How did we get Francis Fukuyama who wrote The End of History which turned out to be completely wrong?
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How did we get Francis Fukuyama who wrote The End of History which turned out to be completely wrong?
The American South has a legacy of prisons with brutal conditions going way back. The confederate Andersonville prisoner of war prisoner camp during the Civil War was especially bad. Maybe the first concentration camp. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderso...
It is either at university where I have no idea what the answers are or at work where I have no idea how to do my job. I was exceptional at both.
Dirty depend diapers
Of course we are.
This is the irony of all the 2nd Amendment fetishers support of tRump - because he feels he has unlimited power he is more likely to heavily restrict gun ownership if he feels threatened.
Nothing to fear if no part of exists after you die.
I was watching Monday Night Football when I heard Cosell announce Lennon's death and immediately turned on my stereo to WXRT FM Chicago to get details
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Try cannabis with a balance of CBD/THC for starters, or even a pure CBD strain to mellow you out. The very high THC more psychedelic strains might freak out a casual or beginning user. Consider edibles or vaping if you don't like smoke in your lungs.
Fuck Disney and the elephant they flew in on.
Who owns our mainstream media is why our information is so skewed for the benefit of the ruling and moneyed classes
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You REALLY don't want to annoy the residents of the west side and south side areas such as Englewood and E & W Garfield. You might get shot at, which might be what they want. In 1968 I witnessed the whole west side on fire from high vantage point on the Stevenson Expressway.
Which part? I'm guessing the first, which yes I am.
Chicago Streets and Sanitation workers are well paid. A plum job
You often don't shovel your walks in February you chisel them. And don't you dare take my parking spot I shoveled out and put an old chair on it!
So, when tRump sends troops to Chicago will the be sent to the higher crime areas such as Englewood or East abd West Garfield (I worked in that area for a few years across from Westinghouse High) or will they be protecting the downtown lakefront areas and the more affluent wards?
The other problem is that free will is an illusion. If you cannot act by choice from your nature and nurture how and why should you be held morally accountable? Some people DO need to be restrained in some fashion from harming individuals and society but that is a different question, not a moral one
Sin does not exist. It is a human invention. When I say "flaws" I mean human tendencies, instincts and emotions that are seen by religions as being sinful, which they are not. Religion is anti human because it characterizes basic human traits as being shameful, for instance sexuality
Testing him? What about her? Of what use is it to god to make her suffer?
Creates humans with flaws and then holds them accountable for them.
And kill first born Egyptians because of a king that they had no choice in having. What a vicious fairy tale
The world is exactly the way you would expect it to be if there was no god
It doesn't follow that disgusting ass kissing by Republicans leads to progressive policies.
Tell me how manned space exploration improves your everyday life?
Go away Musk fluffer!
True at the state level, not at the federal level where resources are limited so only the most egregious crimes that are very likely to lead to a conviction are pursued.
Talk about a waste of time and resources. Gone are the times when the feds wouldn't waste their time on such a insignificant case.
White flight and realtors using block busting techniques created many Chicago suburbs. Orland Park anyone? A mall surrounded by tracts of housing.
About the only thing I really miss about living in Chicago is the food, being able to bicycle many places and cultural activities. I do not miss the traffic, the taxes including the almost unavoidable parking tickets, and yes, the crime (endured numerous burglaries over 50 years).
It is people like you who believe like the Russian pseudoscientist Lysenko (look it up) that social pressures alone without genetic selection over many many generations can change a person's inheritable characteristics. It is why utopian schemes always fail of whatever color.
Do you desire to be kept in a cage? Let the lion out of the cage and it acts like a lion. Let North Korean people out of their servitude and they act normally. Force does not change you permanently it is an illusion that only fanatics and extreme ideologies like the Stalinist Soviet believes.
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Hmm, I think I will get a booster soon. Last one was last fall
I cook much of my meat sous vide which can turn cheap cuts into a tender and tasty culinary sensation.
Now that is some world champion ass kissing!
A swastika cut into his forehead would look so good
As far as restaurant food I haven't dined out since the Covid lockdown. I exclusively dine at home. Prices have gone up (feeding the hummingbirds is costing me a fortune) and as a fixed income retiree I have tightened my belt on costs when possible.
Putin, "Hold my beer".
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The all knowing founders didn't count on a cult capturing all 3 branches.
He gets to do anything the Supreme Court says he can do. There was always a possibility that this would happen it just took some time for the right combination of justices to make it so.
The US legal system in a nutshell
My instinct at self preservation? The same reason we breed, raise our young and form social groups - its wired in us. Free will is an illusion.
Obviously you have no idea how long it takes a complex organism to evolve. Hint: it doesn't happen in a couple thousand years. We are significantly no different genetically than the people of a few thousand years ago.
I would say that 8 billion of us is an an environmental catastrophe that is just as important
We were greedy long before fascists. The extinction of species over the millenia is evidence of that
By the way being "better" is a human invention. Good and bad don't exist in nature there just is. But our evolutionary psychology tends to create such things as to what pleases us. Is it bad if we go extinct? Nope. Nature is apathetic to it. Our existence serves no purpose.
Only to a certain extent which is why attempts to change the way society acts according to some "prefered" way of behavior always fails. You can't change the basic wiring. Like trying to teach a lion not to kill for food - unless you cage it in a zoo, but the instinct is always there.
Nope, he's right and thousands of years of history of human environmental destruction prove him out. But I bet you live in a grass hut and use no resources or technology....not!
Communism and every other economic regime are destructive too. Look in the mirror to see the real cause
Artificial faith and belief systems cannot override our human nature which is wired into us by evolution.
Only 99%? That's treasonous in the eyes of tRump!
Oh they do suck. I get classical form of migraine with an aura. Ubrelvy does help but EXPENSIVE even with insurance
I am guessing tRump is refusing a medical procedure or surgery which could knock him out of action for a while and weaken his power over his base as they see the end game.
But Bondi is better at using her tongue to clean out the remnants of a Big Mac from his bunghole
One of tRump's biggest desires is to have Stalinesque sho trials to prove to his ego and his followers that prosecutions against him were unfounded as they were purely political
Pretty much. Which is why labels like communist and fascist are ultimately useless in the end. But they do generate a lot of completely useless academic papers.
There are all flavors of "jesus christians" who have committed atrocities over the last 2 millenia. Might have been caused by christianity but it certainly did nothing to stop these atrocities
Attending church is to alleviate your guilt of fucking over your fellow citizens the other 6 days.
Eventually something stronger than exile will be needed.
The rise of the political consultant class has given us politicians who are afraid to speak their mind giving us an opportunity to see who we are really voting for. Instead everyone walks on eggshells because this poll says that or this funder might be offended.
This also applies to red rural counties which receive far more money back than they pay in taxes because prosperous urban counties large tax contributions
China is also a totalitarian government.
We need this why? The less thinking we need to do the dumber we become
We might be coming to The Weekend At Donnie's presidency where he will be trotted out propped up by his lackeys to give the appearance he is still alive. As bad as he looks who would know? And he already smells like he is dead.
Just kicking the can down the road by appointing more justices.
The constitution is beyond repair as it neither properly addresses the administrative state nor takes the power and doesn't take into account the influence of great wealth's corrosiveness on a democracy. But until we hit bottom it will never be replaced by anything more modern and better.
Exactly what he wanted - an American oligarchy founded on Christian supremacy which rules in an authoritarian manner.
When the bullets start flying expect a tsunami of elites to leave the country. They will return when the violence ends to pass judgement on those who stayed behind to fight because they didn't approve of our methods
This Supreme Court will overrule Texas v Johnson at the first opportunity. Count on it.
Unfortunately hell doesn't exist it is a human fabrication. Be satisfied that he will be dead and gone
Hope you don't bump into Paulie Walnuts or Christopher
AOC would be better.
So if California enacts redistricting you going to sue them too?
Roy Cohn is dead
To just about everyone in this thread - denial ain't just a river in Africa.
More like a circle jerk
Hmm, many of the same type of clowns who served in the Reagan and Bush Jr administrations? Funny how Nichols gives those presidents a pass
Complimenting tRump gives the millions supporting him justification for fheir beliefs and a hammer to be used against you later. Never provide a fanatic justification for holding their beliefs. This was done with the canonization of Reagan giving the right a unassailable pateon saint.
Cut from the same cloth as the crusaders of the middle ages or later the Spanish Inquisition. Fanatics
Lukashenko is like the remora that's attached to the shark trying to eat you congratulating you on your independence
There is no hate like christian love for outsiders to its cult
It's all fucking nonsense and anyone not indoctrinated in it or has developed critical thinking to be able to see it from the prospective of an outsider would see it quickly.
Putting this here www.brookings.edu/articles/why...
You people are just as insane as any 911 truther. Bye
A bullet grazing you at any range and velocity is still grazing you.
Facial and ear cuts bleed profusely. Especially if you are elderly and taking blood thinners
Non violent resistance only works against a regime that has some moral constraints and an electorate which can be swayed. Do the tRump regime, MAGA voters and non participating votets have any? We shall see.
It won't. And until law enforcement and the military is on our side it can't. Sorry, our side is going to have to take some massive casualties before they are on our side. Violence too early and we will be crushed.
Would've, could've, should've. You could say the same thing about the 32' Germans and Russians in voting in Putin. We are not at the point where the ballot box can't save us but unexpected events could intervene. Where are all the non participating voters?
Mandela a pacifist? Not entirely. As to MLK and Ghandi they had the luxury of the central government having some semblance of morality. How would their techniques worked against Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Putin. Not espousing violence but when all else fails....
Lots of intense pain, the kind that high powered pain killers have no effect on.
No there aren't
That was my first guess. I grew up on 34th and Western Ave so I was familiar with the structure
