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The real influence of populism\nationalism in the EU
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This is like an 80's high school movie where the three cool cheerleaders are trying to bully the nerd with cringing put downs. It's like a metaphor. -
I think that we all can get behind this.
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The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread
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The kangaroo looks completely flabbergasted. "He...he..he did actually hit me!" -
The real influence of populism\nationalism in the EU
Meshugger replied to BruceVC's topic in Way Off-Topic
Trump is the natural result of identity politics. When you foster a culture of different groups being oppressed due to different -isms, why are you surprised if the majority group suddenly elect someone on these very premises? You reap what you sow, so be thankful that this ideological monster of yours was stopped by loudmouth real-estate builder with a tacky sense aesthetics and not the next Caesar. I can't find the research now, but i read recently that 36% of swedes do not know of anything that characterizes Sweden as swedish, which sounds borderline hysterical. A lot more swedes are in a dire need to travel further outside their bordes to understand how unique they are; And no, getting drunk on the cruise to the Aaland islands doesn't count. -
Arrival. What a bore. Things happened because of plot. I recommend Slaughterhouse Five for musings about 5-dimensional aliens or Solyaris(1972) for philosophical musings about humanity instead.
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It's rooted down to basic biology. At the most base level, women are birth and life and men are war. Spoken like someone who hadn't had a biology class since high school. Spoken like a petty woman.
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It's rooted down to basic biology. At the most base level, women are birth and life and men are war. There exceptions to the norm as you pointed out, but that's another story. Historically, women have dealt with different trauma than men. Going off to war is one thing, carrying a child for 9 months and then raising it in an age when infant mortality was incredibly high is another thing entirely. Men may have a physical edge through history, but women have it mentally. Maybe women should handle only command roles, while men do the grunt work. Women had to deal with different kinds of trauma, i agree, and through history they have learned how to survive at all costs among the carnage brought by men, that's true as well. However, matriarchal civilizations do not emerge organically and i think it is rooted down to the male ego, which in turn stemmed from biology. Men have to dominate, they naturally form hierarchical structures and they compete with each other within those structures while the women pick the respective winners. It's seems to happen in any time of history. The dynamics of these hierarchies are reflected to a certain degree if you look in the environment of a female-dominated workplace and a male dominated one (like 90% of one sex).
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It's rooted down to basic biology. At the most base level, women are birth and life and men are war. There are exceptions to the norm as you pointed out, but that's another story.
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There's no secret that no likes, including me, Trump's pick for secretary of the treasury, but who is this Mattis guy that he just picked for secretary of defence? //edit, nvm it's one bad mother****er.
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What are you guys talking about? - Marx's letter for Communism in America? - The Demands pf the Communists in Germany? - The Draft of Communist Confession of Faith? - The Principles of Communism? https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf
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There are many different kinds of intelligence; consequently, there are also many different kinds of stupidity. Elaborate and we can perhaps find a consensus.
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If you take everything Trump says literally, then perhaps the stupidity doesn't lie with him. Notice how nobody seems to truly know how he really thinks despite all the coverage that he has? The guy is not stupid or an idiot, but rather ill-informed and ignorant on certain matters, but he uses it to his advantage and knows how to play people like a fiddle in order to get his will through, which is not a sign of stupidity. I suspect that people have been so used to having politicians being thinking creatures that they cannot comprehend someone who is relying almost completely on intuition. I am drawing a bit from Orson Welles character in "Touch of Evil" when i think of the characteristics of Trump.
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Yeah, other countries have a lot to learn from Finland and their trust-based approach. Teachers are trusted to be innovative, and there is little to no standardized testing. You learn to learn, not to score well on tests. From what I've read, educators are running the school system - not politicians or buisness people who sadly think competition is the best way of getting better schools. You forgot one thing. Every time teachers from other countries visit finnish classrooms they are surprised by one thing in peculiar: The students are silent, obedient and follow the instructions of the teacher. Such manners do not come from the blue, but rather from home. It takes a village to raise a child properly and all that. That's a fair point, but maybe students in other countries would tend to be more silent and obedient (or even better, participating) if their teacher had more autonomy and creative freedom like they do in Finland? Haven't watched it in ages, but I think S4 of the Wire illustrates this in a good way. Teachers usually know best what their students need. Yes. There is a lot of trust by parents on the teachers to act autonomously. For example, of the student gets the detention, is failing grades or is sent out of class the parents usually puts the blame on the child, not the teacher. I simply took such a level of trust for granted. Creative freedom exist as in the student is expected to learn from the subject and apply that knowledge on a broader scope. For example in history, the date is of something is not of the highest importance, but what happened, what motives where in place and what where the implications. Not creative freedom as in disrupting the class and undermining the teacher's authority in the name of "having a debate". That's the hallmark of a dip****, but it seems that people confuse the two in many western countries.
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That photo has all the motifs of a classical painting.
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Zizek is fun, but i find the whole "everything is ideology" too constrictive considering humans gonna human. Chomsky can be insightful in his systematic analysis of knowledge, but such a bore to listen to that i rather read the transcript instead. Chomsky's fault lies in his optimism on if people would only gain enough understanding, power would naturally evaporate, which is unfortunate as most people don't even know themselves.
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Yeah, other countries have a lot to learn from Finland and their trust-based approach. Teachers are trusted to be innovative, and there is little to no standardized testing. You learn to learn, not to score well on tests. From what I've read, educators are running the school system - not politicians or buisness people who sadly think competition is the best way of getting better schools. You forgot one thing. Every time teachers from other countries visit finnish classrooms they are surprised by one thing in peculiar: The students are silent, obedient and follow the instructions of the teacher. Such manners do not come from the blue, but rather from home. It takes a village to raise a child properly and all that.
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Maybe Bannon knows something that we don't.
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I give it a 50/50 chance. Either way, the guy is going places:
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Wow. That's eerie. It's probably nothing.
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You gotta love that guy.
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We all like you uncle Donald, but save the catchphrases for your Twitter account the next time, if you may.
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Like the theory of Trudeau being the illegitimate son of Fidel Castro, that would explain so many things:
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Honestly if she swindled the money out of Hillary supporters that would make it even better. The presidential electon of 2016: tr0l0l000l-edition.
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Perhaps those millions in recount funding for Stein didn't come from various investors of the Clinton Foundation, but rather from someone else....
