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How Israel built a nuclear program right under the Americans' noses
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Let's talk about communism and the left
Whenever i talk about my views in politics people say i'm a lefty. I want to understand what is this boogeyman called communism that will "take over the world". I live in Brazil and, for the...
Whenever i talk about my views in politics people say i'm a lefty.
I want to understand what is this boogeyman called communism that will "take over the world". I live in Brazil and, for the average american, our free health care system is communism. Even some brazilians think it's bad, which baffles me because it helps a lot of people, myself included. Everyone who needs cancer treatment go through it, it's one of the best in the world (for this particular disease at least) and affordable private health care plans won't cover expensive cancer treatment here.
People here often talk about communism being bad, but what really is communism?
I grabbed the Communist Manifesto and Why Marx Was Right to read, but did not start yet since i have to finish the book i'm currently reading.
I never tried to understand these things because they are all over the place and it's a little boring to me, so i'll ask some basic questions here before i go further in this endeavour.
Please, try to answer without anger and pointing fingers. Because every time i read about these topic online, there is fight and everyone says different things and accusations runs rampant.
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What exactly is communism in layman terms? Because for me it's all over the place. Everything that seems to care about people is put into the communist basket, but a lot of people call it a dictatorship. ELI5.
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Why almost every average citizen (americans and brazilians at least) says it's bad?
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My best friend is a school teacher and is a marxist. He says Joe Biden is still a terrible choice, but the only alternative to Trump and he is not a communist at all, but i keep hearing people call him a commie. WTF is he? If possible, ELI5 what he is and what he stands for.
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Why there is right x left and no place for something in between? Is there a need to everything be one side or another to work? There is no middle ground in politics? Grabbing aspects from the left and from the right and co-existing in the same government is a problem?
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A lot of people really think letting companies run wild and free is good. That the market will regulate itself. I think this is naive, because even now they do some really shady stuff. Just look at Nestle.
Why people say that and is there some truth to this that i can't see? Is regulating companies a communist thing? -
People say that communism didn't work when implemented and the other side says that it was not really communism. What is the truth here? It didn't work? if not, why it didn't? If it was not true communism, what it was and why it was not true communism?
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Is there a country that is communist today?
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What books about the left and the right i should read? Nothing too dense.
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A new documentary details the FBI's relentless pursuit of Martin Luther King Jr
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Louis Armstrong asked Richard Nixon to carry his bags through customs. The bags had marijuana in them.
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Bullshit and truthlikeness
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Is capitalism devouring democracy?
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An overview of Brazilian emperor Dom Pedro II's life and regency
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The last handoff: How the Obama-Trump Presidential transition led to chaos
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We can uphold free speech and hold US President Donald Trump accountable
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How Rome destroyed its own republic
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When Americans committed insurrection: Until 2021, Americans had confronted federal authority with armed aggression just four times
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Why didn't Canada join the American Revolution?
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The Mexican American border: A tale of two colonies (Part 1/2)
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In 1814, British forces burned the US Capitol
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How do you convey emotions in text?
It's something I've struggled for a long time to do in text conversations. People will often think I'm mad when talking in a way that I think is perfectly normal or that I'm a brick wall while...
It's something I've struggled for a long time to do in text conversations. People will often think I'm mad when talking in a way that I think is perfectly normal or that I'm a brick wall while discussing disagreements and well, that can't be fun. I often have to reassure certain people that it's not the case.
Sometimes I try to show how I'm feeling through emotions or more "fluffy" language but I feel like that's too excessive and feels kinda fake to me?
It's also something I've more recently struggled with because I'm trying to write personally on my blog and I'm not exactly sure how to convey my feelings other than stating it like a robot like "This makes me mad" or "That's depressing" or "It makes me feel great".
It feels off to me and maybe it's just a me problem but I think that's also because I write the same way I speak and so, it just sounds strange.
I don't know, this post is rambly and I've been wanting to write something like this in the last few days but I just have to push enter at some point.
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Making policy for a low-trust world
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AskHistorians write-up on January 2021 sedition at the US Capitol
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How to be rational about rationality
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The history of Yellowstone: Debunking the myth that the great national park was a wilderness untouched by humans
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Joseph Rainey was the United States' first Black congressman
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Who named the United States and what alternatives gained the most traction?
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Why didn't the Virginias reunite?
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The daisy ad and an appeal to fear
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On Marx, Lincoln, slavery and socialism in the years following the Civil War
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The Great Depression explained, globally
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The tale of a World War II British submarine that shot down an enemy plane with a torpedo
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The break-up of the Soviet Union, explained
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How to revive a dead language: Although it was the language of sacred texts and ritual, modern Hebrew wasn’t spoken in conversation till the late nineteenth century
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Anyone willing to teach me ASL?
I'm a sucker for languages and lately I've been wanting to learn a sign language (not specificallly ASL as I put in the title, I'm open to learning any local flavour). And well, with COVID and...
I'm a sucker for languages and lately I've been wanting to learn a sign language (not specificallly ASL as I put in the title, I'm open to learning any local flavour).
And well, with COVID and everything, I figure this may be a good opportunity to do this with someone else and have someone to talk to. So, is there anyone on Tildes who would be willing to have regular informal video chats, where we talk and you try to teach me as we go? (And of course I can accommodate by text if needed)
No hard commitment, this can just be something we try once and if it's boring for either of us we don't have to continue :) But I'm hoping it'll be fun enough to be a regular thing!
PS. I can teach you French in return if you are interested!
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A sea story
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Fantasy politics
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How did the Soviet government work?
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Is computer code a foreign language?
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Janine de Greef, Belgian who helped smuggle downed Allied airmen to safety during World War II, dies at 95
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