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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!

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    Being a 22-year-old virgin or being 22 and never having been in a relationship is something to be shameful about.

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  • I was too dysphoric as a teenager to even think about being naked around another person.

  • The Liberal Abandonment Of Greta Thunberg

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  • I'm coming for that toothbrush 😈

  • More Americans blame Trump and congressional Republicans for shutdown, new poll finds

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  • No one has any incentive to stop the shutdown. Republicans can use it to gut the government even faster, Democrats can use it to rally people against Republicans, and meanwhile the country collapses.

    I don't see how it ends before the AI bubble pops, and then everyone scrambles to reopen the government as we enter another Great Depression.

  • The Bear Minimum

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  • wtf is it? A raccoon?

  • Venezuela Warns of Far-Right False-Flag Operation Against U.S. Embassy in Caracas

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  • This is bad analysis.

    They're gonna do a false flag on Venezuela because they want to destroy a left-wing government. The fact that it will distract from the Epstein files is a positive side effect, but they are enacting an agenda beyond it.

  • Islamophobia is the new global currency of power

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  • Obviously Eastern civilization was also shaped by the crusades? I'm just describing the historical forces that lead us to this point and pointing out that Islamophobia isn't the "new global currency of power" as claimed by the OP. It's as old as the West as a sociopolitical force of history.

    In different historical conditions where the Caliphate conquered the Americas instead of Christendom the exact opposite would have happened, maybe Europe would have been colonized by Asia, but that's not the world we live in.

    But now the Caliphate and the Ottomans are gone. The West conquered the world and colonized the East, so hatred of Islam has become normalized by the hegemon because the West rules the world. But it's not new.

  • Islamophobia is the new global currency of power

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  • Be careful with statements like that because one could just as easily reverse them.

    I have no idea what you're trying to say?

    My statement is that Western civilization grew out of the crusades, the reason Europe pretends to be a different continent from the rest of Asia. Its the foundation for the Doctrine of Discovery, for Manifest Destiny, for Orientalism and the whole colonial period. It's what created the West as a sociopolitical force in history.

    You can't reverse it without reversing history. You'd have to let the Caliphate be the ones that conquered the Americas to actually create the reverse situation.

    The Fall of Acre to the Mamluks marks the final expulsion of the Crusaders from the Holy Land, though the last major Crusades continued into the late 13th century.

    Yes, and Columbus wanted to start another Crusade by opening a Western passage to Asia. The fact that he ran into another continent is the only reason he didn't try to take back Jerusalem.

    But they never stopped! The Europeans took back Jerusalem when they defeated the Ottomans in WW1, then in the 1940s they established Israel as a new crusader state with the stroke of a pen. Instead of Christendom we have Judeochristian values, but there's a clear continuity.

    The point is, the OP is not describing anything new. This is all part of the precession of history, the same historical forces that created the West are still in play today.

  • Islamophobia is the new global currency of power

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  • This is nothing new. One of the reasons Columbus was trying to find Western passage to Asia was to launch another crusade; finance it by opening Western trade routes and to strategically coordinate it by giving invaders a Western corridor to the holy land. Killing Muslims and eradicating Islam is basically the foundation of Western civilization and modernity.

  • Why we can’t allow Trump to ban that other f-word

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  • Ironically, that quote originally comes from neo-Nazis who believe Jews control the media, and the specific guy who said that was convicted of child pornography.

  • Donald Trump's approval rating underwater in all 7 swing states

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  • The 2028 nominee will be Liz Cheney or something.

  • Donald Trump's approval rating underwater in all 7 swing states

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  • ... so you're saying he's extremely popular?

  • Kids these days... (appeared in The Daily Mirror, 1938)

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  • A lot of the most radical boomers died young due to poverty and political violence.

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  • This is the plot of Parasite Eve

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  • Selfish people dedicate their lives to accumulating wealth and wealthy people tend to live longer.

  • Cops have now arrested over 2,000 peaceful Defend Our Juries protesters

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  • Israel is the USs unsinkable aircraft carrier in the most oil rich region in the world. It's the land bridge that connects Africa to Europe, the reason migrants have to die in the Mediterranean instead of walk. It's the US laboratory for field testing a weapons, surveillance, and border security tech. It's a modern crusader state that enables Europeans to occupy holy Jerusalem, and the gun pointed at the head of the USs enemies in the region.

    There's so many reasons that it's hard to even guess which is the most important.

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    do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?

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  • The US has had three different distinct Red Scares, and before those it had a wave of white terror that defeated Reconstruction.

    So, yes, this keeps happening. We're just living during one acute part of a longer cycle.

  • Why do companies always need to grow?

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  • Reading theory is for tankies.

  • Why do companies always need to grow?

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  • Shareholder demands are part of it, but also consider the pressures from competition, inflation, and debt.

    If a firm isn't growing, competition will outgrow them and then gobble up their market share. If you have 100 employees and produce a nice product, you'll lose out to the firm that has 1000 employees and produces a nicer product. The competition is always growing, so your firm has to grow too. This leads to inflation - as every firm grows in competition with each other they heat up the economy and create more demand for fiat currency - so that means a firm needs to bring in more money every year just to stay afloat. And lastly, companies start out in debt and have to pay it off, and then accumulate more debt in order to outgrow the competition and outgrow inflation, which then in turn heats up competition even more and also causes more inflation.

    Competition, inflation, and debt are part of a feedback loop that eventually results in overproduction and market collapse, the surviving firms buy each other out, and the process starts all over again. This is why markets go through boom and bust cycles.

    It's a very irrational system that produces a lot of waste.

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    Socialism doesn't work

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  • Imagine believing this stupid shit when we give billions to Israel.