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dealing with everyday politics: once and never again

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and that from a party that prides itself on being innovative and progressive



yes, the quote is probably cherrypicked, but it's also the whole vibe i'm getting from the party

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the advantage of philosophy: you are aware of so much more assumptions you make, and that other people make differently

greens usually asymmetric justice party

german greens chancellor candidate: "es heißt jetzt: wegducken und abwarten"

* foreign intervention in afghanistan (if you're doing it for moral reasons, why not effective altruism global health & development instead? geopolitical reasons are ~meh, afghanistan seems just not _that_ interesting geopolitically (very poor, only mediocre amount of resources, maybe interesting because near China & Russia), perhaps you're training your military/funding the military-industrial complex? but even if Keynesianism is true, can't you just destroy a lot of goods instead of killing

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I'd love to see steelmen of:

* unschooling (okay, school is bad, but what would be better? what about all the covert function school fulfills (e.g. breaking children to actually function in industrial society and not be undisciplined hunter-gatherer equivalents (which is necessary for the golden-egg laying goose of capitalism to function), functioning as a grit-test, daycare etc))

words I invented: endokremlinology, quinpedalism

empty individualism, hard problem of matter, no canonical turing machine

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@coolboymew the best is
>were gonna go around the class, tell us your name, major, and why youre interested in this class!
>every single student has the same response:
>[name], im in X engineering, and im taking this because it fills a humanities requirement
seeing the teacher pelted with "i dont care about your class" 40 times in a row is the best way to start a semester
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The existence of Bourbaki implies that there is also a Kikiki.

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With imperatives,
the action does not have to
be immediate

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