Neither of these two strategies are "socialist" or "capitalist"; complete misuse of those two terms.

Yes, absolutely.

Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials by Malcom Harris
Dune by Frank Herbert

one of my fav albums from last year. lyrics are fantastic, seamless interdigitation of Greek mythology with Black American experience.

I like how your sources are from CBN News (a Christian publication), Fox News, and an Op-Ed from USA Today, the writer of which is a Senior Fellow from The Catholic Association. Nothing is your post is contrary to what I said anyway. Women having abortions in the third trimesters isn't an arbitrary decision and there are specific medical reasons for why a Doctor would approve an abortion during this period.

Check out this interview with a women who had an abortion at 32 weeks, conducted by the always wonderful Jia Tolentino, outlining the somber reality for why women seek abortion in the third trimester.

There was also a modernized, yet very well done, and entertaining Dante's Inferno indie film that came out 10 years ago. They used paper figures. Used to be on Netflix ages ago but I haven't been able to find a stream in a long time.

You do know that this is only if the woman's life is in danger or if the fetus isn't viable, yeah?

There is no denying it's an extremely personal poem which is why it's rather "strange" or rough around the edges. It's inseparable from Dante the man. If you read La Vita Nuova, Dante discusses his infatuation with Beatrice, who as well all know dies young, and at the end of La Vita Nuova he basically says that he will not write anything more about her unless it be something truly worth of her; and something that has never been said of any woman.

Then the mad lad goes and writes what I would say is the greatest epic poem ever written. Literally called his shot, what a baller.

Crime and Punish by Michel Foucault
Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson

Dante's Comedy — csalisbury

One of the best things humanity ever made imo

One of the most succinct rebuttals to Objectivism as a socio-political philosophy that I've heard is it has no place for children, as it distills all relationships down to subjective value: at best as an abstract affective, and at worst as a commoditized value, rendering it, at least in theory, infecund. In the fantasy worlds that Ayn Rand constructed, the protagonists have no children, they do not discuss having children. They are simply excluded. A socio-political philosophy without children is a philosophy without a future.

wow what a day

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Dems capitulating to any wall funding would show extreme weakness after a clear rebut to Trump in the Midterms, along with the fact that surveys show the wall is not popular, illegal immigration is not a concern whatsoever, among public perception and in reality, and Trump's disapproval has increased even among white non-college educated, which is a core base. The onus is on Trump, as per his own words.

The wall will also never be built. Ever. Even if the Dems did give him 5.7B which is just to kick-start it (actual projections range from $10-$60B) the wall will never be built within Trump's Presidency, even if we assume he wins in 2020 and serves a full second term. Any Dem president will immediately scrap it.

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Pretty skeptical about this article as the author is a notable anti-abortion activist. A major methodological issue with such studies is that they often lack strong controls groups (e.g. if women who participated in the study had a pre-existing history of depression, etc.). The famous Turnaway Study, which was conducted from 2008-2010 with nearly 1000 subjects and was designed explicitly to avoid the methodological pitfalls of previous studies. It found, as have other studies conducted since then, that "women who have an abortion are not more likely...to have depression, anxiety, or suicidal ideation," or other "detrimental effects on women’s health".

In fact, 95% of the women who participated in the study reported later that abortion was "the right decision".

Additionally, the study also found that women who were denied an abortion were:

• More likely to experience serious complications from the end of pregnancy including eclampsia and death
• More likely to stay tethered to abusive partners
• More likely to suffer anxiety and loss of self-esteem in the short term after being denied abortion
• Less likely to have aspirational life plans for the coming year

Prior to around 23 weeks, the fetus is non-viable (cannot survive outside the womb), and lacks developed cortical functions which are the prerequisite to conscious perception (which also means that it cannot feel pain). This typically develops around 29 weeks of gestation. Doesn't seem reasonable to me that a non-viable, non-perceptive form of life is a 'person' with rights that outweigh the rights of the Mother.

I loved it, some essays I re-read again immediately after finishing them. I'm going to buy the Collect Writings that came out recently

Perhaps you will accept this challenge. Trump commuted the life sentence of Alice Johnson - a good thing. A very good thing which likely could be replicated thousands of more times, pardoning people who have been in prison for too long under mandatory drug sentencing guidelines. — tim wood

I mean even Hitler helped Bloch and some other Jews he personally knew and liked.

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative by Mark Fisher

Haven't read Kuhn but Feyerabend eviscerated Popper.

War & War is next on my list. Melancholy is excellent, I'm not sure if I enjoy that or Satantango more, but they are two of my favorite books of all time. Seibo There Below was great but a somewhat odd departure.

Well I read three of his books within a few months and watched the Bela Tarr film Satantango which was over 7 hours long so I guess you can say I adore his work.

A short, depressing, and punchy read. — StreetlightX

That's my jam

Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? — StreetlightX

Just got this, starting this after I finish Dillion's short book

Oh right in 2018 I read:

The Heights of Despair by Cioran (reread)
Tears & Saints by Cioran (reread)
A Short History of Decay by Cioran (reread)
All Gall Is Divided by Cioran (reread)
The Temptation to Exist by Cioran (reread)
History and Utopia by Cioran (reread)
The Fall into Time by Cioran (reread)
The New Gods by Cioran (reread)
The Demiurge by Cioran (reread)
The Trouble With Being Born by Cioran(reread)
Drawn & Quartered by Cioran (reread)
Anathemas and Admirations by Cioran (reread)
The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai
Seibo There Below by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (reread)
Dark Money by Jane Mayer
A Hero Born by Jin Yong
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Donald Trump by Corey Robin
Satantango by László Krasznahorkai (and then watched the 7+ hr movie lol)
Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
The Trial by Kafka
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu
Capital volume 1 by Karl Marx (reread)
Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Capital volume 2 by Karl Marx

Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Non-Fiction by Brian Dillion
The Origin of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood

Extremely dumb post - just delete this thread

I'm just happy the Brits, every now and then, are taking the pressure off us Americans for being the biggest shitshow country

I'm too old for college girls

Elon Musk is proof that just because someone is rich, doesn't mean they are smart.

I mean like when it happened

Remember when gay marriage was legalized throughout the country that was awesome

There are two ways that climate change will pane out. The first, and most likely scenario, is that our inability to slow or stop climate change will severely affect food supply and raise sea levels, particularly in underdeveloped countries that do not have the capability to handle distribution of resources or mass migration of their citizens. As a result, people from these countries will likely immigrate to developed countries in North America and Europe. As we have recently seen, mass migration from underdeveloped countries to developed ones often results in reactionary, neo-fascist movements, which have gained political currency across America and Europe, as citizens feel threatened by mass migration, and demographic and electoral shifts. This will be especially true as the threat of raising sea levels and food supply shortage looms overhead.

The second, highly unlikely scenario, is that socialist policies are enacted to ensure cohesive policies to slow and eventually stop climate change, before the aforementioned affects occur. However, if they do occur, that distributive measures are enacted to provide a more egalitarian distribution of resources.

Etienne Balibar - Spinoza and Politics — StreetlightX

This has been on my radar for some time. Can you let me know what you think?

With ecological catastrophe on the horizon, I don't see how humanity will save itself if it doesn't transition to socialism.

A standard definition of Socialism is “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” — tinman917

Except this is about as ludicrous a definition as saying Capitalism is "two people freely trading commodities". A more workable understanding of socialism, which has been debated, even among self-described socialists for 200 years, would need to incorporate relationships and decision-making within the production process, distribution of goods, wealth, and services, and the political and institutional structures placed to secure and bolster these processes.

Lol property rights = ability to fire people for no reason. ok

If only conservatives cared about uncorroborated allegations that affect and ruin the lives of disenfranchised minorities as they did about Kavanaugh, then the USA would look very different. And extend that to other repugnant issues, such as healthcare, student loans, that deeply affect lives. But conservatives only really give a shit about a very particular group of Americans.

At least this should be just another catalyst for a blue turnout