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Christianity On The Spectrum@ChristianityOn
For autism acceptance month, I wrote an essay about why I would cure my autism, and how I lost faith in the neurodiversity movement.
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Ashish George
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Ashish George
@ThePunsofAugust
More Craig Ehlo than Michael Jordan.
Se unió Kasım 2013
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@lionel_trolling You’ll never guess what young Ross thought (and what old Ross perhaps still thinks) of Pinochet. therealnews.com/ny-times-colum…
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Okay, so I guess Pinochet's Chile wasn't authoritarian because there was a plebiscite and then an election?
Moreover, there's a whole literature on competitive authoritarianism and hybrid regimes. Getting rid of elections entirely is very hard.
Ross Douthat@DouthatNYT
Strong political parties that bend the rules to entrench their power and succumb to corruption are a consistent feature of democracy qua democracy. And if your entrenched ruling party can lose everything in a wave election, you are not living in an authoritarian state.
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Imagine being so ugly your own genocidal government condemns the publication of your photograph as a hate crime.
Ambassador Jonathan Peled@JonathanPeled
Condanniamo fermamente l’uso manipolatorio della recente copertina de L’Espresso. L'immagine distorce la complessa realtà con cui Israele deve convivere, promuovendo stereotipi e odio. Un giornalismo responsabile deve essere equilibrato e corretto. #MediaResponsibility
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Calling it now…The Lakers are going to win their series against the Rockets.
Marc Stein@TheSteinLine
There is no update yet on Dončić’s playing status and when he might be able to return to the lineup after the strain. The Lakers play host to Houston in Saturday night’s Game 1 of the teams’ first-round series.
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Pictures drawn by Minab school kids brought to India by the Iran embassy & put up on display. The pictures have been recovered from the rubble.
Sidhant Sibal@sidhant
Iran Embassy in Delhi displays pictures drawn by school kids killed during US attack on Minab school. 28 such pictures drawn by children who died in the attack have been brought to India. They have been recovered from the rubble of the Minab School, Iranian officials point.
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What is the best reason for Americans (as individuals) to support the movement for a one-state federal solution for Israel-Palestine?
No other change would do more to create conditions for peace, stability, and economic flourishing in the Middle East.
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@2Philosophical_ @CharacterGap “Gay rights bad, white nationalism good” might not be a winning message.
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@2Philosophical_ @CharacterGap If he doesn’t have an independent reason to think it’s true, maybe he shouldn’t accept the teaching. Or defend it in the NYT for that matter.
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A philosopher offers a friendly review of Douthat’s book — which, unlike Current Affairs, people should definitely read: open.substack.com/pub/jpandrew/p…
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson
A philosopher utterly wrecks Ross Douthat's terrible arguments for God in his book about why "everyone should be religious": currentaffairs.org/news/ross-dout…
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The turning point for rare diseases, which affect >300 million people around the world.
A call to get rid of its many structural obstacles, to consider it as molecular surgery unlike drug treatments
gift link:
nytimes.com/2026/04/09/opi…
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@2Philosophical_ @CharacterGap It’s probably worth noting that Douthat can’t handle the Euthyphro problem. His attempt at squaring the circle was quite bad. crookedtimber.org/2012/05/28/eut…
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@2Philosophical_ @CharacterGap Becca Rothfeld: “Though he concedes that ‘rules about sexual morality aren’t just incidental to the great traditions,’ he lacks the courage to endorse or reject any of the particular doctrines that are likely to dismay prospective converts.” washingtonpost.com/books/2025/07/…
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@rbnmckenna86 @worst_account Philosophers aren’t just speculating from the armchair. That’s good. But vast swathes of the world are excluded when they research and write.
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@rbnmckenna86 @worst_account Analytic philosophy is more parochial than its practitioners realize. So you end up with arguments like “Disability is not inherently bad and we should take the word of disabled people about this!” And then it turns out the surveys are of disability rights activists in the U.S.
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The analytic and continental failure modes are the same: reaching a point where they're just not even saying anything any more.
But a benefit of analytic philosophy is that it's *obvious* that this is so when it is, and the claims become *trivial*, both of which minimize damage.
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Build a statue for every animal used in experiments like this. Yup, the fruit flies too.
Or better yet…Stop making sentient creatures risk their lives for our benefit!
.stuff@vintagestuff4
Belka is one of two dogs that returned to Earth after a flight into space USSR 1960
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Israelis sound like Balkan nationalists in the nineties and the sooner we all realize that the sooner we can cut loose this wannabe Sparta and its abundant derangements
Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر@emilykschrader
The same as we have always done — survive. We have outlived all those who turned their backs on us, we have outlived all our enemies, and will outlive any one in the future who seeks to destroy us as well. Cope Owen. You think we give a shit about what little ignorant imperialists like you think? 😂
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@mkazin Also noteworthy: Kerala sticks up for Palestine while the national govt embraces Israel. aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/…
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@sladesr @Joshua_A_Tait Reagan, the apotheosis of fusionism in your account, called black people monkeys, fought an illegal war in Nicaragua, and brushed off the pleas of gay people during the AIDS crisis. Who does that remind you of?
I agree with Aaron Ross Powell. theunpopulist.net/p/come-to-thin…
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In case you missed it, I'm thrilled to share that my book on the philosophy of American conservatism is now available for pre-order.
undpress.nd.edu/9780268211493/…
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Oh man. Artemis II accidentally hit a giant trampoline and now it's headed right back into space. Not good. Not good at all.
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