who doesn't understand the significance of what 'systemic racism' is and why race matters in the US (and elsewhere) in the present context ough...
To be perfectly honest I'm simply intimidated by the Spheres trilogy. And everything else he puts out. He writes very big bloody books. Which has neve...
You have to understand how much I don't particularly like talking about Heidegger in depth. I've done a great deal of it and I've squared my intellect...
One of the things involved in defunding/refunding (I going to couple the two from now on: defunding police and refunding other public services), from ...
Ah, yes, my numbers, which are of a single year, deliberately distort facts about change in crime over multiple years. Yes, very deliberate - I can se...
No ernest, I responded to your rise in crime rate point quite adequately, which you ignored, much like you ignored my post in your bleeding-heart thre...
Ah, but you clearly don't know about the most important correlation of all: pirates and climate change: https://sparrowism.soc.srcf.net/home/piratesar...
Wow, this is so bad. Do you know how many knights there were in Europe around 1100? About 600k or so. Do you know how many knighted individuals exist ...
Some fanicating stats about the effectiveness of US law enforcement. Long story shorts - cops are really bad at their jobs, and defunding will likely ...
Yeah that's fair enough. Basically that Heidi offers a narrow slice of human experience passed off as a generalized phenomenology in which lots of int...
I think this is much too cynical and much too naive. The media powers and their unwitting lackeys - sprinkled all over this thread - have gone into ov...
Isn't that what you're trying to do? What about this injustice? And that injustice? It's precisely because we 'cannot maintain outrage at every injust...
I'm not sure you read what I wrote, or are even in fact replying to me at all. I didn't try to shut you down talking about phone brands - I don't thin...
Let me get this straight: removing agents of state violence - i.e. the police - is somehow supposed to make the US into more of a ... police state? Li...
If you think funding public libraries, education, transport and mental health interventions will turn a country into the USSR, then Gosh, the USSR sou...
Right, which is why the call to defund is nothing without the call to refund public services and public infrastructure, just as I said. Pulling out po...
Then why not articulate the two together? If these issues are as systemic as I think you would concede, then police violence functions as a metonym fo...
That's a good question. Maybe no one. My favourite philosophers have always been ones who encourage an exploration beyond themselves, who offer new fr...
I won't speak for Jamal but I do understand that the point isn't simply to multiply racial categories as if to 'welcome white people to the club' of r...
Yes. In many ways the call to defund the police doesn't go far enough. It needs to be coupled with the equally important call to re-fund the public, l...
But then the point would be to encourage a more expansive and robust notion of race than to rail against its very mention. Now's the time to do it, if...
To chime in a bit, I find Heidegger to be overly… simplistic. Not an accusation he’s usually charged with, I’m sure, but as with @"fdrake", but I feel...
No one is arguing - or at least I'm not arguing - that these issues are 'purely' race issues. If anything my line of argument has been the exact oppos...
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