-
32 votes
-
Analysis of new charges in superseding indictment against former US President Donald Trump in federal documents case - new defendant charged, new details re Trump coverup
18 votes -
Bernie Sanders 'disappointed, but not surprised,' as US Senate rejects 10% military spending cut
17 votes -
Retired Maj. David Grusch tells Congress the US is concealing ‘multi-decade’ program that captures UFOs
42 votes -
New federal charges filed in United States District Court allege Donald Trump and an aide tried to delete Mar-a-Lago security video
37 votes -
Non-revolutionary anarchism
Edit: I'm just gonna list the recommendations I found interesting for my future reference Proudhon - One of the first anarchists. Wrote a lot about mutualism and tried to come up with mechanisms...
Edit: I'm just gonna list the recommendations I found interesting for my future reference
Proudhon - One of the first anarchists. Wrote a lot about mutualism and tried to come up with mechanisms to share resources based on usufruct
The Dispossessed -Describes an alternate society. Supposedly written more like an anthropological study than a narrative
No God's, No Masters - Written by David Graber, who also wrote the 3 Problems with the Revolution
The Dawn of Everything - Talks about the organization structures of early societies
Participatory Economics - Talks about economic organization without compulsion
Walkaway - Recommended when I mentioned stealth anarchism
‐------------------------
I'm gonna be honest, I'm pretty sick of all the existing forms of politics. Conservatives, liberals, progressives, libertarians, I dont feel like I jive with any of them.
The closest thing I've found to a philosophy I can get behind is anarchism, but I'm not really a fan of revolutionary anarchism either. I'm interested in just discussion of the constructive aspects of it. Like how the alternative vision of the world they advocate for works in practice, and what different options there are for implementation.
I find it hard to really get into, because whenever I try to read up on any kind of political philosophy I run into the people who are trying to evangelize and it just really turns me off to the whole thing.
Does anyone have some good reading recommendations that skip past trying to recruit people, and just is a good discussion?
43 votes -
US progressives in Congress unveil OLIGARCH Act to combat 'existential threat' of extreme wealth inequality
138 votes -
Saudi Arabia’s plan to conquer global golf
4 votes -
Italy needs immigration, admits Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as she softens her stance
13 votes -
A political gap in excess deaths in the USA widened after COVID-19 vaccines arrived, study says
36 votes -
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency (US House of Congress hearings)
31 votes -
Israel’s top court will hear challenges to a new law that weakens its power, the law has sparked large protests
10 votes -
America's love of sanctions will be its downfall
12 votes -
Norwegian left-wing party leader Bjørnar Moxnes resigned on Monday after stealing a pair of luxury sunglasses from Oslo airport
44 votes -
China removes foreign minister Qin Gang after unexplained absence
13 votes -
Just give kids school lunch
34 votes -
US workers are dying in heat wave but Joe Biden administration is still working on federal standards for working in extreme heat
29 votes -
Any hardcore leftists here?
What do you think of popular figures like Noam Chomsky, Jason Hickel, Richard Wolff, David Graeber, and Bernie Sanders? Why does grotesque inequality persist? Will the lot of the downtrodden and...
-
What do you think of popular figures like Noam Chomsky, Jason Hickel, Richard Wolff, David Graeber, and Bernie Sanders?
-
Why does grotesque inequality persist? Will the lot of the downtrodden and the oppressed ever improve?
-
What do you think of Anarchism?
Just looking to learn from the community members here. Thanks.
103 votes -
-
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of July 17
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
16 votes -
'A brilliant move': special counsel Jack Smith praised by legal experts for deploying game-changing statute against former US President Donald Trump
49 votes -
Hong Kong e-sports player suspended from competing for three years over ‘sensitive wording’ in ID name
23 votes -
Türkiye is heading for a classic currency crisis. All of its reserves and then some are borrowed.
28 votes -
I interviewed the researcher behind the Misinformation Susceptibility Test
https://youtu.be/vodNabH5qoM But some important context: Earlier this month I saw a post regarding a Misinformation Susceptibility Test and was curious how 20 binary questions could be an...
https://youtu.be/vodNabH5qoM
But some important context:Earlier this month I saw a post regarding a Misinformation Susceptibility Test and was curious how 20 binary questions could be an indicator of someones media biases.
I started digging into the related paper and while the methods and analysis was interesting, there was still a lot of questions. So I reached out to Dr Rakoen Maertens who headed the study and we agreed to a discussion on the assessment and his experiences in social psychology.
The video above is an unlisted, unedited cut of the interview and I'd love to get some feedback:
Firstly: I have offered the Dr a tildes invite and he may engage with any questions or discussion. Time was limited and there were a lot of topics that was only briefly touched on or overlooked. Here is the original paper and supplementary resources if you want to see some of the language model work and bigger 100 question tests.
Secondly: I am going to do a more through edit and posting this on a dedicated channel. Since cutting off reddit, twitter and tiktoc; I've sort of rediscovered a love learning and investigations. I'd like to know if people like this form of engagement and discussions. No fancy production, just simply engaging with the research and academics behind topical and interesting ideas.
I'm already reading into fandom psychology, UV reflective paint, children's TV and CO2 scrubbing technology.
72 votes -
Michigan charges sixteen in false elector scheme to overturn former US President Donald Trump’s 2020 loss
58 votes -
Former US President Donald Trump faces possible indictment in Jan 6th investigation
81 votes -
Psychologists at the University of Cambridge developed a Misinformation Susceptibility Tests. What's your MIST score?
86 votes -
The 'Voice to Parliament' referendum pamphlets for Yes and No camps have been published by the Australian Electoral Commission
ABC news article: Voice to Parliament referendum pamphlets for Yes and No camps published by AEC On the Australian Electoral Commission's website: The case for voting Yes The case for voting No...
ABC news article: Voice to Parliament referendum pamphlets for Yes and No camps published by AEC
On the Australian Electoral Commission's website:
The Sydney Morning Herald / The Age newspapers have provided annotated versions of each pamphlet:
As has been observed in those annotation pages, there is no legal requirement for either of these pamphlets to be truthful or factual, and there is no obligation for the AEC to fact-check them (in fact, the AEC is legally restrained from commenting on those pamphlets in any way - its role is restricted to disseminating those pamphlets, because it must stay neutral).
12 votes -
A new bill would force internet companies in the USA to spy on their users for the Drug Enforcement Administration
45 votes -
The best way to find out if someone is a Donald Trump voter? Ask them what they think about manhood.
29 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of July 10
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
19 votes -
Guatemala's Attorney-General suspends second-placed Seed Movement party, ahead of run-off election for president
11 votes -
2022 guidance from President Biden's administration assures doctors they’ll be protected by US federal law for providing emergency abortion care even if their state bans the procedure
40 votes -
Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme
70 votes -
The trillion-dollar grift: Inside the greatest scam of all time
26 votes -
EU passes nature restoration law in knife-edge vote
19 votes -
Who are the real "groomers"?
22 votes -
Conservatives go to red states and liberals go to blue as the USA grows more polarized
51 votes -
Making the 2000 year old "pizza" from Pompeii
13 votes -
US Supreme Court justices and donors mingle at campus visits. These documents show the ethical dilemmas
27 votes -
The manufacturing backlash: No factory in my backyard
15 votes -
Germany's far-right AfD sees poll numbers surging to nearly 20% nationwide
37 votes -
Mathew Lawrence on why privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain
11 votes -
Finland's right-wing government is facing yet another crisis after old comments from a far-right blog forum, purportedly written by Riikka Purra, re-surfaced
14 votes -
Türkiye agrees to support Sweden’s NATO application
34 votes -
Prime Minister Mark Rutte hands in resignation as Dutch government collapses over asylum row
19 votes -
California needs real math education: an essay
16 votes -
More than 1,500 US fossil fuel lobbyists serve as “double agents”
23 votes -
Pentagon to filmmakers: We won’t help you if you kowtow to China
46 votes -
The top five US states to be transgender in 2023
25 votes -
Oil is hard to quit, even in Norway where electric cars rule the road
15 votes