#Conception

Everytime I start talking about how cool the Incan Empire was (for an empire, at least, empires suck as a rule), someone always brings up "but human sacrifice".I'm kinda sick
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Lots of excellent responses to the CEEC video this morning in many forms and I don't want to repeat what is already being said better elsewhere. But I do have
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I have been pondering the question I posed y'day about why a Government so supposedly interested in “data science” seems incapable of handling data about C19 with any semblence of
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This is straight-up tragic. The “anti-racism” sweeping institutions still ends up rendering black people as somehow different, other, unable to meet even basic standards. Ralph Ellison weeps.“Rutgers English Department to
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ghosts of tsushimas haiku mechanic has me thinking again about how fraught the notion of a haiku in english is, just like inherently most common definition (i think) we come
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The mormon god is a pro-choice god. Full sendAgency was so important to him he let billions of his children (whom he loves endlessly) choose the wrong path and be
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We all chuckled at Obama's silly playlist, but I feel like it illustrates a very real and important dynamic in modern Democratic politics: The love Democratic voters have of being
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As much as I hate all work and am a believer in the anti-work anarchism of Bob Black and also very specifically @/thotscholar's conception of sex work as anti-work (not
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Just talked with a street-level provider about the Mayor's comment that allowing public camping "isn't working."That's true from for people made uncomfortable by the sight of tents under overpasses, but
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Thinking about this pattern that keeps playing out throughout history where one group asserts itself as THE legitimate/normative/healthy expression of humanity (thinking race, sex, gender, class, neurodivergence etc.) with the
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Sati is perhaps the biggest humbug used to beat Hinduism. Very conveniently employed in different modes to discredit Hindu practices. If they want to compare a Hindu practice with something
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In 1856, Congressman Brooks of South Carolina, bashed abolitionist Senator Sumner in the head with a cane after he delivered a speech stating the expansion of slavery was a "crime."After
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Thread:Getting really frightened by these pushes to criminalise the acknowledgment that biological sex is real, binary, immutable and politically significant.Its patently obvious that women cannot advocate for the rights of
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“Christian nationalism” is the boogeyman du jour to a certain class of evangelical influencer.Though their stated complaints center on recent election-related matters, these critics intentionally frame the real issue as
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Too much democracy, a thread. In the head of the Hindu RW, political change still happens through the medium of executive legislating like a monarchy and who better to demonstrate
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I have many thoughts on this, birthed from my experiences as a missionary in the EU, not all of which I can share here. I’ve seen evangelism done abysmally, in
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