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@Kali_de_Armas

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@Empty_America @PalmyrPar Perhaps because many of the self-employed posters on this app are bums, degenerate gamblers, swindlers, or the swindled.

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Most NESW places I’ve stayed in:

N: Reykjavik, Iceland

S: Puno, Peru

E: Fethiye, Turkey

W: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

[Adam @chiradiowires]

most NESW place i've been:

north: Fairbanks, Alaska
east: Naples, Italy
south: Jamaica
west: Anchorage, Alaska

Going to Asia or Hawaii will change a lot when I eventually do go

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

For those confused by the sudden and seemingly coordinated invective against “post-liberalism” and “integralism,” the terms are slogans to mask a neo-Know-Nothing contempt for Catholics. It’s not that they don’t refer to real ideas. But in common harangues, they simply express opposition to Catholics, much as “Zionist” and “Talmudic,” also real and distinct concepts, usually just mean “Jew.”

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Another nice thing about prisons is that they’re expensive! I don’t want it to be cheap for the state to penalize individuals. I want it to be reserved for the worst of the worst.

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Locking somebody up in a cage sounds like less of a punishment than having the values of evangelicals or leftists forced upon

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Another nice thing about prisons is that they’re expensive! I don’t want it to be cheap for the state to penalize individuals. I want it to be reserved for the worst of the worst.

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The problem with prison abolitionism aside from its feasibility is who decides the convict is rehabilitated? Evangelicals? Leftists? Somebody worse? Why should they get to impose their values on somebody else?

[cordelia @cozyunoist]

american evangelicals (esp quakers) invented modern prison reform. they intended to replace punishment (branding, ear-cropping, hanging) with rehabilitation. the failure of prisons to do so is why american quakers (the AFSC) officially called for prison abolition as early as 1978

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Locking somebody up in a cage sounds like less of a punishment than having the values of evangelicals or leftists forced upon

[Andrew Figueiredo @AndrewFiggy]

“Just two more weeks of lockdown to flatten the curve” vibes

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Liberal women revert to (legal) censorship when things don’t go their way. Bindel, Suzanne Moore, and other TERF allies of Rowling have advocated have advocated for illiberalism in the name of gender equality for years before they selectively took up the mantle of free speech.

[Francis Fukuyama @FukuyamaFrancis]

J.K. Rowling Is Turning A Free Speech Victory Into A Defeat https://t.co/z8I15RDTcf

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When I was in Istanbul a few months ago I avoided bringing up politics when I interacted with locals. There were a couple instances where locals brought up politics and mentioned her. Both locals saw her as a bellwether that Turkey could move beyond Erdogan.

[Alexander Thatcher @ThatchEffendi]

Sinem Dedetaş is the young opposition mayor of Üsküdar municipality, the district in Istanbul where Erdoğan lives. She's charismatic, and was rumored to have a future as a possible candidate for mayor of Istanbul.

Every day is a new catastrophe.

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Some might call this a luxury belief.

[Daniel Callcut @danielcallcut]

"It is not an accident or a limitation or a prejudice that we cannot care equally about all the suffering in the world: it is a condition of our existence and our sanity." (Bernard Williams)

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@shagbark_hick No you don’t you fabilist.

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

laclau is by far the most important thinker on the contemporary left despite 1. having been dead for more than a decade and 2. many of those he's influenced have no idea who he is

[Chris Satoor​​ @aufgehenderRest]

The Hegel House Museum in Stuttgart.

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I feel like many conservative critics of sociology would prefer a static society to a stable society. There a big difference there!

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

“Sociology’s relentless focus on race, gender and class, its emphasis on the need for social change over the benefits of social stability and its obsession with inequality amount to an abdication of scholarly duty.”

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@fynmere @Eric_Erins Nope. I checked last night and they were all sold out.

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@avrilbradley23 When I visited Warsaw a few years ago a Polish guy at my hostel lashed out at me for accidentally calling Gdańsk, Danzig.

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who was deposed as the last Tsar of Bulgaria 55 years ago, when he was a child, is sworn in as the democratically-elected 48th Prime Minister of Bulgaria.

Simeon, who was Tsar during WWII, is now leading Bulgaria in the 21st century.