At least with Fukuyama his vast wrongness is backed up by a plausible meta theory. What does Huntington have except racism?

This is like a reductio of the “pro free speech” case for Trump

The Argentinian claim to the Falklands is basically exactly the same stylistically as the Israeli claim to the Golan Heights: "lol i want it"

one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries

"Behind Joseph’s style, which his fans conflate with wit, but which is actually precision and pithiness, lies a sentimentalist. This book, while being typically fun and occasionally absurd, could use more of that sentimentalism." scroll.in/article/1088... ✍️ @devarsighosh.bsky.social #bookreview

I just received this Istvan Szabo box set in the post. How fantastic. What great work you so, Second Run

One of the Great American Novels spending 95 percent of the time outside any discernible American borders is quite funny.

Austrian nuns win reprieve in abandoned convent - if they stay off social media

British people are the indigenous populace of the Falkland Islands by any reasonable metric, even if that *feels* wrong

L Frank Baum writing a trans woman love interest for Dorothy is beast mode

What was L Frank Baum doing in the later Oz books again?

Tipsy but not drunk. When you have enough self abandonmrnt to create absurd icebreakers but enough self control to not reveal your deepest secrets

thinking of this classic tweet on thanksgiving day

I think everyone in the shoe throwing incident was very impressive. Al-Zaidi for getting both shoes off and airborne in under five seconds, Bush solid reflexes with his dodges and al-Maliki didn't get rattled, showed a lot of poise in the pocket

Point is that transphobia and anti-Arab bigotry, both incredibly popular among liberal elites, are at odds with liberal principles and corrode a liberal's capacity to enforce their value set vis a vis policy and behavior.

"Yeah I'm part of a culture that really cares about family and food. We even have a celebration around it. Its called Thanksgiving"

thanksgiving isn't actually in the bible. it's based on pagan and roman holidays that take place in the same data

Appalling. montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...

111k truck? Like the cost of a fucking Porsche???

The average Ken Burns doc is well produced and elicits wows and then a month later you find every historians in the subdiscipline it represents hates it for being completely false.

Help the we are Charlie kirk song is stuck in my head

they always write these summary texts on national thought traditions containing the wildest eye catching guys but like surely theres normal people in there

Stephanie Beatriz' real voice is so weird after knowing her as Rosa

Considering the existence of saints who were antipopes, contemporary sedes can do the funniest thing possible.

www.oecd.org/en/data/indi... there's a persistent myth of German hard work but the fact is that in their labour leisure tradeoff Germans are the most inclined to leisure of OECD nations.

Its raining while I'm on the train. There's something deeply soothing about a long train journey through the rain.

This is the thing that makes this website mad at him?

“They should do it the right way”

Nietzsche biopic, but it cant have Nietzsche in it.

Computer, enhance that last name.

oh Americans may not understand this, but a 'magistrate' in the UK is a local volunteer with typically no legal background. But it's ok, they receive about 10 days of training. And now they can send you to jail for two years without a jury!

The important context left out of most western reporting on the region is that in Israel, "terrorist" is a racial slur

::Frankenstein’s creature after one (1) therapy session:: FIRE NOT BAD. FIRE JUST DO BAD THING.

I'm sorry, that Fed paper claiming supply constraints don't have an impact on supply restriction uses *population growth* as an instrument?

It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.

I got so stoned at a Mets game once I compared the Jumbotron to the top screen of a Nintendo DS bc it had “a bunch of useful contextual information” and the field to the bottom screen bc “it’s where the game is actually played”

Ok reading this article is kinda funny because it makes it seem like this problem is unique to theravada?

Tocqueville has an oddly Hegelian conception of the advent of modernity but I don't think he ever explicitly cites Hegel anywhere? Is this just one of those cases of "in-the-air"-ness of Hegel or is this real?

Read replies to see further misunderstandings of Buddhist thought.

The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’

Its wild seeing r/neoliberal conditionally turn into a conservative sub, depending on what kind of headline is posted. There is quite literally no tenet of the sub that they won't become fervent detractors of in the reply section of an article titled "Democrats need to acknowledge the _____ problem"

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It is rather funny that the one area where analogies between the Crusades and the War on Terror hold up is they both ended up as modes of legitimizing violence that get turned against internal political enemies in the West