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14 votes
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A Guardian investigation of 218,100 Facebook ads reveals how the Trump campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters
12 votes -
NPR is asking the State Department to explain its decision to deny an NPR reporter press credentials to travel with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on an upcoming trip to Europe
9 votes -
Why was Singapore kicked out of Malaysia?
3 votes -
Cod war tensions with Iceland – British trawlers, bunched together as they are, make easy prey for Icelandic gunboats in 1976
3 votes -
An open letter on Australian bushfires and climate: urgent need for deep cuts in carbon emissions [signed by Laureates of the Australian Research Council]
4 votes -
Andrew Yang qualifies for New Hampshire primary debate
19 votes -
How Iran's Qassem Soleimani became a US target
4 votes -
Mastodon, my saviour: Why the left should ditch ad-verse social media
13 votes -
Fitch downgrades Finland's outlook, raising doubts about return to AAA rating
4 votes -
Marianne Williamson asks Iowans to help keep Andrew Yang in the 2020 presidential race
8 votes -
Tesla and the State of Michigan makes deal to be able to sell and service vehicles within the state
9 votes -
China coronavirus spread is accelerating, Xi Jinping warns
29 votes -
Finland's Sanna Marin hopes women leaders will be the 'new normal'
5 votes -
Town meeting
9 votes -
The Yang Gang and its bots
14 votes -
People Make Games travels to Hong Kong to interview Blitzchung, the Hearthstone pro banned by Blizzard last year
13 votes -
Carbon-neutral in fifteen years? Finland – the country with an ambitious plan.
7 votes -
Do hierarchies lead to a stronger society?
7 votes -
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine on the year ahead: ‘A lot of things have to go right’
10 votes -
The Hamilton Hustle
5 votes -
Ronald Reagan’s “October Surprise” plot was real after all
16 votes -
Wuhan virus: China confirms human-to-human transmission, says medical workers infected
11 votes -
Biden wants to get rid of law that shields companies like Facebook from liability for what their users post
17 votes -
Norway made an outspoken right-wing lawmaker who once called wind turbines 'white monsters' its oil and energy minister
9 votes -
Denmark's government wants a planned bridge over the Kattegat sea between Aarhus and Copenhagen to carry trains as well as cars, more than doubling the cost
6 votes -
Evelyn Yang speaks at Women's March about her sexual assault
8 votes -
Southern Schleswig – Far-right Danish politician calls for return of German region
5 votes -
What tech companies need to do before ‘solving’ urban problems
7 votes -
Brazilian culture secretary fired after echoing words of Nazi minister of propaganda Joseph Göebbels
7 votes -
Mark Blyth - So can we have it all?
4 votes -
Putin has suggested a bunch of constitutional amendments. Here’s what he wants to change
21 votes -
Sanders climbs, now tied with Biden among registered voters: Reuters poll
23 votes -
Would capping office space ease San Francisco’s housing crunch?
4 votes -
Russia's government resigns as Putin offers spot on Security Council to Medvedev
13 votes -
Facebook's Ad Library, one of its main tools for election transparency, is riddled with issues and lost 74,000 ads just before the UK election
7 votes -
The Australian government has been forced to talk about climate change, so it’s taking a subtle – and sinister – approach
11 votes -
Andrew Yang’s staff become latest campaign workers to unionize
9 votes -
Unknown vandals scrawled 'Free Hong Kong' in red paint on the base of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen
10 votes -
Free-of-charge public transport isn't free, Finnish experts say
12 votes -
LA-area residents flock to Taiwan to vote in ‘do or die’ presidential election
12 votes -
UK Ministry of Defence buildings lit up in rainbow colours
5 votes -
Sweden's PM Stefan Löfven wants swift and complete probe into Iran plane crash
8 votes -
How to fail at democracy 101: The Weimar Republic
6 votes -
Bots are destroying political discourse as we know it
15 votes -
India and Pakistan: A continuing story
9 votes -
Oslo saw zero pedestrian and cyclist deaths in 2019 – reducing the number of cars reduced the number of traffic fatalities
5 votes -
Deceased GOP strategist's daughter makes gerrymandering files public that Republicans wanted sealed
30 votes -
What the Gulf: Blood and oil
4 votes -
How do you convince someone of the value of egalitarianism?
An odd question to ask, I'll admit, but I think it's worth asking. It's hard to have a public conversation today about political or politicised topics because people will pipe up and tell you that...
An odd question to ask, I'll admit, but I think it's worth asking.
It's hard to have a public conversation today about political or politicised topics because people will pipe up and tell you that you're crazy and your ideas are completely backwards. And the reason why people say this is often driven by conflicts between personally held values rather than the ideas themselves. As a result, these conversations usually end up with both sides arguing past eachother and no concensus is ever made; nobody is happy.
One of the more common reasons for these arguements is typically because one party believes in egalitarianism - the belief that all people should be treated the same - and the other one does not. It's particularly strange to see given that so many countries have egalitarianism as a cornerstone to their government and laws. Yet we still see many people trying to take away rights and freedoms from certain classes of people.
Regardless of any particular conversation, what do you think is the best way to convince someone in the value of egalitarianism? How do you convince someone that they're not part of a higher class who has power over another?
13 votes