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You missed the very next paragraph: "Unless greenhouse gas emissions cease in the near future, warming will continue and, by the middle of the 21st ce...

Funny how climate flat-earthers always like to speak of ‘healthy doses of skepticism’ right before citing incredibly shitty corroborating data. https:...

Your response seems contradictory - on the one hand you want to affirm the flexibility of language in responding to different contexts, yet on the oth...

One ought to treat all reports of American intervention into HK with suspicion: not only because it partakes of the shitty trope of Western saviours s...

Great OP! Always a good philosophical move to make a well thought out distinction. Still, I don’t find myself convinced by it because it disconnects ‘...

It's worth noting, speaking of 'normalcy', that some of Trump's most insidious policies were enacted precisely through the institutions that liberals ...

If you want a democracy you'd better get used to it.

It was beneath response.

That would be a start.

Man, I know I'm coming off as iconoclastic but I literally could not care less about 'normality' (or the discourse of 'norm erosion', also so popular ...

I don't think we need any of this speculative philosophy. We know that Trump is a fuckhead, and we know he does awful shit. We don't need to mediate t...

I don't know what this means.

I don't think it's an important question - sensitivity. We live in an outrage economy in which affect is just another commodity working to de-politici...

No.

True, but even electoral politics is - or ought to be seen as - a very narrow slice of political life which should be regarded with suspicion. Politic...

What do you mean 'only appropriate response'? Insofar as one can identify cases of dehumanizing 'people of color', then that right there is a pretty g...

To be clear, I'm not specifically against the impeachment proceedings as such. I'm against the fascinated glare that it holds for so many, I'm against...

Oh fuck off Wallows, this is not about an 'appeal to emotions', this is about watching supposedly intelligent people delight having politics play out ...

Yes, who will eternally stoke the flames against the 'right' elite targets while playing the anti-elitist game. Witness Tucker Carlson. Really, those ...

What evidence is there of this? Like, show me the right-leaning think tank peice that says 'maybe we should put our trust back in the elites'. Trump i...

Political reality is not so lofty. Efforts to remove Trump like this are far more likely to fan the flames of 'anti-elite' sentiment than quell them -...

This eye-glazing legalease is hardly the stuff of mass mobilization. Hell yeah I am but this stuff is so anti-political that it has the real potential...

Yeah but... to be blunter than blunt - does anybody at all give a flying hoot what Trump did in Ukraine? Like, really, in anyone's hearts of hearts, d...

https://jacobinmag.com/2019/10/donald-trump-impeachment-democratic-republican-party Nice convo on Jacobin between two lefties, one for, the other some...

This comes with it's own problems. For now, I'll only refer you to this piece: "An embrace of unintelligibility ... of a rejection of meaning and stab...

Ah, so you're a gender abolitionist then?

And exactly what do you think those asking to be called women are asking?

A hundred times this. And maybe we can be done with the regressive, transphobic misreadings of Wittgenstein now, passed off as innocent language philo...

It is no more a label based on a private feeling than the word 'pain' is a label based on a private feeling. And just as we learn to use the word 'pai...

A public meaning does not mean 'an already established meaning'. It refers to a meaning available to public use, or use by others. This could be the c...

Without even touching the whole gender thing, Issac is badly misemploying the 'private language argument'. The PIA doesn't say that 'a private languag...

Yes, and they seem to have done quite well. One thing to be said about Trump and co. is that they tend to know how to play politics far better and wit...

Eh. I care less about the rules than I do a better outcome for society as a whole. I'm a well heeled Machiavellian when it comes to politics. The firs...

Sure, congressional oversight is important, as is investigating potential executive criminality. But that this kind of thing has dominated the convers...

Couldn't agree more. While I've no doubt that Trump is dirty in multiple ways, the insistent calls for impeachment are just shitty politics. It's rely...

Glad you're still with us. Enjoyed the rest of the telling too.

On the list!

Heh, where's this from?

Wendy Brown - In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West Probably the most acute diagnostic of politics in the Wes...

This is not really the case, although it is often thought to be. Natural selection acts on any entity or entities which exhibit variation, reproductio...

'Fitness' is a species-level designation in evolutionary theory, and not an individual one (or species-in-an-ecological-niche if one is being strict)....

I churn through books at a fairly high rate, and rarely return to books in their entirity. What I tend to find myself returning to are parts of books,...

:waves:

:up: The whole effort of Spinoza's metaphysics - the very essence of its radicality - consists of contesting the subject-predicate Aristotelian model ...

The temerity of women withholding sex from men. Impetulant feminists! The gall of it.

Ah, but the OP marks an advance on the play - now you can get it from other women, so no need to cave.

This is like a modern twist on the Lysistrata. I love it. As with the plot of the great play, no doubt it will drive men mad.

E1D3: "By substance I understand that which exists in itself and is conceived through, or by means of, itself; i.e. the conception of which does not r...

Feminism as practiced is not intersectional? Or feminism as ideal is not intersectional? Not clear from the OP.

Man this season of Brexit is so good. So many plot twists.