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6 votes
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'Dirty tricks': Fake email sent to Wentworth voters claims Kerryn Phelps has HIV
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Canada becomes second country to legalise recreational marijuana
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'For the Pacific it's always about cash': Australian Environment Minister in diplomatic incident over climate change
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As Trump Demonizes Immigrants, These US Farmers Aren't Having it
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A genocide incited on Facebook, with posts from Myanmar’s military
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China breaks silence on Muslim detention camps, calling them ‘humane’
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Facebook to ban misinformation on voting in upcoming U.S. elections
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Forget the ticket — Could you get arrested in the US for a parking violation?
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Green Party ends conservative CSU’s 61-year political dominance in Bavaria
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Pinboard on Twitter: Palmer Luckey has made the maximum legal donation this year to Steve King, the nation's most openly white supremacist congressman.
@pinboard: Palmer Luckey has made the maximum legal donation this year to Steve King, the nation's most openly white supremacist congressman.
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Huge majority of Australians oppose laws banning gay students and teachers
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Elections in Ancient Rome | How They Did It
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NSW Young Nationals investigate alt-right 'infiltration', suspend new memberships
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Germany's plans to win WWI
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Why are African governments criminalising online speech? Because they fear it.
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Have your political views changed as you've grown older?
If so, what were your previous beliefs, what did they evolve to, and what do you think has caused the change? I am curious about your general disposition, but it would also be interesting to hear...
If so, what were your previous beliefs, what did they evolve to, and what do you think has caused the change?
I am curious about your general disposition, but it would also be interesting to hear how that applies to specific policies.
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Postmodernism is not identity politics
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Thirty-five US states tell the Federal Communications Commission to get off its ass and do something about spoofed robocalls
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New technology favors tyranny. Yuval Noah Harrari on artificial intelligence, democracy, and the bigger picture
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Religious freedom review enshrines right of schools to turn away gay children and teachers
Religious freedom review enshrines right of schools to turn away gay children and teachers How religion will divide the Liberals and inflame the Parliament
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Taylor Swift's dive into political waters brings out the lovers and haters
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Americans here: what is right wing, what is left wing?
I know that I might be opening a can of worms, so please allow me to start my post with a request to not create deep comment chains with back-and-forth unproductive discussion. Let's do it...
I know that I might be opening a can of worms, so please allow me to start my post with a request to not create deep comment chains with back-and-forth unproductive discussion. Let's do it scientific-ish, and share our answers as top-level comments that expose our perception, thoughs and answer. If you disagree an answer, post a toplevel comment that exposes your view, instead of direct refutals to individual comments. I believe that's a more productive approach.
The right-left distinction in US politics is quite different to what it is in other parts of the world. Your right wing politics supports free speech for example, which in most parts of the world is an oxymoron. Could you explain me which ideas and stances are classified as right wing and which left wing in the US politics? Please read the above request before responding, I really don't want to start a political flame war and would be sorry if this turned into such a thing and became a burden on the mod(s).
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The future of war will be ‘liked’
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How game design transformed Hillary for America's supporter engagement
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‘The trauma for a man’: American male fury and fear rises in GOP in defense of Brett Kavanaugh
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Architect of Paris climate accord says Morrison government's emissions stance is 'anti-science'
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The ideology of "Homaitism"
don't know exactly what to title this so that'll do. this is maybe a topic that could fit in ~talk but since it's something i came up with i'll put it here for now. move if necessary. i also don't...
don't know exactly what to title this so that'll do. this is maybe a topic that could fit in ~talk but since it's something i came up with i'll put it here for now. move if necessary. i also don't know if it will "work" in the sense that it'll generate a discussion, but we'll see. never know until you try.
anyways, i am a writer at heart and to put a long story short one of the more interesting concepts i have going on is the social/political ideology of "homaitism", an ideology which at is core opposes property entirely and seeks to establish shared ownership of everything in a society. in a more Wikipedian serse, i think this best describes the ideas at play here:
[Homaitism is] the general term applied to a collection of far-left political philosophies and ideologies which, broadly speaking, reject the ideas of property ownership and sometimes small government. Many Homaitist schools of thought advocate the establishment of a large social net, the socialization of the most important services in a society (such as those of fire, police, healthcare, and so on), and the formation of a government which serves most if not all of the needs of its people. Others resolve that this is incompatible with a Homaitist society and suggest a more communal organization to society, in which groups are formed voluntarily on the basis of need rather than through the establishment of a state authority.
i think it goes without saying that there are some significant flaws in this idea, which is primarily what i want to explore. my main questions here that i'd be interested to hear people's responses to about this, if there's anything to be said (which maybe there's not? dunno):
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what impression you get from that as an idea. far too utopian? far too many holes to be viable? impractical but not impossible? possible on a certain level? things like that.
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are there reservations or flaws you see beyond the obvious questions of whether this is utopian or in any way viable?
other comments about the general idea here are also welcome (especially if you think some of these ideas are dumb and contradictory and/or would not work together at all). if people don't think this is enough to go off of i'll try to post some of the more detailed writings/sketches i have which elaborate on it more.
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Anti-transgender legislation devastates trans children — even when it fails
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Australian states and territories agree to axe 'tampon tax'
10 votes -
Travellers to New Zealand refusing digital search now face NZ$5000 Customs fine at border
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Justice Department sues to stop California net neutrality law
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Was Adolf Hitler a socialist? A response to a common argument.
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A graphic history of the rise of the Nazis
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ABC board members appointed by Communications Minister Mitch Fifield despite being rejected by merit-based panel
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White House limits scope of the FBI's investigation into the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh
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Kavanagh vote delayed one week for FBI probe
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US House committee votes to release Trump-Russia transcripts
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US President Donald Trump’s UN press conference, annotated
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'Rank socialism': Facebook removes senator's official page over hate speech
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US President Donald Trump urges world to reject globalism in UN speech that draws mocking laughter
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EU, China and Russia in move to sidestep US sanctions on Iran
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These are all the foods being affected by Donald Trump’s US trade war
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Scott Morrison calls for new national day to recognise Indigenous people
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The Unlikely, Obvious Solution to the Trade War
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Goths for Trump - Inside the unholy alliance of goth culture and radical right politics
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The influence game: How to access power in Australia.
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US Senate Democrats investigate a new allegation of sexual misconduct from Brett Kavanaugh’s college years
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Life as a North Korean living in the South
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US President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani says Iran's government will be overthrown
5 votes