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If you follow politics, sports, Hollywood or the arts, you’ve no doubt heard the insult “sellout” thrown around to describe someone perceived to have betrayed a core principle or shared value in their pursuit of personal gain. The term has recently...
by iafflerbach
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on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 12:56 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion, art, science, food, and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments ...
by Ojibwa
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on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 01:06 PM PDT
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Please give me a moment while I climb up on this soap box. A minor rant. Murdered. Assassinated. Killed. These are the terms we should be using when talking about the death of Alexei Navalny. He didn’t just die, it wasn’t a passive act, it didn’t just...
by ontheleftcoast
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on Fri Feb 16, 2024 at 10:37 AM PST
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📦ENGIn Champions: Tutoring Ukrainians in English homepage & diary list founded 2023 by captainfactoid — Comments and stories, with tips on how to get started. It's easier than you might think - and there is more help available.
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu Feb 01, 2024 at 04:00 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Jan 26, 2024 at 09:39 PM PST
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"Polarization" has become a weasel word for bad actors to stop legitimate criticism. The fact that we're seeing it used by an oil CEO to deny climate science should set off alarm bells. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the president of COP28 who also happens to...
by Jen Sorensen
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on Tue Dec 12, 2023 at 05:00 AM PST
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George Orwell's 1984 gets invoked a lot these days, but what happened to the word "woke" is exactly what was intended with Newspeak. Per Wikipedia, "Orwell explains that Newspeak follows most rules of English grammar, yet is a language characterised by...
by Jen Sorensen
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on Tue Nov 14, 2023 at 04:50 AM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Nov 10, 2023 at 09:09 PM PST
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Hi folks, My first diary entry here is about something that bugs the heck out of me: The confusion between reactionary and radical. We are radicals. Radical has a proud tradition. Radical comes from the Latin root radix meaning root. Radicals look for...
by owlswan
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on Tue Nov 07, 2023 at 06:11 AM PST
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It’s not rocket science. It’s not new. It’s not complicated. It’s not up for discussion or debate. It’s simple grammar and it’s been decided. Apparently we are slow to catch on. Let’s do better. If you need more, google is your friend. Do you...
by rflctammt
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on Tue Nov 07, 2023 at 08:28 AM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Nov 03, 2023 at 09:36 PM PDT
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I’d always wondered what was the point of Donald Trump’s inane use of nicknames for his political opponents. It always came across as entirely juvenile, just another demonstration of the man’s level of maturity. In 2016, it was “lying Ted,” “sleepy...
by novapsyche
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on Fri Oct 13, 2023 at 12:06 PM PDT
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The subcortical mind is also colloquially known as the animal mind. (Up to ~6:30 of the video provides the backdrop.) Automatic processes occur here, including sexual arousal. What we today call hypnotism was first known as animal magnetism. Mesmer...
by novapsyche
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on Fri Oct 06, 2023 at 12:06 PM PDT
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Good morning, everyone and welcome to Saturday’s Morning Open Thread. Morning Open Thread is a daily, copyrighted post from a host of editors and guest writers. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful, respectful...
by P Carey
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on Sat Oct 07, 2023 at 03:30 AM PDT
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This piece will appear as an op/ed in newspapers in the coming week. ************************************ There’s an idea that is essential to understanding how we come to be what we are today, as well as the challenge that we have to meet if humankind...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sat Sep 30, 2023 at 10:20 AM PDT
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Even at the heights of our enchantment and homage to the charismatic leader, the discerning part of our psyche, though allowed a temporary freedom and suspension from judgment, still whispers to us that something make-believe is going on. To prevent...
by novapsyche
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on Wed Sep 27, 2023 at 12:01 PM PDT
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In my exploration of fascism as a social movement, I came to the conclusion some time ago that propaganda is not only the vehicle of its message and its driver of activity but is actually the end goal. In that way, it is akin to a perpetual motion...
by novapsyche
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on Tue Sep 19, 2023 at 12:34 PM PDT
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Just today, Walter Einenkel posted a diary telling us of Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and his incendiary remarks in support of fellow Senator Tommy Tuberville’s extortion of the armed forces. Tuberville has been holding up military promotions in his pursuit...
by novapsyche
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on Mon Sep 11, 2023 at 06:43 PM PDT
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I’ve run into several people here at DailyKos who insist that what we’re seeing on the right either isn’t a cult or at least shouldn’t be called such, because such a label is seen to be mere name-calling. We should be above that, right? Same with...
by novapsyche
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on Sat Sep 09, 2023 at 11:53 AM PDT
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Abraham Maslow, in “The Authoritarian Character Structure” (1943), said: The authoritarian person tends to have a strong drive for power, status, external prestige[.] In extreme cases it can be said that he has a psychological need for power which may...
by novapsyche
60 comments
on Thu Sep 07, 2023 at 08:24 AM PDT
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