Funny Events of the "Woke" world
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Christ it’s even making the shitty remake look prophetic, never mind the original.
What places in the rest of the world give 2 shits about all this stuff we are bickering about for really no reason? Since apparently that's false.
What happened to "doing your own research"?
Everything you wanted to know about the culture wars – but were afraid to ask
Politicians like to provoke them, academics like to analyse them yet most people don’t know what they’re all about
www.theguardian.com
Culture war, French style
COLUMN. MPs voted on Thursday to enshrine the right to abortion in the Constitution, one of the few issues to reach almost unanimous support in France.
www.lemonde.fr
Xi Jinping's culture war comes to China's campuses as Communist Party prepares to mark 100 years | CNN
When it comes to making history, Beijing's universities have played an outsized role: they were the source of the demonstrations which kicked off the May Fourth Movement, to which the Chinese Communist Party traces its roots, and the Tiananmen Square protests, perhaps the biggest challenge to...
www.cnn.com
Culture war and conspiracism as election strategy - Overland literary journal
For a prime minister whose performance has been such that he needs to force people to shake his hand, the value of a good imaginary hobgoblin is clear. His willingness to stand behind a transphobic bigot over the criticisms of his own party goes only serves to demonstrate the value of culture...
overland.org.au
Northern Ireland Is in a Culture War. Brexit Is Making It Worse.
Nationalists and unionists are in a battle for cultural supremacy, complicating the U.K.’s withdrawal from the EU.
foreignpolicy.com
Part 4: Poland’s Culture Wars (Published 2019)
The nationalist governing party says it’s in favor of democracy — just not the kind represented by the European Union. We look at how it is reshaping Poland’s institutions.
Inside Italy’s culture wars
An attack on members of a film organisation in Rome reflects the febrile atmosphere in the country
The Far Right Is Taking On Cultural Institutions
Theaters, museums, and other venues in Germany are facing pressure from the AfD, raising questions about the extent of artistic freedoms.
www.theatlantic.com
OPINION: India’s culture wars
There is no place for violence to stifle debate in a democratic society
america.aljazeera.com
Sharia debate offers glimpse into Malaysia’s ‘culture war’
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www.scmp.com
Culture war - Wikipedia
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TLDR: Countries that suffer from climate change need economic growth, and good governance not handouts.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
If you’ve never heard of this loony concept before, the theory is that America owes the rest of the world money for burning fossil fuels over the last hundred or so years.
Huh? These were the fossil fuels that provided America with the energy to save humanity from fascism and communism during World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. These energy sources are what have powered the industrial age, bringing light, heat, and air conditioning. And they have powered our infrastructure, factories, an abundant food supply, and a technology revolution. Add to that our drugs and vaccines, which have saved many hundreds of millions of lives globally.
It was the fossil fuel energy revolution of the last century that supplied America with the wealth and financial resources to provide some half a trillion dollars of disaster and foreign aid to seemingly every area of the rest of the world. And now, President Joe Biden’s dunces are agreeing with foreigners that we owe them money?
No, America does not owe the world climate 'reparations'
I’ve made the case in previous columns that the climate change movement is mostly a climate change hustle. Let’s be real. None of this is about changing the temperature of the Earth. Even the most naive environmental activist can’t really believe that building windmills and driving Teslas is going…
www.washingtonexaminer.com
If you’ve never heard of this loony concept before, the theory is that America owes the rest of the world money for burning fossil fuels over the last hundred or so years.
Huh? These were the fossil fuels that provided America with the energy to save humanity from fascism and communism during World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. These energy sources are what have powered the industrial age, bringing light, heat, and air conditioning. And they have powered our infrastructure, factories, an abundant food supply, and a technology revolution. Add to that our drugs and vaccines, which have saved many hundreds of millions of lives globally.
It was the fossil fuel energy revolution of the last century that supplied America with the wealth and financial resources to provide some half a trillion dollars of disaster and foreign aid to seemingly every area of the rest of the world. And now, President Joe Biden’s dunces are agreeing with foreigners that we owe them money?
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America-- and most of the developed world-- has long ago passed the point where it requires fossil fuel usage on anywhere close to its current degree in order to maintain industry, living standards, and research.
Maybe eighty years ago, during wartime. Not now. Not for most of the last half century. The reason fossil fuel usage remains stratospherically high is a result of 1) governments wanting fast, easy, ultimately unsustainable production; 2) failure to invest in alternatives; 3) lobbying and political influence from companies who directly benefit, and then hoard the profit.
Developed countries (as well as China) overwhelmingly produce the carbon that causes climate change. And countries that don't produce anywhere near as much-- mostly in the global south-- suffer disproportionately from its effects. Natural disasters, flooding, species extinction, agricultural collapse, displacement in these countries are a result of unnecessary energy policies pursued by the wealthier countries for decades.
When a country acts in a way that enriches itself and devastates others, then there's a damn good case for reparations.
Hard disagree Pakistan gets 4 billion a year from the US, announced a larger military budget than last year, sheltered Bin Laden, and is the number one source of terrorism funding by their ISI intelligence agency.
The money that rich country "gives" to poor country for now mainly goes into funds that help insure their asset against natural catastrophe, which have grow more common due to climate change, which itself has grow largely trough the emission of CO2 by developed nation.
That being said, the develop nation have given a large amount of aid over the year to the developing nation and one of the main thing that the develop nation produce were technological advancement that the poor nation are able to obtain for a fraction of the cost that was necessary to research them in the first place. So I don't think the case that rich nation need to pay poor one is that straightforward. I think any aid given should be targeted specifically to avoid large scale deforestation and steer country away from fossil fuel rather than directly given to their government and should come with many strings attached.
That being said, the develop nation have given a large amount of aid over the year to the developing nation and one of the main thing that the develop nation produce were technological advancement that the poor nation are able to obtain for a fraction of the cost that was necessary to research them in the first place. So I don't think the case that rich nation need to pay poor one is that straightforward. I think any aid given should be targeted specifically to avoid large scale deforestation and steer country away from fossil fuel rather than directly given to their government and should come with many strings attached.
But these people want no strings attached. They want you to give them a blank check so that they can buy Chinese manufactured goods. No where did I hear we need climate change money FOR solar panels, wind, and other forms of clean energy. Because these foreign officials are welfare queens who spend their own citizens money and our money on big houses and large boats.
The thread is about woke culture (along with the video I linked), not culture in general... Nobody else in the world cares about pronouns and that kinda bullshit.What happened to "doing your own research"?
Everything you wanted to know about the culture wars – but were afraid to ask
Politicians like to provoke them, academics like to analyse them yet most people don’t know what they’re all about
Culture war, French style
COLUMN. MPs voted on Thursday to enshrine the right to abortion in the Constitution, one of the few issues to reach almost unanimous support in France.
Xi Jinping's culture war comes to China's campuses as Communist Party prepares to mark 100 years | CNN
When it comes to making history, Beijing's universities have played an outsized role: they were the source of the demonstrations which kicked off the May Fourth Movement, to which the Chinese Communist Party traces its roots, and the Tiananmen Square protests, perhaps the biggest challenge to...
Culture war and conspiracism as election strategy - Overland literary journal
For a prime minister whose performance has been such that he needs to force people to shake his hand, the value of a good imaginary hobgoblin is clear. His willingness to stand behind a transphobic bigot over the criticisms of his own party goes only serves to demonstrate the value of culture...
Northern Ireland Is in a Culture War. Brexit Is Making It Worse.
Nationalists and unionists are in a battle for cultural supremacy, complicating the U.K.’s withdrawal from the EU.
Part 4: Poland’s Culture Wars (Published 2019)
The nationalist governing party says it’s in favor of democracy — just not the kind represented by the European Union. We look at how it is reshaping Poland’s institutions.www.nytimes.com
Inside Italy’s culture wars
An attack on members of a film organisation in Rome reflects the febrile atmosphere in the countrywww.economist.com
The Far Right Is Taking On Cultural Institutions
Theaters, museums, and other venues in Germany are facing pressure from the AfD, raising questions about the extent of artistic freedoms.
OPINION: India’s culture wars
There is no place for violence to stifle debate in a democratic society
Sharia debate offers glimpse into Malaysia’s ‘culture war’
Opinion: Sharia debate offers glimpse into Malaysia’s looming ‘culture war’
Culture war - Wikipedia
Seriously what the fuck? The thread is literally fucking about the woke world. The video I posted that was queued up to the section is literally called woke culture. Changing it to culture in general is moving the fucking goalposts. If I talked about apples in an apple thread, I'd get accused of moving goalposts because I wasn't talking about oranges.
All you care about is posting anything against vs actually having a conversation.
Citation that other countries actually care about pronouns...
Buddy, the only people that give a shit about pronouns are either
A) people tired of getting aggressively misgendered
or
B) dipshit assholes who forget how language works as soon as they see some hair dye
You make shit up, dude. Don't make shit up.
Straight up, the reason I decline to have more involved conversations with you than just calling bullshit occasionally is because a conversation is meant to be give-and-take and through your actions, dishonesty and overbearing egoism, you have made clear that you're only interested in taking. You want everyone to tell you how smart you are, but the harder you try, the worse it makes you look.
You have the ability to become as smart as you want us to believe you are; you obviously have the time and energy; but I don't think you have the discipline. And until you find the will to change that, we're going to continue sitting here unimpressed and calling bullshit. It's up to you, dude. You want to be an intellectual? Put in the hours.
JK Rowling and the entire tory party exist. Man, that was fucking easy. I know your thing is saying absurdly dumb things that are easily disprovable, but this felt like a low bar even for you pheonix.
You have never had an involved conversation here with anyone. You might want to consider which part of that equation isn't meeting their end of the give-and-take bargain.
I'd be more inclined to engage with you if you didn't bullshit everybody so much. But even then, what would we talk about? We have nothing in common and you have no interest in understanding opposing points of view. It would be a waste of both our times. So until then, bullshit calling is what you get.