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"Fifty bucks says we can get them all arguing about gas stoves next."
"Haha! No. No f*cking way they'll go for that. You're on."
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Without NATO who will protect the vast expanse of radioactive ashes from the other vast expanse of radioactive ashes?
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The most important reporting a journalist can do in the western world today is help expose the lies, propaganda and malpractice of other western journalists and news outlets. But that is also the last thing a western journalist is ever likely to do.
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On economic policy Democrats are indistinguishable from Reagan-era Republicans. On foreign policy they're indistinguishable from Bush-era neocons. But they're still able to sell the idea that they're progressive, even moving far to the left, by copious lip service to social justice.
Democrats will bomb you, starve you with sanctions, evict you, let you freeze to death, let you die because you can't afford medicine, let you work your fingers to the bone for pennies, but they will never, ever misgender you.
And rightists are all too happy to take that last bit as evidence that Democrats have in fact moved "too far to the left" and argue that US politics needs to move much farther to the right to counteract all the leftist extremism.
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People argue that you can't blame the US for all the millions of deaths ensuing from its "war on terror" interventions because many of those deaths were caused by sectarian infighting, but that's like an arsonist saying "It's not my fault the house burned down! The fire did most of the damage!"
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Ultimately the problem is not capitalism, imperialism, oligarchy or authoritarianism. Ultimately the problem is that we're a deeply unconscious species who hasn't yet developed a mature relationship with its recently-evolved large brain. Those other issues are symptoms of this.
This can change quickly. Humans likely had no language of any kind for a long time, then suddenly they did. We've been coasting along unconsciously reacting to our obsolete evolutionary conditioning and ancient heritage of trauma this entire time, and suddenly that can stop.
Every species eventually hits a juncture where it either adapts to changing conditions or goes extinct. All signs indicate that we are rapidly approaching that juncture currently. If we make the necessary adaptations, they will look like a change in our relationship with thought.
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