I would say freedom, fallacies, and magic are not chemicals.

Powerful people have always justified their privilege in some way. Kings descended from the gods or had a divine right to rule, lords and other nobles were the better part of humanity and protected weaker people, etc.

I loved that section.

Surely if you only look at the picture you’re only interested to fuck. Openly or deceptively.

So it’s fine for a culture to pretend to have invented something or take something as their own as long as that something is from a culture that happens to be in the same country?

To me, that’s cultural appropriation, no matter whether it happens within the same country or not.

As a Quebecois, I like that Canadians like poutine. I don’t like that they pretend they have invented it. I also like that they like maple syrup and the traditions surrounding it (cabane à sucre). I don’t like that they appropriate it as a thing of their own (we produce 90% of global maple syrup).

The fact public places need to explicitely say they are LGBT friendly makes our society feel dystopian. It’s as if they had to say they are black people friendly or Jew friendly.

My son goes to a gender neutral school, my daughter goes to a gender neutral daycare, I work in a gender neutral office, and shop at gender neutral shops.

Real men shit in the urinals.

About impossible I think. The only chance is that if some Chinese voyager met Africans who spoke of nzambi, understood what they were talking about, told other Chinese people about this, and the concept got popular and widely diffused enough that it was adopted into Chinese folklore.

What I meant to say is that the cellulose is coated with plastic. I learned this from another post in the same thread.

How? Genuinely curious. Their name is everywhere and I often see them discuss with people who disagree with them.

Plastic coating to make the bag more resistant to heat.

Yea, the name is originally in latin res publica, meaning “public matter”. In opposition to a kingdom that is the private domain of a single person.

But the players want something new! Hence a snow land.

Too late that was 1955-1975.

It works I think, it says in the message at the end that it includes sharing personal information.

I love how it seems we all put a mythological creature at the front of our ships.

Canada isn’t a British colony anymore. Canada has its own king, who is also king of the UK, and also of Australia, and also of New Zealand.

I take issue with comparing the success rate of violent revolutions to non-violent ones. I think that violent revolutions happen when non-violent revolutions are impossible or unfeasible. The fact that they have less success doesn’t mean much when trying to do a non-violent revolution would likely have no chance of success.

Historical circumstances will vary and so no single strategy is better for all cases.