bokoharambe

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by bokoharambe 1y ago
I really don't think it's about social media. Conspiracy theories were a big deal on the leadup to the French revolution (look up the Famine Pact and the Great Fear), and there was no social media back then. The conversation that
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by bokoharambe 1y ago
No, for the simple fact that he'd still be stuck in an American prison where people are brutalized, sexually assaulted, denied access to medical care, abused by guards, etc. regularly. He deserves everything he is able to earn under th
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by bokoharambe 1y ago
It's hilarious to see people talking about rule of law when the President of the United States himself is not bound by it. The President! You can see it very clearly why interwar liberalism failed. As Schmitt points out, they were too
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by bokoharambe 1y ago
Forced room and board?
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by bokoharambe 1y ago
Given enough time one human can learn to do anything any other human can do. There is a general capacity for learning, even if someone will only ever transform a specific portion of that capacity into actual activity in their lifetime.
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by bokoharambe 1y ago
I really appreciate this writeup!
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by bokoharambe 1y ago
Using a DAW makes you a "skilless hack"?
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by bokoharambe 1y ago
The real question is, what is it that you're so afraid of with gender/sexuality that you think it makes sense to show some expressions of it but not others? Sexual norms change regardless of what is officially considered normative
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by bokoharambe 1y ago
I am currently coasting through a mathematics undergraduate degree after having taught myself how to do proofs using a proof assistant. The last barrier to autodidacticism in mathematics is overcome with them, because one no longer needs di
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
Prison alone is torture.
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
Much sillier to think "reindustrialization" is possible. It is a problem of social metabolism, not a policy issue. Industrialization was a particular historical phenomenon that has now fully passed in the West. China "won&quo
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
I have health issues that I can't get help with because of my insurance, my rent increased significantly last month, and my grocery bills have never been higher. I have real life problems to deal with. The X gender marker does not even
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
I think the sycophants cheering these moves on are so interesting. I have absolutely no sense that any of these changes are going to have meaningful positive impacts in my life. "We all benefit" in what sense? Aesthetically? What
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
Definitely read the criticisms section of this article, because it shows how strange and unsound the whole notion is.
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
LGBTQ rights are popular. Appropriate legislation could be drawn up and enforced. It would be an authoritarian move, certainly, but authoritarianism just won the election.
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
Prisons should not exist.
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
American prisons violate any notion of humaneness and rights from the outset. The abject subjects who are condemned to dwell in them cannot be used to illustrate anything about civil rights, other than the fact that the state regularly uses
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
Ah, the great American rhetorical tradition of masking discrimination in the language of civility. Just like pre-Jacksonian restrictions on voting protected the rights of the propertied from the depredations of the masses. Or how Jim Crow p
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
I'm not the one setting liberalism up to fail, it seems to implode catastrophically every few decades. Last time was during the interwar period. The failure of liberal governments to exercise their sovereign powers in the face of socia
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
I'm just saying that inaction is not a neutral act at all. It is a form of complicity.
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
This is kind of the point, the text of the law is totally ephemeral because the power to violate it is entrusted in the state itself.
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
Numerous pieces of anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ legislation have passed at a state level under the Biden presidency. You might argue that that's outside of the purview of the federal government, but that certainly wasn't the case in
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
Still not quite right, not in a modern state. Law has always been sovereign power, and in the modern period the entire state is the sovereign (think Leviathan.) It is strange that Americans seem to think these are personal powers.
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
You sound like you're projecting your own maladaptive worldview/attitude/lifestyle onto others. Maybe the culture is changing, and not everyone who is calling out bad behavior at various companies is as narcissistic as yours
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
That's the spirit!
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
Humans both are a part of nature and are distinct from it at the same time. It is wrong to dissolve humanity into its natural constituents just as it is wrong to turn humanity into something totally Other or supernatural standing above natu
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
I love that you point out that bullying is social and its relation to the ordinary enforcement of social norms. And I think this points more broadly to the function of social violence as a whole: much of it is regulatory and follows from re
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
Obviously not, but Americans regularly tell me a dish doesn't contain milk, only for me to find out that it contains butter. The labels help.
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
Which in turn reflects prevailing conceptions (or misconceptions) about the nature of mathematical objects. The educator must be educated and all that.
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by bokoharambe 2y ago
Incredible username. And as a current math student, I agree with you completely, for the simple fact that I can do proofs far easier than I can do arithmetic. Students like me who are fine at math generally but who are not great at arithmet

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