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#FreePalestine Progressive Left. Reading Socialist Texts. Critical Supporter of All AES Countries. Feel free to use any pronouns, I don't really care.

T-or-C, NM (Not Really) Katılım Temmuz 2014
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"Liberalism is exhausted. It's out of answers."
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I get why so many liberals are fundamentally disdainful of democracy these days—it’s because liberalism is exhausted. It’s out of answers. Liberalism won, it delivered the world it promised, and people still aren’t content. They’re not satisfied. So the people must be wrong. We are unfathomably richer than our ancestors. Output per capita in America today is on the order of 900 times greater than before the invention of agriculture, about ~225 times higher than in 1 CE, and about the same (225 times) higher than Europe in 1000 CE. If measurable productivity were really the greatest object of human society, then we shouldn’t just be a little bit happier than people in the distant (or even recent!) past—we should be *ecstatic*. We should *already* be living in a utopian age of overwhelming contentment. We should be *currently* experiencing a kind of paradise. The Kingdom of Heaven, as liberalism conceives of it, has already been made real on Earth. We are living in their Eden, and 20% of people are depressed. We’ve stopped reproducing ourselves. We’re overwhelmingly dissatisfied with our governments, anxious about our economies, and pessimistic about the future. If you talk to rational liberals, you can usually get them to acknowledge the ways in which humans are wired not to appreciate absolute levels of wealth—the hedonic treadmill is a well-documented phenomenon. The evolutionary reasons why humans are wired to attend more closely to *relative* prosperity instead of absolute prosperity are obvious. They’ll usually admit this. And the conclusion, insanely, always comes back to something like “isn’t it unfortunate that people can’t appreciate how well-off they are? We’ve delivered well-being, people just don’t recognize it.” This is an obvious, ludicrous contradiction! Who determines the well-being of the people if not the people themselves?! I want to be clear; I’m not making an appeal to RETVRN. I don’t believe things were better in the poor old days. But that’s rather my point; delivering human contentment is not as simple as turning the dial up or down on the Output Machine. Meaning, security, and satisfaction are actually hard problems that demand specific and well-evidenced answers. Liberal elites’ disdain for everything that can’t be so simply measured and optimized is not evidence of their entitlement to rule over irrational masses, but instead proof of *their* irrational commitments to their ideological ends in denial of the reality of what drives human happiness. They purport to be rational, but this blinkered drive to Produce More is anything but.

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The original poster. My alternative design.
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Neon Genesis Samcell 🔻@PotetreSamcell·
J'pense vraiment que le nouveau Le Pen, c’est la femme qui a été élevée par Le Pen, s’appelle Le Pen et dirige le parti que Le Pen a co-fondé. Mais c’est peut-être que moi.
Le Point@LePoint

Le quadruple candidat a des chances de figurer au second tour de la présidentielle, si l’on en croit les sondages. Comme le fondateur du Front national en 2002, il lui est promis une défaite cinglante. 🖋️ LA CHRONIQUE de @scoignard ➡️ l.lepoint.fr/aSZ

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The Telegraph has published a lengthy opinion piece attacking - seemingly entirely seriously - Count Binface’s economic policies
Harry Phibbs@harryph

.@DanielJHannan: “There is a line in Count Binface’s manifesto that encapsulates why Britain is in such a mess. “I’ll cut your taxes,” pledges the Clacton by-election candidate, “and raise everyone else’s.”

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@OnlySkyKimi I thought at the beginning of the war there are reports saying that the US' preferred candidate to take over Iran also got bombed to death by them alongside Khamenei
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Waking up just to see Lindsey Graham died when you're expecting Mitch McConnell....
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Chinese courts have ruled that gaming accounts, in-game items, and digital purchases can be passed on to family after death, setting a major legal precedent for digital ownership. The decisions come from several court cases over the years, with judges ruling that these digital assets have real value and should be treated like other property. In one recent case, a mother was allowed to inherit her late son’s 87 gaming accounts. The courts also ruled that platform terms of service cannot automatically block inheritance if the law permits it. However, personal data such as private messages and chat history remain protected and are not included.
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@souljagoyteller Just read a book about it, the Committee of One Million by Stanley Bachrack, at the near end when PRC is about to replace Taiwan in the UN it really fell like a collapse
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@souljagoyteller Tho Japanese Monroe Doctrine kinda fell apart instantly for everyone else outside Japan simply because their inaction during the Filipino–American War when Filipinos and Chinese (like Sun Yat-sen) were hoping the Japanese to help the Filipinos to gain their independence.
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@souljagoyteller There's a pretty good book about it that I've read that also covered Germany's attempt to create their Monroe Doctrine, but it's in Chinese (they also covered "Chinese intra-province Monroe Doctrine" during the warlord period, it's pretty interesting.)
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I didn’t know that Japan directly linked their imperialist ideology to the Monroe Doctrine
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Bill Goldwater🗽💛(RP)
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if there was 1 us presidential election which you could change its outcome what would it be?
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