1. Real communism may have not ever been achieved, but it has certainly been attempted, and to ignore that ignores the real and tangible contributions of real people to the theory and practice of socialism. Mao, Lenin, Castro and Stalin all read and wrote extensively about Marxist…

When I google "Darrell Brooks" and look at news in the past 24 hours, the only major outlets having any stories about this are Fox News and New York Post. CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, Washington Post, New York Times are all missing. There are also some local smaller outlets reporting on this. This should…

For a while I have supported the death penalty, but I now realise that the argument of executing innocent people is above all. As long as there is a risk of executing innocent people, the death penalty should not exist in society. It is estimated that at least 4% of people on death row are…

I'll never enjoy seeing someone getting hurt or killed no matter how "bad" of a person they are. even if they were literally Hitler. It happens often on reddit that I see posts about vigilante violence, or for example bikes being left unsupervised and trapped to hurt the thief, and people in the…

So my title may be a bit confusing. But there's a lot of anti-incel posts on reddit. Incels whine all day about how women don't date short men how women see short men as "not real men" etc etc. People, rightfully call them out and tell them to stop whining. However, I've seen people talk about how…

Ghosts, demons, deities, mythical creatures all of these claim to exist all of which are only propped up by anecdotal evidence. Video surveillance everywhere, everyone with a video recorder in their pockets, yet no evidence of anything abnormal. Mediums and psychics always being exposed as fruads.…

I believe that actions speak louder than words. If you are aware of and complain about the practices of a corporation - or even just a small business, I suppose - but you continue to spend your money there, then what you’re really saying is that the value of those goods and services outweigh the…

Most products/services involve endless paragraphs of legal jargon and terminology which simply cannot be described as accessible for the average consumer hence, as many surveys on the matter suggest, most consumers skim read or do not acknowledge, to any extent, said T&C's despite their acceptance…

As a longtime proponent and donor to Criminal Justice Reform initiatives, I am extremely distraught by the reaction to the verdict by so called "liberals" who spent much of last year praising BLM protests and have, at times, done some actual good work in terms of criminal justice (Campaign…

Under normal circumstances, the only reason to do this is to either prove a point (i.e., it's 'merica and we got our right to our gun) or to intimidate people. If there is active unrest and you want to sit on the roof of your own store or something like that with a rifle (like many of the Korean…

Ultimately, I think this doesn't go far enough; I think we ought to have socialized healthcare for everyone. But I do understand the arguments against it. However, I don't think that any of these arguments hold up when we're talking about children. Since children can't hold jobs, no amount of hard…

My girlfriend has started following people who claim to be doctors on Tik Tok. She’s started telling me things like “did you know women aren’t provided any kind of pain medication after giving birth?”. That just sounds ridiculous, so I asked her where she learned it from. I told her any doctor that…

Edit: to clarify, I'm referring to the LEGAL right. As long as neither request nor refusal results in or calls for physical harm to either party, both are strictly matters of social contract, and fall outside the purview of law. Personal interpretation: a reasonable person should try their best…

I work in fast food. For a long time I gave a fuck about what I did, I tried. Even when we had call outs, We’re understaffed, ext. I would pick up extra slack to ensure that the company ran good and that my co workers felt happy in the environment we were in. Others would too in the name of the “The…

I'm definitely pro choice and think it is clearly the woman's decision not the man's. And I think I understand why requiring parents to support their children even if they end up leaving is a good thing for society. But together these seem at odds with a hypothetical situation where a…

You can get around 100k to 150k kcal from a single hunted large animal (wild boar, deer, etc.) I don't see a way to get that many calories from eating plants without killing significantly more animals and causing significantly more suffering. Most plant foods are currently produced with the help…

I understand the rage, I understand the sense of injustice. But that innocent person had nothing to do with it. I don’t care what the reason is. You do not have a right to burn down someone’s business who had nothing to do with the injustice being protested. You do not have a right to burn their…

I get that the point of the argument is to place emphasis on the fact that since men do not have uteruses, they could never sympathise with the experience of women who have gone through an abortion (or might go through one in the future). There's two problems with this argument: • It "encourages"…

For starters, I like the general idea of antiwork. I’m fairly big on leanFIRE, and I think a lot of the same general principles go hand in hand. I think basic things like a living wage, financial independence and scaleable careers are important. That said, it feels as though a lot of antiwork…

INTRODUCTION I've been to both the PRC and Taiwan, and I've enjoyed my visits to both. But considering current geopolitical trends, I believe that Taiwan's days are numbered. I am very pro-democracy, but considering current geopolitical trends, I think our nations are well in decline, and that we…