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Spitballing a New Left Politics

Submitted by Dallasdoc on Sat, 02/04/2017 - 5:59pm

I've been somewhat out of pocket the past couple of months, avoiding politics and current events to a great degree. Have had a few changes in my work life as well, which will give me a little more time for my family and my thoughts. I've been doing some reading here at C99 and at a few other places, but mostly stepping back. As a result, I've found my political views evolving somewhat beyond the direction they were taking around the time of the November election.

From the Age of Utopia to the Age of Nature

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sat, 02/04/2017 - 4:45pm

Philosophical innovation from, say, the Enlightenment (i.e. from the mid-18th century) to the Seventies has focused upon a set of concepts which I've been calling, for the sake of brevity, utopia. Sure, calling it "utopia" means that, when I suggest that the historic period cited above was the Age of Utopia, I need to clarify what I mean by utopia if I am to have an audience at all. Utopia, as discussed here, is the intersection of human desire and human world-picture.

Trump Hammers Wall St!

Submitted by LaFeminista on Sat, 02/04/2017 - 4:12pm

It is truly brutal, as he promised he is going after Wall St

If there's anyone who's against Wall Street, it's Donald Trump, not Hillary Clinton, who basically lives off of the funding from Wall Street. Paul Manafort

Paul Manafort if you remember well was Chairman of Donald Trump's 2016 United States Presidential campaign.

Taking the hypocrisy out of the immigration debate

Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 02/04/2017 - 3:32pm

This country badly needs an honest and intelligent debate about immigration, but neither side appears to be willing or able to do so.
On the Republican side they scream "terrorism", when it's a proven fact that the immigration ban has absolutely nothing to do with terrorism.

Freedom of Speech vs the 'Right' to a Platform (Or, Milo Just Wants to Throw Bombs)

Submitted by The Aspie Corner on Sat, 02/04/2017 - 3:01pm

It seems to me that internet reactionaries can't get it through their fuckin' heads that Freedom of Speech does not entitle one to a platform. But that doesn't seem to matter to youtube talking heads defending a turd-flinging troll like Milo Yianopolous or the supposedly left-wing 'But FREEZE PEACH!!!11!!' fascist enablers. That's right. I'm going there. Why?

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