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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
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| ’Half-naked, terrified, surrounded by gunmen': Ex-hostage recalls abduction to Gaza - NYT In order to protect herself from sexual abuse from the terrorists standing in front of her, she told them in English that she had her period. Ilana Gritzewsky, an Israeli who was held hostage by Hamas terroris... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mideast War blowback |
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| Anti-Israel groups aided Hamas on campus, knew of attack beforehand, Oct. 7 victims say in lawsuit After months of dormancy, Columbia SJP allegedly reactivated its Instagram account "three minutes before Hamas began its attack on October 7." Leading US-based anti-Israel activist groups in... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Anti Telsa arson attacks in U.S., Europe |
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| FBI launches task force to crack down on attacks against Tesla The FBI has launched a task force to investigate a spate of recent attacks targeting Tesla cars and dealerships, as the agency's director calls such acts “domestic terrorism.” "The FBI has been investigating the increase in violent... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Ukraine and the USA/Russia peace talks |
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| Trump's promise of a quick end to Ukraine war gets a reality check after talks end with no deal President Donald Trump’s promises of a hasty end to the war in Ukraine were given a hard reality check Tuesday, with Russian officials saying that the latest round of ceasefire talks with the United Stat... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Military Plans accidentally disclosed to reporter |
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| Trump stands by national security adviser Mike Waltz despite disclosing military plans, saying he’s ‘learned a lesson’ President Donald Trump stood by his national security adviser, Mike Waltz, after The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief was accidentally added to a private, high-level chat on the messagin... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Armchair diagnoses |
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| I wish this tendency was only limited to autism and ADHD, but people do this with all sorts of diagnoses. The way people throw labels like narcissist, borderline and psychopath around you'd swear they were 50% of the population. OCD is a common one. I am sensitive to that one because I have a relat... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Armchair diagnoses |
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| We need to stop diagnosing each other with autism and ADHD “Are you sure you haven’t got ADHD, babe?” The question comes from a dear and well-meaning friend after I mention in passing how I swing between being hyper-focused and struggling to concentrate at work. I politely shrug and chirp, “don’t t... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Newsweek - Autism Awareness Still Has a Long Way To Go |
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| The consensus is that science will prove there are autisms or that what we call autism are completely different conditions. That may not happen for a long time if it happens at all. In the meantime like it or not the Autism community is in this together. We need to stop language policing each other ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Counteracting transphobia |
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Posted: Yesterday, 1:29 pm
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Replies: 39
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| If I'm playing Devil's Advocate, i would say I think in this day and age that maybe younger people just think it's cool or sympathetic to say they are non-binary to check this box and say they are not straight or non-binary, like this is now somehow MORE socially desirable in some way than just bei... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Musk Social Security talk is scaring MAGA’s |
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Posted: Yesterday, 1:03 pm
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| all they have to do to fix SS is to start TAXING THE RICH. Yep. Back in the 1950's and 1960's, we had very high taxes on the rich. And that's one of the reasons why the economy was so good (at least for white people) back then. We had a very large middle class, and not a lot of rich people to crowd... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Are we at the edge of another pandemic? H5N1 |
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Posted: Yesterday, 11:47 am
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| Bird flu is on the move in mammals. This time sheep. Bird flu has been detected in a sheep in northern England, the first known case of its kind in the world, Britain's government says, adding to the growing list of mammals infected by the disease and fuelling fears of a pandemic. "The case wa... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Counteracting transphobia |
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Posted: Yesterday, 11:31 am
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| If I'm playing Devil's Advocate, i would say I think in this day and age that maybe younger people just think it's cool or sympathetic to say they are non-binary to check this box and say they are not straight or non-binary, like this is now somehow MORE socially desirable in some way than just bei... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: In spite of Trump Democrats are in deep trouble |
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Posted: Yesterday, 1:44 am
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| The only thing I really see the Democrats have is this fear narrative of making people afraid that DOGE is going to cut Social Security, but besides this like I said, I see absolutely no evidence that these Deep-State Democrats have changed their ways at all or are anywhere close to the threshold o... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Counteracting transphobia |
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Posted: Yesterday, 12:28 am
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| There have been a bunch of polls in Western countries in recent years showing figures like 40% of ages 18-24 are saying they are LGBTQ or "Not Straight". This seems far more dramatic than just slightly more closeted people feel they can come out of the closet, and what is being described ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: In spite of Trump Democrats are in deep trouble |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2025, 10:17 pm
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| Bad News, Democrats. Your Party Has Never Been More Unpopular According to a new poll, 27 percent of registered American voters have a positive view of the Democratic Party, the lowest level recorded since NBC News began asking the question in 1990. Why It Matters The scale of Trump's triumph has s... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Counteracting transphobia |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2025, 9:28 pm
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| 1) As has happened several times before in American politics, a wave of Black community activism inspired waves of grassroots activism in other marginalized communities too. In 2010 to 2015, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement inspired more activism in other marginalized subcultures includi... |
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