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Medieval Europe by Chris Wickham

Banning @"Streetlight" is bullshit

In 1876 women couldn't vote, so I don't think it's hyperbolic to suggest majority ruling has faced enormous hurdles in this country, to which my comme...

Blaming an unenthusiastic electorate or democratic voters, for the ongoing societal breakdown is fallacious and counterproductive, beyond the consider...

Unfortunately passing a constitutional amendment is not a realistic, and even if Democrats are able to pass a federal law to codify these rights it's ...

It's also clear that Griswold, Obergefell, Lawrence, & Loving should be codified

I'm a little over halfway through it and it's excellent so far. Very thorough. Helpful in filling some gaps in the period of Europe I was arguably mos...

Abortion rights are ideological insofar as you consider woman and your relationship to them to be immaterial. Either way, even assuming this does prov...

Whenever someone presents a political philosophy that they purport to be neither left-wing or right-wing it's always just rephrased right-wing sentime...

wow then I guess Marxists shouldn't have kids, you absolutely nailed it dude, congrats!

:gasp:

Christ dude you've been on a philosophy forum for seven years and somehow the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, the Civil War, the Russian Re...

Besides being historically false (re: social revolution), it's also irrelevant to what your opening post argues. Additionally, history is not destiny,...

Internalized defeatism is antithetical to Marxism, so the argument demonstrates a lack of engagement with Marxism and so can't be taken very seriously

Very silly especially since Marx loved kids

The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 by Christopher Wickham Think I'm gonna lean mostly into history this summer

Empire of Capital by Ellen Wood

Did you enjoy Losurdo's Liberalism?

The Making of Bourgeois Europe: Absolutism, Revolution and the Rise of Capitalism in England, France and Germany by Colin Mooers

Walking, talking pile of shit Ted Cruz and others have suggested it. Unsurprised that Ted Cruz would forget a key incident in American labor history t...

Damn shame we can't even get imbeciles in here to commit to the current wave of psychotic responses for deterring mass shootings measures, all of whic...

Read my previous responses to you, christ almighty

This is too stupid to engage with further

We're really running the gamut on what gun proponents are asking us to imagine. On one end we're being asked by @"Tzeentch" to envision a vague govern...

Guns used in-self defense are also pretty rare. They are far more likely to be used for suicide. So again we have arguments founded on adult fantasy.

You seem to be confusing our opinion of banning guns outright with banning guns exclusively for non-criminals.

"How about if everything was different would you change your mind then"

I would possibly be open to keep 2A on a very strict originalist interpretation, that is, the only gun someone could own would be a replica of a gun c...

Works for me

you know shit is hitting the fan when even mainstream news like NYT, CNN, AP etc. are questioning what happened with security forces.

I have completed my pandemic goal of watching all of Sight and Sound's Critics Top 250 Films list

One of the best films of the 21st century

If you are going to use historical precedence to justify your argument you ought to look at actual examples of US militia fighting against and being d...

Civilians with guns are not going to stop the US military, there have been a number of militia uprisings within the US in the last two decades and the...

Ok these have been up for 2 hours where are the mods

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James McPherson

I enjoyed them both very much, thanks for the recommendation. I found Smith's work very informative, albeit highly technical and dense at times, as yo...

With a simple majority vote (50 plus 1 from Kamala), Democrats could change the filibuster that would allow for a legislative codification of Roe v. W...

I'm certainly not laying all the blame on RBG. That would be absurd. Her culpability, however, is inescapable and I resent the hagiography that surrou...

1) The GOP did not have a senate majority until 2014, not 2011. Democrats controlled the Senate under Obama from 2009-2013 during which Ginsburg, havi...

This Christian Evangelical movement predates the Taliban. It's completely home grown, no need to transpose it.

Obama met with Ginsburg in 2013 to encourage her to retire before the midterm election. Instead, she resisted pressure from the President and other li...

Are you referring to my and @"Streetlight"'s comments?

GUESS WE'LL FUCKING SEE

I'm ready to commit a crime

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primative Accumulation by Silvia Federici 40% off Verso books until May 16th

Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism by Intan Suwandi

CRT is going to turn our children transgendered and make them hate their white skin