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Absolute fucking banger, liberals will always side with fascism, time and time again. So many liberals have been showing their ass after this election. I’ve seen countless posts about “I hope Latinos who voted Trump get deported.” “I hope Gaza gets turned into a parking lot.” “Who’s going to fix your roof if there’s a mass deportation?” Liberals see immigrants as cheap labor, not as human beings. And they wonder why they lose- time and time again.

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i don't know how you can "the curtains are just blue! ACAB lol" fucking Death Note of all pieces of media

this is a show for thirteen-year-old boys. the only writers I've seen who are less subtle about what they're going for were fucking Victorians.

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Do you have any tips for learning to accept nice things?

no but mrs le guin has you covered

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I don't think that's it. Sometimes academics use really complicated weird words because they're trying to seem smart, or because they're doing the professor equivalent of clickbait.

But a lot of times it's genuinely helpful. There simply is not another term you can use instead of "reify" when you're talking about philosophy or cultural criticism. Reification is an extremely weird idea, so there isn't really any reason English would develop a synonym for it. I suppose you could write out "treat an abstract concept or idea as if it is completely real" every time, but that's gonna be a mouthful if you do it more than once, so it's more convenient just to resort to the verb "reify".

Using just a single word actually makes the sentence simpler, and that makes it easier to read.

You could also just write a glossary (list of definitions at the back of a text) for every academic piece of writing, but the thing is, not everyone is responsible for writing an introduction. You shouldn't be upset if the twentieth story set in a fantasy world doesn't explain for you what a binglepopper is. You should go back to the first story because the writing is designed for you to do that. In the same way, if you don't understand an academic article says, you should go back to the beginning.

I recognize that the beginning is usually paywalled, but, and I cannot stress this enough, that is not a problem with writing style, that is a problem with class warfare.

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i’m gonna tjrowbip

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been doing a lot of thinking recently and i dont want to anymore

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Bro I just nearly fucking died

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Da Enki Needs Help

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Studies show that approaching youth with a bystander-intervention model is actually a lot more effective for reducing sexual assault, and it is also more enthusiastically received than programs that bill themselves as anti-rape.

We can tell youth that they are basically “rapists waiting to happen” (anti-rape initiative), or we can tell them that we know they would intervene if they saw harm happening to someone and we want to help empower them to do that (bystander intervention). The kids jump in with both feet for the latter! It was amazing to see children (and young boys in particular) excited to do this work and engage their creativity with it. Also, studies show that not only do they go on to intervene, but they also do not go on to sexually assault people themselves. Bystander intervention also takes the onus off the person being targeted to deter rape and empowers the collective to do something about it. It answers the question in the room when giggling boys are carrying an unconscious young woman up the stairs at a house party, and people are not sure how to respond and are waiting for “someone” to say or do something.

Richard M. Wright, “Rehearsing Consent Culture: Revolutionary Playtime” in the anthology Ask: Building Consent Culture edited by Kitty Stryker

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I fully understand why "character A is astounded at the sight of character B's penis" is a specific kink that gets tagged for, but the fact that some platforms choose to tag this kink as "penis awe" is unintentionally very funny. Now I'm picturing penis experience kink tags for all those other allegedly transcendent emotions in the glossary of your Philosophy 101 textbook. Penis faith. Penis Weltschmerz. Penis apprehension of the absurd.

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"People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn’t measure up."

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the copification of peter parker in recent years is insidious and also gay

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you guys would love the last panel in xkcd 624