#Understanding

Upon reflecting throughout my transition I have come to the conclusion that if society were not homophobic I would not be transgender.From a young age it was (sometimes literally) beat
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Replying, First Minister @NicolaSturgeon said the decision on whether to pursue a UWO against Trump is one for prosecutors, not politicians - specifically, the Crown Office, which she said operated
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I was chatting with Bruce Ackerman tonight, a student of John Rawls. He talked about how Rawls belief in a reasonable pluralism and hope for an overlapping consensus in America
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ThreadRachel Jankovic holds to Federal Vision views (“Obedience is faith”).Jankovic’s father Doug Wilson wrote the Joint Federal Vision Profession which fleshes out FV views.Even though Wilson has put the word
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Thread on how to support your friend with a mental illness (depression, anxiety, ptsd, eating disorder edition bc these are the only ones I can speak from experience on) Just
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Personally, I find that I have to write and express the same ideas in different registers and with varying levels of abstraction in order *for me* to understand what *I*
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This is a really interesting thread, but it relies too much on a mind/body duality model of the self for my taste. The brain in a jar thing falls apart
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super hot spicy controversial take incoming: i want to think critically about the media i enjoy. i like seeing other people's critiques of the media i enjoy, especially if they
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You can't just say "restorative justice" as a way of having people avoid the more brutal consequences of crime without a baseline understanding of what that means and the concept
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Finished drafting my oped, coming soonThesis: If u r 14 days after dose 2 vaccine & asymptomatic, you can (and should!) relax some restrictions. That's why we get vaccines and
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One part I found interesting about Sèkou Tourè and the PDG (Democratic Party of Guinea) is how they abolished chieftains in Guinea the year before they voted for independence in
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(1)Anneliese Dodds is in a bit of a "Soft Left" trap of wanting left wing policies without radical means : Of believing leftish policies are 'sensible' and can be won
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The Plantation Bay thing makes me soooo furious. People with autism Are. On. An. Entire. SPECTRUM. You cannot characterize all of them by a single set of behaviors. PEOPLE WITH
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A common mistake is to view elites as a unified block. A group of people who look out for one another. They are not. Elites are constantly trying to get
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It's easy to think that those who don't think like you, don't think. Or they just want government handouts. Or... Just had a good political discussion with a young adult
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Please heal from past hurt, insecurities and mishaps. The next person you align with does not deserve the leftover pieces of you. It’s not their job to put you back
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