François-Adrien Boieldieu

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[François-Adrien Boieldieu @AdrienBoieldieu]

“Be still, be still, my soul; it is but for a season:
Let us endure an hour and see injustice done.”

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@naiveaigal @anarchoboognish Fair points. I think one would argue that male and female is disanalogous with able bodied and disabled. And then OP would disagree in that there is no morally relevant disanalogy.

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@MuizDweller The people replying to that post with “if you don’t like it leave” are literal NPCs. Who thinks it’s reasonable to emigrate over disagreement on one social issue? Do they think the Amish should fire themselves into the sun? Sometimes I feel like the last actual liberal on earth.

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@anarchoboognish Genuinely a view someone would invent to parody 'woke', like a radical feminist saying "kill all men except Palestinian men"

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@anarchoboognish Like on what worldview is it impermissible to choose an abortion because you don't want the burden of caring for a child with Down syndrome, but it's permissible to choose an abortion if you don't want to give up travelling for changing nappies?

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@dilanesper Is that really true? The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was famously led by a priest, John Ball. A lot of the time local priests scarcely occupied a different socioeconomic position to the average peasant, they were commoners who could read a bit and help you with some magic for money.

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@HarrierMagnus So apparently Dio Chrysostom gave a rhetorical speech arguing the Trojans were in the right, and the sophist Gorgias defended Helen. So it was a live if rather trollish rhetorical opinion among the Greeks.

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@HarrierMagnus Yeah tbf you're right. In Homer the Gods decide that the Trojans are in the wrong, and a pious Greek wouldn't disagree with the Gods on that. Just had to mention that even among ancient Greeks there was nevertheless a great deal of sympathy for if not endorsement of the Trojans.

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@avrilbradley23 @haravayin_hogh @wylfcen This is like when that Welsh guy was shouting at Egyptian police on the Gaza border, and all of the comments thought he was Irish. Foreigners really can't tell Celtic accents apart.

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@avrilbradley23 @haravayin_hogh @wylfcen So I looked up this Patrick Boyle guy and he has an obvious Irish accent lol, I think posh Dublin. https://t.co/fZpgrVmGRt

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@TurkishCentury No one cares any more than we care about Aquinas being called "al-Akwini" in Arabic.

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@atlanticesque Early medieval synthesis of classical Greco-Roman, Christian and Germanic culture

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@DerekPederson3 Yeah wokeness is way better than the state socialism of the 20th century that kept everyone poor.
Though unfortunately wokeness tends to be symbiotic with bad economic egalitarianism so the distinction can be overdrawn imo.

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@noemonas @Tool_Being Even if I grant your irrelevant screed true it would not affect my reply. OP’s argument was not that academic historians are more biased than Livy, OP claimed that historians are hypocrites *unaware* that they too are biased. I pointed out thats fundamental to historical training

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@noemonas @Tool_Being Huh?
Okay, Homer uses positive epithets for Trojan warriors, and people today are afraid to criticise Israel.
What does any of this have to do with what I said, that academic historians today are trained to be aware of the subjectivity of their field?

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@sportsarecool5 @RoKhannaNews @LinkofSunshine Second point is important. The planner in a socialist degrowth society will have as a goal to increase the satisfaction of wants (i.e. growth) unless society is an environmentalist North Korea where actors with wants have no exit or voice to influence the calculus of the planner.

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@sportsarecool5 @RoKhannaNews @LinkofSunshine Markets incentivise capitalising on the profitability of resources, which =/= destroying them. The owner of a resource who destroys it can't profit from the resource anymore.
And planners who desire to maximise welfare are no less incentivised to deplete resources than markets.

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@Tool_Being Like this is literally the criticism of late 20th century postmodernists. If anything the criticism applies far more to earlier 19th century historians than the historians of today.

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@Tool_Being Academic historians today are more aware of the subjective and politically and socially biased aspect of their profession than historians have ever been. Your criticism is drilled into them as part of their training. That they don't realise this is a laughable criticism.