“The rise of cis male and trans female infertility” perhaps?

There’s an argument to be made that the greater the state’s monopoly on violence, the less violence you find in the community.

I think a lot of Americans are going to be in for a shock if/when we finally adopt the higher education model used by most first world countries.

According to the 2015 Race and Hispanic Origin estimate (2011–2015 American Community Survey) published by the US Census Bureau, the data for Puerto Rico was as follows:

The Purple Boys have helped me say “Nah” to the Sunday Scaries with their ideal sleep solutions and zonk strategies.

HESCO with handles?

‘Death of the Author’ helped jump-start modern lit crit.

I haven’t seen it confirmed in mainstream news yet, but I read that Israa al-Ghomgham was executed today in Saudi Arabia.

The oldest recorded joke (almost 4,000 years ago):

Nordic countries are some of the most economically equal nations on the planet and they all have mixed market-based economies.

Not fundamentalism (those people usually are uneducated and poor), but what I see in my neighborhood are highly educated, successful, POC who are socially conservative.

There’s no such thing as a not-racist fiscal conservative. As Hamilton points out in his opening rant, “The Republican Party exists primarily to enable rich people to get richer.” That is a purpose that cannot be separated from the white supremacist power structure.

See also India, Hong Kong, etc. There isn’t just one blueprint.

Your claim was that the reason “why Afghanistan is the way it is” is because of the US.

Afghanis finally got rid of the British and abolished slavery and banned burqas in the 1920's, so things were looking up.

Yes, that’s what I’m arguing. It comes back to norms and the size of the community. If you think it’s normal to believe in sky gods, there are plenty of ways to rationalize those completely impossible beliefs. That doesn’t make the beliefs any less impossible, but hey, good for you if you have numbers on your side.

Doesn’t that bring us back around full circle? A delusion is not a mental disorder if it falls within sociocultural norms.

Biology is one of many forms of identification. There are others which they are probably leaning on which are more fluid and self-determined in nature.

Religion is a groupthink disorder too. But ...

In better rookie news, Ramon Laureano got his first, and then his second, home runs with the A’s last night.