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Zoboomafoo

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    Capitalism is the root of evil

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  • So's the 👌hand sign, I suppose I'm going to get dogpiled for that too?

    Look outside, (big ask for this website), we're literally in hard times made by weak men.

    I swear, this site is worse than 4chan about groupthink. Someone uses a slightly weak example or a cancelled idiom and all your minds just shut off and you start parroting your self selected propaganda.

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    Capitalism is the root of evil

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  • Human nature. We need living people to tell us what happened the last time something happened society-wide, else we forget and repeat the same mistakes. It's the whole hard times make strong men thing. It's on about an 80 year cycle. The good news is that we're right at the point in the cycle where real changes are easy to make.

    Read the book The Fourth Turning for many examples of the pattern repeating.

  • Research suggests pea milk emits a fraction of the planet-warming gases of cow’s milk production and is more nutritious than most other plant-based milks.

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  • Manual stimulation 3x a day for a few months

  • It Certainly Looks Like Elon Musk’s ‘Legion’ of Kids Is Bigger Than Anyone Imagined

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  • I don't know about that specifically, but he believes in simulation theory and thinks he's the only human playing, and therefore the main character.

  • valid riots

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  • No, I'm saying that Stonewall was a singular event in a larger movement. I'm saying that indiscriminate disruption only turns everyday people against a cause as you are making their days worse. I'm saying that choosing your targets and your disruptive protestors to be disruptive is a skill.

    Several months before Rosa Parks chose to sit at the front of a bus, an unmarried pregnant young black lady did the same thing. The Civil Rights movement chose not to elevate her and make her arrest a big deal, because it wouldn't have been bad optics. They waited and picked a nice old lady coming back from work, someone unimpeachable to turn into a national story. They didn't say "all protest is good protest" and throw their entire weight behind a figurehead that could be easily torn down.

    So if you think all protest is good protest, then by all means, put on your "Palestine lives matter" T-shirt and start throwing rocks through people's windows in broad daylight. Your cause is so just that people won't help but join you, right?

    I'm not writing the whole history of the gay rights and civil rights movement, do your own research, but I'll share this article for an overview:

    https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/different-fight-same-goal-how-black-freedom-movement-inspired-early-n1259072

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  • So you think squirting people with water pistols is more effective? It was an either/or question.

    Or maybe a different, historical hypothesis?

    You're a Roman Senator, trying to gain support for election. Do you

    a) give bread to plebians with your name carved into the crust or

    b) have your personal guard beat anyone that doesn't promise to vote for you?

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  • People love trotting that quote out, don't they? They hide behind it, defending their ineffective protests and their unwillingness to improve. Any criticism and here we go, it's time to blame "the White moderate".

    They think that gay rights started and ended with the Stonewall riots, ignoring how veterans of the Civil Rights movement taught the gays when and how to protest effectively. Protesting is a skill, and ignorance of that skill harms the cause.

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  • Sometimes the people they work with, services, and customers need to be inconvenienced.

    Thats what I'm advocating for. Targeted disruption is necessary. Indiscriminate disruption is harmful to a cause.

    If your cause is so just that random people automatically empathize with your protestors as soon as they are aware of the protestors, no matter how much the protestors make their day worse, then what's the point of disruption?

    Clearly they're just waiting to be made aware of your cause, just say hi and they'll join you. You've already won, go forth and make changes with your broad support of the population.

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  • I'm not saying effect nobody, I'm saying that the right people need to be effected. Effect the wrong people and you just make enemies.

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  • Not all protest is good protest. Criticizing the form of protests is valid.

    Block a random highway and all you're going to do is get people mad at your cause for making them late for work. Those people could be future allies that are getting driven away.

    What's a more effective protest, people holding signs handing out cookies, or people holding signs squirting passersby with water pistols?

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  • It's "We" because "you" aren't the subject of the article, it's "We (the People)."

    And you don't think America is an empire? That's a wild take on this site, most people treat that as a given.

  • Viral CIA File on Alleged Alien Encounter With Soldiers Sparks UFO Interest

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  • Baldur's Gate 3's journey is almost at its end, as its last major update gets a release date for next week

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  • the audio effects on casting spells actually helped my enjoyment a lot

    Eldritch Blast really earned its name, I love the way the spell sounds in that game

  • You cannot learn without failing.

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  • For example, a friend of mine ran a study that disproved a company's study that they used to push a product. Then my friend's company got blacklisted by the first company for all future products.

  • You cannot learn without failing.

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  • I'm adding that to my reading list, thanks.

  • Elon Musk’s government efficiency push falls short as Treasury data shows spending up sharply since Trump’s inauguration: report

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  • They're offering a second round of paid-leave-to-quit at the IRS, and a lot more employees are going to take it this time around. There's not going to be many left.

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    What’s your ultimate unpopular opinion?

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  • You have fun charging your phone, I'm charging the capacitors I embedded into my knuckles.

  • You cannot learn without failing.

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  • I feel like there's a term for that sort of thinking...

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    South Carolina executes second man by firing squad in 5 weeks

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  • All killing is murder, states are just gangs big enough to have a PR team and the ability to indoctrinate the youth into following their rules.

    Good on South Carolina for making that more plain.