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Friedrich Nietzsche and the alt right
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Who do you think Dems will run in 2020? This article says it's Sanders or Warren...but is it? What does Tildes think?
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What should the government's role in education be? How much schooling should be compulsory? How much of it should be paid for by the student or their parents?
This started as a sub-thread in a topic about possible contenders for the 2020 US Presidential race, but it generated enough interesting discussion that I thought it'd be worth spinning off into...
This started as a sub-thread in a topic about possible contenders for the 2020 US Presidential race, but it generated enough interesting discussion that I thought it'd be worth spinning off into its own topic, particularly so we can include people outside the US who are ignoring or filtering out topics about American politics.
To expand on the questions in the topic title:
- What level of education should be required by law of every citizen?
- How should schools be funded? What role should taxes play vs. tuition paid by the student or their parents?
- Should homeschooling be allowed, and if so, how strict should the educational requirements be?
And if you want to go really deep:
- What is the purpose of education in the first place? Is it to make better and more productive workers; to create an informed electorate; to learn for the sake of learning?
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Why obvious lies make great propaganda
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John Roberts and the second redemption court
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Corruption, incompetence and a musical: Nauru's cursed history
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Steve Bannon dropped from New Yorker festival after invite sparks anger
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Learna project reverts blacklisting in license
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California lawmakers pass nation’s toughest net neutrality law
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The rise of Brazil’s far‑right
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Brazil’s jailed former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva barred from running again by electoral court
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US police pulled fake ‘Antifa’ list from neo-Nazi site and used it to target random people who’d signed an anti-Donald Trump petition
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Lawyer was told Russia had ‘Trump over a barrel’
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Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) asks FTC to investigate Google's market dominance
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Elizabeth Warren’s Theory of Capitalism: A conversation with the Democratic senator about why she’s doubling down on market competition at a moment when her party is flirting with socialism
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The religion of Whiteness becomes a suicide cult
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Ten years after the financial crash, the timid left should be full of regrets
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Hunter S. Thompson in Chicago, 1968: The battle for the Democratic Party’s soul
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FCC can define markets with only one ISP as “competitive,” court rules
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70 Years Ago, America Restored Democracy to Germany. Now Germany Wants to Return the Favor.
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Trump accuses Google of rigging search results to show mostly negative stories about him
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Bernie-backed Andrew Gillum wins Florida gubernatorial primary in upset
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Victoria Woodhull: The first American woman to run for President — 150 years ago
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Anti-migrant riots in Germany enter their third day
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Trump: Impeach me and the market crashes
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A study on the online "filter bubble" found that liberals and conservatives were actually recommended similar stories on Google News, representing a fairly homogeneous set of mainstream news sources
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US and Mexico reach a trade deal, paving the way to replace NAFTA
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The myth of John McCain
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Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems
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What do Democrats fight about when they’re just fighting among themselves? The same thing the country fights about: Race.
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Donald Trump aide connected to 2006 overseas attack on US Marines
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John McCain has died of brain cancer at 81
@nytimes: Breaking News: John McCain has died of brain cancer at 81. Once a prisoner of war, he made two bids for president and was a towering presence in the Senate. https://t.co/oWPRrWL6XX
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Why Michael Cohen Agreed to Plead Guilty—And Implicate the President
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Neo-Nazis rally alongside counter-demonstrators in Stockholm
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Ethiopia’s reforming prime minister runs into a roadblock of ethnic unrest
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The great Chinese art heist
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Why equality is unhelpful as a political goal
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There should be ‘consequences’ for platforms that don’t remove people like Alex Jones, US Senator Ron Wyden says
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It’s OK to call racists ‘racist’
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Longtime Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg granted immunity in Michael Cohen probe
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Scott Morrison is the new Prime Minister of Australia
Key points: The petition for a party room meeting of the Liberal Party got 43 signatures, so Turnbull allowed the meeting to be called. The party room voted 45:40 to spill the leadership. Three...
Key points:
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The petition for a party room meeting of the Liberal Party got 43 signatures, so Turnbull allowed the meeting to be called.
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The party room voted 45:40 to spill the leadership.
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Three candidates nominated: Peter Dutton, Scott Morrison, Julie Bishop.
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Bishop was eliminated in the first round of voting.
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Morrison won the second round of voting against Dutton, 45:40.
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As the leader of the Liberal Party, Morrison becomes the new Prime Minister... probably. It now depends on whether their coalition partners, the National Party, support the new Liberal leader (but they probably will: the alternative is to lose government).
EDIT1: And Josh Frydenburg is the deputy leader of the Liberal Party. That does not make him the Deputy Prime Minister: that role goes to the leader of the National Party whenever the Coalition is in government.
EDIT2: The news: http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-24/scott-morrison-wins-leaderal-leadership/10160168
Follow live here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-24/live-turnbull-leadership-challenge-looms/10159462
Some background on Scott Morrison: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-24/scott-morrisons-rise-to-prime-minister-of-australia/10160458
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South Korean court raises ex-president Park's jail term to 25 years
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This is what filter bubbles actually look like
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Why are cities still so segregated?
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White House blocks bill to protect US elections
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What does it take to impeach a president?
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan faults US for frail economy: good politics, but risky policy
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As GOP scandals multiply, Democrats frame a careful message on corruption
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Gov guidance on how to prepare for Brexit if there's no deal
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